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nice review, however
14 years ago
It looks like one of my readers decided to sign up for www.thewebcomiclist.com for the sole purpose of leaving me this insightful review for ClosetCoon. This has probably been there for years, but I just happened across it today. This is the only comment that this user has left anywhere on the site:
"nice comic, however sometimes it takes up to 3 months to update a single strip, and the plot is boring."
* out of *****
It's fine if you don't like it. It's fine if you feel so strongly that it's a bad comic that you create an account just so you can tell everybody that it's lame. But what gets me is that if the comic is so shitty that it gets the worst possible rating, why bother to start your review with "nice comic"? If by some freak chance he meant that the comic is "nice" except for points A and B, that is what the continuum of 1 to 5 stars is for. 1 to 5, not 1 or 5.
How about this equally logical review?
"nice restaurant, however sometimes I get food poisoning and everything tastes disgusting."
It's a slice of life story, and life is boring. There are no mecha robot invasions, no lost cities of gold, and no time traveling to kidnap foxes from the past. There probably would be a robot invasion if I could draw robots well.
I don't mind if you criticize my work, but be logical about it! LOGICAL!!!!!!
"nice comic, however sometimes it takes up to 3 months to update a single strip, and the plot is boring."
* out of *****
It's fine if you don't like it. It's fine if you feel so strongly that it's a bad comic that you create an account just so you can tell everybody that it's lame. But what gets me is that if the comic is so shitty that it gets the worst possible rating, why bother to start your review with "nice comic"? If by some freak chance he meant that the comic is "nice" except for points A and B, that is what the continuum of 1 to 5 stars is for. 1 to 5, not 1 or 5.
How about this equally logical review?
"nice restaurant, however sometimes I get food poisoning and everything tastes disgusting."
It's a slice of life story, and life is boring. There are no mecha robot invasions, no lost cities of gold, and no time traveling to kidnap foxes from the past. There probably would be a robot invasion if I could draw robots well.
I don't mind if you criticize my work, but be logical about it! LOGICAL!!!!!!
I don't know who Robin is, I'm only gay for Robin Hood. :3
If he went through the trouble of creating an account just to leave this one comment, I have to assume that he said what he meant.
Maybe the reader wasn't homosexual . . . the comic isn't for everyone I guess.
I just thought the review was kind of funny, and my equivalent restaurant review popped into my head, which I also thought was kind of funny. So I posted about it.
I would love to see more updates more frequently, seeing as this comic was my very first furry comic (also a bit of what made me realize I was a fur in the first place), but you need to do things at your pace or else it feels like work and not fun!
There. My 2 cents. ^w^
He's trying to get you to comply with his desires. By seeing as they have gotten a lousy score or review, most people would want to contradict that notion and make things better to get that mark of approval. He wanted to goad you into posting more strips with a steeper plot slope for the veiwer to climb. He loves your work, but he wants the improvement he thinks you need out of you. Posting that review, he sits and waits eagerly for you to blow him away.
Add me to the list of people it influenced though. While I can't truthfully say that Closetcoon made me come out (to a conservative family in a conservative African country), but it sure holds an important place in process that led to that.
Just my guess on it. *shrug*
But so I just read it, and it was cool. The dude blasting you's just a numskull. I got blasted for the translations I did, I got blasted for the walkthroughs I posted for those games, etc. but that's just how the internet is. Don't take it hard.
Oh and people are like that these days, BTW. Every single thing they like or don't like has to be absolutely adored, or hated. It's rare to see like 7/10 or 8/10 anymore; it's always got to be a perfect 10 or else it's 1 (or sometimes 0).
Good luck, keep it up!
Like lots of yelp reviews. Everything could be awesome, but if the waiter was a little rude, then * out of ***** (worst possible rating). That kind of review is garbage. Unfair to the establishment, and it does not help someone who is trying to get information about the restaurant.
"First of all, the food was great, but…"
Then, they leap into some diatribe about how nobody came to refresh their coffee or whatever and I'm like "your review already mentioned the only important part, man. And you said it was good food, so, how do they get a 2/5 stars again???"
* out of *****
He must've had a lot of time on his hands to go through the trouble of making an account just for that nonsense. That, or all of that was supposed to be a weird, reversed way of saying he actually likes it.
That, and sharks don't fly around and maim people, nor do people have such big hair that their head couldn't possibly support it. though it would be funny to see. xD
Maybe they meant that the comic is nice to them when they talk to it. Or maybe they use the word "nice" as a prefix to everything. like "I'm going to get a nice burger. You want to come with me, Nice bob?" "WHERE ARE MY NICE KEYS??"
Your comic influenced me to start drawing comics in the first place. It may have turned me furry also. There are not enough bears in your comic. How's THAT For a review?
There are a thousends of people that enjoy your comic and there will be more belive it.
Closetcoon is one of the first comics I read and I loved since the begining and I still do it.
Every time I read it it makes me feel happy.
Without a doubt, one of the greatest comics of all time.
Well thats what I think, and I know other people thinks the same ^^
just kidding XD
And yeah, that's guy's a douche. Has about as much intelligence as the average Youtube comment
“Never ascribe to malice what can more easily be explained by simple stupidity.”
the plot is awesome no doubt about it, the point of releasing strips on a different level i guess. every artist should take his time to do what its good for his own creation-process. so take every time you need but maybe show up a little bit more then just a journal here and there. ^^'
sry about the bad english.