new to the duck, and i'm just looking for any criticism for ways to improve my strip. it updates M-F, and has a couple weeks posted already. http://www.drunkduck.com/The_602/

I hate to do these things but I would like people to do the same for me. You have good technical ability but your writing absolutely sucks. Writing is what makes a comic good. I see the usual influences here (pvp, AA, ctrl+blahblahblah), for your art style and I can't really say that it does anything for me one way or another, but at least you can draw. Some people try to get a good idea for a comic and then write the dialogue around the supposedly funny situation. Well first things first, the slacker without a job and loser friend angle has been done completely to death. I don't see any reason why these guys are friends or what. If my so called friend punched out my boss, I wouldn't be so chilled about it like your guy is there. I would want to kill that mfer. And then he goes and steals beer money from a church. Not funny. Robbing charitable organizations is just not what I would find funny. So I have no reason to care for any of the characters so here is what I suggest since I don't whine and offer no solutions:

1. Establish the characters more. Give us backgrounds on these guys.
2. Write out storylines in advance and don't just string together comics. Open up wordpad and write a script like it was a conversation in your head between you and yourself. If it sounds funny to yourself or like something that would sound funny to other people then refine it.

I'll think of other things after my physics test.

But hey, you are better than half the webcartoonists out there for your technical ability alone.