Making a Webcomic - Retrospective

It's been well over a year since I started my own webcomic, and about 7 months since it ended. Along with this, I've started working on collaborative webcomics. That's given me time to do some navel-gazing.

Here's some things I would do differently:

• Don't require people to create an account and log in, just to post comments. That really limits the community base that can be created.
• Don't be afraid to use that joke. This comic was an attempt at a mapping joke, and I was tempted to turn it into a reference to the "minefield" Windows game. In retrospect, I should have gone there. There are many other instances of this throughout the comic.
• But don't re-hash old jokes that you've already made. That's a gimmie.
  
• Don't finish on a broken link. Yeah, that "Lightning Made of Owls" link is broken. I could fix it, or put a redirection web page there, but instead I'll leave it as a monument to this.

Here's some things I think I did right:

• Start it. I had been wavering on starting this, and I'm glad I did.
  
• Give the project a definite scope. I decided to keep myself within the single movie, which meant I only had a limited amount of story to go on. It's not an open-ended project - those kinds of things end up being abandoned.
• Give myself a deadline.
• Finish it.