By now most people who keep track of the webcomic drama know about the wonderfully dramatic and entertaining review site Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad. This is a site that grabs attention and readers from being in poor taste. There is a simple truth that anything can be made to look or sound bad with enough creativity or vice versa. Everyone knows this and likely 80% of everyone who has read one of those awful reviews are reading them to see just how bad a bad writer can make a popular webcomic sound like trash. It’s like watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 but with webcomics. You simply laugh yourself to tears because of how much crap you’re wading through and you can’t help yourself but glue yourself to the screen and watch the train wreck in all it’s glory.

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When it comes to webcomics most artists think that their skill alone should propel them into stardom. The fact that if they were so good from the start they would be paid for it in the first place doesn’t enter their minds. Everyone else, the ones who make money, understand that a webcomic is property. I’m not talking about your sister’s barbie dolls your mom caught you playing with, but something similar to what you find on TV and Radio. Sports entertainment understands this concept all to well. All of these long ago realized that every property has to represent.

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Anyone who has been around for a year or more is pretty much guaranteed to go through a problem with their provider. No matter how well you plan you will always get to the point where something has to change. DS has been through this three times in various forms with getting our own domain, switching to wordpress, and the near perfect switch to using Dreamhost. By far the worst was transferring everything from blogspot to wordpress, which required some professional help to get all the archives migrated. We’re just a blog!

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This is old news but I have to stay with the tradition of reporting on something long after it’s useful. When project wonderful first came out almost a year ago I held off personally on posting about it until I knew what was going on. The most annoying part about it is everyone seems to love the service and yet for the life of me I can’t get space for the site. There were so few negative experiences that felt a backlash. The backlash sort of felt like going to a used car salesman and everyone there says the car you’re interested is the best on the lot. This means I sat around and continued to run the advertising on the site despite being annoyed by having to keep track of something that can be completely automated.

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