Early Webcomics

Over the past few Thursdays, I've been posting old scripts from a aborted webcomic project a year or so back. Truth be told, I revised the first set heavily and have subsequently thrown out the old ones in favor of straight-up writing new material.

Even then, I wasn't satisfied with the result. I'll get back to it next Thursday, but I thought that I'd take a second to look over some popular webcomics and talk about what they did and how they did it in the beginning.

Sluggy Freelance-Riff and Torg, who don't have names until the second comic, are two guys just fucking with technology. The first week features demon summoning via internet, Windows 95 jokes, and knocks on Alanis Morissette. Still though, it quickly tells you that Torg is kind of a geek and wears unmoving plaid, Riff solves problems and wears sunglasses, they drink, they play on computers, and they live in a world where you can summon demons on the internet as a gag.