You know, there’s gonna be a lot of complaints, but I’ve been reading the comics here and on Webtoons for a while now, and I think perhaps it would be best for the comic to go with the vertical format. There’s a greater depth of detail, and the separation makes things clearer and easier to understand. (A full-length image of Ysteena? ) It was nice having a quick reference in the 1×4 strip, but the vertical format is more supportive of artistic presentation. Fear not, we’ll get accustomed to the change. I’m not giving up Elven for anything.

I can see that four panels a week isn’t cutting it for trying to tell a story, rather than gag-a-week. For switching formats I do suggest working on panel layouts and on putting a story on full pages. Right now all that’s happened is going vertical, which is a drag to read: Panels actually too large for the content, lots of work to read, poor fit to desktop. That means you’re focusing full on “mobile”, and so prone to lose the desktop readership. Since, you know, this just isn’t fun to scroll through on a desktop.

If you prefer sticking to this half-a-format, consider doing a horizontal and a vertical version and provide easy switching between the two. A d. and a m. next to www. perhaps.

Not an affliction symbol. An Inspiration.

Yeah it’s the new format going forward. A lot of the new stuff just doesn’t fit anymore on the old panels.

I get it. The layout for desktop is awkward, but I’ll try to keep up. A good comic is still a good comic, and you had me hooked after “Who are you and why do you sound like a thesaurus crawled up your ass and died?” 😁
https://elven.co.nz/comic/elven-00050/
(Maybe what might help the desktop UX is if the page navigation controls aren’t only anchored at the bottom of the comic. Maybe also put them in the top menu as well?)

I suspected this was the case, even though I was hoping it wasn’t 🙂 It does look pretty clumsy on desktop: with my current resolution I can’t fit a single panel on the screen, I have to scroll through (or zoom out) with all this empty space next to the page.

That being said, I’m just happy to see your comics for free in whatever format you’re comfortable creating them. Thanks for the fun!

Sorry to hear that, I had to abandon the old format as it was becoming very restrictive to draw in. There are simply too many issues, from text taking up whole panels, to art being cropped and scaled down just to cram in as much as possible into the old 1×4 panel layout. It’s simply too constraining and the quality suffers as a result. I hope you understand! n_n

I’m not liking the long scroller layout, either. It feels quite unnatural on a desktop. Otherwise, great comic. But please consider giving us an option between styles.