People were hardly buying anything from the Girly store all year, then I finally found the time to put up ads for it on my site. Now I'm way behind on 7 billion orders.

Apparently, people have to know about your store in order to buy stuff from it.

Time for a comic!

PART !: XKRR
SUBTITLE: This is a good comic, honest. It's not my personal cup of tea, but it IS a good comic. I swear.

KXCW is, without a doubt, the breakout webcomic hit of 2006. It is a good comic, and it basically deserves it.

BUT.

You knowww.. you know. You know? You know.

You. Know.

You know, the internet has millions of people on it. In fact, billions. There are enough people on the internet to help make many webcomics happy, and I don't really understand why there always ends up being only two or three new big successes in webcomics each year. There should be at LEAST six.

And what I'm getting at is, if webcomics like wwty are going to make it big (and I REPEAT, it's a good comic, it deserves it. Really. Honestly.), I really don't think it would be too much to ask that at least five other comics with ARTWORK make it big as well. Just so that those of us who have spent years and years and years building, developing, and evolving our art skills aren't left wondering just what the hell we've been doing with our lives.

Now, I know that Doctor McNinja made it big as well. That is a comic full of artwork and face-meltingly awesome fucking hardcore awesome awesometude... and it warmed my heart, and melted my face, to see it succeed. So that's one. Have there been any others? I'm kind of racking my brain here. I want to say "Chugworth", but I'm pretty sure that comic made it big last year, and it's really hard to remember 'cause you never see webcomic blargs talking about it. Very rarely is it fashionable to talk about comics with hot girls.

I understand that kkxu has great writing. And people in webcomics love to constantly remind everyone that "TEH WRITINN IS MUR IMPOERTANT THAN THE ARTWORKS", and perhaps it's not intended, but they often seem to infer that all the greatly-drawn comics out there are lacking in the writing department, which simply isn't true. Sam and Fuzzy, UFO, Gunnerkrigg Court, Loserz... are all comics with writing which range from almost as good to better than xhtq's, and there's no good reason they shouldn't have loving readers piling on top of them as well. Also, that's four more, which along with Doctor McNinja makes five. Happiness ensues.

Now, that concludes the whole "god dammit internet webcomics readers please care more about good artwork already" spiel I do at least once a year, and will probably keep doing until things in this area try to attempt get better somehow. But there's one more thing hwqu (AGAIN: A GOOD COMIC) that really depresses me, and I just have to get this off my chest.

It was already rising pretty steadily in popularity, but what made it REALLY take off... was when Wesley Crusher blogged about it.

Jesus Fuckity Fuck Christ.

There was already a pretty long list of things that seem more important to doing well with a webcomic than having good artwork. We can now add "having your comic endorsed by a has-been celebrity" to this list. I mean, come on, people. Come on. This is crazy. Why is it only with comics that this kind of crap happens? It's not like the TV show LOST became a phenomenal success because it got a glowing endorsement from Morgan Fairchild. And "Happy Feet" scoring $70 million on opening weekend wasn't due to a glowing review by Charles Nelson Reilly. It happened because penguins are fucking adorable.

And that's the point of my article.

Penguins are fucking adorable.

I could swear my subscription to Shonen Jump was supposed to expire a few months ago, yet I'm still getting it. I'm completely tired of all the comics inside of it, except One Piece, which is still a little glacially paced.
The latest issue has a great fan art column, though. Look at Michael O'Rourke's piece and how completely not stolen it is. On a TOTALLY unrelated note, I'm going to plug o_8's livejournal for no reason whatsoever.