Outside of more experimental series like "Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff" (4/5 stars if viewed in chronological order) the authors behind the popular webcomics generally gravitate towards the style of established newspaper comic-strip authors over time: the art becomes more polished through practice or production values, the characters develop while storylines and sometimes arcs are created. After reading enough strips one begins to see the archetypes in their plots just as one would on TV shows or movies despite being broadcast through a medium where originality is still expected. To conclude, both casual surfers and expert web users are expected to accept their existence as these as they are generally short, at best memorable and easily ignored.
This leads to the question: Why would someone begin spending time maintaining and updating a blog dedicated solely to mocking a webcomic of "sarcasm, math and language?" Over 700 entries and 3+ years of hate.
Crudely photoshopped parody
(not of webcomic but related image based joke; see "meme.")
Granted, it is difficult for one not to laugh periodically at a crudely photoshopped parody of another popular webcomic* infamous for overly dramatic story arcs--clever mockery of these types of publications can generate the same type of comedy that initially draws in readers. Nevertheless, even for those with an accepting sense of humor these acts of expression seem more like an unhealthy obsessive relationship than a serious attempt at comedy.
Such is life in The Zone.
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Footnotes:
Meme: Inside, recurring joke. It is unknown whether the Internet noun stems from the French word "même" meaning same, or the English with Greek roots term "meme" created in 1976 meaning a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes. It seems that the latter is possible, however the first pronunciation is superior and as the word is not definitely defined, the author proposes the French pronunciation is kept.
*B^U
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