Where's the beef, or comic as the case may be.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:03 am

Okay, I was clicking on a newsbox entry that seemed interesting and started at the first page of the comic in question. First page, well and good. Second page, filler. Third page, filler. WTF? And on and on it goes. Something like twelve pages of filler brings me to the latest "update."

I say again, WTF?

What was this person thinking?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:07 am

It seems like they weren't

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:01 am

perhaps the filler WAS the comic and it was all part of some devious plan.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:07 am

It's like the Dionaea House, except stupid.

KODAMA · Post by **KODAMA** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:15 am

... was it mine?

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:24 am

KODAMA wrote:... was it mine?

I don't know. Do you have a webcomic that consists of a first page, then twelve pages of filler, then nothing?

KODAMA · Post by **KODAMA** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:33 am

dburkhead wrote:
KODAMA wrote:... was it mine?
I don't know. Do you have a webcomic that consists of a first page, then twelve pages of filler, then nothing?

Sounds frighteningly familiar....

I've been good for the past 9 pages :)

Kasaii · Post by **Kasaii** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:51 am

Filler updated inside the main comic always drives me nuts. It's one of the main reasons I stopped reading through Suburban Jungle; the filler shatters the flow of the archives.

I like filler, but I like it even more to have a seperate location, unless there's a serious and important reason for its presence.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:40 am

Peer pressure maybe?
Like, they saw other comics do it, they overheard somewhere that it's good to update regularly, they put 2 and 2 together and got 1.5

Like HNTRAC established years ago, if you have to put a filler, remove it from archive later. If I'm reading someone's archives, I don't care which days I updated and which ones not. I only care about that if I'm reading it as it updates.

Though even then I don't get the point of a filler. I come for a comic, and if it isn't there, I don't care if there's some text image apologuising, or a stick-figure fan comic instead of it.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:47 am

I like having filler in between stories, but not during them. They're usually sketches or guest comics that run while I take a break.

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:49 am

I admit I have fanart sprinkled in during days that I don't normally update, but no one's complained so far, so I probably won't be changing it anytime soon. ^^;;.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:03 am

Waaaait a minute...

...are you saying there's a bad webcomic hosted on Comicgen?!

No sir, I refuse to believe this.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:37 am

Jackhass wrote:Waaaait a minute...

...are you saying there's a bad webcomic hosted on Comicgen?!

No sir, I refuse to believe this.

sarcasm cleanup on ailse three!

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:42 am

It's alright, I have an extra bottle of Sarcasm™ in my back pack.

SergeXIII · Post by **SergeXIII** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:44 am

How old is the site? They might be just setting everything up?

Maybe?

Its kinda possible...

I don't know.

Mr. Caravaggio · Post by **Mr. Caravaggio** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:54 am

Someone's got to make a comic like this on purpose. The real point of the site will just to have a misc. art account, like deviant art, only framed as a webcomic, so that the site itself because kind of an ironic little statement on the medium. (And no, I don't think Vas already thought of this)

Christ, I shouldn't have taken that modern art class...

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:56 am

SergeXIII wrote:How old is the site? They might be just setting everything up?

Maybe?

Its kinda possible...

I don't know.

Well, yeah, there have been exactly twelve updates. And that's what tripped my irony switch: every single one of those twelve updates--every one--was filler. So, with the starter comic followed by twelve "fillers" we've got a "comic" that's 92.3% filler.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:57 am

Mr. Caravaggio wrote:Someone's got to make a comic like this on purpose. The real point of the site will just to have a misc. art account, like deviant art, only framed as a webcomic, so that the site itself because kind of an ironic little statement on the medium. (And no, I don't think Vas already thought of this)

I think someone's done this, actually. Now if I can only remember where that site was...

KODAMA · Post by **KODAMA** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:44 pm

OBS wrote:One thing I can't understand is how (popular indy comic that was once hosted on Keenspace) ramped up some big ad campaign for the comic, only to post filler durring days the comic updated citing "Oh, I've gone off on business and won't be back until the 15th".

It's just like kicking yourself in the face.

lol, I clicked on that banner too. I was reading some archives and there was a webcomic banner, so I was like "whoa, neat. An advertisement that isn't lame" and clicked on it.. and it's says come back a month later... lol

Sure made me think "wtf mate?" and I didn't feel like reading the archives. The artwork wasn't very appealing to me neither (very very few webcomics appeal to me simply by art, but I still read a few pages from the front and a few pages from the back for most of the webcomics I encounter.)

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:52 pm

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:It's alright, I have an extra bottle of Sarcasm™ in my back pack.

But this was Pointless Sarcasm, you'll need something extra strong for it.

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Where's the beef, or comic as the case may be.

Where's the beef, or comic as the case may be.

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