There was a lot of Twitter chatter the other day about a webcomic app for the iPhone that was put up at $1.99, then made free, and then taken down. I didn’t follow much of what happened, but Lauren Davis covers the incident over at Storming the Tower in detail, including where the app stood on legal grounds.

Again, I didn’t follow the whole thing — only running across a few tweets here and there — but from what I did see I have to agree with one of Ms. Davis’ conclusions: the webcomic community were acting like bullies. And whether Dale Zak, the developer of the app, was in the right or the wrong of things, one thing always remains true no matter what: it’s really tough to sympathize with bullies.