Webcomics got complaints from fans?

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:46 pm

Ryuko wrote:Well, did you get back to him? What did he say after that?

Yeah, we got back to him. Never heard from him again. We're hoping that means he realized he was wrong.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:46 pm

MariaAndMichelle wrote: Every comic needs more mansex.
Except for ours, apparently. Back in December we got the only complaint we've ever received

Yeah, MM, your comic is SUPER offensive, and I'm serious. Oh. My. God. But it's kind of that high school, it's okay because it's among friends offensive. It's definitely the cheesy jokes that do it, i mean come on, Exotic Fruit? It's not the concept itself.

I do so love the comic though... sigh... you're like eminem man.

Ryuko · Post by **Ryuko** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:20 pm

That's cool. For the record, I find your comic hilarious. You two remind me of two lady friends of mine who are also in a relationship and also fans of yaoi. I should point them towards it, though I'm not sure what they'd think of the art.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:14 pm

I'm a little apprehensive that one day I'm going to start getting hate mail from someone in the gay community because of Queerboy, but maybe if I point out the fact that the main character is called "Ugly Girl" they'll go easy on me. I tend to run things by my RL 'queerboy' (he does not object to this title) just to be on the safe side, though. He seems OK with it so far.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:37 pm

YourFovererFan wrote:Dear Nanda who writes Ugly Girl:

I like your comic. But how come it doesn't have that much mansex? You even had a guy who is named Queerboy. Plz for the manxes. I mean not cats, mansex. Thanks and if I draw fanart, would like it if I draw her pretty or ugly? Okay thanks.

Your Foverre Fan.

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Charlesbrubaker · Post by **Charlesbrubaker** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:46 pm

I think I'm going to get letters for the August 14th strip when it comes out. Basically, that strip is about how corrupt Christianity is.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:44 pm

omg, manxes... LOLOLOL

Why do I crack myself up?

Sneak preview for the forumites, Charles?

Charlesbrubaker · Post by **Charlesbrubaker** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:16 pm

Eh...here it is, a portion of the panel of the strip

Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting

Zhan_Dvega · Post by **Zhan_Dvega** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:01 pm

I think the only complaint I really got was this post I found on the tagboard one day... "God, how can you people read this garbage"

Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside...

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:58 pm

charlesbrubaker wrote:Eh...here it is, a portion of the panel of the strip

Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting

heheheheh... edgy.

Telecoda · Post by **Telecoda** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:26 am

No comments whatsoever, only feedback in the comic pitching forum.

Perhaps I should add a tagboard. Or remove the <nospam> from my email address.

ChaosBurnFlame · Post by **ChaosBurnFlame** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:05 am

charlesbrubaker wrote:You know how sometimes newspaper comics are subject of complaints from angry readers?

Well, any webcartoonists got in a similar situation?

So far for me, I got a complaint from one reader who said I was unfair for making fun of "Garfield".

I got some negative feedback for my September 11th page.

Mattgo210 · Post by **Mattgo210** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:06 am

Sometimes I wish I got some complaints. Then I would know that my comic was popular enough that it at least registered on someone's radar. But then again, it is nice to know that I do make the few people that do read it happy.

That is unless I miss an update.

Lintjinks · Post by **Lintjinks** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:13 am

I get people who are like, "You know that according to D&D rule #3762834.a that dwarves can't use their battleaxes to cut down trees," or "You know that such-and-such abstract D&D rule says if Xylic managed to steal from a dragon the dragon then loses such-and-such many levels."

... and I'm like no, I don't know that because I know nothing about D&D! Unfortunately I've discovered that every fantasy comic gets compared to D&D and is assumed to play by those rules by a lot of people.

Any other fantasy comic writers get this jive?

ChaosBurnFlame · Post by **ChaosBurnFlame** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:27 am

lintjinks wrote:I get people who are like, "You know that according to D&D rule #3762834.a that dwarves can't use their battleaxes to cut down trees," or "You know that such-and-such abstract D&D rule says if Xylic managed to steal from a dragon the dragon then loses such-and-such many levels."

... and I'm like no, I don't know that because I know nothing about D&D! Unfortunately I've discovered that every fantasy comic gets compared to D&D and is assumed to play by those rules by a lot of people.

Any other fantasy comic writers get this jive?

Sic the Dread Gazebo on 'em.

Eunice_P · Post by **Eunice_P** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:30 am

I got complaints from Japanese readers about my art and story. I got complaints from a few Americans for my poor English. And I got complaints for making my B&W comic into color (my coloring wasn't great and they prefer the comic to be in B&W instead).

Ah, so sad and hard to be a good comic artist...

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:50 am

lintjinks wrote:I get people who are like, "You know that according to D&D rule #3762834.a that dwarves can't use their battleaxes to cut down trees," or "You know that such-and-such abstract D&D rule says if Xylic managed to steal from a dragon the dragon then loses such-and-such many levels."

... and I'm like no, I don't know that because I know nothing about D&D! Unfortunately I've discovered that every fantasy comic gets compared to D&D and is assumed to play by those rules by a lot of people.

Any other fantasy comic writers get this jive?

I've had 'female drow are the dominant ones and the guys dont do anything so why is he away from the kitchen sink flah flah flah lolth spider god of drow flah flah.'

Yes, heavily D&D based. No, not gonna follow every aspect of the standard D&D world, as I dont like every aspect of it. I won't conduct battles in initiative order, and I don't care about the Beholder's central eye being antimagic. I do whatever fits the story best, not what fits the rules, or it's be actually really quite terrible.

Also, all of you shut up about Drizzt, I didn't have a clue about him before I wrote my character, and I really don't care now.

KODAMA · Post by **KODAMA** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:10 am

I've only heard one complaint so far, which was told to me in a chatroom some many one year and a few months ago. The guy (who was some programming dork, gaming freak and anime nerd) read one of the chapters titled "anna" (I only had about 50 pages in my archive back then) and then immediately told me the story is really boring, and that the characters have been riding a car for way too many pages XD

...and then when I stopped updating that comic, he then continued to laugh at me, saying the characters are stuck in the car with crappy music.
:'D hahaha.

Well, feedback is feedback..

http://looks.keenspace.com/d/20020618.html

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:35 pm

The best I've ever managed is people telling me my strip's too meandering and cryptic.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Wed May 11, 2005 3:33 pm

Risky wrote:
YourFovererFan wrote:Dear Nanda who writes Ugly Girl:

I like your comic. But how come it doesn't have that much mansex? You even had a guy who is named Queerboy. Plz for the manxes. I mean not cats, mansex. Thanks and if I draw fanart, would like it if I draw her pretty or ugly? Okay thanks.

Your Foverre Fan.
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There is no sex in the Ugly Girl universe, man or otherwise.

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