These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
Dude, Not Funny!: The reaction to "The Sixth Slave" was rather... mixed. Not helping this was Gabe's response—that it was no different from their trademark style and the dickwolves were no worse than the Fruit Fucker 5000, a rapist character who'd been in the comic for years.
Pretty much any character introduced for a one-off joke can be guaranteed to become a fan favourite, leading to many an Ascended Extra. Examples include Div, the Fruit Fucker 5000, Twisp and Catsby (also Springtime for Hitler) and the Broodax Imperiate.
SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
Tycho's niece, Anne, also known as Annarchy, won a poll by a landslide to determine which character to focus on as an arc during the authors' trip to Comic-Con 2011. Hence, Annservice.
Fan Dumb: The whole Sixth Slave controversy went on for MONTHS. Not helping this were groups like the "teamrape" trolls, who, among other things, sent pictures of mutilated and dead women to known rape victims in the fandom.
Harsher in Hindsight: Gabe's newspost about Prince of Persia: Warrior Within mentioned that the game's shift in tone from the original seemed like Ubisoft getting rid of things that fans of the first game loved in order to accomodate people who never liked it to begin with. He goes on to sarcastically suggest, "Thanks Ubi, you know a lot of people really hate all the sneaking around in Splinter Cell. Why don't you give Sam a dual Uzis and a rocket launcher?" Six years later, Ubisoft retools the Splinter Cell franchise to downplay a pure stealth approach and give Sam more options for killing guards. While not as bad as Gabe suggests, it still involves removing elements the existing player base enjoyed to increase appeal to those who were not fans before.
This strip, which is now accidentally brilliant because it makes perfect sense that anyone with knowledge of the future at the time it was published wouldn't remember that "Revolution" was the codename for the Wii rather than a huge historical event.
And this infamous strip, whose mockery of the bogus release date for Duke Nukem Forever was funny in 1999 when the game was a year and a half late, but only grew more so as the game grew two years, four years, eight years, nine years, only to loop back around to Hilarious in Hindsight when a demo of the game, now out of development hell, was released at PAX.
This strip became a lot funnier when a few years later Tycho actually did miss a portion of PAX due to the birth of his child.
Thanks to Paul Christoforo's very public name and shame on the website, his face (taken from his Twitter account) quickly got associated with terrible customer service. His horrible emails - both in terms of content and grammar - supplied such memetic gems as 'Son Im 38 I wwebsite as on the internet when you were a sperm in your daddys balls and before it was the internet'.
In the more traditional sense of a meme, the word "bullshot".
Viewer Videodisc Format Confusion: Div, the alcoholic Div X player, is easily mistaken by newcomers who have not yet read the older strips (or have little to no knowledge on a Div X player) for a DVD player.
On a similar note, the wombat symbol is thought to be a bear by people who haven't read the older strips either.
