What make you read a comic or just get the beep out of there

Instant gratification. If a comic is there and I can read it without knowing everything behind the scenes, knowing all the characters, etc, etc. I've tried to design penis in such a way that anyone could come in at anytime and not feel like they missed out on much.

Perfect examples of webcomics that I like are:

www.zxipi.com
www.drunkduck.com/penis/ (now read all the previous comics)
www.pigrelated.com (may not be the same site now)

Another set of comics that I like are the long story comic book types. Some of the better types like that online are:

www.sacredpie.com
the post nuke one (I forgot his website)

Personally though, if I could read any kind of comics. I read marvel comics. I'll read stuff written by authors I like (Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, Robert Kirkman, Warren Ellis) but other then that, I'm very picky about trying out new stuff.

marine
Instant gratification. If a comic is there and I can read it without knowing everything behind the scenes, knowing all the characters, etc, etc. I've tried to design penis in such a way that anyone could come in at anytime and not feel like they missed out on much.

Perfect examples of webcomics that I like are:

www.zxipi.com

ok I stopped reading there
(I liked KC's version though)

I tend to be very picky about what comics I read or not.

Artwork and style are a big factor. If it is an art style I don't like, such as traditional marvel comics, 3D modeling, or sprite comics, I leave right away. Color doesn't matter to me if it is well drawn.

Second main factor is story. I love detailed stories with interesting characters that I can relate to. Even if the art is great, if there is no story to catch my interest, it's just as bad as if there was horrible artwork. Certain themes I like better than others such as fantasy or romance... but I don't like horror or things with mecha and the like.

Cash.

for me, the art dosint have to be too good..but i have to be able to tell whats going on..and umm.. the story is a big factor..if the art is fantastic but the first 10 pages are really confusing or boring, i wont read it. umm what else...i usually like to give comics a chance..cause you can tell if someones really trying and someone who isint. i dont like sprite comics unless they have a super fantastic story (cause i dont like sprite that much) i cant handle comics that think excessive profanity is funny..;; some is good when tatsefully placed...ummm aand i really like manga style of a fantasy or romance comic...umm yeah....

I like the attention to small details. Mouths, hands, text bubbles, panel layout, facial expressions.

If an artist has attention to small detail, then he/she is a good artist.

However, usually, I won't read a really well-done comic for only its art... unless its something like Sage's Action.

One thing that makes a comic unreadable for me are spelling / grammar mistakes. And I don't mean a lone mistake will send me packing, it's those strips that consistently skip or misuse apostrophes, or use words out of context. It's distracting to the point of frustration.

It makes me think "Gee, they can't be bothered to run a spell check, why should I bother to read?"

I also hate sidescrolling. Granted, I keep my screen resolution as low as it can go, but still, I hate sidscrolling with a freakin' passion.

Nyeah.

Green_Tangerine
One thing that makes a comic unreadable for me are spelling / grammar mistakes. And I don't mean a lone mistake will send me packing, it's those strips that consistently skip or misuse apostrophes, or use words out of context. It's distracting to the point of frustration.

It makes me think "Gee, they can't be bothered to run a spell check, why should I bother to read?"

I also hate sidescrolling. Granted, I keep my screen resolution as low as it can go, but still, I hate sidscrolling with a freakin' passion.

Nyeah.

What are you trying to infer? That comics that don't imply proper grammar auto-fail?

marine
What are you trying to infer? That comics that don't imply proper grammar auto-fail?

I wouldn't say they fail, it's just distracting.
But no lies- Penis is the only comic with spelling mistakes that I read.

Green_Tangerine
I hate sidscrolling with a freakin' passion.

Big time. And a lot of down scrolling too. Standard pages vertically stacked one below the other toilet-paper style lose me really fast.

I think this would be better put in Comic Discussion: Print and Web. :) So I shall move it there.

Turn ons:

-Original concept for the comic. (No matter how good the artwork is, I don't want to read yet another sprite comic that puts a vaguely silly spin on FF6 or another manga where a kid transfers to a Japanese school for no aparent reason and falls in love with somebody with mystical powers, or another 'epic' fantasy about po-faced elves helping a young person sucked in from another world fight an ancient evil... etc.)
-Decent artwork. (Doesn't have to be incredible, just has to look like the artist put in some effort. I don't mind what the style or medium is so much, so long as it's drawn with care.)
-Clean, simple and to the point. (speaks for itself. If I can tell what's going on, I'm happy.)
-Good characterisation. (If I can recognise the characters, tell them apart, remember at least some of their names, and they all show distinctive personalities from each other, then I consider it to be an excellent comic.)

Turn offs:

-Make-Believe Publication. (You know when somebody's uploaded a cover with something like a 'Midori Tori Comics' logo on it, 'cause they made up a publising group, and they post the 'blurb' that would go on the back as a cover as well, as though their comic is already in print, even though it blatantly isn't? That really irks me.)
-Opening too long. (The first page is just a picture of a castle, or a moody looking figure on a landscape with like, three paragraphs of heavy text about how 'blah blah there was an ancient war between the elves and the dragons blah blah blah...' and then you get past that there are three more pages like it and it's not even interesting...ugh. I want to read a comic here, not a novel!)
-Characters speak txt. (The characters 'tlk lik this an think its kewl lik u no.' It's not cool. Typos I can forgive, but at least give up enough time to write 'you'! Oh, and emoticons in characters speech really pisses me off 'lol u r ded funny :) ')
-Starts in the Middle ('For all the old pages of check out my website!' ...Umm, how about 'no', you lazy git. Upload everything, or lose my interest.)
-Right-to-Left (I will read right-to-left comics if they're good, but I still think it's an utterly ridiculous thing to do, especially since people who do it normally can't speak five words of Japanese).

This turns me on:
Good art. Or at least decent art. There should be some effort, although if the comic is definitely fun, I can bypass this.
Subject matter. I have a limited range of genres that I'm interested in. Superheroes, fantasy and action have a chance. Slice-of -life has to be REALLY FUNNY to get me, but then the art must be good enough for me to care to read it.
Rythm. The story has to move somewhere fast. I tried to read the Curious Adventures of Aldus Maycombe, but although the art is beautiful I got bored after three pages.
Attitude. I like it when someone has a definite passion for something and is unapologetical about it. Like, when I can tell "this guy loves zombie movies" or "this guy is a Ruroni Kenshin nut".

And this turns me off:
Sprites. I simply ignore them.
Weird formats like infinite canvas and right-to-left. My comics have normal pages, thank you very much.
Two guys sitting on a sofa talking about videogames or anime or complaining about how much of a loser they are.
Fourth-wall breaking.
Fan comics. Call me a Scrooge, but I simply don't understand people putting so much effort in something they won't ever be able to use for their own benefit.

Let's see.

What I like:

-Interesting stories and/or humor good enough to keep me coming back. If I get bored reading, I just stop doing so.
-Good artwork. It doesn't even matter what style it is, if it's done well, I'm usually willing to overlook even awful writing if I can just flip through and look at pretty pictures. But if the writing is really terrible, the art had better be awfully good to hold my interest.
-Originality. I love reading things that don't make me feel like I've read them twenty times before. Even if it's not an entirely original concept, if it has an original spin to it or something else that makes it unique, I will still read it.
-Good pacing. Comics that take forever to get to the point tend to lose my interest fast.

What I don't like:

-Comics where the characters all look and act so similar I can't tell who's talking. No, drawing two spikes of hair on Joe's head and one spike of hair on Sam's head but otherwise drawing them almost identical does not make for interesting character design. If I can't tell who's talking or what's going on because I can't tell the difference between 90% of the characters, I get annoyed and stop reading.
-Sprite comics. The only sprite comic I've found that I've really enjoyed is 8-Bit Theatre.
-Massive spelling errors in text. I can deal with a typo here and there, but when there's so many errors that it becomes annoying to read, you really need to invest some time in running a spell-checker.
-Giant page sizes. I don't want to scroll all over my screen to read the comic, and for me, comic pages just don't work as well if they don't work as a coherent whole - and it's hard to work as a coherent whole when I can't see more than 25% of it on my screen at one time.

There's a few things I like about comics:

Having good quality, being well written out, having any feeling to it at all whatsoever, good characters (and for sprite comics, not just recolors), and knowing that the creator put at least a little bit of effort into the comic. After all, the main reason for webcomics is to entertain us.

What I hate is when there's no background at all (I'll even settle for a flipping line to show the flipping ground), being badly written out, horrid quality, spelling errors (unless they're intentional), and I especially hate it when someone gives sprite comics a bad name. They're webcomics, too!

I'm a simple man. If it's a comic, I'll read it. If it's free, then I will definitally read it.

I'm relatively new to the webcomic scene, but I've read paper comics all my life and some of the tendancies have spilled over.

-What I like:
-It's got to have good art. I know...I know...a strong story is really important, but...being an artist, I really go for artwork that inspires me.
-Originality. I don't read mainstream comics anymore because...well...they've been done. Even if you're running a series about how all the heroes get killed off, I don't really care much because I've read about those guys all my life.

-What I don't like:
-If it's got "leet speak", I won't even pause. lol. gtg.
-Folks that think that being "cool", "messy" or "vague" is artistic or profound.

Likes:

1. Storywise comes first... if the story is captivating... heck, I'll be comin' back for more. There are a lot of great stories around here in DD and I'm proud about it for the benefits of the creator.

2. Artwise... well, art should be decent to perfect. Yet, I can accept a shitty art if the story is good or if you want to give out shitty art to benefit the story intentionally... then this is creativity.

3. Creativity... show me what you've got! Characterwise... plotwise... and the list goes on! Like in stories, you can have these shocks that would change everything in the story.

4. Characters... likable characters so people would love to follow them and they're personalities. What makes me excited about? The villains. If the villain is great, the protagonist should be great then the story will be great.

Dislikes:

1. Sprite/gag comics... I fucking hate those comics. Whether it is online, printed, newspapers, whatever... I hate them with a passion. I cannot stand sprite and silly gag comics that aren't funny. Maybe I can tolerate 0.0002% of them and the rest are shitpukes.

2. Spelling mistakes... if it is intentional for the comedy purposes, I can go with it but if it is done without checking your mistakes... it pisses me off. Typos are fine but CORRECT IT... DAMN IT! I do send my comics with the typos but when I reread the page, I'll just correct it before anyone could read it.

3. Superhero comics that never ends... examples Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Shitman, and the list goes on. They've been since 593487457 years ago and the DAMN series haven't ended yet. To make things worse... they're trying to invent new things for a new superhero... the next thing you'll know, you'll have "Pencil-Geekman"! Gimme a damn break!

4. THIS IS A COMIC... NOT A FUCKING NEWSPAPER! More visiuals... less words not the other way around. I, seriously, saw a comic page (not on DD, thank God... it is an independant site) which you'll see the character in the top left and you'll see the entire page filled with word... if I wand to read a newspaper online, I'll go to annaharnet.com or any as such.

5. DON'T IGNORE ADVICES... you're not perfect... we all have mistakes but if someone hinted a mistake, make a fucking effort and correct it.

That's all! Wow, I took off 5% of anger in me... ha ha ha!

Like:
Creativity is important.

Character development is big thing for me. I like characters that change over time. I like corruption in characters too. Main characters don't have to be perfectly good (and the bad guys don't have to be absolutely evil.)

Different perspectives are nice. I like it when characters see scenarios in different ways and want to do different things.

I like creepy stories.

Art: different angles are fun. Expressions and emotions in the characters are really important. I like unique styles. Art styles where I can tell them apart from other comics.
Witty, well written dialogue(examples of this could be 8bit-theater, Pinky TA or Gnoph).

Don't like:
Don't like comics where their art style can't be individualized from others. Like default manga or superhero American styles.
I hate talking head comics. This is where the artist never draws the character below the shoulders...Ahhh who cares if it you're not that good at drawing the whole body at least try.
No hand comics. Comics where the artist never draws the hand to the point of putting the hands behind the back on every full body drawing of a character. Other than the eyes, hands are the most expressive part of the human body.

Too much dialogue to the point of the page looking like a book page. I just can't deal with it. Perhaps it's my low attention span.
Don't like too much conversation between two characters dialogue on one panel. It looks lazy.

Avoid sprites because of the lack of facial expressions and repetitive camera angles.

Pages that are too big. Words that are too small. yeah that's it...

ORIGINALITY IS LOVE.

I'm a stickler for art style. ^^; I read mostly manga, and I'm quite picky with it. I like original things, and it'll take a lot for my to pick up a series with a stereotypical art style. I won't touch Psychic Academy, for example, but I love the likes of Et Cetera. The only exception I guess is Loki Ragnarok.

I'm equally picky with plots. XD; They must addicting! With comics, it's either I love them or I don't read them. With the likes of Saiyuki and Et Cetera, I can't get enough of them, but I'm struggling with Blazing Barrels...

And, yes, I'm getting into the likes of Bleach, One Piece and Shaman King. XD;; Naruto, been there, done that, thankfully never cosplayed once... x__x;

turn-ons:
candlelit dinners
attractive people
... hahaha... jk jk.

1 Understandable art: ok this makes me sound like I have some sort of mental deficiency, but if a comic is too realistic, I just can't get into it. Almost all the comics I read are highly stylized. A lot of realistic comics focus too much on backgrounds and I feel like it obscures the important parts of the panel. Like, too much realism= comic looks too busy= Kristen gets bored.

2 likeable characters: I hate it when it's like, "tough-guy and wise-cracking, street-smart lady fight crime!!" uugh! boring! I prefer it when there's a lot of angst, tension between characters, and if there's a depressing martyr somewhere in your comic... I'm there.

3 NO SPELLING ERRORS!!! There's only one comic I read that has profuse, insanely annoying spelling errors, and that's because it's a great comic otherwise. Seriously, as the former copy editor (meaning I corrected the grammar and stuff in the articles) of award-winning scholastic newspaper the Gael Winds, I just can't stand seeing spelling/grammatical errors. They really, really, really make my soul hurt. (Like, when the featured comics have spelling errors in their feature descriptions, I don't read them. Or else I'd feel like I'm fraternizing with the enemy.)

4 I don't mind cliche storylines as long as they're understandable and have good character development. everything's been done already, so it's just how you put your own mark on your particular story that makes the difference.

so that's it! ... ^^