The Alpha and Beta Deck Pre-sale is now officially under way, launching the first two public card decks for the WAGON Webcomic Battle collectible cardgame. This pre-sale marks the beginning of a new innovation in webcomic advertising venues, taking comic characters and stories off of the internet and into the hands of CCG players the world over.
Each deck consists of 42 cards which includes: a standard 40 card WAGON deck, a symbol reference card, and special release Boosted Character card. Each deck also includes one of the top placing winners of the “Draw to Win” Jenny Everywhere card design contest, brought to you by The Shifter Archive Project. Pre-order Alpha and Beta now and you’ll also receive a bonus rare “Kitten of Chaos” card as well.
WAGON Webcomic Battle: Alpha and Beta decks include cards inspired by the following comics:
This year we’ll do a little strip exchange. The idea is whichever comic you are assigned, you can do a picture/comic with YOUR characters dressed up as the characters in the assigned comic.
For example:
I am assigned Prepare To Die. so I would do a comic or whatever with Jamie dressed as Mike, Tammy dressed as Manda and Owen dressed as Bill. The situation would be a typical PTD situation (being attacked by musical chairs or something) but the reactions of the characters would be Jamie TRYING to be Mike.
Sign ups will end on Sep 26 and assignments dished out after that (duh). Comics will be due Oct 24 so the receiver can post it on their page on their page as close to All Hallows Eve as possible. Feel free to advertise this among other comicking boards. the more the better.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
I can’t wait for the results. Remember sign ups end Sept 26th and comics are due Oct 24th.
Once upon a time, someone calling themselves Fake Scott McCloud (henceforth known as FSM), set up a blog mocking, critiquing and generally airing their dislike for the webcomic PvP. It is called PvP Makes me Sad. That’s fine. We all have opinions.
Long story short, Scott Kurtz, creator of PvP made a post on Twitter which read the following.
Free original PvP artwork to anyone who can bring me the true identity of the Fake Scott McCloud.
So of course, PvP being a very well known webcomic, the fanboys want this most illustrious prize. And fanboys, especially on the internet, are rabid. So what do they do? They track FSM’s IP to New Jersay apparently, take screenshots of said IP idents, and request for password changes to FSM’s sites.
Whoa. Guys. Easy. I don’t want to know his address. just curious if he’s another webcomic guy. This manhunt is at a 10. I need it at a 4.
To this I say the following. Kurtz, you knew from moment one what your fanboys would do. You know what internet anonymity makes people do. Now that you’re being frowned down upon, you’re back-tracking.
And for what? Because you can’t take a little criticisms? Do we really have to go over this again? Your comic is in a public space. It will have eyes on it and mouths to speak what the eyes perceive. You’re not going to please everyone. You just can’t. There will be critics, there will be people who don’t get the joke. There will be people who down right mock you simply because they can. And just like they can mock you, others can find your address and come to your house and invade your privacy. All in the name of (free) art.
Mr. Kurtz? I know what I like. And I don’t like this.
Disclaimer: The opinions in this post do not necessarily reflect all of those at ChoiceComics.net. Q doesn’t read PvP as she finds it boring and over-rated.
Character Cards can be considered the most essential cards in the game in that they’re the only cards you absolutely can’t play the game without. Characters are used to attack your opponent, defend yourself, and ultimately will decide if you lose or win a battle. While possessing wide range of different power levels and abilities, most character cards have similar features.
Many cards have a Bandwidth Cost, indicated at the top of the card next to the Character symbol. In order to play a card you must have the Bandwidth on hand to spend, which you must discard before placing your Character onto the field. There are many Characters that have no cost to play, but usually the more powerful a Character the more they cost.
Characters are catagorized by Genre, which can dictate how the Character interacts with other cards. The main Character Genres include: Fighters, Mystics, Shooters, and Geeks. Some cards can only effect or be effected by certain Genres, while others can react differently in play against one type or another.
For all you people that are starting their webcomics, or thinking of redesigning your webcomics layout, please give this a listen. There are many, many, valid points to be had here. SEO is very important in bringing your webcomic to the top of the search engines pages.
As you all know, I hold the design of your front page pretty heavily (as you should) in my reviews. This is the one thing that makes someone stay or leave in one split second. As much as you want it to believe it is your current webcomic on the front page that draws them in… its not. You could have the golden nugget of the internet, but people won’t see it through the turd it is sitting in. I cannot stress this enough.
Is there any tips you guys have come across that you would like to add to these fine ass general rules presented here? Any design tips specifically for the webcomic world?
Effective June 17th, Webcomics.com closed its doors. The proprieter, T Campbell. states several reason why they will be putting Webcomics.com into hibernation.
# Although I enjoyed doing it, it was very time-consuming at the expense of other things that I enjoyed as much or more (like scriptwriting).
# With respect and thanks to the efforts of Alexander Danner and Brooke “Otter” Spangler, we never got the army of talented, prolific contributors I was hoping for. Mostly my bad: I was going on the “if you build it, they will come” strategy instead of recruiting.
# One other cause of the above is that webcomics, as a separate entity from print comics, don’t inspire the passion that they did, five or even three years ago. They’ve become part of the scenery. There’s less to be said about them now, and less force with which to say it.
# My interests are changing. I read fewer webcomics now. I’m more preoccupied with imagining and making things happen than observing and recording.
# Even when it was at its creative and productive peak, it didn’t find much of an audience. The Webcomics.com domain name gets a certain amount of traffic automatically, but we never pushed very far past that. No offense to regular readers, but… there just aren’t enough of you, as compared to other things we do that you seem to like more.
I wish the best of luck to them in their endeavors. I can see how trying to keep up with a website and drawing comics can be very hard to do, as I am only doing the Choicecomics.net right now and it has consumed my time 100%. I almost quit once. I’m not about to do it again!
This does bring a valid point that I have been seeing across the net recently. Is the webcomic world saturated? Have the resources been consolidated? Is there anything new to do? What is missing?
Places to submit your webcomic are everywhere - Choicecomics.net is no exception. This is a good thing, as the more sites link to you webcomic the higher Google’s page rank for your webcomic becomes, thus, funneling more viewers to your webcomic. While this isn’t the a full list, as I am sure there are some I don’t know about, this is a good start for those that need to get their foot in the door.
Once you are a part of these communities, the forums in each of these communities are full of information. Be sure to check in those too!
The Alpha and Beta Deck Pre-sale is now officially under way, launching the first two public card decks for the WAGON Webcomic Battle collectible cardgame. This pre-sale marks the beginning of a new innovation in webcomic advertising venues, taking comic characters and stories off of the internet and into the hands of CCG players the world over.
