My thoughts exactly. When I first seriously got into comics, this "industry standards" rap was all over the online groups and the internet. Had I not found some of the more flexible artists in the bunch, I probably would have given up out of discouragement. The two issues of my first go at the superhero genre, called The Viper, were met with a lot of railing by people obviously affiliated with the "Ya gotta follow the example of Marvel and DC, the PROS! Anything not up to par with them is definitely amateur hour fodder for sure."
The frustrating thing for me was that those reviewers obviously didn't get the memo in the description for the comics, and also the fact that I wasn't charging them a dime -- both issues are free PDF downloads. When a pompous critic comes up and tells you that your work is worthless, even if you assigned no price to it, it does two things -- it makes the critic look stupid for acting as if they have the authority to set the standards for superhero comics, and it also draws into question whether or not they've ever attempted to create a comic of their own that they were proud of.
A Marvel/DC fanatic who has never worked for either publisher or created a comic of their own that they could be proud of yet goes around and talks down to people who took the time to create their own comics from start to finish... that's just being a prick, honestly.
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Date: 2024-12-06 09:01 pm (UTC)The comics I'm referring can be found here:
The Viper #1: https://preview.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/62865/the-viper
The Viper #2: https://preview.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/81866/the-viper-2
The frustrating thing for me was that those reviewers obviously didn't get the memo in the description for the comics, and also the fact that I wasn't charging them a dime -- both issues are free PDF downloads. When a pompous critic comes up and tells you that your work is worthless, even if you assigned no price to it, it does two things -- it makes the critic look stupid for acting as if they have the authority to set the standards for superhero comics, and it also draws into question whether or not they've ever attempted to create a comic of their own that they were proud of.
A Marvel/DC fanatic who has never worked for either publisher or created a comic of their own that they could be proud of yet goes around and talks down to people who took the time to create their own comics from start to finish... that's just being a prick, honestly.