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All these replies are great; many thanks for the suggestions!
My only question is what you mean by breaking the fourth wall. I mean, I understand that having a character talk directly to the audience is breaking the fourth wall, but I didn't do that too much (at least, I don't think).
Do you see the problem more in the comic knowing its a comic (i.e. how characters are added) or in things like having God and the artist in my comic strip obviously representing parts of me? Many people have mentioned this, and so it seems it's certainly worth my while to fix...I just need a little clarification before I do ;)
The fourth wall is a term that comes, I believe, from the theatre, where the stages physically have three walls (open to the audience), but the characters are supposed to behave as if there is the fourth wall. Breaking the fourth wall basically refers not only to talking to the audience, but more generally the characters being conscious that they are fictional characters being scripted by a higher being.
My guess is that those who criticized your fourth-walling were not so upset over its existence, but rather the heavyhandedness to which it was applied, and the degree to which it drove the plot.
(Not me, I often find those things in themselves to be an amusing bit of absurdism. To each his own.)