Whither Webcomics?

"It's my sincere belief that in ten years entire cottage industries will exist that do nothing but analyze the psychology behind horrible webcomics."
Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons, Something Awful, February 2, 2004

"Hey, why wait ten years?"
Mayerson, March 20, 2004

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03/25/2004 Entry: "Problems with Problematic II, #17-20"

17. Due to extensive emotional trauma sustained as an infant, Fatima grows into a child sociopath

"Fatima doesn't like people, I wager. "Family" she can tolerate, but "people" are automatically struck with the death glare. Observe."
FHLJ March 14, 2004

You "wager"? If this is your comic strip, why don't you know your own characters?

18. Too bad these suits are not from Child Protective Services

"Yes, he gets mail at the Maharassa's. By now, Rafi spends more time at the Maharassa's than at his own apartment. Needy little man. You know it'll eventually get to the point where he lives there, sleeps there, but continues to claim he has an apartment somewhere."
FHLJ, March 15, 2004

I wasn't wondering about this, knowing this does nothing for me or the comic, except make me wonder why Fuhr issued that bulletin. I'm not sure what purpose these pronouncements on her own work are serving; if it's making her story any easier to tell, then I must ask for whom is it making it easier to tell?

19. It's still too bad these suits are not from Child Protective Services. Dig that child endangerment in the last panel.

"A thing that vexes me about text heavy comics is that I have to block out the neat background things. For example, you can't tell that in the background, there's a big Maharassa family portrait consisting of Padma, Nefertari, Rafi, Fatima, and Kailen."
FHLJ, March 20, 2004

When I pause to ponder how Al Capp, Walt Kelly, and Charles M. Schultz solved the text vs. background issues without a Live Journal, I can only conclude that they must have been motherfucking geniuses.

20. Say there, Creatorix, they could use some background in those backgrounds.

"Next week: How will Nefertari and Rafi survive without their Padma? Will Fatima be forced to run the household with her other two adult influences pining? Will little Kailen continue to try to put his finger in electric sockets? Will Padma realize he's missing his hat?"
FHLJ, March 22, 2004

Ah. Previews of the explanation of the next explanation of the next comic. Ah.