#B^U

[thewebcomicsreview]

I'm hardly the first person to notice this, but good god webcomics are the least time-efficient possible way of telling a story, aren't they?

I've been trying to figure out a better method of telling a story so that I could finish it before I die of old age (or, perhaps more relevantly, before everyone loses interest). It seems like no one really wants to read prose on the internet, but also people don't really like a comic that takes a year to go anywhere.

The main bottleneck is dialogue. You can only get 2-3 lines in a standard comic panel, so even a short conversation of character texture can take several pages. It makes me wonder if the Single Panel With Text Beneath It style (like ForEach) isn't just the Objectively Correct™ way to tell a comic on the internet. It's very efficient on the art, you can include narration if that's your jam, and it's very easy to make it work on mobile. (Also the art being separate is a boon if you want to make marketing materials). But everyone will correctly call you a Homestuck rip off.

Though the other thing Homestuck did was make these sprites of the characters that could be used to crank out a bunch of panels for scenes where nothing visually interesting was happening. You don't really see that copied as much

Not openly, anyway. There's a stigma. I've thought about rebooting Legend of the Hare as a visual novel, where that kind of thing is arbitrarily more accepted, but it does start raising the question of why you're bothering with the visuals at all. I don't think the kind of person who makes webcomics is usually looking for an excuse to get out of drawing, even if it lets them increase their page output dramatically. Making sprites that don't look like absolute ass is also really hard. Homestuck sprites have a really specific janky charm to them that I've never really seen any other comic pull off.

And, yeah, you could always just use a simpler art style, like Order of the Stick does, but it's super hard to get anyone to read a webcomic with great art, let alone simple art designed to maintain a high page output. And, again, why are you making a comic if you don't want to draw, unless you just naturally happen to draw that way and be really fucking good at it like Rich Burlew is?

It seems like the only really good way to tell a story in a reasonable amount of time as a webcomic artist is to make enough money off it that you can work full time, and, um, that's not really feasible either.

I don't have an answer I like. I guess just kill yourself in the content mines working webcomics as a second job that doesn't pay you anything.

I don't have a conclusion, capitalism is a nightmare.

#Random Thots #ForEach #Homestuck #Order of the Stick #B^U

[rootfish13]

I don't know what the hell was going through Tim Buckley's mind when he posted the infamous "Loss" comic.

Posting something this serious & dramatic into your wacky gamer webcomic is insane. There was absolutely no build up or previous change in tone in the previous comics. Right before this Ethan launches a rocket inside his house making a hole in a wall because he's a wacky manchild.

The comic before Loss was Ethan being called at work that Lilah is at the hospital giving birth but the comic is still in wacky joke mode.

Then BOOM Loss is dropped onto the unsuspecting reader like a ton of bricks. There were only two possible reactions to this, either people will think it's a dark edgy joke because up until now the entire comic's content has been Family Guy style gags about video game references & Ethan's manchild hijinks OR they're going to laugh at Tim Buckly for making something so tone deaf while expecting everyone to take it seriously.

#loss #loss.jpg #tim buckley #webcomic #webcomics #meme #memes #ctrl alt del #CAD #B^U

[nicnavarrocage]

B^U

#comic edit #edit #team special olympics #andrew hussie #loss #ctrl alt del #cad comic #cad loss #miscarriage #tim buckley #B^U #bum tickley

[lovinglystar]

We are 4 years away from loss.jpg legally being able to vote

#b^u #loss.jpg

[yourangle-yuordevil]

They are smitten, I believe <3

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #Aziraphale have so. much. fun. being the damsell in distress and living his romantic dream #but he's also caring. so incredibly caring of crowley agsdfgasd #and Crowely is such a service top #but if Aziraphale gave him too much affection he'll C R U M B L E #vane: nata per disegnare animali. costretta a disegnare omini #piccioncini innamorati; letteralmente #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #good omens art

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

SPIDERS AHHHHH

#across the spiderverse #pavitr prabhakar #spider punk #hobie brown #spider gwen #miles morales #peter b parker #mayday parker #spiderman #atsv fanart #can u tell pavitr is my fave #his design is so good #and hes so silly nothing bad has ever happened to him and i love it #spiderpunk ily2 ur so silly

[pokeberry5]

boy hostage (spiritual successor to this)

big brother to the rescue:

#back at it again at krispy kreme #sart #tim drake #dick grayson #dc #dick & tim #some of my favorite things about canon are a) dick being (ferally) protective of tim #and b) that gotham villains refer to robin and nightwing as brothers #idk i love drawing tim a little bloody #he's ok!!! dick got to him on time im realizing he kinda looks dead #oh OTHER favorite thing is those panels of vigilantes where all u can make out of their features are their glowing eyes #(my excuse for not drawing tim's belt is that if he had it he'd've escaped so they must have gotten it off him)

[ayilings]

they get groceries and krill someone

based on this meme

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #the metamorphosis #vocaloid fanart #comic #i guess lol #eternal comfort character and high school ap literature comfort character except the real comfort character is absurdity #if u want a silly time look at the qrts of the tweet i shared theres good stuff happening over there #ayilings #2023 #OH !!! the gregor here is a redraw of that one book illustration of him thats in all the memes just 2 b transparent

[just-a-pole-sir]

#cj clark #u* #b* #cjclarkedit #gifs #mine #1k

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

#edit: edited the og post to what i want but to set the record straight i edited to the post to be mathematically correct right after the #first person pointed it out which was like ten mins after i posted the og post. now fuck offf !!!!! the rest of the tags r from the og post #for some reason i feel very immature making your mom jokes about tumblr staff. which i shldnt !! #bc they suck nd they still havent given me polls. but i ig i feel imature bc it a your mom joke 😭 but still i tihnk its kinda funny #EDIT: edited the post to what i want bc yall were getting annoying . but to set the record straight i edited to post to be mathematically #also its *mum* not mom okay i am NOT !! an american . but if i say mum everyone will j be like 'omg british' like i dont know i am #anyway. i want polls please. give me the rigght to force my mutuals chose between the most inane things #also i tihnk it wld b cool for the cs weekly blog. like w each episode #i cld do a poll of like. out of five stars what do u think of this ep #and it wld b a cool thing of which eps r ppls faves #also i cld have like. whose ur fave in team red whos ur fave in acme etc #id prob just have to go with vile faculty bc theres more than 10 ppl in vile. and ppl wld kill me if i didnt include nel the ell or whoever #it wld b fun !!! #oh btw csweekly thats i thing i want to start. prob on uhhh the 11th of feb ill post abt it more but its basically #a tag/blog for watching cs one ep a time watching one ep every saturday #ya !! :3 #flappy rambles #inaccessible #ask to tag #(<- idk. just in case)

[fourteenfifteen]

everybody’s always so worried about short kings getting carried off by predatory birds i’ll have you know the birds are Not planning to eat them and i know Several men under 5’6” who have had full and happy lives after having been raised in a nest

#cool b does cool things #tag this as whoever u want but if they’re 5’7 or above you won’t go to heaven fyi

[smokestarrules]

NEW DANA LUMITY ART (alongside more!!)

#in g r u d g b y outfits I WON #toh #the owl house #luz noceda #amity blight #lumity #smokey speaks #dana terrace #500 #1k

[onnie-giri]

best bros here to save the world (through volleyball <3)

#haikyuu!! #hq #haikyuu!! art #haikyuu fanart #digital art #bokuto #kuroo #bokuto koutarou #kuroo tetsurou #THEY CAN SAVE ME #VB INSTRUCTOR BOKUTO HAS BEEN ON MY MIND LATELY RAWR #this is the first time ive actually drawn kuroo ngl KJHAKJHFA #HIS HAIR WAS SUCH A B TO DRAW ;0; #i love them both ur honor #why arent they real ;-; #thank u furudate for making such amazing comforting and healing characters <3333

[soranker]

tomorrow :)

#TRIGUN MAXIMUM SPOILERS #trigun maximum #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #ok...... one more......... yall can have a little vashwood as a treat...... #i actually love them so much SO BADLY but u prob wouldnt b able to tell bc i dont post a lot of ship art #but trimax vashwood. holay shit. hydrogen bomb yaoi #ive also just been like. digging into so much post-canon vashwood (<- sad and delusional and coping) #LIKE DONT GET ME WRONG I LOVE LOVE LOVEEE WOLFWOOD'S CHARACTER ARC and i think [redacted] is SO IMPORTANT AND VITAL TO THE STORY #BOTH THEMATICALLY AND FOR VASH'S CHARACTER ARC. i literally would not have it any other way unfortunately </3 BUT A PERSON CAN STILL DREAM! #ok ya ill stop talking now bc i think i could talk about them and think about them forever.. *scratching the back of my head*

[spider-shoes]

for the people who are just too far away

#on love #on friendship #web weaving #🪐 #yearningposting again B) here u go gay people

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

NPMD best line deliveries

oh shit! oh fuck!! i didnt think thered be a skele'uhn here ?!? im so fucking scared of skele'uhnz!!!

dont frighten him pokey you nasssssty boy

were going to jail...and with my luck no one will even B O T H E R making me their bitch...

🐦 heyus the thing about a bãrbĕqüe...it brings folks together...from awl wawlks of laife...theyres a storhé behand everyh burrghurr...everyh kehbahhb...

but I...called God a sonofa B word...who am iaieEUGHAHuhuuuh...

#honourable mention FUCK YOU CLIVESDALE GO GET FUCKED YOU'RE FUCKING LOSERS AND WE'LL KILL YOU #and ofc W E D O N T G I V E A S H I T A B O U T Y O U R P H O N E #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #starkid #starkid npmd #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #hatchetfield trilogy #tgwdlm #black friday #lords in black #max jagerman #peter spankoffski #grace chasity #richie lipschitz #ruth fleming #steph lauter #nick lang #matt lang #jeff blim #will branner #lauren lopez #jon matteson #mariah rose faith casillas #joey ritcher #kim whalen #angela giarratana #corey dorris #curt mega