Oh noes!

I missed a day. This is a bad thing. I'm so sad...

Oh well. It happens. Webcomic artists do it all the time. This reminds me. I'm a webcomic fanatic. I think it's my (self-diagnosed) partial ADD that makes me able to understand many plots at once much easier than several longer plots. My latest count was that I am completely caught up on 94 webcomics with a dozen more that I'm trying to catch up on. I have thought many times about making one myself, but I just never liked my own drawing. My writing is something I can be proud of (regardless of whether or not it is deserved), but my art is notably bad.

Many people have questioned the number of webcomics I read. They ask how I could possibly follow them all at once. The truth is that I wouldn't be able to follow one at once, so attempting a few more doesn't actually make me understand any less. In fact, most of my webcomics don't even have a plot. They might be gag strips or commentary comics. Even the ones that do have plot are still funny, even when taken out of context. They are an easy hour to laugh at the world, and with as many as there are out there, I can be much more selective than the newspapers are and still have twice as many comics.

In my opinion, the ability to show a face or landscape increases the storytelling medium tenfold. This is probably because my imagination is shot. Well, it would be if it ever existed in the first place. I'm an engineer. We aren't made to think up new stuff. We just have to make existing things better. I can do better. I have a very keen attention to detail. Many people have said so, but they also say that I can't sympathize with others or get the feel of a piece. I suppose this might be true, but I still have my favorite music. Though I put more emphasis on lyrics than most do.

Well that was off topic. Still, it kind of relates to webcomics. I care about the writing and the things that can be seen in the drawing, though I don't focus on the art. A webcomic can have good art and still be bad or bad art and still be good. I guess what I'm saying is that shiny is nice, but that's all it is. Shiny. A shiny watch can still be terrible if the hands don't move.

I'm an advocate of the theory that form follows function. Things that work are beautiful in their ability to work. Things that don't work are ugly, even if they have a nice paint job. Eventually trends catch up and things that work well become the "in" look. I don't really know if that's always the case, but I've seen it happen many times. I guess maybe I just see it because that's what I want to see, but if that's true, then so be it. I like seeing things that work as being nice pieces of equipment.