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I literally can’t remember what I was gonna write under here because I had to do some comment pruning on the last page, which is pretty aggravating.
I used to be really lax about letting people leave whatever the hell comments they wanted to in the past.
Which, uh, led to a bunch of people making a series of really uncomfortable amount of rape jokes during the prison chapters. After someone left a comment that was literally just “mmm rape ^_^” I started actively moderating because EUUUGGHHHHHHHH HORRIBLE and why the anime smiley why why that made it TWENTY times worse.
(I did go back and delete a lot of comments like that so you don’t have to worry about seeing them if you’re archive crawling or w/e, I mean I know my comic itself is pretty adult and has stuff that requires content warnings but I don’t think people should be blindsided by it in the comments)
So, you know, I didn’t want to make mention of it, but I do moderate my comments. I have been doing so for some time. But, I don’t check them every day, so if you see something real garbagey feel free to tweet at me @dirkgrundy I’ll take a look.
Please do that rather than arguing with or piling on someone. You won’t change their minds (it is human nature to double down when people start yelling at you), and it’s just annoying for me to look at and clean up. So just message me.
Woa, CHAVEZ!? IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME. I thought he was just completely a one off backgroud throwaway character for first chapter!? I LIKED HIM THO? NICE TO SEE HIM?
he’s too nice and normal for my comic. :3
Mmm, anonymity and an audience, bringing out the absolute worst in some people ^_^
On an unrelated note, is there a place where we can learn more about this world you’ve created? I know there was some sort of apocalypse that made some places uninhabitable, but it’s been awhile since I started reading the comic, and I feel like there’s some background that would tie the dusty prison with its energy shield to this shiny utopian science conference.
I’ve considered making a fake wiki with like maps and stuff for people who don’t mind getting really nerdy about stuff. lotta work tho
O.O omg augh sympathies on the terrible comments and thank you for deleting them. But what a waste of time & energy when you could be drawing or like, doing life things.
Huh. Didn’t realize who this dude was for a minute. Probably thanks to the huge style shift we had from chapter 1 to now.
(side note: that comment in the description is so goddamn cringey as hell. They had to have known how bad it was.)
hahah yeah. I tried to keep him looking mostly the same but then I gave him a mustache whoops
#4: “can’t read my pokerface :|” x2
(I was just about to ask you to delete that entire comment chain, I’m glad you did it and truly sorry for starting it. I frankly never intended for it to be interpreted the way it was by virtually everyone else there. Nor for the matter to drag on for so long, I only felt the need to address some accusations directed at me personally.)
Duuuuude. I had to go back to see who that was. Totally awesome that he returned.
Hehehe, it kinda looks like that dude texting in the back sent something to Eric and he’s ticked off.
It is so weird, I comment on a lot of comics and the artists either have to heavily moderate because everything is cancer or it’s just a loving pun filled community. The moderation usually strains them enough that some even opted to remove them all together. But I’ve only seen one that just doesn’t care about the toxic community comments and lets them run rampant (aka lfg).
Basically what I am getting at is I have high respect for artists that have to deal with this stuff while also putting out quality content. Keep up the good work, I love your content.
Also stay healthy!
the other comic project I’m still in the early stages of working on I’ve already long decided it will not have comments under it. Reason being that it’s an all ages comic that has cartoon animal characters. I don’t even want to have to moderate that, haha. HOoo boy no thanks