oh i figured out my actual complaint

it’s people who write porn comics as though they are porn storyboards and not, you know, comics

just like people who write porn fiction as though they are doing a screenplay and not writing a work of literature

learn your own damn medium and use it

why is this always a problem with porn! why do the techniques always go out the window the first time anyone is the slightest bit sexy! idk

diagonal gutter
top-left, close-up, face: expression, dialogue
bottom and right, cock in hand
sever the temporality between the two

DON’T STICK THEM IN THE SAME FRAME YOU’RE MURDERING THE MEDIUM

@Lady i like dialogue in porn comics.

@alyssa do you mean you like porn comics which also contain plot and characterization or do you mean that dialogue in the middle of sex is important to you

@Lady both. the latter is mostly because it’s hard for me to read comics without regular dialog. i’m a very textual person. but also dialog can convey the mood of the participants and it can be more enjoyable to read if they’re having a fun time with it.

@alyssa mm i think i have complex opinions regarding the structure and explicitness of sex scenes in porn comics but as a general rule i tend to find dialogue distracting, at least partially because i think it is hard to convey tone and subtle emotions through speechbubbles, so it just reads as overly blunt to me

this is a bit ironic because i do wish there was more talking in video porn, and i rely on it in written porn as well (although i also think a lot of porn writers are bad at this)

it might be that my problem isn't dialogue per se so much as BAD dialogue and i have high standards

@Lady that’s fair. my preference for it is definitely heavily influenced by my personal cognitive idiosyncrasies. for comparison i think at absolute minimum 1/3rd of most pages should be speech bubble in action comics.

@Lady As in, the “ooh yes” stuff that seems to contribute nothing? My personal theory is moaning kink.