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How Not To Start a Comic #26

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Contributed by MosHunter of

MosHunter Says:

Stop using the same two images to make the entire comic!
We don't need to know you have lots of fonts on your computer, thank you, so no need to try and use them all at once!
High quality, isn't it?
Why is it there's always a character that looks radically different for no apparent reason. (For example, a part-animal character with no explanation, etc).

Phalanx says:

FILESIZE! Those of you with broadband may not have noticed it, but those of us with dial-up will. Noticed what? That this crappy black and white images took ages to load because it was saved in PNG-24 format! (hint: that's a format for photographs, not greyscale 'art'). 200+ KB is far too big for an image of this size and quality. COMPRESS YOUR IMAGES! Anything over 150KB is far too bloody big!

WHY IS EVERYONE SHOUTING IN THIS COMIC?!! (Like I'm doing now)

Yes, Yes, Yes. We know you have Adobe Photoshop! We also can tell you don't have any idea whatsoever how to use it properly. Custom shapes are all very cool, but they do NOT go with your art style.

What a waste of nice fonts.

Saving Graces: Hopefully they kill each other off

Terotrous says:

I took the liberty of reducing the file size on this one. It's still big, though.
Nice sound effects. VANG! This captures the essence of a poor clipart comic because
the characters' poses don't actually match what they're doing. That'll really keep the fan(s) coming back.

mcDuffies says:

I think lots-a-fonts is taken from "Sandman", he used different fonts and baloons for different characters to visualise their voices. Nowadays, they do it just because they think it is cool. Here, romantic handwriting font is used for text "AAAARRRRGHGHH!" The same word was divided as "AAAARRRRGHGH - H". I guess that last "H" was essential and could not be erased.
Man, even balloons are copy/pasted there! Which led to text not fitting in balloon in second panel already. With all those onomatopoeias, I almost didn't notice that 6th panel is copied 4th. And... Buffy the vampire fish owl??? It was already explained why character is Teddy bear, was it?
Big image size was also a nice gag.