Hello dear folks! I want to start by saying I'm very happy about founding this topic and reading other sci-fi creators, I agree about your all opinions.
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I came to Tapas and published a sci-fi comic, not more than a month ago, and it was incredible the shock I got when I didn't receive any interest in the sci-fi genre. Then I swam deep into Tapas and found artistic gems and not only sci-fi but also fantasy and other genres, and I was surprised they also had little interest in the low number of subscribers, likes, and comments I'm talking about professional quality print comics, and this led me to notice a pattern here in Tapas. There is a tendency to choose comics that perhaps have a more basic style almost made with Paint, and these have thousands of subscribers and people who support them (I do not seek to offend I just speak from the care of art techniques) While the comics that have very thorough work, and quality in composition, character design, world, color, human figure, perspective, etc. do not have an equivalent interest. I can't understand why it happens. But I understand many artists studies and work day after day to perfect their technique and want to give us quality work either in art style or story, and they are not being supported, and I mean all genres, not just sci-fi. I didn't mean to offend anyone if anyone is offended. I intend to say that I always put quality art, technique, and story first before following an artist or comic. The quality of the image is important, talking about comics because they speak to us with pictures in sequences that must be perfectly chained to communicate the idea, Will Eisner's "Comics and sequential art" and the content of these pictures must be clear and convincing. So I think that sci-fi is not in its best moment here in Tapas and the niche platforms of reading comics but out of it, they are a phenomenon because the boom! in digital platforms, and not to mention all the work done by Marvel and DC in all these years, so I think it's a matter of trends. Before long this will change, and romance and fantasy will come down from the podium, and it will be another genre's turn. Trends are what they are, just trends. Horror and supernatural are raising their heads little by little, just look at "Dr. Brain" from the Tapas platform now in live-action series on Apple TV, and there is also "Hell" from the Webtoon platform now on Netflix.
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