Outtakes fad

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:32 pm

Theres a new fad at start, with authors making sketchy comics about downsides behind making their comic.

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:07 pm

Yep, I've seen that. Someone starts a web comics, encounters problems, and rolls them all into a series of gags. You have to admit that it's efficient.

[AOD] · Post by **[AOD]** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:16 pm

Waaaay ahead of you, mcDuffies. Every ONE of my comics is sketchy and laden with significant problems! It's just that the whole fourth-wall breaking exposition thingy... that's implicit.

!~AoD

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 1:57 am

I think this was behind the entire concept behind The Rules. And it seems to have worked!

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:21 am

The question is, is it better or worse than hiatus and fouth wall breaking?

[AOD] · Post by **[AOD]** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:35 am

I believe it is in equal weight to the abovementioned two.

@~AoD

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 11:20 am

Comic Creatorz is like this, but it never breaks the fourth wall.

PDI · Post by **PDI** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:01 pm

That's not even remotely new.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:22 pm

I loved this outtakes strip at Kelen
(BTW, I must be really cool. I didn't have it bookmarked so I used the calendar, and BLAM, bullseye, with the first try!)

But the kind of self-refferential out-takes you mention usualy get on my nerves very fast. And I don't like breaking the 4th wall.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:32 pm

PDI wrote:That's not even remotely new.

I said it was?

Comic Creatorz specifically uses all the established poor set-ups and so on. It contains almost no new material whatsoever.

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:59 pm

KittyKatBlack wrote:I think this was behind the entire concept behind The Rules. And it seems to have worked!

*blush*

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:14 pm

Mr. Ekshin, If your blue, what color do you change when you blush?

Asarea · Post by **Asarea** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:40 am

he *blueshs* ... ^^

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:45 am

Asarea wrote:he *blueshs* ... ^^

>_<

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:24 am

http://therules.keenspace.com/d/20040501.html

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:35 pm

For the record, I think Jaded's outtakes were mighty funny, and I KNOW that Night and Days's are gonna be funny too. I wasn't intending to critique anyone, just poke random people in the ribs with a pencil.
Basically, if a comic follows one serious story for a few months, nothing wrong in taking a break with some silliness, specially if the storyline is finished. However, with some comics you'll see a "I couldn't finish this comic" 4th wall breaking routing from second update and on every two or three updates. That, I hate. I lose respect for the comic as soon as I see a supposedly silly self-referencial hard-is-a-life-of-lazy-artist comic if I haven't seen any real story before that.

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:32 pm

This may sound weird, but I started without a 4th or even 5th wall, and since I've been stuck in a storyline, I miss it, and feel as if I've been cheating.

I've read many times how it's considered a cop-out for when people run out of ideas. That's not been the case for me. As a matter of fact, I now have to jot down my gag ideas until I can get my idiots back home.

I miss the freedom of my previous stuff. I could do whatever the heck I wanted as it popped into my head. Storylines are cool I guess, but I don't draw fast enough for them.

I still try to stick to my roots by tossing in lines like "I'm going to beat your ass back to black and white news-print", but it's not the same.

Here's something: I cranked this out on the fly in about an hour for this post. If you get it, cool. If you don't, then you are missing some cool comics out there (and I don't mean mine!)

Solidarity comrades!!!

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:09 am

I did some cast interviews and outtakes early on in the comic, and I included them in the CD of Mixed Myth. Other than that...hmm...well, I guess there's the bit I did for Online Comics Day that detailed the dificulties (and wolves!) involved in doing it all.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:43 pm

Ekshin, did you join stealing signatures trend?

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:21 pm

mcDuffies wrote:Ekshin, did you join stealing signatures trend?

Yeah, If I could put a bunch on random rotation like the newsbox, I would!