YMMV / Unkept Promise

• Anvilicious: The comic pretty much presents abstinence from alcohol as the only correct option, while people who support moderate drinking aren't even given a chance to make their own argument.
• Bile Fascination: Many people read this comic just to mock its wildly and often hilariously one-sided warnings against beverages that many people enjoy.
• Confirmation Bias: The comic itself engages heavily in this. It rarely (if ever) lets the other side have a voice and presents all the arguments against alcohol in a format that doesn't allow for the other side to be explored. At no point are the drinking habits of wine-growing countries in Europe even discussed. Instead, moderate drinking is dismissed as a gateway into alcoholism, as if to imply that moderate drinkers are equally as wrong just for drinking alcohol, period.
• Designated Villain: This comic frames alcohol and the liquor industry as sending Mr. Miller's life spiraling through a sip of booze, yet the mere fact that it only took one sip for Mr. Miller to get hooked implies (without the comic's intention) that he had very little tolerance or self-control to begin with; with the rituals and stresses of his life, he would have inevitably gotten addicted to something other than alcohol (e.g. tobacco, coffee, food, gambling, etc.).
• Harsher in Hindsight: In one panel, a football coach uses "champion miler" Gil Dodds to back his arguments against alcohol. In 1977, at the age of 58, Dodds’ life was cut short by a brain tumor—despite a life of clean living involving total teetotalism. In addition, another panel claims that a drinker's life expectancy is 10 to 13 years shorter than an abstainer's. The early death of an abstainer from a brain tumor is obviously not going to do such a pro-teetotalist argument any favors.
• Narm: The last panel of Mr. Miller's story is hard to take seriously, since his hat as an Addled Addict is a different color from the hat he wore when he was sober.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The moderationist side of alcohol isn't even given a fighting chance in this comic. For example, having the high-school students visit a vineyard in California could have added gray nuances to a comic that generalizes the liquor industry as inherently evil. Perhaps the comic didn't want to risk Strawman Has a Point.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Those who do not agree with the comic's views may regard Mr. Miller as lacking willpower or self-discipline to begin with, especially since he went from The Teetotaler to an Addled Addict in less than five years, which one character even admits is fast "even for an alcoholic." It doesn't help that Mr. Miller doesn't even try to overcome his addiction. In fact, even if Mr. Miller had spurned "that first drink," his life was still so stressful he could have become addicted to something else entirely.
  • The so-called "Legion of Truth" is shilled as heroic crusaders who are against the "wicked" liquor industry. But instead of advising heavy drinkers to cut back as any sane person would, they plan to bully their peers into hypochondria-induced teetotalism on the false pretense that drinking any amount of alcohol always leads to drunkenness.