I hope he doesn't like PvP or Real Life either

[scarfman]

Today, as anyone self-assured enough to put their work on the internet in the first place is wont to do, I websearched my webcomic's name just to see what I could see.

While it's far from true of all the webcomic blogs out there, I notice that there are quite a few of them who have started out with the mission statement of picking out the bad ones to comment on. Lots of them seem to be reactions to Eric (WEBSNARK) Burns, the popular webcomic blogger who only writes about webcomics he likes (or that he once liked), on the (to me, elementary) principle that he only reads webcomics he likes. The negative bloggers complain that Websnark is misnamed. But if I were one of them, I'd think I might ask myself why Eric is so popular, arguably the most popular webcomics blogger there is. (Not that there aren't other positive webcomics bloggers out there, but most of them postdate Eric's initial popularity and most of those were inspired by Eric.) (Say, that's a conditional probability... Don't mind me, my applied mathematics final is next week.)

Anyway, one of the hits I got today was to a negative webcomics blogger's entry on Questionable Content. The string match wasn't in the blog entry itself, but in one of the comments, in which a reader requested of the blogger future entries tearing into Dinosaur Comics, Narbonic, American Elf, and Arthur, King of Time and Space. The reader noted, "I'm the only one I know who hates them."

Well, I could find that reader compatriots at least as far as AKOTAS is concerned. But it brightened up a bad day for me to see it listed alongside those other three, for any reason.