Thursday, August 26, 2010

Web comics

This is this web comic I read,  well there are more than one, but I am only going to  talk about one of them.  I like the comic its a fun time the story is great and in depth and it is on my list of things to check every day. Sure there are parts i don’t understand, such as when the two characters turn into something else and fight.  not really sure what that is about.  However their art style is bright and detailed and full of vim and vigor. Except when its not, recently ( during the last year or so) their style has changed to a very simplistic flat stick figure and body block style. Which gives this great story a very uninteresting dimension and for myself makes this great web comic something that I am hesitant to check on, not knowing which style will be used today.

 

I understand why the artist would use the two different styles. Be it time constraints while still wanting to express a story that is in their head. Or saving the better style for the book of the comic so that is is something special and not just things printed from the webpage. Or perhaps there is another reason I am unaware of that makes doing full detail on the web comic a practical impossibility. I suppose I could find out if I read their blog or the comments. However for the Vast majority of the web comics that I read  I view the imagery or read the entry for the day and that is where I leave things.  perhaps I should read more about the individual artists, perhaps that would expand my enjoyment of their web comic if I knew of the influences and details that went into the comic.  The little that I do see is mostly about conventions that they are attending and items for sale in their online store. This is all well and good for it gets publicity out about the comic and helps to make them money. All of the conventions they attend are much to far away for myself to go to and while I would purchase items in their store most of my money is allocated to bills and food and such.