The Bad Webcomics Wiki

[Mangaka_Yuki]

Basically, a lot of the reviews go out of the way to make the more mediocre or even decent comics seem worse than they actually are, mostly due to their popularity (since they complain about it a LOT on a good portion of the reviews).

I think that sums it up quite nicely.

[mosama]

To anybody who visits this website- please consider stopping. I have a friend who is autistic and they wrote a whole shit load of horrible stuff about her webcomic and her personally- without knowing shes autistic. She was ruined by it. I get that its for laughs and everything but it is beyond fucked up that they ruined the dream of a mentally challenged person.

[xkrazydog]

To anybody who visits this website- please consider stopping. I have a friend who is autistic and they wrote a whole shit load of horrible stuff about her webcomic and her personally- without knowing shes autistic. She was ruined by it. I get that its for laughs and everything but it is beyond fucked up that they ruined the dream of a mentally challenged person.

Well unless the author you know Publically announced that she was autistic, then they cant really be blamed for their harshness since they dont know.
you can always contact the writer of said article and tell them and they'd correct emselves.

The internet is public domain so negativity will no doubt surface, webcomics is no exception.
My comic appeared on a pretty degrading site but it doesn't really hinder me in much ways.

[robybang]

I actually lurk the forums quite a bit, and while they are brutal in their criticism, they can be reasoned with. For example, their reviews of XKCD and Yu+Me=Dream were taken down a long time ago. The first one being a point of contention among the forums (and the fact the review used "Aspergers" as an insult everywhere), the other was put up by a disgruntled fan of the comic who didn't bother asking anyone if it was worth reviewing. They also went back and edited the review of Better Days after Naylor published a complaint someone wrote him. If you go on the forums and explain, they might scale back the personal insults.

[mosama]

To anybody who visits this website- please consider stopping. I have a friend who is autistic and they wrote a whole shit load of horrible stuff about her webcomic and her personally- without knowing shes autistic. She was ruined by it. I get that its for laughs and everything but it is beyond fucked up that they ruined the dream of a mentally challenged person.

Well unless the author you know Publically announced that she was autistic, then they cant really be blamed for their harshness since they dont know.
you can always contact the writer of said article and tell them and they'd correct emselves.

The internet is public domain so negativity will no doubt surface, webcomics is no exception.
My comic appeared on a pretty degrading site but it doesn't really hinder me in much ways.

Yea I get that they didn't know she was autistic- But I'm saying thats part of the problem with this website. Its tearing down people they dont know. They shouldn't be writing 3000 words on why a person should stop doing what they love if they don't know that person because that person could be mentally challenged. And writing 3000 words about why a mentally challenged person should stop doing what they love is the most fucked up thing I have ever heard of and is not justifiable by any means. Its why you shouldn't go around writing long rants about people you don't know. I get that this is the internet and negativity exists but that does not make it right.

And contacting the author of the rant and letting them know the person they despise is autistic won't do any good. I'm going to assume a person who has enough hate in them to take the time to write a big ignorant article like that will not find sympathy in this and instead use the autistic thing in their argument to further ridicule her.

[JoKeRcologne]

I'm not listed on this BWW page ...don't know if this is a good sign... or a bad one.

[venion]

Gunshow isn't on it, but then Gunshow is the best comic.

Also they've probably never heard of it.

[blankd]

Yea I get that they didn't know she was autistic- But I'm saying thats part of the problem with this website. Its tearing down people they dont know. They shouldn't be writing 3000 words on why a person should stop doing what they love if they don't know that person because that person could be mentally challenged. And writing 3000 words about why a mentally challenged person should stop doing what they love is the most fucked up thing I have ever heard of and is not justifiable by any means. Its why you shouldn't go around writing long rants about people you don't know. I get that this is the internet and negativity exists but that does not make it right.

And contacting the author of the rant and letting them know the person they despise is autistic won't do any good. I'm going to assume a person who has enough hate in them to take the time to write a big ignorant article like that will not find sympathy in this and instead use the autistic thing in their argument to further ridicule her.

The website is "supposed" to be about bringing to light bad webcomics, it has many "writers" of articles and depending on the webcomic, people slip through.

If you feel this strongly about it but preemptively give up doing anything about it... well you connect the dots. They do have a section intended for challenging/removing reviews, the worst thing that will happen is that they say no or something. If it goes well they will take it down and apologize.

As for your friend, I offer what condolences that I have, but sweeping statements about her character and webcomic come with the territory of having a webcomic and posting it publicly.

(I'm going to give benefit of the doubt and assume they only wrote the article based on the webcomic or blind-reading the text posts she posted, I don't know what her webcomic is so I can't weigh in.)

[RTSSH21]

lol 2 of my favourite comics are on that site. I think its funny when things like this come up. it can be really hard to determine a bad webcomic sometimes. sure, Cyanide and Happiness has lazy art, but some of those comics are funny as nuts [the best part is they use one of the funniest comics to try and support how its not funny but just plain crude. i almost died laughing]

[robybang]

lol 2 of my favourite comics are on that site. I think its funny when things like this come up. it can be really hard to determine a bad webcomic sometimes. sure, Cyanide and Happiness has lazy art, but some of those comics are funny as nuts [the best part is they use one of the funniest comics to try and support how its not funny but just plain crude. i almost died laughing]

Humor is subjective. I've done strips that one group found funny that another group found boring. Gallows/shock humor tends to be especially polarizing, as it's dependent on the joke being shocking enough to break socially accepted boundaries while not being so shocking as to outright offend you. People who are either extremely jaded or easily offended won't get anything out of it.

In the cases of gag-a-day strips, there's a difference between the reviewer who has to archive binge the whole comic and the casual reader who might see one or two strips posted on Facebook or go on it whenever they want to kill five minutes. In the case of the former, they'll start seeing patterns and reused punchlines (and shock humor starts growing stale when you read 1000 strips one after another), giving the impression it's repetitive and not funny. Casual readers won't pick up on this, and devoted fans will likely ignore the stale gags and share the good ones. So I can see why gag-a-days like Cyanide and Happiness and The Oatmeal will get panned despite people considering them average comics at worst.

[MarioKong]

I remember I had a HORRIBLE start here on Smackjeeves. My first comic was named "Subspace Emissary 2", and keep in mind that I was 13 years old and had no experience whatsoever,and I had told those who read my comic, yet still it got pissed on like I had been making comics for years. I can mention Advertisement in particular...(Youre a "whale of a fail", Advert!)

[walkin_talkin_apocolyps]

yay im really happy i didnt find my comic on that website

[T1p2]

yay im really happy i didnt find my comic on that website

I find it humorous that most of the comics I read are on that list...and at the same time I am amazed my own isn't ranked among them.

[Wulfmune]

To anybody who visits this website- please consider stopping. I have a friend who is autistic and they wrote a whole shit load of horrible stuff about her webcomic and her personally- without knowing shes autistic. She was ruined by it. I get that its for laughs and everything but it is beyond fucked up that they ruined the dream of a mentally challenged person.

while I sympathize that she must go through a lot, I don't think you have to mentally challenged to have your dreams ruined and efforts ripped to shreds. Such is the nature of creating art and putting it out there. I don't know how else to put it. Do I disagree with their approach to their content and do I find it unnecessarily mean spirited? Yes. But really the internet is hardly a place to expect courtesy and respect? I remember getting positively ripped to shreds when applying to art schools. These were professional adult artists that are staring me in the face, (and yes a face that was holding back tears). Now add the anonymity and take away any qualifications. That's reality in it's poop-covered glory. People of especially delicate disposition should be encouraged to keep their artworks to their own private circles.

[RTSSH21]

lol 2 of my favourite comics are on that site. I think its funny when things like this come up. it can be really hard to determine a bad webcomic sometimes. sure, Cyanide and Happiness has lazy art, but some of those comics are funny as nuts [the best part is they use one of the funniest comics to try and support how its not funny but just plain crude. i almost died laughing]

Humor is subjective. I've done strips that one group found funny that another group found boring. Gallows/shock humor tends to be especially polarizing, as it's dependent on the joke being shocking enough to break socially accepted boundaries while not being so shocking as to outright offend you. People who are either extremely jaded or easily offended won't get anything out of it.

In the cases of gag-a-day strips, there's a difference between the reviewer who has to archive binge the whole comic and the casual reader who might see one or two strips posted on Facebook or go on it whenever they want to kill five minutes. In the case of the former, they'll start seeing patterns and reused punchlines (and shock humor starts growing stale when you read 1000 strips one after another), giving the impression it's repetitive and not funny. Casual readers won't pick up on this, and devoted fans will likely ignore the stale gags and share the good ones. So I can see why gag-a-days like Cyanide and Happiness and The Oatmeal will get panned despite people considering them average comics at worst.

lol i know that, but im one of the odd types that can sit there and re-read that kind of comic for hundreds of pages at a time. i SHOULD be casual-reading it - thats the type of comic it is, but i binge on it all the time and my eyes burn by the time im done XD