It generally takes a lot for me to drop a comic (or novel). Here are some of those things:
1) Updates too short. If I have to wait a week to see an update, and then it finally drops, and it's a single panel, I'm gonna be pissed. If it happens every week I'm outies.
2) Updates too long/too packed with text/too packed in general. This is more for comics, because Tapas puts a limit on how long a novel chapter can be that is much shorter than chapters in a printed novel. I have the attention span of a golden retriever on meth. I will lose interest before I get to the end of a super long update, especially if the text is tiny. It simply turns the brain sideways in my head.
3) If a comic or novel goes "premium" and then starts asking me for money. Nooooope. I don't mind people putting Patreon links up or asking for ink donations, but if it becomes mandatory, or if important plot elements start being hidden behind a Patreon wall, I'm done. Look, I get it. I'm a creator too, and I would love nothing more than for somebody to back a dumptruck full of cash up to my house. We'd all love to be the next Jim Davis or JK Rowling (except maybe the icky TERF stuff), but let's keep our expectations real, shall we?
4) Repetitiveness. I can appreciate a panel or two in an update recapping what happened in the previous episode. Sometimes it will reboot my memory (methed out golden retriever, remember?). But If I have to scroll through several feet of an episode just to get past what I already read in the previous episode, once again, I will lose interest.
5) If a story goes against my core beliefs I will drop it like a hot potato. I will not support artists who want me or people like me dead or who consider themselves to be above other persons (for reasons such as race, sexuality, etc). I read Dilbert for years but as soon as I heard that Scot Adams was a Trumpernutter I was gone. Same thing with Glen McCoy. You can have whatever political beliefs that you want, but I do not have to support or encourage you.
Some things that will generally NOT make me drop a comic:
1) Poor art (within reason). If a story is good I will look past poor art to an extent. It will help if the art is consistent. Hell, I've been reading the newspaper comic "Overboard" for years, and I swear that a blindfolded chimp with a pencil in its teeth could draw better than Chip Dunham. I enjoy the characters and the story though, so I remain a fan. Also, as good as The Far Side was, the art isn't exactly exceptional there either.
2) Poor grammar/spelling (again, within reason). Although I am a grammar nazi I understand that English is not everybody's first language. With this in mind I will keep an open mind when reading comics on here,