People are silly!

[demiurgent]

I've snarked some new strips this week. (I'm making an effort to hit strips I've been reading -- or recently been pointed to -- on Snark of late. Just... well, because I'm in that mood.)

I just did ones for Anywhere but Here, the Green Avenger and Candi. And they went over well.

As it turns out, they're all on Comic Genesis. Which has nothing to do with why they came up. ABH I was pointed too recently and I devoured it. Abby's comic I've been reading... well, for a while. It was a matter of time. Candi was more recent than Green Avenger, but it's also regular.

I admit, when I realized Candi was also Comic Genesis, I alluded to it in the subject line of the post.

I've now received my first piece of angry e-mail about doing it. To whit:

> Mr. Burn
>
> I'm glad you finally got around to snarking CG's strips. Clearly, you've
> been avoiding us because we're not friends of yours like Joe Manley. But
> you're blowing it. ABH and Green Avenger and Candi and mentioning
> Mindmistress? You should have spaced them out. Now it's clear you're
> just trying to get us out of the way so you can go back to ignoring us.
>
> If you cared about comics you would know this is where the next
> generation is coming from NOT WCN or anything Joe Manley does. You
> should know that. I know you read Devil's Panties and Two Lumps. Where
> do you think those came from? Modern Tales? HAH
>
> We'll be watching.

I have to admit -- I really, really love the HAH. It takes class to throw in a HAH.

Comments

[prodigal.livejournal.com]

The misspelling of your name was also a nice touch.

[scarfman]

I was thinking that too.

Dude. Burn.

[ironangel]

wow.

that ames me want to avoid CG instead.

also, HAH. now I am a classy broad. :)

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

You have always been a classy broad!

[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

Wow... um, I've been snarked a couple of times and I'm on ComicGenesis... well, residually.

Next year on BiscuitPress!

I promise.

Weird new non-bedfellow badly drawn comics also, IF I don't die from my real job first.

[wide_worlds_joy]

Talk about wierd.

"we'll be watching...."

How Orwellian.

[ohnefuehlen.livejournal.com]

I have to admit -- I really, really love the HAH. It takes class to throw in a HAH.

"Where do you think those came from? Modern Tales? AHAHAHAHAHA. Mad, they called me! But I'll show them! I'll SHOW THEM ALL!"

[siwangmu.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure "class" is the word I would use.

Also... I want to be pissed at the stupidity of this, but... it's just too hilarious. I'm having trouble with the concept that the writer was even remotely serious. WTF?

Also:
--Joey Manley clearly owes you money.
--I should make a comic 'cuz then you'll totally snark it 'cuz we're friends. (Step 3: profit!)
--Feel the Burn, Mr.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

Joe Manley. Not Joey. He said it twice.

[piecemeal-angel.livejournal.com]

> If you cared about comics you would know this is where the next
> generation is coming from NOT WCN or anything Joe Manley does. You
> should know that. I know you read Devil's Panties and Two Lumps. Where
> do you think those came from? Modern Tales? HAH

NOT ME!

I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.

[piecemeal-angel.livejournal.com]

Also... who is Joe Manley?

[dirkdada.livejournal.com]

I have to admit -- I really, really love the HAH. It takes class to throw in a HAH.

If only there was an emote for flipping one's hair back when one says it. That would just scream class.

[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

√:o

[onalark.livejournal.com]

Yay! The Internet is an excuse to be a presumptive, unmitigated asshole!

I love yous Internets!!!!!

(Argh.)

[aaronunicorn.livejournal.com]

I just find it silly. You've stated before that you snark things as they jump out at you. Not because they deserve press, or don't. And not just because you read it and enjoy it.

Why on earth would you ever need to "get them out of the way?"

You could have never commented on their comics at all.

On the other hand, it's similar to what I've been noticing on City of Heroes. Everyone got a free jetpack for the holidays. Everyone. And people are complaining about it. "I don't want to fly." "It looks silly." "I already fly, so it's useless."

Wah.

Cryptic could send every player a custom solid gold figurine of their highest level character, and players would complain about using gold instead of silver, or that their highest level character isn't their favorite, or that they don't like that costume slot, or the pose.

People just like to find places to complain.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

...dude, we got jetpacks? Where and how and when?

(Obviously, I need to actually visit the official site once in a while...)

[flemco.livejournal.com]

You've been pimping TL since the first week. This person is obviously all hopped up on goofballs.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

And FLEM before that. And FLEM again not too long ago.

It just goes to show that no compliment anywhere in the world can't be subverted into an insult.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

I'd suspect that was a parody, but the internets have proven to me that no matter how ridiculous your pardoy is, somebody will actually do something even more ridiculous.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

It seems to me your response should be, "Yup, you got it chief. Enjoy the attention now, 'cause this is all you get!"

-The Gneech

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

OK, let me make sure I understand.

They're angry BECAUSE you snarked the comics. They think you're snubbing them BECAUSE you wrote about them.

I'm with that other person up there. I offically love Teh Intarwehbs.

ok..I can't make better fun of them than they do themselves.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

"They" aren't anything. Most people on Comic Genesis's forums are psyched that some good comics/folks who are there got snarked.

"He" is angry because... um....

Well, because. HAH!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I bet they think Keenspot is crap because they haven't been Spotted, too.

[longwing.livejournal.com]

If read as deliberately tongue in cheek, then it's actually pretty funny. Perhaps this person suffers from an overabundance of nuance. That sort of thing always comes back to bite you in the digital ass. Serious or otherwise, the HAH is perfect.

I know nothing of the drama between comic-service providers, but I'm personally very happy you snarked those strips. I was already reading Green Avenger, but I'd never heard of Anywhere But Here... Yeah, I'm caught up on the archives now. Congratulations, your words can demand hours of activity out of a near-stranger. Damn you Richards! Erm, sorry. Burns, I meant Burns.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I think I lost a few brain cells reading that. So that was a professional, official e-mail from a company purporting itself to be the next generation of web comics?

I shall now have a good cry about the dumbing down of America.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

No no. Just some random angry CG'er.

[matgb]

Comic Genesis
know this is where the next
> generation is coming from NOT WCN or anything Joe Manley does. You
> should know that. I know you read Devil's Panties and Two Lumps

Um, I thought Panties was one Keenwhatever, is pretty much Jennie's life with more jokes, and been going for awhile?

And Two Lumps comes from the sick mind of Jay Grant and his utterly wasted on him better half?

[copperhamster.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me and I'm a sad, strange little man..

(glances at the scale in his bathroom)

Ok strike little...
But

I

Don't

Care

Who

Hosts

You

(Or who you host, or what your syndicate's manifesto is, etc...)

Just so long as The Server can bring The Content.

The HAH was a nice touch though.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Goodness me.

HAH, I say!

You should totally snark this. I mean, this kind of glory can't be kept to yourself. This is a beauty to be shared!

Then we'd see who got the last HAH

[ardaniel]

We need T-shirts with Snarky holding up a HAH sign, a la Wile E. Coyote.

[mephron]

Manley has friends? I thought the best he was able to do was 'people who don't punch me in the nuts' lately.

[arcana-j.livejournal.com]

Those are his friends.

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

I think that an hypothetical polythesitic-style God Of Webcomics who actually did control the entire cartooning universe through his reviews would get less mail about it than you.

On that topic, I think it would be a good idea to invent an Egyptian-style god of webcomics, immediately if possible. His divine avatar would be as follows: From the neck down, he'd be a normal human, but instead of a normal human head he'd have the head of a Scott McCloud or something. I will name him 'Snarkhotep.'

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

I dunno if that'd work. The suffix "-hotep" supposedly means "is satisfied" (therefore "Amonhotep" is "Amon is satisfied" and so forth.)

And if it got out that the Snark could be satisfied, the drama, man, the drama...

[thenintengenius.livejournal.com]

Like I said before, if you don't snark something often enough, the webcomics community DIES. I hope you'd like to have the death of Comics Genesis on your conscience when you get back to ignoring it? HAH! As if you'd ever snark something that wasn't drawn by Kurtz anyway, you hack!

(how was that, did I do it good enough?)

[ryuko-midori.livejournal.com]

Now I'm wondering exactly who that is! I can think of a few people who are either that vitriolic or that sarcastic, but I don't know if any of them would actually put it into a letter and send it.

[graveyardgreg.livejournal.com]

Like, wow. Dude. And other Keanuisms.

Makes me glad I don't have to go to Comic Genesis now that I'm a member of Webcomics Nation and Keenspot...not to mention Graphic Smash.

HAH!

[ryuko-midori.livejournal.com]

Hey, now. Or rather, HAH now. Obviously one vitriolic email does not a bad environment make. Genners are for the most part accepting and kind, and the admin are fantastic, especially considering how difficult it must be to wrangle servers supporting literally thousands of comics, hundreds of which are popular.

I am thankful for the Comic Genesis environment and the people hosted there every day.