This is PART 4 of COMIC 72 of Toa Piraka Hakann Comics.
There was a time in ArtIII when terrible comics would usually either improve or be quickly discontinued. I’ve noticed that that’s… not really a thing that happens anymore. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s because they don’t really have much incentive to get better. Back in the day, ArtIII was a thriving subculture on BZP, and everyone wanted to secure their place in it. Plenty of people would be driven to improve just by the unrealistic goals of joining “The Group” or the ICC or some MAS full of popular authors. Now most of the cool people have abandoned it, and there are only like two legitimately good series left, both of which update very infrequently and don’t get much attention. Now everyone’s standards are lower, and there isn’t much reason to improve. New comic makers aren’t looking at stuff like Generic Quest or Nuparurock’s Comics and thinking “I want to make stuff like that” - they see stuff like TPH’s comics as the average, acceptable quality of comic, and anything that isn’t painfully awful is impressive.
It’s kind of sad, really. I mean, ArtIII was certainly never consistently great or anything, but a lot of legitimately entertaining comics have come out of it in the past. And, you know, it was really just a fun place to be, what with the unique subculture and countless injokes resulting from it. The Lunacy probably wouldn’t even exist were it not for BZP comics, seeing as the three of us met there years ago and are now best of internet friends. That’s why it really sucks to see that ArtIII is pretty much dead for good now. =/
Really? Well… I don’t know what to say, I guess some people just, do this to try to impress people, not matter how bad...
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This honestly sums up the problems with AIII right now. We used to have a ton of really good comic artists and the place...
Yea verily I’d love to know which series you guys think are good currently, given your general condemnatory stance of AW...