Let Me Tell You About Webcomics: A New Postmodern Genre

Webcomics are still exploring all of the possibilities out there for them on the internet. Many are starting to branch out and really bring out a whole new story-telling. Others are still in the process, like Ava’s Demon. While it fulfills many of the ways webcomics are re-inventing story-telling, it lacks in a few areas as well, like its lack of interactivity. Ava’s Demon is still in the beginning stages and has much room to grow. Maybe later on the reader will see it using more of the internet’s advantages and exploring the ways it can evolve. I predict that more and more webcomics are going to go the route that Homestuck, Olympus Overdrive, and Spiddrelli have taken, immersing the reader in a way that other mediums and genres can’t. The sooner that webcomics are recognized as a separate genre from print comics the better. Once literary scholars begin recognizing the kind of amazing things a webcomic can do with story-telling, then others will begin to take the webcomic as a serious form of literature that should be studied. With how easy it is to create one’s own webcomic and with all of the things it can do, more and more people will be turning to it for telling their own stories and we better be ready when it happens.