I've been reading Korean webcomics for a while now, and many of them have exciting plots and riveting characters. It's just the layouts I have a problem with. See, with your regular paper comic the location, size, and shape of the panels are down to a science. They can be cluttered to show disorder. Or it can have a two-page spread to express an important moment. I'm not saying every artist out there is a genius at layouts, but there's a much greater variety than the webcomic, which is usually just one panel and then about an inch or two until the next one. I remember way, way back Scott McCloud tried explain how the digital medium could give an infinite canvas to an artist, but so far I think artists using webcomics are still figuring out its full potential. It's getting better, but not quite up to the level of a physical comic.
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