Anonymous
10/15/2025, 4:06:12 PM
No.150848454
>>150829574
It's not just non-cape comics, all comics are struggling for popularity.
They're struggling for the following reasons, in order of significance
>1) floppies
Floppies are just crummy, they look worn out even when they're brand new, they feel horrible to hold, even before you've properly looked at it, it looks like rubbish.
>2) bad art
More specifically: unappealing art. 99% of the art in comics is just simply ugly to look at. The characters are ugly, the poses are stupid, the panellnig is nonsensical, the environments are ugly. It just doesn't look good.
This is the real hard filter. Comics are a visual medium, the writing quality only becomes apparent once you start reading, but the art is immediate, and if the art is no good, nobody will even bother to read it to see if the writing is any good.
>3) bad writing
Even if the art is good, it's no good if the writing is bad. 99% of comics have bad art, but of the 1% that have good art, 99% of those have bad writing.
Praise Moebius and Ross all you like, but nobody talks about the writing in those comics, becaue it's not interesting.
I could go on further with more points about the marketing and the pricing and all that, but really it's not necessary since the above points account for basically all the issues with comics as a whole
It's not just non-cape comics, all comics are struggling for popularity.
They're struggling for the following reasons, in order of significance
>1) floppies
Floppies are just crummy, they look worn out even when they're brand new, they feel horrible to hold, even before you've properly looked at it, it looks like rubbish.
>2) bad art
More specifically: unappealing art. 99% of the art in comics is just simply ugly to look at. The characters are ugly, the poses are stupid, the panellnig is nonsensical, the environments are ugly. It just doesn't look good.
This is the real hard filter. Comics are a visual medium, the writing quality only becomes apparent once you start reading, but the art is immediate, and if the art is no good, nobody will even bother to read it to see if the writing is any good.
>3) bad writing
Even if the art is good, it's no good if the writing is bad. 99% of comics have bad art, but of the 1% that have good art, 99% of those have bad writing.
Praise Moebius and Ross all you like, but nobody talks about the writing in those comics, becaue it's not interesting.
I could go on further with more points about the marketing and the pricing and all that, but really it's not necessary since the above points account for basically all the issues with comics as a whole