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How Not To Start a Comic #1

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Contributed by Phalanx of The Jaded.

Phalanx says:

Ironically, The "How Not To Run a Comic" project itself started with the now infamous words: "I'm bored". It started as a joke on the Keenspace forum, and somehow ended up becoming a concrete implementation of that joke.

Anyway... This is lecture doodle that started it all...

What's wrong with it?:

1. It was done in ten minutes on the back of a 'Stop The War Coalition' Flyer during an Arridge Theory lecture.
2. Crappy handlettering
3. Poor line contrast.
4. Starts by immediately breaking the fourth wall.
5. Is yet another copy of Real Life's starting sequence, i.e, "I'm bored lets start a webcomic..." It was funny ONCE, but it's been done to death, so stop already or be acquainted with Jade's Desert Eagle.

Saving Graces: They get acquainted with Jade's Desert Eagle. :)

Terotrous says:

Pretty much everything starts with "I'm bored". Except that your webcomic isn't allowed to. We read comics because we want
something that's at least slightly more exciting or funny than real life (not real life the comic, which is quite funny).
The moral of the story is: if you say that you're bored and want to start a comic out loud, you might get shot. Watch out.

mcDuffies says:

Pretty much what they said: done a million times, and I'm not really sure if it was funny the first time. Breaking 4th wall (which is usually annoying). Boring content.
In addition: Starting a comic when you're bored: bad. When you're bored, you go and build a ship in a bottle. Comics (as well as other art) need an idea, skills and love of comics; two guys sitting and getting bored usually have none of that, specially the first.
Also, starting a comic to be famous and get Paypal donations: bad. Why? First, as said, no idea, no skills, no love of comics. Second, it won't work. It worked only a few times, and mostly in the beginning of webcomics, while there was not much competition.
This comic might already be the classic of "How not to run a comic" series. P.S. I remember reading Disney comics when I was a kid. Mickey and Goofy were private detectives and every story was starting with two of them sitting in their PI office, saying how bored they are. Then, in comes a customer, they get the case and they're not bored anymore. But I swear, every single episode was starting with how bored they were! Every single one!