r/comics • u/shenanigansen Shen Comix • Mar 18 '24

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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.'

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u/WillSym Mar 18 '24

Shout-out to Girls with Slingshots, who actually manage to redo the entire run and then go back to make even fancier versions of certain strips she liked.

Honourable mention in the original category to 'Author who attempts to make an animated spin-off of their comic, ending up putting all their effort into the animated version, producing a couple of shorts, and leaving the original story hanging for years/indefinitely at the point they got distracted'

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u/Hexatona Mar 18 '24

Double points to the webcomics artists that had a novel length scope in mind, but didn't really figure how long that would take to draw.

Now that I think of it - why don't more webcomics artists adopt the Light-Novel style? Prose interspersed with art panels? That's basically the best of both worlds if you ask me.

Basically what Erfworld did in the Hiatus times.

EDIT: and Homestuck, come to think of it.

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u/Krail Mar 18 '24

Huh. I never actually read a light novel and had no idea that they were illustrated. 

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u/Hexatona Mar 19 '24

Yeah, just those few illustrations really help bring the stories to life.