![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Narbonic (a web comic if you're not familiar) is going over to a subscription site.
As it's the only comic headed to that site that I read, and the site costs more money than I'd pay to read Narbonic, I'm not thrilled. I understand the decision, but I'd rather support the comic directly - giving it more money, and spending less - than support a whole bunch I either don't care about or dislike.
I'm not signing up. I'll read the strips as they become available daily, and if I miss a few, either I'll pick it up again or I'll ignore it. I mostly don't reread comics. I really don't. I consider Narbonic entirely as throw-away as the Garfield strip you might get in the Thursday paper. (I get my Garfield from Yahoo. I don't consider the contents of a paper remotely worth the price of a paper, especially since most of them are throw-away as well.)
So tonight I decided to go back through the archives and see what I thought, whether it was worth rereading or getting a subscription. (Incidentally, I wonder if the author considered that. I was just scanning a few items. Many people are probably storing off copies to their local disks. Her bandwidth usage should be spiking violently about now.)
No, no not REMOTELY. They are funny once. At best. I read today's, and I laughed. I reread from various points, and I just remembered, gee, that was funny when I read it.
There are online comics I would pay to support. I'd even pay a bit for Narbonic. But not $2 a month, for something that I basically read once and then toss out of my brain. It's amusing. It's cute. If it vanished today, in a year I wouldn't remember it unless prompted.
I agree, the artist has a right to be compensated. She's well within her rights. I'm just not interested enough to compensate her. Narbonic is, at its closest equivalent, the sort of thing I might read out of a friend's paper, or if I chanced across it in the library; but I wouldn't buy a dead tree edition of it, and I wouldn't subscribe to the paper just to get it.
Actually, in a way she's done me a favor. Time to reevaluate all my web comics. Why spend time reading the ones I wouldn't pay for? I keep saying my time is more valuable to me than (small amounts of) my money in many ways. :P
As it's the only comic headed to that site that I read, and the site costs more money than I'd pay to read Narbonic, I'm not thrilled. I understand the decision, but I'd rather support the comic directly - giving it more money, and spending less - than support a whole bunch I either don't care about or dislike.
I'm not signing up. I'll read the strips as they become available daily, and if I miss a few, either I'll pick it up again or I'll ignore it. I mostly don't reread comics. I really don't. I consider Narbonic entirely as throw-away as the Garfield strip you might get in the Thursday paper. (I get my Garfield from Yahoo. I don't consider the contents of a paper remotely worth the price of a paper, especially since most of them are throw-away as well.)
So tonight I decided to go back through the archives and see what I thought, whether it was worth rereading or getting a subscription. (Incidentally, I wonder if the author considered that. I was just scanning a few items. Many people are probably storing off copies to their local disks. Her bandwidth usage should be spiking violently about now.)
No, no not REMOTELY. They are funny once. At best. I read today's, and I laughed. I reread from various points, and I just remembered, gee, that was funny when I read it.
There are online comics I would pay to support. I'd even pay a bit for Narbonic. But not $2 a month, for something that I basically read once and then toss out of my brain. It's amusing. It's cute. If it vanished today, in a year I wouldn't remember it unless prompted.
I agree, the artist has a right to be compensated. She's well within her rights. I'm just not interested enough to compensate her. Narbonic is, at its closest equivalent, the sort of thing I might read out of a friend's paper, or if I chanced across it in the library; but I wouldn't buy a dead tree edition of it, and I wouldn't subscribe to the paper just to get it.
Actually, in a way she's done me a favor. Time to reevaluate all my web comics. Why spend time reading the ones I wouldn't pay for? I keep saying my time is more valuable to me than (small amounts of) my money in many ways. :P
