WAAAAAAAAAUGH!
STOP CHANGING MY WORLD!
On 1/1 David Morgan Mar, creator of Irregular Web Comic -- the best web comic on the net, and a fixture of my daily afternoon decompression -- announced his intention to stop doing the comic after four solid years.
Today, on 1/2 the new Wall Street Journal showed up. They've lopped off two full columns in width. It's now the same size as The Hartford Courant; a rag I routinely lambaste as being a McPaper (yet still read because it's the only game in town). The WSJ used to be a real newspaper; it used to feel like a real newspaper.
Knock. It. Off. Ok?
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ETA: Oh God, the "new" WSJ is actually narrower than the McPaper. Oy! What have they done to you?!?!
STOP CHANGING MY WORLD!
On 1/1 David Morgan Mar, creator of Irregular Web Comic -- the best web comic on the net, and a fixture of my daily afternoon decompression -- announced his intention to stop doing the comic after four solid years.
Today, on 1/2 the new Wall Street Journal showed up. They've lopped off two full columns in width. It's now the same size as The Hartford Courant; a rag I routinely lambaste as being a McPaper (yet still read because it's the only game in town). The WSJ used to be a real newspaper; it used to feel like a real newspaper.
Knock. It. Off. Ok?
###
ETA: Oh God, the "new" WSJ is actually narrower than the McPaper. Oy! What have they done to you?!?!
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To be perfectly clear: I have no intention of ending the comic in the forseeable future. The "farewell" was a joke.
If you think it wasn't funny, then I'm sorry it wasn't to your taste. But I have said explicitly several times that I deliberately make jokes that I know only a fraction of my audience will appreciate - because for them it's funny. That's what I do. I make science jokes that I know maybe only 10% of the readers will even understand. I try to push the boundaries of humour in the webcomic medium.
Some people loved the "farewell" strip, the 24 hours of puzzlement and uncertainty, and the slowly dawning comprehension. I know because they wrote to me to say they found it hilarious. They were the audience for that strip. Not everyone is the audience for every strip I do, and that's just the way it is.
In other news, there has been no surprise reprieve from the dog's breakfast that is the new WSJ.