[MCLP]

I never bashed the creators. At worse I bashed their work, but I don't think what I said qualifies as bashing. Bashing them would be saying something like "Their work is a piece of crap and they should die in a fire." I articulated three points, and commented on them with a touch of snide before giving my overall opinion. It's the same language I use with my friends, and I'm curious what, precisely, about what I said was so offensive to you. Saying I wanted to smack a character? Emphasizing microwaves? My comments on the erratic hair coloration? I did say I liked the work overall.

Not that is matters. Unlike you imply, I never tried or meant to be cruel. I never said I was being an ass because other people were. I didn't say it was okay to, either. I said as a creator, people will be asses so you have to have thick skin. I never said it was okay to bash someone in private. I said I would express my opinion of the work more contructively to the creator. I would do so because, if I talked to him about his work, I would would want to help him make it better. Since I wasn't talking to him, I saw no reason to self-censor when talking frankly about how his work made me feel. Are you arguing I should on ethics of the matter? People vent about books, movies, and music to their friends or closed communities all the time. Personally, I think using different language in those situations is acceptable, and if I understand correctly, this is the only point where we disagree. Deprecating someone's work is not the same as deprecating its creator.

Also, he isn't just making this for fun. I've made things for fun before, and I have friends who have to. You know what we didn't do with them? Put them on a publicly available website. People do that because it's a free way to reach a wide audience. I'll grant that some people are just mistaken and put pictures up on Flickr without making them private because they're not very tech savvy. He put his works up on TGComics and Deviantart. You don't do that if you only wanted to write something for fun. You do that if you create something you want people to see.

Now if you would stop straw-maning me, that would be great. I'll keep arguing the point if you like one way or another, though.