So lately a few of the older comics have been ravaged by silly numbers of hits through stumbleupon. Specifically:

You Get Used to it

and

The Ghost at Work

Kind of weird considering how old they are, the first I posted a little more than two years ago! Its pretty cool to see that (for some reason) people are checking these comics out, and if you reading this right now are one of them, then howdy, welcome. I hope you enjoy some of the comics I have made.

But of course with the added attention to these comics the people critiquing the site have also increased. Normally I wouldn’t even bother addressing these folk, but since I just lied, and am truthfully a petty and arrogant person, I will now.

OK. So you find yourself not enjoying the comics for a variety of reasons, and I am indeed sorry to hear that, in fact I wish it were not so. But here is a list of some common complaints and reasons reasons why you, are completely fucking wrong.

1. This comic is free. I don’t get paid to do this, this is a hobby. There are no ads on the site, no sources of revenue. I actually have to pay money to keep it going, not including my time. I am also not a student, I work a full time job just like a normal person. Just keeping this site updated sometimes feels like a Herculean task.

2. Learn How to Art. Wow internet, you know how to cut a guy. I do agree with you though, sometimes the comics are really poorly drawn, I don’t always have the time or patience to really make these things look awesome. The times when I actually do hard work on a comic it can take anywhere from an hour (the red lantern comic) to 5+ (the cupcake one). And seriously, I don’t have time for that. Right now I have about 4 comics in my head I want to take my time with and do nicely in GIMP, but each of then will take around 8 hours to complete from pencils, to inks, to GIMP. I know some webcomic people out there can manage to do that, but with my schedule I just cant. Me sowwy.

3. This is not funny. Hrm. Um. You stumped me. If you don’t like the humor I guess there’s really nothing I can do here. Maybe look through some of the archives? I bet there’s a few gems in their that you’d enjoy. If not, then why are you even reading this still? Go read the New Yorker or something. Fatty.

4. Stick Figures Suck. Ok, well I can see where you are coming from with this, but I’m not sure you can just say a blanket statement like that. First off I have been doing Ninja Kens since around the beginning of 2000. That’s a long time before many of the things you see on the net existed. Also I like to think NK comics have a bit more heart than your average shitty stick figure webcomic. But maybe that’s just because I have spent so much time working on them over the last decade. Sheesh that’s creepy to say. Decade. I could have written the Great American Novel or something with that time, fuck. And my point two is that its not ALWAYS just stick figures, a lot of the time there are non-stickies in there as well. So don’t be total pricks about this ok?

5. Christ, I’m Just One Man. This is really the root of the matter here, this comic, this website- its just me people. Sure I had my friend Marshall code it, and for a few months in the beginning my buddy Adam wrote blog posts, but ever since its just been me. I have to write all the comics, I have to draw them all. There is nobody else. I don’t have the luxury of having a writer tell me everything to do and I can just draw it, there’s no rotating lineup of authors doing the comics, I have no backup of a million mewling fanboys to lick my ego for me. At the end of the day (MWF at least) if I didn’t put something up for the cold, mirthless internet to digest, I am the one who failed. And there is no one else to blame. Just me.

So hey dere hosers, maybe go a little easier on me. I’m fragile and am taking boner medicines.

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kidc

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