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How Not To Start a Comic #27

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Contributed by Phalanx of The Jaded.

Phalanx says:

Other than the cut-and-paste, there's nothing seriously wrong with this comic (hopefully) except for one thing:

Yeah, you got it. The 'punchline'.

Whining about your comic isn't funny. Like the "I'm Bored" punchline. It wasn't really THAT funny to begin with, and it's certainly not funny when it's the 10th comic to have done it.

I see a lot of potentially good comics spoiled by this opening sequence. Don't let this happen to you, folks.

Terotrous says:

If your comic sucks, we'll know. You don't have to tell us.
We can read, you know. Don't put it in your newsposts, either.
The words "this comic sucks" should not show up outside your forum / tagboard.

mcDuffies says:

Ah, famous opening words: "This comic sucks", or "I'm bored".
Lots of comics we all know (and many of us like) begin with something as lame as that. They can allow that to themselves, because when they were starting, there was not much other comics and thus no real pointer at what to do or not do. Nowadays they are comics with big readership; even if you skip them because of the bad start, sooner or later you'll stumble on to them again and, hopefully find out that there's more than bad beginning (far from all that justifying them. Smaller comics, still gaining their readers, can't allow something like this.
Really, all you guys who are new at this, why not trying something unique?