Skyrim comic text font

[raptor4d4]

I'm making a comic series based in Skyrim.  You can read all the parts I've released so far here.

 

I've also been releasing them in the Post Your Screenshots topics.

 

Anyway, some people have offered up negative criticism regarding my choice of font with the text.  Trying to get some additional feedback.  Anyone here who is familiar with my comics or interested in reading some, what do you think?  I've prepared a poll.

 

http://strawpoll.me/7402519

 

Is it difficult to read?  Not that easy on the eyes?  If you think it should be changed, do you have another font style to recommend?  Right now I'm using Comic Sans MS Bold. 

 

Thanks. 

[pipdude]

Comic Sans has been so widely ridiculed in design circles that you're kind of asking for criticism to use it on anything even semi-serious.

 

Looks like there are plenty of free alternatives that are upgrades:

 

http://www.creativebloq.com/comics/5-fonts-comic-strips-aren-t-comic-sans-71412185

 

http://designinstruct.com/articles/resources/font-collections/font-collection-10-excellent-free-comic-book-fonts/

 

[if you want to clean up the look of your work further, I think you should also pay attention to the line spacing, indentation, margins and size consistency of your text. Look at the way text is formatted in the examples of the Design Instruct link above and emulate that.]

[spoonsinger]

It's post post ironic. Maybe a "I wouldn't get into a religious war over it." option, in you voting system, is needed. 

[raptor4d4]

Didn't realize comic sans was hated that much.  :/

[pipdude]

Designers are ferocious people.

[raptor4d4]

[if you want to clean up the look of your work further, I think you should also pay attention to the line spacing, indentation, margins and size consistency of your text. Look at the way text is formatted in the examples of the Design Instruct link above and emulate that.]

 

And regarding this, in some of my first comics I had the indentation like that.  However I feared it made the text too blocky and I had trouble fitting it into speech bubbles.  Of course back then I was putting in the bubbles first and fitting the text into the bubbles.  Now I'm putting the text in first and putting the bubbles around it.  That's why I indent things the way I do.

 

I'll see about fixing line spacing.  I'm using GIMP and I'm not sure how to do that yet.

 

The size changes usually because of the amount of text and space available.  It is hard to keep in consistent.