Comments on: The Webcomic Overlook #30: Achewood

By: Esn

Esn — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:10:41 +0000

Hm. Well, in my effort to give it another chance, I clicked at a random spot in 2004 and read a stretch of it. Seemed actually pretty comprehensible and mostly funny, though the art style did seem to struggle to clearly portray some actions, and the grammar annoyed me. On the other hand, I read a stretch of comics from closer to the beginning of the strip, and another from closer to the end, and found it to be filled with non-sequiturs and incomprehensible references. Sort of “clever for the sake of cleverness” (to give the benefit of the doubt), and often as obscure as anything you’d see on xkcd.

I also can’t quite get over for my distaste at the fonts that are used.

So it’s not totally bad and can be funny, but overall it’s just not for me.

By: El Santo

El Santo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:53:42 +0000

I think it’s genuinely good, for reasons I won’t be repeating here since I think I stated it all in the review. Besides, if you click around this site, I’m really not above pissing off people’s fanbases.

By: Esn

Esn — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:42:48 +0000

This is one of those comics where I just don’t get what all the fuss is about, at all. I’m completely baffled by its critical respectability and popularity.

To me, it seems like the artwork is terrible, and the jokes are insular, and the writing is badly-structured.

There may be a jewel in there under that, but first and second impressions are off-putting.

Are you sure you didn’t give it 5 stars simply to avoid pissing off the fan base?