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Finally! If you can read this that mean I finally got my Keenspace account!I had so many problems with Keenspace. First it wouldn't let me sign up, and when I did it kept saying my phone and country number didn't match! And it took FOREVER for them to send me a password and after that the password I got didn't work and I had to get another one and wait for that one to work. Woe is me. *sob sob* Now I have to use my brain and figure out how to set up my website. Just you wait... this comic will be the best darn comic evah! Oh, and No comic yet! Check back again later. Coming soon!(This despite the fact that I had three weeks to prepare, I sat around and did nothing but complain on the Help Forum about how inefficient Keenspace is. Ha Ha!) |
How Not To Start a Comic #1
Contributed by Phalanx of The Jaded. 
Phalanx says:
What's wrong with it?:
Need you even ask?!
- It's not a comic!
- No one cares what troubles you had with Keenspace, just get on with the comic.
- What the heck is this doing in the archive? It's not a comic!
- Where's my comic?! Coming Soon ain't good enough, buster! Goodbye and I'm leaving!
Saving graces: Absolutely None.
Terotrous says:
This is the definative way of not starting a comic, because the
comic doesn't actually get started at all. Seriously, don't do this.
mcDuffies says:
Sometimes when I want to find a new read, I go to comic search engines and open a lot of comic sites. Then I check their last and first strips to get a first impression of comic. Now, when I have 10 or 20 sites opened, them not having comics on what is called "first day" page, well, that's a lot of additional clicking.
Other thing: Who is this disclaimer for? Noone actually sees the first page of your comic if you're not already popular artist! Leaving this page is only forcing future readers to read old news. I remember author of "Stanky water" setting for his first a very internal joke, saying "noone is gonna read it at the time it's uploaded so I might as well go with the comic that noone will understand". That about sums up how much this kind of rant is purposeful.
This is also a spoof of tendency of authors to put news more often than comics and thus having lots of archive pages that contain rant but no comic. Annoying, really, if it's a newsblog site, there's a whole different audience for it. Comic readers hardly even read news attached to comics.
And, yeah, never whine too much about problems you had. Bad way: skipping ten updates, then posting a long rant about all problems you had. Good way: Warning your readers that there won't be updates for some time in advance, followed with short explanation why.
