Traditional Layout VS Vertical Layout + Feedback for my first comic (McBritain)

[triggermangaverse]

Hi, I am new to Tapas. I've been drafting comics for fun for some time but never shared them until two weeks ago in different platforms (webtoon and tapas today). I am struggling to get constructive feedback, as I have few views and generally I feel like people commenting are just trying to be nice. I draw mainly in Black and White, a style close to Japanese manga. I drew my first ever long story for fun in my own time and I grew attached to it and wanted to continue working on it.

However, I am more use to drawing/ planning my panels and pages in a traditional page set up where panels are designed to have less empty space and flow differently from the vertical mobile-oriented layout. Will this make a big difference in reaching audiences? Should I spend time transitioning what I've already done into Vertical format? Should I spend time to colour the pages at the expanse of some drawing quality? Other feedback will also be very welcome (be it plot, character design, length etc)

Here is the link to my comic - https://tapas.io/episode/1834409

[magnavarra]

that artstyle is bloody awesome! I cant' say much about paneling it slef but that fontsize is really small for mobile and a lot fo readers use mobile exclusively because you need to wait twice less for originals to update lol.
So maybe concider some kind of mix of it and rearrange some text heave panels to a vertical layout? ( unless you get a million subs straight ahead)

[jensrichard77]

The thing about traditional layout on online media is you need to make it mobile-friendly.
That you have done too. I see nothing wrong in your setup.

Personally, I like the scroll better. There is so much more you can do with it.
Every frame becomes a page. Every emotion can get presented without the reader looking at the next emotion.

And you can do something creative like this too.

Click here to scroll all the way down with the elevator
https://m.tapas.io/episode/1353065

[triggermangaverse]

Thank you for the feedback, I think you are right, I need to change the format to a mix of both traditional and scroll format. Some busy pages are pretty hard to read on mobile, and I can definitely take advantage of the scrolling format to make it work better on smaller screen without leaving too much blank space on big screen view if I mix the forms.

[triggermangaverse]

Thank you for the feedback, I've not considered the scrolling format when I was planning the panels. I think I can definitely take advantage of the scrolling format from now on and make changes to what I've done and what is to come.