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How Not To Start a Comic #28

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Contributed by Phalanx of The Jaded.

Phalanx says:

Deja vu! Recycled images! *evil laughter*

While I rather like this shadowplay (wayang kulit) art-style, it's spoiled by the fact that characters are forever stuck in the same few poses.

Also, comic self-insertion is another overdone theme in any comic. The lazy-cartoonist gag is even more so. Get it into your head. It stopped being funny long ago.

If it ever was funny, that is.

Terotrous says:

Making a comic takes effort, and is not as fun as playing games.
You have to be willing to give up some of your game-playing time for it.
And don't break the fourth wall just to have the characters insult you.
This is almost as bad as "Hey you! Yeah, you, the reader. You suck! Get a life!"

mcDuffies says:

For starters, if you make a page by copying/pasting one image four times, it still doesn't mean much. But if you do that again on next page, your comic is boring.
If you:
1. Suck at art...
2. Don't have ideas or suck at writing...
3. Start a comic and then can't follow it through because of playing games or watching tv.
4. Don't like your own comic...
You're not supposed to be proud with it. If you think it's cool you can what problems in your comic are, nah, really, it's only cool when you try to fix those problems. If you don't want, at least try to hide it.
Hear this story: on one birthday party, I got a little drunk. One friend noticed me saying to everyone: "Sorry, I'm a little drunk so..." and said: "You're not supposed to do that, It's a party so everyone's probably as drunk as you. They don't notice until you tell them."
And if they are sober and do notice, well, if you're ashamed of being drunk, don't drink. Then again, if you're proud of being drunk, then it all comes to this:
"Why is noone reading my comic?"
"Well, it sucks."
"Duh, I know it sucks, but why is noone reading it?"