Ah, so you finally learned that consumers are insane?
Personal attacks against the author and their readerbase, including a paragraph condemning them for daring to make more money than your personal favorite webcomic artists.
This is probably the most well-thought-out, insightful, measured and fair review I've read on this site.
Maybe the comic's changed since I stopped reading it (HA!) but from what I remember of it The Wotch was never really pornographic wanking material like you claim. Yeah, it plays almost entirely to fetishes, but that's just the comic being shallow. Sort of like one of those crappy Go Daddy commercials.
No, I'm not going to go far out of my way to "protect" The Wotch from people who don't like it. I'm just pointing out that you made a far bigger deal of your third point and ranted about how horrible the creator was for a couple paragraphs when there are legitimate complaints to be made. The characters are shallow when they have any depth at all, the story goes far out of its way to justify stupid decisions and Aesops, and the artwork is obviously by an amateur who doesn't get enough practice. The few interesting decisions the story makes are never followed through in a meaningful way.
The Wotch is not a good comic. It is at best "okay." But it is not, as you claim, a blatant work of pornography. There are far worse things more deserving of your bile than a TF-fetish comic that happened upon a dedicated fanbase.
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Anne is a parasite and this series is her riverside
I'm not going to lie or hold back, this comic is horrible. The very concept is horrible, and everything it represents is completely and utterly deplorable.
I'll start with the more mundane terribleness:
-The characters are all bland, and unbelievably one dimensional. They're not even cut-outs so much as they are plot devices for character transformations and cheap cliches. We've never had even the slightest depth explored with any of them.
-The setting makes little sense. Why waste time keeping up the Masquerade when it's been broken before and we know magic fixes all anyway? Even the multi-dimensional war is completely in the dark. But hey, if Anne needs more cow-girl, asian-school girl fetish arcs, who of her fan-base if going to complain.
-The Transformations and fetish aspects are handled so heavily and forcefully at times it makes me want to bang Anne's head against a window til it breaks and a hint of sanity finally bleeds over. I mean the entire 'D.O.L.L.Y' arc,Consequences, Miranda's fitting 'punishment'? It doesn't just reek of masturbatory driven wish-fulfillment, it boldly swims in it's filth and relishes it's awfulness. And that is the absolute worse part of this whole operation.
The author and fan-base is in COMPLETE denial that this comic is a shame-less wank fest cash-cow for the author to exploit. And if this comic was another generic terribland transformation comic, that never amounted to anything but wanking by it's fiew viewers it appeals to, the hatedom wouldn't care. But then there's the 2000$ fan-paid donation artworks (Which Anne doesn't draw or make). Does Anne know how hard people in the real world have to WORK for 2000$? Even accomplished web-comic artist have to treasure every penny they profit, or at the very least DRAW THEIR OWN WORTH and be competent about it. This alone should invalidate this comics worth, do scholars go around analyzing the character development,plot themes, or deep symbolism in pornographic films, when it's all just wank fodder? No.
Did we mention Anne no longer even DRAWS for this comic? So what does she gets paid for here?
'Writing'.
Read that again, I'll wait. She does the writing. For a work of pornography.
Yeah, you can be assured Anne is a forerunner for the Antichrist of webcomics..