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How Not To Start A Webcomic #9
Contributed by Bob Oosterwijk of 
Mr. Bob says:
10 things wrong with this comic:
- The words: "Let's start a webcomic and become famous etc"
- Completely unacceptable spelling
- Sonic is sitting on the family cat
- Comic created in MS Paint
- Relies completely on cut & paste
- "Comics where a bunch of room mates sit around and play videogames and make sarcastic quips should be avoided."
- Standard pianos are supposed to have 88 keys. This one has 22
- Sprite Comic using copyrighted property
- Use of generic fonts (although Comic Sans MS is still under debate)
- The porn magazines under the couch are simply pieces of colourful paper with the word PORN stencilled onto them. In real life you will find that this is generally not the case, in most circumstances there being an image on the front cov...
Phalanx says:
Only need one. Sonic the Hedgehog Sprite.
Saving graces: Providence provides us with pianos.
Terotrous says:
Way back when there was a topic about "Comic no-no's" where Ghastly made the
immortal statement "Comics about roomates who sit around all day and
play video games while making sarcastic quips should be avioded".
This is true wisdom. Remember it well.
mcDuffies says:
This one is a real jewel.
Luckily, mr. Bob commented this himself, otherwise it would be ver difficult to notice every one.
I'll just try to spot a few things that mr.Bob didn't mention:
Eye-annoying contrast between MS-slapped background, sofa and door, and sprite characters and their weapons at the place where umbrellas are supposed to be.
I think they're sitting too far from the screen. The screen should be in shot too. This is a sign of saving in effort to draw it.
If the sky is visible through the hole in the ceiling, then that means there is no upper floor, not even a roof. The building they're in, must be flat on top, shaped like box. And it's too thin for a ceiling panel anyway.
There is no carpet, they could get cold.
There is a bad composition of space again: guys are sitting in right side of panels, looking at right. Thus, all attention is centred at the right side, leaving complete left side wasted on some irrelevant details like door and "roomies" poster. Bad use of space is generally the problem of sprite comics.
Good thing is, they're actually sitting for once. You could almost imagine them standing stiff in their usual ready-to-attack positions, in the middle of their own rook, while playing games!
