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Hey, it's not like I can detect jokes over the computer. So when someone says something like that I take it sort of seriously.
P.S.: About the A.A. thing. Sorry. I thought you were referring to Alcoholics Anonymous. Whatever.
I find it helpful to not take any comments seriously at all, except for compliments. For example, if people say "I like your comics" then they're usually being serious, unless the statement is followed by a word such as "not" or "fuckface." If they don't like your comics, then you can't make them like your comics by taking their comments seriously, so in my opinion there is no need to do so. This also solves the problem of trying to figure out whether or not they're joking, since your emotional response will be the same in either case. So, if someone tells me "I do not like your comics", I simply chuckle and assume that he is joking since all of my comics are so great. However, if their negative comments contain some constructive criticism that might possibly be of help to me in improving my comics, I totally ignore this as well.
As for your comics, I read almost all of them and, while they did not actually make me laugh, I found them strangely amusing. Some of them even made me think, "Hmmm", or, sometimes, "Uhh...", which is a worthy goal for anyone who likes to make comics. My favorite line was "NOOO. It must have been my cousin Ducky D da Duck. We're the only ducks in the city. WHYYYYY?" I thought it funny that there were only two ducks in the entire city, so naturally people tended to confuse them with one another. I began to find myself interested in what Bill and Duck would do next, since many of their situations were drawn from real life, albeit altered somewhat, of course, since most of them involved a duck.