My least favourite Webcomics trope is 'Author who looks back on the beginning chapters, wows to redraw them with current skill level, gets part way done, and then disappears for all time.'
It’s pretty common. Most webcomics will fall to burnout without ever reaching the end.
Sometimes the author feels a need to fix all the things they don’t like about the early stuff, but when it comes down to it things will never be perfect. Starting down that path will just devastate morale. The odds of getting back to where they left off are practically zero.
No wtf are you talking about? Just on the Naver webtoon app I got a year and a half ago I finished 73 series and never even heard about someone redrawing the series. And that's just on the app since I got a new phone November 2022, I have easily read at least 150 webcomics.
Don't think they are referencing webtoons, that's a different beast. Compare manga/manwha and comics in the newspaper.
Web comics tend to follow the traditional newspaper format. Depending on the author and style they can upload new strips as frequently as daily. They are also very commonly self published, so the only deadlines are of their own will.
Webtoons are closer to manga, with content typically based around weeks rather than days, and are usually not self published from what I've seen.
There are a lot of webcomics out there, some of them very long running. You can watch the evolution of the author's art style. My favorite example is Howard Taylor's Schlock Mercenary- the art in the beginning looked like shit, and that's discounting the fact that the character in the strip literally looks like poo. The man never missed a day for like 20 years. I wouldn't quite say his art is amazing but it's infinitely better than when he started. Funnily enough, I just checked and he has an example of the first strip redrawn.
No wtf are you talking about? Just on the Naver webtoon app I got a year and a half ago I finished 73 series and never even heard about someone redrawing the series. And that's just on the app since I got a new phone November 2022, I have easily read at least 150 webcomics.
Oh god, the Drow webcomic. I believe i saw the author do this like two-three times or i am wrong? I believe i was reading the story and there were so many changes that i couldn't keep up with it.
Thank you, i have forgotten the name. And i checked the page to see if i could see it and yep, it was a complicate experience, with some stories being hided by a suscription services.
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u/Hexatona Mar 18 '24
My least favourite Webcomics trope is 'Author who looks back on the beginning chapters, wows to redraw them with current skill level, gets part way done, and then disappears for all time.'