It would appear that Kneefers has entered the fray. Check out his criticism blog, Eyeballing It.
I like what he’s done so far. Taking a very lighthearted and surface value approach to the comics. Which is great to add to the mix, because not everyone talks about webcomics as hard as some of us do, nor would they want to.
But yes, criticism enthusiasts and othersuch folk: Take an extended gander.
Okay, I just had a sudden suspicion that the only people reading webcomic critics are other webcomic critics.
Dammit! Have we formed another internet webcomic clique by accident?
I’m pretty sure creators read us, too. As well as readers who want to be critics but don’t want to do it for real.
Yeah, Eric Burns over at Websnark has lots of big names who comment quite frequently; Steve Troop is commenting in his thread about Melonpool at the moment, and I’ve seen (just off the top of my head) Kris Straub, Ursula Vernon, and Shaenon Garrity all drop in a word or two. Probably others that I just don’t remember, too.
Yeah, the problem is, besides Discovering Webcomics, all these blogs talk about the same 6 comics over and over. Yeah, it’s nice to hear about Sluggy AGAIN. But honestly, tell me something I don’t know.
;)
(just for the record, I don’t even read sluggy)
By the way, I am a creator, not a critic.
Not to say that I haven’t tried my hand at critiquing. Although I don’t think I’m particularly as good as a lot of what’s available online from others.
Discovering Webcomics? Where’s that? Are you referring to Ping’s Webcomic Finds?
D00d.
Lucas… you don’t read Sluggy?
Well… why not? Any particular reason? If there’s not, then you should defenitely give it a try.
And yeah, I think he’s referring to Webcomic Finds.
i am referring to Ping’s stuff. Sorry my brain was off as I wrote those posts.
As for sluggy… my reading list is already extensive enough as it is, and I don’t have the time to be picking up new comics.
Also, I tried it a few times and it didn’t suit me.
I’ve never read Sluggy, either. The archives are quite daunting.
Although I’ve been enjoying Clay Yount’s Bikini Suicide Frisbee Satrudays.
Man, guys. The archives are SO worth it it’s not even funny. I *love* long archives. For me, I always like the archive trawl better than actually following a comic from day to day (I’ve reread the Sluggy archives twice, and I’m in the middle of rereading the CRfH archives, too.)
I’m ALL about those archives.
Heh.
That’s just me, though.
I loves myself a good ol’ Archive Dive as well. But Sluggy’s archives are HUGE. Eight years of seven days a week? I’ll need to really prepare myself for when I sit down for that.
Or you could just buy the books. I sat through the archives online when they were only about five years long, and it still took me a month of constant reading to get through them.
I did enjoy them quite a bit, though, so they’re on my Chrimmus list. Woo!
I was thinking of doing that, Noodles. When I see him at next UberCon, I’ll purchase a volume 1, and see how I like it from there.
I think they’re republishing the books this Christmas, so you can probably get them online (well, other than on eBay, where they’re, like, 100 bucks a pop. Yikes)
_Kneefers, Eyeballing It Webcomic Reviews
http://eyeballingit.blogspot.com/