“Your Webcomic is Bad and you should feel Bad” is back.

Welcome back Mr Solomon, we missed you! His reason for the hiatus?

While on the lengthy, lengthy hiatus that had many of you assuming that we’d all died, I had time to think. To contemplate. I looked back at what this blog had been and what it had become, and I was filled with an overwhelming sense of ennui. This blog… was boring me. I couldn’t be bothered to look at bad webcomics every week and write about how bad they were, only to have their moronic fans and a legion of cocks from 4chan post whining comments about how I was too mean, or not mean enough, or whatever. There was no point.

I’m glad to see him back, I know a lot of people really disliked him, but I felt he said things that were incredibly valid, and no, that’s not just lip-service, the guy says what needs to be said. Things I myself am too cowardly to say. Of course, he’d probably have something vitriolic to say about that.
Also, the first comic he goes over?

Chugworth Academy.

First off, if you haven’t heard about the Hot Topic/Jess Fink situation, you need to browse more news sites.

Anyway, Gary over at Fleen offers some advise for joining in on getting Hot Topic to do the right thing. He wants us to get our point across to hot topic without being jerks about it. Seems pretty fair to me. There has been a kind of progress (maybe?) concerning the issue, but we’ll see what happens.

In other news, Xaviar Xerexes talks with T. Campbell. on a number of things such as his many projects as well as Zuda and webcomics.com.

Lastly, there is a handy-page of webcomic resources being compiled. If you have some time, contribute to it.

Lastly, this is a pretty neat comic, guys.

From her livejournal.

“I would like to first and foremost, appologize for this situation. It is very important to us to support artists and their ventures and it just makes my stomach turn when something like this happens. We in NO way would have written this artwork if we had known it was someone else’s design. We work with many vendors that sell us “generic” artwork and we put our faith in those vendors to not sell us stolen or immulated artwork.”

On top of this she offered that they would like to buy some of my designs.

Also from what she said I have a feeling no one is going to be buying anything from “NewBreedGirl” for a long time.

Huzzah!

We were sent this sad bit of news today by Joseph of No Need for Bushido. I hope you remember our interview with him and his (former) partner Alex Kolesar.

The message is a repost of the author’s notes at the site:

Yes, this week’s comic is a little bit different. Due to irreconcilable issues, I’ll be continuing NNFB as both writer and artist - Alex will no longer be a part of No Need for Bushido.
As I’m sure you can tell, based on the recent decrease in the comic’s quality, that Alex has lost interest in making NNFB. Apparently you can only rip off so many fight scenes from Kenshin before it gets boring. Because of this, my only options were to let the project die, or continue it in a new form that I can produce myself - a sprite comic.
Before anyone emails me, I’ve considered looking for new artists, but I think that NNFB will actually thrive under this simpler form. Like OOTS or Dinosaur comics, the writing will be best appreciated in a streamlined visual format. There will be no more time wasting splash pages, or 20 page-long fight scenes. Instead the comic will focus on It’ll take a little getting used too, but I think you’ll like it.
I’ll keep you informed of Alex’s future online endeavors when or if he begins them

Needless to say, I am quite upset about this.

Hi all. FyreHyde here. I’ve been assigned the duty of gathering webcomic news and posting about interesting things I read, stumble across, or lazily google upon. The brilliant minds behind the Scienteers seem to have faith in me despite my utter lack of clout in the comic world, so let’s hope they know what they’re doing, eh?

Today I thought I’d pick up on a reasonably hot topic right now, that being Tim Buckley’s latest controversial addition to his highly-followed series Ctrl Alt Del. CAD is one of those comic success stories most webcomic artists aspire to be like (We’re talking the level of success here, not the quality of the comic).

CAD is, and always has been, a comic revolving around video games and the people who play them. Buckley has, on many occassions, and to intense criticism, taken his comic off on tangents about one character or another, but only recently has he really started to seem taken aback by those criticisms. Usually he just ignores them.

The current controversy is stemming from his most recent storyline: the main character, Ethan, has gotten his spouse pregnant. This unplanned pregnancy has spawned several comics with serious tones and without jokes, punchlines, or gamer rhetoric, and the grand culmination of these pregnancy shenanigans can be seen here.

I have my own issues with the works of Tim Buckley, namely the overuse of copy-pasting and the addition of things he knows noone wants to read in the first place. I do side somewhat with Buckley, though in that I feel an author should tell the stories he or she WANTS to tell. However, when the fans of your comic, the people who (in this case) are paying your bills get upset about what you’re doing to their beloved series which is supposed to be FUNNY…it’s a different story altogether. Right?

Apparently Buckley doesn’t think so, and this is where I find his level of unprofessionalism to be quite disturbing. Don’t understand what I’m talking about? Read his newspost concerning the comic and his fans’ responses to it.

Is it just me, or is the man telling all of his loyal fans that they’re stupid and their opinions mean absolutely nothing to him? The post could pretty much have been summarized by the words “piss off I’ll do what I want” and it honestly would have come off as a lot less condescending. I mean…his fans are simply asking that he go back to some jokes.

Alas, such is the way of artists sometimes.

In other news it seems Hero By Night is having publishing issues. Apparently there are some financial troubles with the publisher being used for HBN. Their latest filler, entitled “H is for Hiatus,” is probably not an exciting sight for its readers. D.J. Coffman explained the predicament in one of his posts, not blaming Platinum Studios but instead a general lack of stable income being generated by the project. “I couldn’t in good faith keep going when behind the scenes I knew that there would be books solicited that would not be coming out on time,” he stated in his post yesterday.

That’s all for now, Scienteers. Be sure to swing by next time and catch me rambling about some other webcomic-related hullabaloo!

Fyre out.

I found this ZP rant profoundly amusing. Not because of it’s subject matter, or because it was funny (as it was pretty meh) but actually because the guy behind ZP did a webcomic.

Most of the rant is aimed squarely at Control Alt Delete, so, pretty par for the course as far as webcomic rants go. The problem is, this is all stuff we’ve heard before. For a guy who is popular for complaining in an entertaining way, he didn’t find anything funny to complain about when it comes to gaming comics.

The whole impression I got “hurr hurr gaming comics, game references, sprites, walls of text”. He really didn’t even bother criticizing Penny-Arcade, which disappointed me. Granted, Penny-Arcade is pretty well polished, but there are some flaws in there that should be addressed in all fairness. I liked the little dig about Comic Genesis, as that’s where his comic is archived (which interestingly features himself as a self-insert. For shame, Mr. Croshaw). He also has a few other gems, and I use the term ‘gems’ loosely. A sprite comic… really?

Oh, and as always, drama and ZP go hand in hand, check out the forums for your dose for the week.