This is another one of those webcomics that has no fans to come and stalk me and call me a dickdouchetard, and will have most of you going "I have never heard of this ever." But it is a bad webcomic. It's Lowroad.
This happens a lot. Certain people get popular for doing something, and then others try to cash in later by essentially copying outright what the original person did. Since the vast majority of webcomics, especially those you'll find within this blog, are done by people who are vastly too inept to manage anything better than some crappy ripoff, you'll grow to understand this theme. Hell, webcomics rip off other webcomics, by which I mean they rip off Penny Arcade. All the time.
But Lowroad doesn't rip off Penny Arcade, it rips off Jhonen Vasquez. It's a desperate cry for attention from Hot Topic, wailing for a t-shirt deal for God's sake please. It starts out with little promise, and just goes on to squander that insignificant amount of "it could get better" on huge tits.
The tits, dear Lord, the tits. They're like waterballoons. Spherical and pert beyond imagination. They defy all natural laws and just look so unrealistic that the only people who don't find them uncomfortably weird are the kind of animu-lovin' freaks who fap to the same kind of... man, I can't even finish that sentence. Looking at someone who's supposed to be 18 or 19 or some legal age, but has the face of a 14-year-old who's been rolling in eyeshadow and impossible physiology. No girl can have a physique like this without extensive surgery, stylisation be damned.
The guy's in his thirties, too. No man of this age should spend so long drawing impossible teen tits. Well, maybe it'd be okay if he was Japanese, but there's way too many clothes for that.
If this was some kind of actual goth comic, I might be a little more lenient and let the velvethumping freaks enjoy their disgusting Hot Topic eye candy. But it's not! The main character, Not-Gaiman's-Death-Honest, is so perky and cheerful and acts like your average valley girl or ditzy blonde. Except she's apparently super-duper-smart and also sassy and sarcastic and a real cutie dream girl YOU FAPPIN' YET GUYZ
What little storyline there is, amongst the "I HATE CELL PHONES AND PEOPLE WHO ARE POPULAR" rant comics that just make you groan inwardly, not to mention the supposed "gag" strips, is dire. Absolutely dire. It's all "HAR HAR I AM SUMMONING SATAN CHEESE MONKEY SQUIRREL SPOON RANDOM" shit, which is only entertaining to the mentall handicapped and really, really stupid teenagers. Let's face it, Lowroad fans, you do not read this strip for the story. You read it for the TITS.
God, what is with the sepia toning?
There's a demon pig, a demon this, a succubus and the latest comic has Satan being so fuckin' wacky you guys that I just want to vomit with rage and let my hateful, disgorged, half-digested Chinese takeout burn in the eyes of everyone. Especially Carlos "G", the mastermind behind Lowroad.
It wouldn't get me so damn angry, maybe, if Lowroad had the kind of shitty, half-assed art you might find in Ctrl+Alt+Del or Dominic Deegan. Besides the balloon-tits and the other freaky sexual exaggeration, it's fairly decent. There's a lot of promise in it, and all of it squandered on the fact it's all TITS, TITS, TITS. It's a plague, a compulsion - the man's fixated on sharing these shiney, bouncy orbs with the whole Goddamn world and he'll be damned if he'll change his ways for anything. And why should he? He's pulling in the mindless zombie fans, the animu freaks who just can't get enough of those tits despite three thousand terabytes of HD hentai on their hard drives. QUIT IT YOU CREEPY FUCKS.
If you can get past the terrible site design (so, so terrible) and the terrible tits, and brave the terrible dialogue and the terrible jokes, you might just read enough of Lowroad to discover that it's terrible. Save yourself the pain, because it's terrible. So very, very terrible.
This happens a lot. Certain people get popular for doing something, and then others try to cash in later by essentially copying outright what the original person did. Since the vast majority of webcomics, especially those you'll find within this blog, are done by people who are vastly too inept to manage anything better than some crappy ripoff, you'll grow to understand this theme. Hell, webcomics rip off other webcomics, by which I mean they rip off Penny Arcade. All the time.
But Lowroad doesn't rip off Penny Arcade, it rips off Jhonen Vasquez. It's a desperate cry for attention from Hot Topic, wailing for a t-shirt deal for God's sake please. It starts out with little promise, and just goes on to squander that insignificant amount of "it could get better" on huge tits.
The tits, dear Lord, the tits. They're like waterballoons. Spherical and pert beyond imagination. They defy all natural laws and just look so unrealistic that the only people who don't find them uncomfortably weird are the kind of animu-lovin' freaks who fap to the same kind of... man, I can't even finish that sentence. Looking at someone who's supposed to be 18 or 19 or some legal age, but has the face of a 14-year-old who's been rolling in eyeshadow and impossible physiology. No girl can have a physique like this without extensive surgery, stylisation be damned.
The guy's in his thirties, too. No man of this age should spend so long drawing impossible teen tits. Well, maybe it'd be okay if he was Japanese, but there's way too many clothes for that.
If this was some kind of actual goth comic, I might be a little more lenient and let the velvethumping freaks enjoy their disgusting Hot Topic eye candy. But it's not! The main character, Not-Gaiman's-Death-Honest, is so perky and cheerful and acts like your average valley girl or ditzy blonde. Except she's apparently super-duper-smart and also sassy and sarcastic and a real cutie dream girl YOU FAPPIN' YET GUYZ
What little storyline there is, amongst the "I HATE CELL PHONES AND PEOPLE WHO ARE POPULAR" rant comics that just make you groan inwardly, not to mention the supposed "gag" strips, is dire. Absolutely dire. It's all "HAR HAR I AM SUMMONING SATAN CHEESE MONKEY SQUIRREL SPOON RANDOM" shit, which is only entertaining to the mentall handicapped and really, really stupid teenagers. Let's face it, Lowroad fans, you do not read this strip for the story. You read it for the TITS.
God, what is with the sepia toning?
There's a demon pig, a demon this, a succubus and the latest comic has Satan being so fuckin' wacky you guys that I just want to vomit with rage and let my hateful, disgorged, half-digested Chinese takeout burn in the eyes of everyone. Especially Carlos "G", the mastermind behind Lowroad.
It wouldn't get me so damn angry, maybe, if Lowroad had the kind of shitty, half-assed art you might find in Ctrl+Alt+Del or Dominic Deegan. Besides the balloon-tits and the other freaky sexual exaggeration, it's fairly decent. There's a lot of promise in it, and all of it squandered on the fact it's all TITS, TITS, TITS. It's a plague, a compulsion - the man's fixated on sharing these shiney, bouncy orbs with the whole Goddamn world and he'll be damned if he'll change his ways for anything. And why should he? He's pulling in the mindless zombie fans, the animu freaks who just can't get enough of those tits despite three thousand terabytes of HD hentai on their hard drives. QUIT IT YOU CREEPY FUCKS.
If you can get past the terrible site design (so, so terrible) and the terrible tits, and brave the terrible dialogue and the terrible jokes, you might just read enough of Lowroad to discover that it's terrible. Save yourself the pain, because it's terrible. So very, very terrible.
71 comments:
- I resent your accusation. I only have a couple hundred gigabytes of hentai, not even one terabyte, and none of it HD.
- Then you have never lived, sir.
- For some reason this carlos g reminds me of the I LIKE GOTH CHICKS guy from Deus Ex. Which is pretty hilarious.
- JS are you going to hit 'college roommates from hell' at any point? I ask because that comic really bothers me for some reason i can't quite put my finger on. also its fans are all MOTHERFUCKING MADMEN.
- Fun fact, since you mentioned CAD: look at the last three panels in that strip you linked in the middle. See anything similar? They're the same panel with new faces added each time. That's some lazy shit.
- Also, hit CRFH. Please. Tangent is a fan of that shit.
- Oh god yes. CRFH!
- Worst review ever John Solomon. You forgot that the beautiful, sassy, intelligent female is dating a shy, naive, nerd. This is a truly trail-blazing plot development never before seen in the likes of webcomicry, they are so different and yet their love is true, and it is not at all pandering to the audience or a poorly disguised self-insert.
- The sepia tone. Oh jesus the sepia tone. I cannot even read it to figure out what it's deal is because of the sepia tone. Can't he make something that's, you know, readable?
- I reject the requests for you to call CRFH on how shitty it is. There is no way your feeble mockery skills could ever deliver enough vitriol to truly express its godawful crapitude.
- What the hell is wrong with that girl's hips? CRFH is awful, but I will die happy if you hit Striptease. The drama factor is horrendous, and despite the fact that it's been running since 2000, the guy who does it still has no grasp of human anatomy. It's not stylised, it's just completely fucking wonky in every frame.
- Fun story on Striptease (god I have too many of these) - Keenspot has a panel yearly at Comic-Con. Chris Daily showed up one year. A question was asked where every panelist described their comic. He said his was "mocking soap operas" with the drama. A former reader asked him, in front of everyone "Is this a recent development? Because the last time I read it, you had evil twins, one with cancer, might I add, a shadowy man trying to destroy a COMICS COMPANY, and love pentagons that made no sense, all done completely straight." Daily was speechless. The person who asked the question got a free t-shirt from the panelists for putting him to shame so perfectly.
- This recent comic probably sums up everything horribly wrong with Lowroad in one nice neat package.
- No, I'm wrong. This one is somehow even more apropos. It just screams "I am being written by a man who has no experience with actual women".
- "It just screams ..." The comments thread on that one is particularly scary.
- Oh, god. I hadn't even noticed that there's a comments section on each strip. Looking into the minds of Lowroad readers via their comments will make you weep. It adds a whole new level of creepy to this fucking comic.
- You neglected to mention the fact that the cliche over-protective dad has cheesecake panty shots of his daughter hanging up in their house. Its almost like the author is that guy that sits at the mall all day rubbing his half-formed erection and staring at the kids who walk in and out of Hot Topic. Either that, or that's who he's desperately trying to pander to in hopes of gaining webcomic fame.
- Meh. This one wasn't popular enough, or didn't have enough of a crazy author to make me care that much. But yeah, it is a horrible comic. Target something more well-known when you got more time, john. Otherwise, keep it up.
- Another webcomic for you to hit is Comedity. If you think Mookie was bad, this guy actually draws himself as a superhero. It's not even subtle, he outright admits it's a comic of himself. With a lot of self-glorification. That doesn't make a lot of sense.
- John, I love your blog! I thought that you only reviewed well-known bad comics, but seeing your entry on Lowroad gave me hope! I love to suggest a comic for you -- mine! Strike one: the strip is about toys who are Dungeons and Dragons characters! Strike two: my site design is primitive and pink! Strike three: my online name is very goofy! Especially for a 43-year old father who works in publishing in NYC! So please come by ... and say what you *really* think! -- Cayzle. Cat's Grace
- This is to Dave, I wouldn't say Comedity is on level of bad with Dominic Deegan. Because first of the art's pretty nice. And the writing, even though a self-inceration, he owns flat out tells people this is cartoon me and I can't once remember me trying have his story taken seriously or written to be "dramatic". Now I'm not saying it's a good comic, half his jokes are either taken from somewhere else or they are referencing something maybe 5 people know about. It's just not bad on the epic level that Dominic Deegan is bad.
- Oh I wasn't suggesting the comic was, I was merely making a comparison between the two authors. And yes, Garth is a good artist. Serious or not, though, his storylines always seem to either make no sense or revolve around himself as some sort of superhero. It seems a bit egocentric, but then, maybe I'm simply taking it too seriously.
- Ah. Yes it is very egocentric, but what comic where the author is the main character isn't egocentric? Not that is a good excuse. But if you want to see a really bad mary sue superhero comic look no further than Lightbringer at: http://lightbringer.comicgenesis.com This guys gives Dominic a run for his money on preachy mary sues.
- Ah, Solomon delivers once again. I salute you, good sir. Might I suggest "Punks and Nerds" for your next endeavor?
- Take on Achewood next!
- Heheh. "Lightbringer" sounds like some guy went out and saw Batman Begins and became infatuated with the idea of making his own comic. Prerequisite to making a comic? Being able to draw.
- I noticed he's also got the snout profile down at times.
- "Take on Achewood next!" oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe
- The art is a lot better done than the average hobo webcomic, but yeah, nothing other than that holds any appeal.
- ...Yes, take on Achewood, that is the BEST IDEA EVER. Achewood belongs on a bad comics blog. Yes.
- Man, and I thought J. Scott Cambell drew unrealistic women. I agree, the sepia tone is ugly and unnecessary, not to mention the whole comic screams Vasquez without the mega-violence or wonderfully twisted humor.
- /b/lockade!
- If it's truly inane, vaguely-misogynistic-while-pretending-to-be-empowering shite that you're looking for, John, then you really need to tear into these three - The Magnificent Milkmaid http://www.themagnificentmilkmaid.com/home.html The charmingly-titled-and-not-at-all-racist spinoff, Chocolate Milkmaid http://www.wlpcomics.com/adult/cm/ And the outright wank-fantasy (the creator even draws himself into it archly, looking - unsurprisingly - like a paunchy, middle-aged nerd) Tetsuko (hey, huge tits AND huge biceps, real imagination here!) http://www.dcmstudiosonline.com/tetsuko/ If you could bring your blog to bear on any or all of these, then I, sir, will be a happy man. Keep up the good work!
- I agree with all the negative comments, but more needs to be said about the eye-watering toning. Why would you deliberately create "art" that is so difficult for your readers to resolve? Either: A. The artist is a moron, or B. The artist is a malicious, festering dickhole who wants to cause permanent damage to his readers' retinas, or C. Both of the above.
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- WHAT. THE. FUCK? The evolution of her boobs is enormous, the dream come true for any 14 year old girl.
- "Meh. This one wasn't popular enough, or didn't have enough of a crazy author to make me care that much. But yeah, it is a horrible comic. Target something more well-known when you got more time, john. Otherwise, keep it up." Seconded.
- The guy behind this comic is obviously more interested in drawing his huge boobied character than anything else. After reading through a bunch of his comics, it's easy to see that he'll find the lamest and quickest punchline as long as he can draw the goth star of the show. Looking from the first comic to the latest, yes, his art has evolved and Carlos G is an accomplished cartoonist. His big mistake is he wants to keep his character where she's at and not let her evolve too. This is Garfield, with excessive sepia tones and nice sharp artwork and the same lame punchlines and story-arcs. And huge boobs. Carlos G. is giving his readers what they want without creating anything exceptional. If that makes his day, I can't fault him on that.
- Actually the weird cylindrical waists are way more disturbing than the boobs. The boobs are kinda fun (separated from everything else that's horribly wrong with that comic). But those PVC pipe waists are very unheimlich.
- Anonymous said... WHAT. THE. FUCK? The evolution of her boobs is enormous, the dream come true for any 14 year old girl. - That is true. Waking up one morning to find that you have boobs larger than your head. Seriously, this comic was terrible. Keep up the good work. As said before, you should hit CRFH to piss off Tangent. He sings the constant praises of that comic. "oh CRFH was soo original and funny today." Shoot it down. fast.
- Maybe soon, pal, maybe soon. I've got PvP, Megatokyo, Sluggy Freelance and a load more besides that. This blog, sadly enough, will never run out of material.
- heh. hell no. As long as there are bad webcomics, and there will be, your blog will have maerial. good luck. Especially if you hit PvP.
- Thank you for the review. I'm always looking for new comics to read and this one looks amusing.
- I say that you only amuse yourself as a critic. On your blog, even? Can you be any more small-time? Face it, web comics are entertainment for many people. If you don't like it, then don't read it for the sake of flaming it. You could be reading something you do like or, God forbid, go outside and do something with your sorry life. Critics think they are so intellectual and insightful, but you lack the capacity to understand that the creators of the pieces that you bash don't give a rats ass about what you think, nor should you ever hope to sway the opinions of fans. Face it, people will like what they want to like, not what you tell them too. Also, reading some of your posts I noticed that absolutely none of your critique is even constructive. It's just the lame opinions of an angsty obese teenager. Grow up, son.
- "Critics think they are so intellectual and insightful, but you lack the capacity to understand that the creators of the pieces that you bash don't give a rats ass about what you think" I see that somebody hasn't actually read further than the first couple of blog entries.
- I say that you only amuse yourself as a critic. On the comments section of someone elses blog, even? Can you be any more small-time? Face it, bashing shitty web comics is entertainment for many people. If you don't like it, then don't read it for the sake of flaming it. You could be reading that shitty Lowroad comic you obviously like or, God forbid, go outside and do something with your sorry life. Critics think they are so intellectual and insightful, but you lack the capacity to understand that John Soloman only reads your idiotic opinions for his own amusement, nor should you ever hope to sway the opinions of anyone who reads this blog. Face it, people will like what they want to like, not what you tell them too. Also, reading what I assume is your only post, I noticed that absolutely none of your critique is even constructive. It's just the lame opinions of an angsty obese teenager. Grow up, son. Someone wrote bad words about my favorite webcomic? Hypocracy to the rescue!
- CRITICS EXIST ONLY TO DESTROY THE PRECIOUS TREASURES OF THE CREATRIX A BLOO BLOO BLOOO Hahaha, oh man, I am lollin' here.
- uhm, the latest comic for "lowroad" pretty much seals it here.
- Hey, you made the Lowroad guy say he wants to quit! He made the announcement on comicgenesis's forum.
- On the "strength" of his latest strip (as well as the "impossible physiques" one that you linked to, plus others for all that I know), he seems to have a sad thing for bukkake being carried out on under-age silicone freaks. http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/
- http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20041104.html That's where he was going with it. Seriously folks, guy's sick, yadda yadda yadda. More posts.
- The comic did not seem quite as terrible as you described it. But maybe it is simply an inability on my part to work up a froth. It was more of an incredibly even mediocrity, the writing, as you mentioned, is similar to Jhonen Vasquez the jokes and use of evil animals. So much the same. The tits do not bother me, since I am one of those creepy hentai guys (though I have way less than a terrabyte, maybe 2 gigs at most. After reading your review I wanted to see the comic as a piece of shit, but in the end the mind numbing simpleness and boring jokes made it so that I cannot hate it, I can't even pity it, I can just forget it. Though who the fuck am I to say anything? I am reviewing a review, if I keep doing shit like this I will end up referring to things as Kafkaesque and talking about the Dadaistic influence on Postmodernism. Oh well, keep up the blog, hope you do a Megatokyo article.
- jerry - re that strip that you linked to... "It's what I - oops, the readers - really want..." What a sad wanker Carlos is.
- A thought occurs. Initially, his Not5-Gaiman's-Death-Honest lead character's flat-chested. "Jokes" sometimes hinge on how jealous she is of her blonde friend's unfeasible boobs. Yet now, she's as ridiculously huge and buoyant up top as her over-endowed buddy...what the fuck happened here, people?
- I'm actually rather fond of the comic. Of course the only reason I'm brave enough to admit that is because I'm 15 years old and female which (presumably) saves me from the pedaphile accusations.
- "I'm actually rather fond of the comic. Of course the only reason I'm brave enough to admit that is because I'm 15 years old and female which (presumably) saves me from the pedaphile accusations." It doesn't save you from the "idiot mall-goth teenager with terrible fucking taste" accusations, though.
- After reading this, I followed the links and such and read a few Lowroad strips. Came to one important conclusion The only even-remotely-likeable character on it is also the only female who doesn't have medicine balls down her top. The author is married, so the shameless self insertion makes me feel oddly sympathetic for his wife; yes you're married, but he would rather send his spare time drawing himself boning some underage-looking goth with tits the size of small moons.
- God, what is with the sepia toning? Exactly what I thought when I first saw it. Looking at someone who's supposed to be 18 or 19 or some legal age, but has the face of a 14-year-old who's been rolling in eyeshadow and impossible physiology. Second thing I thought. I mean seriously... is that... is that legal?
- What's with the sepia tone? Who gives a shit. That's just the way it is. And who cares if the girl has huge breasts? That's just the way the artist draws them. As a female, I'm disgusted with the fact that men do that sort of thing all the time, but it's a freaking COMIC. Nobody said comic characters had to be realistic. Look at Mickey mouse. What mouse have you ever seen wear red shorts and gloves?? And when have you ever known a coyote to order explosives in the mail? It's entertianment, pure and simple. If every cartoon and comic were done in the same style, nobody would want to read them.
- Okay, m, are you equally cool with the way that Carlos pretty much constantly has his characters behave like air-headed morons ("I pee myself with excitement!") who're only good for having their unfeasible tits and vapid faces repeatedly and forcibly cummed over?
- I recently interviewed Lowroad75 as part of a series of Webcomic interviews including Ctrl+Alt+Del, Misfile and Dreamland Chronicles among others and I resent the statement that it has no fanbase. Lowroad75 has a lot of people who enjoy reading it, it wouldn't have taken much investigation to discover that fact. As for the Author, he's a very good man. In future keep your accusations to yourself if you haven't got anything to back them up.
- In response to ANONYMOUS: First of all, as I said before, it is a comic. The characters do not have to be real or make any kind of sense in the real world. On the other hand, yes, I resent the fact that men are shallow and vulgar most of the time. I don't like the way society has "idealized" the female figure to be so grotesque. Nor do I like the fact that many men see women as mere objects to fulfill their sexual fantasies, which is what the character designs of that comic are really about. However, as an artist I feel the need to stand up for this vulgar shallow webcomic. If you don't read too much into it, it is mildly amusing, and therefore has fulfilled its purpose. If you want a deep meaningful piece of literature, check out War and Peace or The Metamorphosis from your local library.
- John Solomon, time and time again I see you talk down about webcomics you happen to mislike. But what makes you such an expert on this ? Do you claim to know the tastes of most of the people that surf the web ? Since you seem to be the expert around here, how about you show us how a good webcomic should look ? You claim to be a writer, so write a script and try to get someone to draw it. Or are you worried that someone else will tell you "Your webcomic is bad and you should feel bad" ? You have to admit it'd be interesting to see ?
- Can food critics cook? Can music critics play? If John Solomon would rather humiliate bad webcomics than make his own, I say good luck. It is the internet, we are allowed to do things differently here. Like even though this comment is serious, I could be naked and slathered in jam when typing it and you wouldn't know. Lowroad is bad. The only people who like it are as discerning as those breasts are small. 'Oh! I get it! The mayonnaise looks like sperm! And she doesn't realize. How..." Fapfapfapfap "funny" The only character I like is, as I have said before, the only remotely-proportional female in the whole strip. And thats only because I like petite women and she has that hawt fang thing going on. Cat-girl-esque fang > massive spherical breasts, but I hardly ever have to make that choice, because most normal hentai (I say normal...) has both. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a terabyte of HD tentacle rape to examine. Have a nice day, and if the supermarket has sold out of Blueberry jam, you may now know why.
- John Solomon, time and time again I see you talk down about webcomics you happen to mislike. But what makes you such an expert on this ? I am glad* you asked! You see, I am blessed with the uncanny ability to judge things by being educated in how things should be. I know what makes a good story and what makes a bad story, I can spot even the smallest of flaws in art, I have a finely-tuned sense of design... all of these talents and more besides make me capable of saying what's shit and what's not. Also, thanks for finishing off that comment with "MAKE UR OWN WEBCMOIC BUDDY!!!" because I sure haven't heard that before! Ha ha! *not glad
- In response to m: "However, as an artist I feel the need to stand up for this vulgar shallow webcomic. If you don't read too much into it, it is mildly amusing, and therefore has fulfilled its purpose. If you want a deep meaningful piece of literature, check out War and Peace or The Metamorphosis from your local library." "If you don't read too much into it..." How can you read anything but "ha ha unfeasibly-breasted and stupid Goth chick doesn't know what bukkake means and doesn't realise that she looks like someone's cummed all over her face"? That's pretty much all that there is to her role in the thing. As for the comments about War And Peace and Metamorphosis: a bit heavy for me. The Once And Future King, now we're talking. All that I want is a funny comic (which this isn't) which isn't such a seedy, slimy wank-fantasy as Lowroad.
- Yeah, for some reason, I can't see any comments on that site. Which is a mixed blessing; I won't get the laughs that come with the fans who think this shit is funny/wankable, but at least I won't lower my IQ by having to read that tripe
- Yaaagh. The characters are cutely designed but yeah, the whole thing reeks of "dirty old man fapping it outside of Hot Topic, who probably has never actually conversed with a goth, much less a goth chick, much less ANY chick..." ahh you get the picture.
- Ha, I scanned over some of these comics. Did anyone notice that in one of the early comics, the "LOL DOOM PIGGY!!!11" references the main character being "cheated by puberty," and then about halfway through the series she magically sprouts tits and hips? There's probably some reason, like, Satan or something. I'm too lazy to read this shit.
- Pffft, to all the naysayers out there, if you don't like it, then don't look at it, an' don't bash it. have some balls, grab them an' just walk away. If you don't have balls, ask your imaginary hentai girlfriends from them, since that's probl'y the only think you have goin' fer you. I don't read too much into anythin', specially webcomics, I see them as an entertainment item, an' if I don't like somethin', I just don't go back to it, end of story. If you feel strong enough ((again,... Pfffftt yea right... can anyone say "no life!" ...)) then e-mail a private message to the author, trust me, the world is not eagerly waitin' to see what trash spills off your tiny head. oh, I'm sorry, my bad... BOTH tiny heads... well, i've wasted enough of my time.
