Your Webcomic Has Roused Strong Remarks From Bloggers

[Mike McC]

Nah, I think this is the type of comic they'd actually like.

[Fifthfiend]

My view of John Solomon can still basically be summed up by the fact that he reviewed Keenspace. I mean, keenspace.

Actually my view can be much better summed up by that he put his blog on hiatus for six months and disabled user comments upon his return because people were criticizing him and it hurt his feelings.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Yeah...Solomon is yet another monument of the I fail, so thus I tear everything else down complex. Amusingly enough, contrary to his goals of getting people to avoid whatever webcomic he rants about he's actually boosting the traffic those places get. The irony.

When I heard about the 'indefinite hiatus' I thrilled..and then disappointed with the updating again. Gonna borrow a line from Disgaea 2 here, He's like a freakish garbage phoenix.

[TDK]

I don't like John Solomon because he is a hypocritical jerk with the aforementioned IFSTITEED complex. (Heh, its pronouncable. Ifstiteed.)

Most of his reviews are false and even the true ones contain epic levels of nit-picking.

[Mike McC]

I read it as satire. Like so many things born of SomethingAwful. Part of the joy for me is watching people overreact to it.

Irony is nature's candy.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by BraveFencer Shinryuu

I read it as satire.

But it's not satire, or in any way satirical.

Irony is nature's candy.

It's not ironic either, unless you mean the irony of Bad Webcomics guy continually bitching about anyone who criticizes him.

[Mike McC]

Okay, yeah, possibly a bad term, my bad, I just got out of a physics exam.

I read it the same way I would read Maddox.

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

But it's not satire, or in any way satirical.



It's not ironic either, unless you mean the irony of Bad Webcomics guy continually bitching about anyone who criticizes him.

That was actually refering to the reactions to him I see.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by BraveFencer Shinryuu

That was actually refering to the reactions to him I see.

But they aren't ironic. Solomon criticizes things people like, and people disagree. He states his disagreement in a deliberately provocative style, which leads to people getting provoked. This is the antithesis of irony, the very apex of straightforward causes leading to anticipated effects.

[Mike McC]

Disagreeing with him is one thing. Saying he's a horrible person who writes horrible things and he shouldn't be on the internet is awfully close to what he's saying about the webcomics. And I find that ironic! Or maybe it's something else. I always confuse confuse terms, especially after masochistic physics tests.

Whatever it is, it always makes me chuckle.

[Raiden]

There's "satire", and then there's flaming. If someone posted their opinion in that way on any regulated forum, he would have gotten his ass kicked out so fast he wouldn't be able to focus from his head spinning.

There's stating your opinion in witty ways. And there's going OUT OF YOUR WAY to piss people off. And then he whines about people getting angry about it? Dude, if you can't take what you dish out, get the hell off the nets.