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* Why does every webcomic ever refer to 'we' when referring to the cartoonist (such as 'We apologise for the crappy filler comic') when they are almost always the work of one person?
** Osmosis from cultural etiquette, one imagines. Whenever any form of media apologizes for something, they tend to use we. "We apologize for the inconvenience," "We understand your concerns," "We hope to serve you in the future." It's one of those things that people say without thinking too much about the meaning of the individual words.
** It's funnier that way?
** It's called the ''[
*** Or sometimes the [[BOFH|Bastard]] 'we'. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/14/bofh_2006_episode_23/ It's like the Royal 'we' but far more dangerous].
*** It could also be a carryover from other forms of media, where it is very rare for only one person to be doing everything, and the "We apologise for the inconvenience" would be referring to the writers/producers/directors as a group apologizing.
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* Variant on the above question (or just the same question worded more specifically) - why don't more webcomics scroll from top to bottom rather than left to right? Always seemed more logical to me (then again, I had dial-up when I started reading webcomics).
** I don't know. My webcomic scrolled vertically for that very reason. Maybe if it hadn't sucked it might have been able to have an influence on the webcomics world.
** I seem to remember that Sluggy Freelance, early on, sometimes had long strips broken up into one-panel images so that they'd wrap according to the width of your window.
* I can understand that Most Writers are Geeks, fine...but why are so MANY comics the two-guys-on-a-couch thing? Why do so many webcomics (and this is much more annoying) end up being a long ramble about something the author either believes deeply in or hates? Can end up being serious business if it's something like video games/80's cartoons.
** Because people are lazy. Because people tend to write what they know and what they know best are themselves. Because someone they admire did it and they wish to be like those they admire. [[
*** And drawing people just sitting on the couch requires less artistic effort, too, since it makes it easy to get away with [[Copy And Paste Comic|copying and pasting]].
** Jumping the [[Penny Arcade]] bandwagon, I suppose?
*** The misstep is jumping on the [[Penny Arcade]] bandwagon but failing to be compelling.
* Why doesn't ANYONE EVER use some kind of hardcoded format (like [
** The freely-editable HTML of [[Comic Fury]] allows for relation attributes - that's why [[The Way of the Metagamer]] has them.
* Why do most webcomic authors, when they have their comic go through [[Cerebus Syndrome]], decide that a main character or two ''has'' to die to create drama? I'll admit that it ''can'' work sometimes, but more often then not the character that gets killed tends to go out [[Dropped a Bridge
** [[Death Is Dramatic]], but webcomic writers [[
* I can understand Manga doing it--they have the excuse of not wanting to mirror the comic and Japanese is very different from English. However, I swear I've seen at least one English-written Manga style webcomic that was written right to left.
** Yeah, so have I. The answer is simple: Some people are simple.
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** Oh, I get it! The audience isn't English-speakers, it's English-speaking ''manga'' readers.
** I've always thought it was sheer weeaboo-ness. I don't buy the "it's a complete manga drawn in manga-style with manga-plots and manga-stereotypes and Japanese names and so on" because the MAIN reason for manga to be read right-to-left is because of the Japanese writing system, which, [[Captain Obvious|for some reason]], isn't copied by the mangas in English language. Anyway, the main elements of the manga "style" lie more in narrative than in drawing style (so much so that manga offers a plethora of styles and realism levels in their art), and ''that'' is something most amateur manga artists I know seem to completely ignore. So they're mostly just [[Animesque]] western comics.
** Most non-Japanese people have grown up seeing sequential stuff reading left-to-right. It imprints itself in your consciousness and affects the way you think about blocking the page layouts and how the characters relate to each other. Every comic I've seen where non-Japanese tried to do it Japanese style just felt awkward, like someone was looking in the mirror above the page while drawing it. And throw on western artists using Japanese pseudonyms and it comes back to what the poster above this said.
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