I get a lot of e-mails from creators who are requesting reviews. As a result, I’m faced with a dilemma fellow webcomic bloggers can probably sympathize with. Should I review their comics and give exposure to some minor webcomics that just might find an audience thanks to your coverage? Or should I stick to webcomics I was attracted because it covered a topic I was interested in, which will hopefully make my opinions more valid and far less easy to dismiss with a “you’re obviously not the audience for this webcomic”?

Compounding the problem: I probably wouldn’t give a lot of the requests more than 1 star. Oftentimes, the art is off-putting and the humor is, shall we say, not up to snuff. I’d probably be spending my days typing out a whole slew of reviews for terrible webcomics. Not only would it sap my passion and energy, it would also manage to turn this blog into the webcomics version of “Talk Soup.”

I don’t want to abandon requests altogether, so I looked at the crop of review requests and asked myself, “Based on what I’m seeing, which one has the most potential?”

That’s when I ran across The Original Nutty Funsters, a comedy comic by Stephanie O’Donnell about slacker furries (note: her e-mail is quite insistent that it’s not a furry comic, and I can sorta see why, but I thought I’d tweak her a little). OK, so that kinda sounds underwhelming, and frankly a bit off the norm for what gets reviewed in this site. However, I felt a certain kinship with this comic … mainly because it looks a lot like a comic I drew for my college paper a decade ago.

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