Never before I had to force myself to continue reading a comic so much like I had with Tower of God. Having to load another of the endless chapters pained me greatly and often I found myself distracted by literally anything else rather than to continue reading. This means that it took me great amount of time to arrive at this chapter count and my strength and will weaken with each another chapter. I'll try to continue, but I don't know for how much longer I continue this thorny journey.

Sure, there are a lot of worse manga, but at least those tend to be entertaining, if only because of how bad they are. But not Tower of God. ToG is just blunt boredom. Weaponized boredness. The work where you're be wishing to do anything else than reading it.

Now, lot of fans keep saying that it does get better and that I should keep on going. I recognize this pattern, I've already seen it with Homestuck and Salad Fingers communities. And like them, I hope Tower of God will be left in the dust of history someday and my life will be peaceful again.

Real talk though, does it actually get better? Well... yes. Technically. But mainly because the first part is so horrendous, that even the mediocre continuation is an improvement. Although, the main improvement is art. Let me describe the art of the earlier chapters a bit more. It looks like 2009 deviantart creation made entirely in MS Paint. The character design is like that of a fanfiction OC originating from the forementioned site. Worst are the drawings outside of action scenes, where the characters are frequently off-model and just unpleasant to the eyes. But yeah, the art gets noticeably better. We're talking about almost 100 chapters of bad illustrations though.

The plot is, as you might have guessed, a big mess. Most of the time nothing interesting happens, and the rare moments that might distantly resemble entertainment are gone quickly. The pacing is horrible and it takes forever for the plot to move somewhere, especially with the trials that tend to get too complicated and drags on forever. The plot doesn't seem to be much well thought and it's more likely that it's made up on the go. I get the feel that the author just thinks of some elements that sound cool and throws them into the next week's chapter without much thought. The plot goes both everywhere and nowhere. There is both too much stuff happening and nothing happening at the same time. I have no idea how the author managed to attain this zen state of storytelling, but I can tell you that it's nothing enjoyable.

The most glaring problem are the characters. The cast is bland, shallow, one-dimensional and instead of actually developing at least some characters, the author just throws in bunch of more new characters to get your attention. There is barely any chance to get attached to any of the characters and the comic doesn't really try to get you do so beyond the tactics akin to "look what cool power this character has". This results in fights that should in theory have some stakes but that fall flat because you just don't care what happens to the characters at all. As the cast is treated as props, not as real people, all of this feels just artificial and distant.

The worst case is the main character. He's pretty much a blank state that miraculously keeps getting more powerful pretty much by being at the right place in the right time, not to mentioned being marked as "predestined" to be powerful right from the start. Blank, because we know near to nothing about this character. For most of Season 1 of the comic, all we know about him is his name and that he came from outside of the tower. And even the little background info we get later is ultimately nothing. Now, I'm not against the idea of protagonist with mysterious background, but this is just taken too much to the extreme. Not to mention that Bam's only personality seems to be "I have to protect my friends with my power". That's it. The core characteristic of generic battle shounen with nothing on the side. Of course, this makes the protagonist perfect for self-insert. Huge power, "cool" aura and no starting personality. Just insert the reader.

In fact, the protagonist is so uninteresting that the best part that I've read so far was the part where he was gone. For a brief time the webcomic switches to a secondary protagonist that comes from more ordinary background and follows this character and the group around him for a while. This is also the closest the characters get to... actually having a character. Of course, that is ruined when the focus shifts back to the main protagonist and the dullness takes the lead again.

At this point, even if rest of the chapters were magically somehow really good, it still doesn't change that over two hundred chapters were dreadfully awful, and that alone is enough for ToG to lose the right to be labeled as "good".

Ultimately, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless your preferable medium of choice is soulless product that you can keep mindlessly consuming. I fail to see why anyone would continue reading this except for the Sunk Cost Fallacy. The story sure keeps raising a lot of questions, but I prefer reading something where reading the story itself is enjoyable, not just the "waiting for the answers" part.