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How Not To Start A Webcomic #3
Contributed by axonite of Station V3 
Phalanx says:
What's wrong with it?:
- Made on torn lined paper! Arrrgh!
- Image is uncropped, and you can see the scanner lid still.
- Handwriting... That 'boom' can hardly be read.
Saving graces: The ink lines are strong and clear, and the joke is actually quite funny.
Terotrous says:
I'd bet the guy whose head blew up isn't bored anymore either.
mcDuffies says:
Not only lined paper, but it's some kind of printing paper with large green lines! Even worse than usual notebook paper!
This un-cropped image with torn edges visible can actually be a good joke, as long as it's obvious that artist does it on purpose, not because he's lazy or doesn't know how to use graphic programs. And as long as it goes with the concept of the comic.
I wonder if these lines can be removed by tinkering in Photoshop.
If this was a serious first comic, I wouldn't consider a joke very funny. "Well, at least I'm not bored anymore"... sounds like something I heard thousand times. And of course, there is a famous "Let's start a comic and be famous" words. It really seems like author didn't really had any idea what do draw.
It's obvious that it's a sketch made on boring classes or work and then used as a comic. Some good webcomics were started that way but they all went toward more serious stuff later. It would never work this way.
