Slice Of Lief
| Original review author: | Long Tom |
| Webcomic name: | Slice Of Lief |
| Author: | Leif Bennett |
| Start Date: | July 27, 2024 |
| End Date: | Ongoing |
| Genre: | Slice of life, as the title punningly implies |
| Defining Flaw: | Poorly drawn, poorly written, but most of all just boring. |
Rating Summary
| Art: | 
Not as horrible as Wormcurse or The Secret Report, but still lazy and amateurish in its own right. |
| Storyline: |
Not applicable, as the author says it is mostly autobiographical. |
| Characters: |
Not applicable, for the reason described above. |
| Miscellaneous Details: |
Surprisingly, only a few strips actually refer to the author's being transgender. Which is actually good. |
| Overall: |
Some authors are able to take scanty material like this and come up with something entertaining. This author fails to do so. |
Background
Found by a BWW forum member, and I volunteered to review it. Not the worst of the worst, but definitely not good.
Downfall
This thing always sucked.
Story and Plot
The author describes events in his life, such as riding his bicycle and having various troubles with it (a whole bunch of times, mind you), having trouble with house pets, having medical problems with his gender transition (he is a female to male transgender person), having troubles with his computer, having trouble with shoveling snow and hiking. But the author's biggest trouble is that he fails to realize that his webcomic is tedious and unfunny and looks like a toddler has written it. His archive now includes prior comic efforts which are just as bad.
Art review
Crude and erratic artwork, yet the pictures use so much file space I was only able to use half of one strip just to be able to upload it!
What is there to say really? The drawings are erratic, inconsistent, and look like a toddler drew them. If you're going to draw a webcomic, at least make it look decent.
Writing review
As mentioned above, the author has a variety of personal problems he deals with. Yes, there are authors who can take humdrum material and actually make it entertaining. But it's a matter of this happens and that happens, and not really anything else. Perhaps the author is trying to amuse us, but he is notoriously unsuccessful at it.
Author biography
Conclusion
The punny title is mildly amusing, but once you get past that, this webcomic is a snoozefest. This person cannot even make his own story interesting.
Links
- Comix Accountability Club, which the author says inspired him to take drawing comics seriously.
- His Ko-fi store. I doubt it will get much business.
