BAFrederick:I have quite a few comments on the art, but since you requested to not have your art critiqued I do have comments about various other qualities/elements of your strips.
Like I said I've definitely improved since the 100 episodes of "the main series." Just look at
CSR
BAFrederick:
Your paneling. Anything with more than six panels I begin to exclude as being a 'short'. That is not an official rule, but it's my own take. Most strongly though, this is effecting your jokes. You take longer than needed to get to the punch and when you get there you extend it for some odd number of panels, making the joke itself very drawn out. On many of them it seems more like ranting than a gag, like you started without a clear idea of where you were heading. With all this anyone looking for a quick laugh/gag is likely to lose interest very quickly by the sluggishness of it.
Well the comic isn't meant to be gag a day and honestly most of these first 100 issues were pretty much just whatever came to mind. (There was a story at the end but due to long periods of not doing anything I totally lost where I was going with it...) And on that note they weren't designed to really be a web comic, main reason I put them up is so people have some back story to our newer comics. (If they want to put themselves through that torture anyways. Though hopefully I'll be able to reintroduce and explain all our old characters well enough in my next 6 planned issues that reading these 100 comics is unnecessary.)
But
less ranting and rambling, got it! Actually I've realized this problem and have already began working on cutting down on the wordy-ness of things while working on the script for my next comic. (Yes planning things out is good I hear...)
BAFrederick:
Another thing that will make a reader lose interest is the way the panels are set up with the addition of the dialog arrangement. Your setup seems pretty chaotic in most of the pages and my eyes struggle in keeping along with the sequence of panels.
Honestly I personally don't see much wrong with the paneling beyond the fact that it is boring, there's the occasional issue that may be confusing but for the most part it's right to left top to bottom rectangle-like shapes with little variation in shape and size through most of the series. But
I will keep in mind to keep panels and dialog easy to follow.
BAFrederick:
I like your web layout. That part is very clean.
Yay layout love! XD
