As much as I loved the concept of this site, I never much enjoyed my time here. I understand that you can't please everyone, and I never expected to get glowing responses to my comics or posts.

Yet in the time I spent here, I was routinely buried in flames more so than in any forum I've ever posted on in the years I've been surfing the net.

I routinely was rated as either 1 star or 5 stars. More people gave me a rating of 1 than 5, and I sat with 2 stars while people who couldn't spell to save their life, let alone construct a sentence were being praised for their brilliant comics.

It seemed like this website was a self-appreciation society where everyone took turns patting each other on the back so long as you were already part of the "in-crowd". Actual good comics are few and far between, buried in the mountains of rehashed inside jokes that people pandered for.

And because of the community, I never bothered coming back, nor did I become a donator as I had intended. Why give money to a community that clearly has quite a disdain for me?

Why bother coming back here and posting?

I saw link to a comic, and when I clicked on it, someone had listed me in their favorites.

I was friggin' blown away.

It's nice to know that at least one person enjoyed my comics.

Maybe I'll give this thing a go again and see how it goes.

Seriously.

Cool it, Inf.

I'm as guilty as anyone for making comics with in-jokes, but there aren't that many in-jokes to remember. Something about cornholing asian girls with rotor turbines for five dolla'.

Really, if you are truly funny, people will welcome you with open arms. But if you aren't, people are brutal. There are a lot of regulars around here who's humor I don't get... but hey, it's a bell curve.

Anyway, to me your comics aren't awful, but neither are they overly funny. I think the frustrating thing in reading them is that they have potential that is missed. Here's an example.

/comics/Enderandrew/252538/

All well and good, until you get to that last punchline. It would be funnier if you gave an example of the web sites the boss visits. I'd actually contruct it a little differently, like this:

/comics/fuzzyman/276524/

It just pushes the joke over that line from being normal office conversation to slightly over the top. I also moved the exposition about working in IT to earlier in the strip, so it doesn't have be part of the punchline.

Your strip is about the pot calling the kettle black. The funny part needs to be (IMHO) finding out just how black the pot is.

You've got the right stuff, you just have to figure out how to use it.

I also have to say that if you donate you'll get to post in Comics Showcase, where regulars who have been around longer are more likely to notice your stuff and offer constructive comment.

I don't know if this is true for all of us, but I tend not to look in RMDC forum too much because you have to wade through so much crap to find anything good. Not that the showcase doesn't have crap, too, but the crap to good ratio is moe tolerable.

Much moe tolerable.

I never look at RMDC. It's just a bunch of "ROXXORS!!!11!!11" Comics. Makes my head hurt.

You killed BTC!!!

I usually make my comics for myself and maybe one other person they're aimed at. If someone else sees something in them, fine. People who come here and complain about strip quality, in-jokes, the wrong type of humor, spelling, blah blah blah need to go in a bookstore and take out their wallets and buy some fucking comics. What the hell do you expect on the web, for free, unedited?

And there's no "in-crowd." If there were, I'd know it. I know what cliques are, and they don't exist here. "I'm not part of the in-crowd" is just an excuse for someone who manages to piss off these normally apathetic forum users.

In short, blow us.

That's boorite's way of saying "welcome back".

Or his way of asking for head.

One of the two. You pick.

Yes, I meant "welcome back."

i'm an expert on "leaving forever"

you either post or you don't post

the rest is bullshit

I'm weaving forever!

I am heaving forever.

I'm leaving a fiver.

I'm leaving Maria Shriver for boorite's fiver.

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Btw, Enderandrew still munches donkey turds like it was Bubble-Yum.

I munch Bubble-Yum like it was donkey turds

I'm gumming a donkey beaver like it was Double-Crunch.

You always know what to say, biped

i sort of agree with the opening here. But the "in crowd" you speak of seems more like mutaully respective artists who like eachothers work, or are online friends...in regards to bad comments and rating movement, the same things happened to me but that's because i make shitty comics...lol

I'm leaving forever. See you guys tomorrow.

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i sort of agree with the opening here. But the "in crowd" you speak of seems more like mutaully respective artists who like eachothers work, or are online friends...

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i sort of agree with the opening here. But the "in crowd" you speak of seems more like mutaully respective artists who like eachothers work, or are online friends...

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I thought we were just random fucktards making buttsex jokes. Maybe that's just my SC "in-crowd."

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I cannot think of anyone on SC who makes more obtuse comics than I do. But you know what? they make ME laugh and they make ME feel good.

If i accidentally put a smile on the face of Boorite or Mikey or Ivy (whom I adore as a comic Goddess) then so much the better.

My SC jokes are so inside that even I don't get them sometimes. In the end, what counts is that sending Brad money helps sustain erection and facilitates more intense orgasm.

What was the question?

Did someone say erection?

I'm a Comic Goddess? And here I just thought I was a Leftover Casserole Goddess.