Do comics typically bring out weirdos like that? I never usually bothered reading comments but man...

Wait, what happened?

Some people got really upset with sparkle boy being a a little jerky. Massive overreaction basically.

Many, many years ago I got a 10-page comic commission and the comments I got back then were appalling. People demanding a character do this instead of that, people angry at the dialog, people pissed at how it ended or injecting their own fetishes and demands into it, I just started disabling comments lol

Hope you blocked and reported them too. That is abhorrent to demand stuff like that to characters they don't even own.

None of that was likely to be reportable.

It likely wasn't. Unfortunately.

Still worthy of getting blocked.

That's an individual call, I suppose. I have a policy of never blocking people.

Well I don't share that kind of policy. Cause sometimes there are some people who do or say some of the most vile stuff.

Stuff that would warrant getting blocked.

It's a personal call. I have a thick skin, and if someone is really pushing it, I'm not afraid to file a ticket on them.

I've had streams with artist doing my commission with my OCs, and I've seen people in chat demanding or asking for stuff to be changed to suit their taste. Its just, bruh.

Bruh

Given the attitude he was getting, I felt it appropriate he handed it back.

Well, that and Morgan going: lol, let me beat this guy up!

I saw nothing wrong with them, but I prefer to sit back and let the writer do their writing.

These people are cray

I guess we can say that people are definitely Invested in your Comic and the Characters to have such a strong opinion.
XD
As annoying as that is, I can see it as good....in a way

Some folks *really* decide to take stuff seriously, good grief. Evel Knievel couldn't have made some of those leaps. XD

Rip media literacy I guess... people need to chill and let the character arc play out before jumping to conclusions and hating some of these characters. No character growth if you don't hive the characters room to grow

I apologize. I did react a bit strongly to some of the comments that were made.

tbh i love the story and just like where the adventure it is going. Story being stories, its all work of fiction so i dont be bothered so much on it other then for entertainment read. So keep it up and you have my vote.

I don't think anyone could have anticipated how furry Fabio was received.

heh
"Furry Fabio."

I luv eet!

So, no opinions but one - I ADORE your comic and think it's the best I've read in a long while! More power to you, and keep up the absolutely fantastic work!

Feretta, you are doing an awesome job! Your comic is beautifully drawn, colored, and the story is both engaging and keeps readers wanting more. I may not be a fan of some content, but it's the story and characters that's made me come back over and over again to read your story since finding you during the first chapters. Keep up the excellent work, and I look forward to more "Tale of Tails" in the future. (also "Deep Space K-9" whenever you get a chance)

On a personal note: This is one of the many reasons why I don't look at the comments section.

Talking to the author/artist? Yeah, no problem. I love to expound on how their work, and the way the story, is progressing. I may even talk about how some of the characters are my favorites so that the artist/author can be informed of my love of their creation, but I never see a need to "justify" or "validate" my opinions. If someone thinks my opinion is wrong, okay, that's their opinion and they are welcome to it. People have gotten so polarized, so sensitive, about what shows up on a screen that it gives us no time to listen or understand, and that's what we should be doing more of instead of taking the knee-jerk reaction and attacking people because of words on a screen.

Again, that's just my opinion.

I think people saw a laundry list of potential "pretty boy jerk" tropes and got triggered. I know I'm guilty of begging for sparkle boy to last longer than a one and done. But I forgot who's writing the story. lol

P.s. The sparkles made me think of Armstrong from Full Metal Alcemist.

It's always a risk posting art that the dipshits are gonna dipshit, but I sometimes wonder if disabling comments would make more sense for comics. Telling a story a page at a time and then having the entire internet weigh in on your storytelling skill seems like it'd be incredibly disheartening every time there's even a hint of dramatic tension.

This, just disable comments, then after a chapter/arc/story is done, post a pic of the characters and host a Q&A and keep all that in one place if you even want to hear feedback, otherwise keep everything on lockdown lol

But the comments are important to me 3:

I literally had to go back and re-read the last 5-10 pages, because I have no clue where some of these criticisms are coming from. Wild.

I'm just enjoying the story. (and the occasional lewd stuff hehe)

I dont usually read the comments section even if I place a post. In my opinion, the writer designed the story and figured out the outcome before hand. Ive read some half baked comics before and got to the parts that never make sense. Feretta, dear. Over look it and dont cave to the negativity. Been a follower for ages and your comics and storylines are top notch.

There will always be debbie downers or those that try to push opinions, this is your story and as always its a delight to enjoy!

Love your work. Your story line is very detailed and very good. impressive on your creativity you have.
So joke them all. If they can not take a good F..............

Uh, sorry, I just follow your stuff for the b00bs.

And what a lot of boobs whined over the last couple of pages. Look, morons, if you want a story where the character does X, buy a commission! Otherwise, sit back and relax with a hot, steaming cup of STFU.

Yep it.. occurred.

I am so sorry you had so many fools react in such a way in such a short time. Please know that you're doing great and while I'd like to see more romantic things happen if not Prydr kicking ass and being loved/giving loves in your comic (a duo-moment of battle and/or romance with Fen would be kickass!), I eagerly wish to see the world saved, Fen's father found, her pups raised happily, and overall, humorous, joyful, loving, badass times to be had!

There were a lot of concerning statements that went from zero to a hundred really quick. Some people got no chill.

Huh, I didn't think enough was happening to really warrant a comment. What got everyone so controversial?

Just a vocal minority that don't like either Alehandro or Morgan. Which is fine, just y'know, maybe not scream for them to be destroyed for their crimes of both having an ego.

Damn, people be trippin.

I'd worry less about the ego and more about monsters from the id. :)

A fellow Forbidden Planet fan, I see.

I mean... it's a movie which still holds up decently.

Oh definitely. And it really shows Leslie Nielson's acting credentials. That he's a good actor in things other than comedy. That, and who doesn't like Robby the Robot acting alongside Walter Pidgeon?

He did do serious stuff before pivoting into comedy. The thing about his comedic roles is... he didn't really change much of his acting. It's delivered in the same serious tone. But I just enjoy it holding up as well as it does for something that old. (It released in March 1956!)

I know, I love old Sci-Fi movies like that (Forbidden Planet, The Thing from Another World, THEM!, It! The Terror from Beyond Space!, etc.) I'm a sucker for the old classics.

And you're right, and that's what made his comedic roles all the funnier. He played them as a 'straight man', and got the biggest laughs because of it.

Going outside more and putting their phones down would definitely do good for some of those commenters :3

The comic is fiction. Yet people get creepily angry and serious around it. Sure great, investment. But it's not anyone else's than the author's place to say how a story should go. Even objectively badly written story is only the authors business if it's completely original ip.

Sure criticism is good and I support criticizing everything. Especially things you love and believe in. But criticism is not tearing something down and reconstituting it from your own pov. Criticism is asking questions from a point of view and all criticism is biased to the critic. The least people could do is to be polite about it.

It's sad that this is an issue at all.

I mean, it's not even their comic, but people today have gotten used to the entitled activist mindset where they feel the need to overreact to something that doesn't please them.

You should never need to, but you might have to resort to disabling comments at first, though that still won't stop unhappy people at the end.

Create you at as you see fit. I'm enjoying it all.

I wright stories and occasionally do comic work myself. I love Ferettas content and it inspired some of my work. Every time I see Miss and Meeka I get a huge moral boost. If people want to be cruel and tell you how to right YOUR story that you are producing of your own accord. Not paid commissions of anything. I just have to say to them that...

"If you don't like how the story is written don't yap about it. Commission Feretta for a page or two to get your preferred side of events. Do this and everyone benefits not just making a hard working content creator question the point of human existence"!

To those kind of people kindly shut the %$&(^ up and let creators be creators. clearly 99% of people love this content. If you don't like it, kindly contribute towards it or don't look at it.

Look all I want is to see the bird man fuck one of the ladies. I am a simple bird.

People going to people... Everyone seems to conveniently forget that it's just art, or even worse, that conversations and people have layers. What you see on the surface is never the full picture.

How dare you not write the comic in the way I have envisioned it in my head! /sarcasm. :3

some were really expecting a different result and got a little uppity about the turn out.. seemed like they really really deeply hoping to see her to aquire some more .. "strawberry jam"

Lotta people just applied way more ego to Morgan than she was actually displaying.

To be honest, I don't see anything wrong with how Alehandro and Morgan are with each other. I actually think those two might have a friendly rivalry going on.

i hope i wasn't one of the wierdos(more than usual anyway) for suggesting that a fun story point could be that he might be gay and not care about boobs.

All the people going on about Morgan's 'big ego' like she didn't JUST have a whole-ass character arc about dealing with and attempting to actually move past the trauma of her own past abuse and enslavement.

"Ugh this character that has previously felt the need to make herself a physically impregnable fortress of stronk in order to ensure she's never kidnapped, enslaved and violated again is too bold and confident in her actions." makes me want to screeeeeeam. XD

On the one hand, it shows those people care enough to comment even though it may be quite harsh. On the other, there are more civilized way to express opinions.
The worst is when apathy settles in and people don't react. It's a death of franchise as they say.

Well...
If I get into a series, I don't react by posting "oh my god what is the author thinking"... anymore. I used to. I got very vocal a decade ago, and had to train myself out of it.
Nowadays, I try to react by thinking "oh my god, where is this going? Please don't drop the ball."

I want to see how it shakes out *before* I go find the pitchfork issued to me when I started on the Internet. :)

Wow that "pretty man bad" vibe hit hard.

Your icon is pretty relevant now

Some people tend to get emotionally attached to characters and have snizzy fits when the character does something that goes against their perceived view of them.

Obviously each person's interpretation and expectations of an artist's work is more important than the narrative being presented. It's only logical. ;p

It may be wise to disable comments on the next few pages... At least at first.

If only some people could be patient and not assume things.

Let the damn author tell the damn story, people.

Comic drama and NIPPLE xD

Only conclusion I jumped to would be that Lab would be part of the team. And that was only because of that team lineup you did a year or so ago ;P
And even then I accepted you may have changed things.

This is why I dont read comments a lot -- keeps my Blood pressure in the norms...

And frankly, if you got a 3-foot pickle up your cakehole over what a "FICTIONAL" character is doing that offends your hedonistic palette... Please draw your own comics.

On the bright side, you've made a world that people are emotionally invested in, even if for the wrong reasons. That's no easy feat!

I have to admit, the... 'animosity' over the last several pages has had me going, "Wtf?"

The comic is fabulous, I've personally enjoyed seeing the past several pages, Morgan's reasons for picking a fight, seeing Furball Fabio's reactions/attitude, just everything in general. Hopefully these jumping the gun will learn to throttle back, and let you tell the story as YOU want to tell it. Since, y'know, it's your story to tell.

Eh I didnt really care.