Can you give me even a single example of a webcomic drawn and written collectively that is any good? Even stick-figure comics require a consistent style, both in art and in writing. Comics seem very low on the totem-pole of things which people can work collectively on.
If you consider the daily top reddit ragecomic as a webcomic of sorts, then it's one of better quality than many "normal" webcomics (and better than shminux's), and is the product of many many people voting together - some make comics, some vote on comics to increase the accuracy of selection, some contribute images that are reused, some make apps for creating comics. Example!
If you consider the daily top reddit ragecomic as a webcomic of sorts, then it's one of better quality than many "normal" webcomics
I saw the first five of those, and they all seemed absolutely horrible to me -- ugly art, and stupid writing. And you say these are the top-voted ones?
As for the example you linked to, the art is so inconsistent that initially I couldn't tell that the face in panel 4 is supposed to be the same as in panels 2 and 3. other flaws is that it doesn't have a consistent marking for speech vs thought, so you can't tell th...
People have been asking this question here a lot lately (not sure, why, but still). MoR has been by far the most effective ad for LW so far, but this is a one-man effort. I wonder if a web comic drawn by the regulars based on, say, recent posts and comments would be another way to get people interested. Just to set the bar really, really low, here is my quick impression of this post (the idea is stolen from #lesswrong, but the obvious bad pun is mine):