Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Rating system

Just before posting the first actual review, here's a litte something about the rating:

There are many, many relevant things in a web comic. Of course, if I try to rate everything, everybody would just skim to the bottom of the list. So I narrowed it down to the following:

Updates: daily (mo-fr), daily, bi-weekly, weekly, etc. (just an info on how often the comic is updated)

Safe for work: yes/no (yes means usually nudity or very coarse language. I might include extra warning if the content is for mature readers only.)

Art: 1-10 (pretty self-explanatory)

Plot: 1-10 (this can be a tough cookie sometimes, but many writers try to make solid plots and thus I included it in the rating)

Originality: 1-10 (this reflects if the comic stands out, if the characters are well-made, if the comic revolves around topics that no other comic does, etc.)

Overall: 1-10 (this is the important one - and yes, one could get a 10 here whilst only having a low score in one of the others. this score says how much I like this comic - and remember, your opinion might differ!)

Fun: 1-10 (Last score and outside of this rating, fun doesn't mean if the comic is fun to read but rather if it's actually a "funny" or "silly" comic. Some webcomics try to tell a story, build tension, etc. A horror/thriller webcomic might have a good overall score but a very low "fun" rating. As this doesn't reflect the quality of the comic I put it under "overall".)

That's it - more would probably only confuse people ...

Have fun

Rhadan, RJ

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