This comic is so off limits to children.

http://www.drunkduck.com/Arararas/

Basically HPK summed it up in his on-site review. This could be a very funny comic, because of the fact that it uses tetris pieces and deals with situations far out of reach of normal tertris piece understanding (so in other words we could have had a little Knock On Wood deal), but as usual the creator made this comic totally lose all of it's subtlety and spiral into one of those over-the top things. And it's not like the writing is winning any prizes either.

It's like any other sprite comic, only instead of dealing with video games blatantly, it deals with the kinds of topics (y'know, racism, sex, violence, etc.) that Matt/Marine loves to deal with in all his comics just as blatantly.

So no, I don't like it much.

Sorry, but I'm going to have to reiterate what CS1989 and HPK have said. It had a bit of potential, but it didn't hit, not even a little. I found this neither funny nor interesting. I can't even think of a redeeming quality, other than that you were the first person to my knowledge to introduce a tetris comic.

I'd try to work on the writing, which is bland and unintersting to me. Either that or work on the characters a little bit. Perhaps find a way to have them show emotion, rather than stand there and say things.

Overall it must've started out as a great idea, and then went downhill from there. Sorry, but that's how I see this coming across.

The idea of using tetris pieces as characters is certainly a novel one, with quite a bit of potential. Unfortunately I think that's really the only thing the comic has going for it. I mean, it isn't terrible. But I can't help but feel if they were just random guys and not tetris pieces, it wouldn't be interesting at all. Them actually being tetris pieces doesn't even seem to have any relevance.

I don't know how I rate this comic. I mean, there is no original artwork really. They are just tetris pieces. However, the dialogue is pretty funny (I hate green) at times. I think I'll still read it and overlook the tetris pieces just because the dialogue is funny.

I've never done a review before, but I have a little time on my hands, so here goes;

Art or lack thereof aside, as I think that point has been covered, I would say Araras has some good points, but also some points that need work.

It's a novel idea, as basic as it may be, and presents oppurtunities to do some really interesting things. I think some have these have been taken, maybe not to their full extent, but at least that's something. The humor aspect in particular is pretty good (I think my personal favorite is the devil being a red square named Steve).

On the other hand, there are a lot of spelling errors (yes, I am a grammar/spelling bitch, but if you're going to make a webcomic, you should be, too). I think speech bubbles would make the pages look more organized, as would making all the border lines the same width. As it is it just looks very unprofessional.

I suppose I have a bias against non-art based comics, as many of us do, but if this were, say, a manga(just for example) or something like that, I would also point out that, though more serious issues are discussed and begun to be elaborated upon, they seem to be abandoned halfway in favor of humor, when both should be able to coexist. I wonder whether this is the intent of the author; to not delve deeply into these matters, or if it is faulty writing. Or perhaps I'm speaking too soon and it will come back up in later pages. Either way, the plot does feel a little disjointed at this point.

Yeeah, I think everything that needs to be said has been covered already... I just found it rather surprising that this comic was so serious, considering that having the characters as tetris blocks kinda hints that it would be aiming for comedy. At times it borders on humour (Steve the devil for one) but the serious theme still seems to maintain throughout the comics posted thus far.

3 Bonus points for trying something different. Unfortunately, that just gives you a total of 4 points. Out of 100. Seriously, there are other comics on the web with tons o' readers that use less 'art' that this. But their writing is roughly 5000% better. Or more.

When you have little or no art, writing is everything. Trust me on this. Go to the bookstore. A big chain store where you can hang out and read everything for free. Then grab a couple of volumes of the Complete Peanuts, Doonsbury, some Calvin & Hobbes and a few Bloom County collections. Ignore the gorgeous art in the last two and read the strips. Cover up the artwork and just read and read and read. That is good writing. Write a fourth as well as Charles Schulz and 10,000 people a day will visit your site and stare at stick figures drawn on notebook paper and still laugh their asses off. Look at Dilbert! Scott Adams is a multi-millionaire, fer crying out loud!