The comics tag is an absolute pain. It's truly dominated by same old spam and little value. In what would otherwise undoubtedbly be a thriving (sub) niche.
In all honesty, I've considered chainBB for comics and to hopefully kickstart a cleaner niche but then there's the impending Communities. Hopefully they will provide us with better tools to manage a cleaner place and build an awesome community.
I surely could do with a little more comics related content. But for now... I truly can't be bothered to even look at the tag feed.
I’m quite hopeful for communities as well. I’ve been working on steemcomicconvention.com and its accompanying ChainBB forum but still have work to do before I start regularly updating & promoting it.
I would love to do more comic reviews, but not at the pace of the usual suspects. An angle I want to explore more is the 'whole arc/chapter' review (TPB basically), like this. Also, I'm quite sure we can bring (pro) artists without too much effort.
While I love forums, and think chainBB rocks as a model, I may want to wait for communities tho. If you want a helping hand tho, feel free to hit me up in steemit.chat (replies may be delayed, timezones and all that stuff). Same handle.
That was an excellent review you did, I linked it on the site. I’m with you in reviewing collections over singles. I’ve done a few mainly mainstream fun reviews using @exploreunlimited , I’ve really got to polish up my next one for Volume 1 of The Sixth Gun and post it.
I will be reaching out to people if things take off and I keep an active hand in “community stewardship,” nice to know you’re interested.
Thanks for having enjoyed the review. I've also dabbled in single issue reviews but for me the whole question was 'what do they serve?', aside from being a race against the clock. It just doesn't feel right to me.
I don't think that single issue reviews push many sales, except whenever a new arc starts. But then the usual suspects have their pre-release reviw weeks ahead already and pump the hype machine accordingly.
Comics are an expensive hobby. How can I serve fans best with reviews was always my concern. Arcs, collections.
The challenge when reviewing a whole arc/chapter is in teasing just sufficiently but without giving anything away. Yet the tease must be strong since you don't review every fart relased either. It's interesting and highly enjoyable a challenge.