I prefer a longer comic online because there's a better chance the author is willing to stick with it. Also, coincidentally, I only ever find new, huge comics when I've got some sort of important deadline coming up...

For print media (pictures or no), it makes no difference. I am happy to commit to something long for the emotional investment, but I enjoy well-written short fiction just as much if not more because of the requirements of pacing and detail.

Bringing this back because I've been thinking about it.

Haven't come to any conclusions, yet, though....

the only insight is that I really want it to eventually finish. Printed stuff, I tend to assume has an end already; some comics and graphic novels seem designed contrary to that and it always catches me off guard and disappoints me. Webcomics are harder for me to take seriously unless someone is introducing me to a webcomic still online that is completed already.

(Like "Bite Me" by Dylan Meconis, or "7 Extraordinary Things" by Doug Lefler or "Digger" by Ursula Vernon, although that one I found while it was still running, which was nerve-wracking.)


Other than that (and wondering how the completionist notion fits into expectations with length; shorter things might finish faster, but they also might be a sign there's not much commitment), no conclusions yet.