Web on Web

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Non-scientific methods.

The Gadzooks Cave

on Nov. 23, 2006

Hey, Dave here - Got some of that..comicy-goodness for you "peeps".
Nick may come online later and explain the finer points of webcomic critiquing, for now, however, my cudgel of the english language will have to suffice for your wanton desires.
Webcomicing isn't an infliction I'd wish on anyone, but from what I can glean, it's quite popular with those who genuinely are stricken will a "Mario Feva" - I must have seen at least a dozen "sprite" comics dedicated to that specific racial stereotype alone, but that's not all; Manga, sprites, existentials.. There are even some professional works on this site, so I guess this must be some kind of rewarding hobby - time Nate & J muscled in on it.
Also I should mention that we're not trying to "show you how it's done" with our, sometimes harsh (?), view of webcomics, or my artwork, which is clearly below-par: this isn't the point, the point is fun.
-D.

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Nick here… I really should have got around to writing up this… thing… sooner. We have a couple more Web on Web strips in the making, and they should be up over the next week.

Anyhow, I have little to no experience with webcomic critiquing, apart from the occasional analysis of Dave's "Dusko" strips. However, somewhere over the last fortnight, Dave and I were actually conjuring up the script for the above comic, and I ended up bringing up sprite comics. While I will not go on about sprite comics now (saving that for a later strip), I might as well go on about whatever it is that I'm about to go on and on about.

The whole purpose of Web on Web (a title coined by me, shortened from Dave's idea of "Webcomics on Webcomics") is to tell the tale of a couple of guys who make their own webcomics, as well as critique other people's works. Note that this will, inevitably, result in us occasionally critiquing real works, or simply categories, such as the aforementioned sprite comic genre. It will, inevitably, result in a step-by-step analysis of the work in question (meaning that we metaphorically tear the work apart with a mixture of crude taunts and the occasional threat - only if it's bad, mind you), taking into account all of the good points and the bad points (e.g. the plot line, the artwork, the sanity of the author), and eventually write a treatise on the work in question and have it stored away in out extensive underground vaults, which are full of yellowed scrolls, dried-out stacks of Manilla folders, and the occasional reliquary full of charred bones. There the treatise shall lie until it is dug out of the musty, subterranean chambers for future examination by either Dave or I (or possibly a servant or slave). You see how I can greatly over-exaggerate things? This is why a lot of my comments are quite long.

Until the next "comica"-
Nick.