I guess I should finally talk about Websnark. I’m not a big fan of Websnark; I think Mr. Burns’s writing is self-important and sometimes really pretentious. He writes about webcomics the way college sophomores talk about politics. There are things about his style and tone–neither of which ever really drops from the surface–that really rub me the wrong way. And some of what he does is exactly what Checkerboard Nightmare, my favorite webcomic, has been doing for four years. But not as bitingly funny.

That said, he’s not a bad writer, and he knows what he’s talking about. He’s also managed to do what nobody else has done, which is establish himself as a guy who just blogs about webcomics every day, and people like it. Other people have tried to fill that niche, but Websnark is the first to really get tacit approval from the webcomics community in general. And he did it by just writing what he knew, and writing a lot, and spelling stuff right and everything. That isn’t nothing.

So I read Websnark, because everybody else reads it (even Sumana!), and because I like to read things by people with whom I disagree.

Now, I write an anacrusis every day, and I dislike applying the term “blog” to everything that’s written on the Interweb, and anyway I still want to think of myself as a webcomic artist. For those reasons, I privately think of Anacrusis as my current webcomic, because it’s more like a webcomic than anything else.

Mr. Burns has expressed before his belief that a comic well written is superior to a comic well drawn–that, in fact, the art in a comic is irrelevant if the writing is good (see Dinosaur Comics). So I’ve been tempted to email him and ask him to write about Anacrusis before; what would he make of a webcomic without any pictures at all? But I never did, because I have an intense distaste for self-promotion, among other reasons.

Then today he linked to Pulp Decameron, a “microfiction experiment” that doesn’t really qualify as microfiction under any definition I’ve heard, but whatever. It’s pretty good, if uneven as any daily fiction exercise, and I guess I know now how Mr. Burns reacts to a webcomic without pictures.

Okay, I’m done talking about Websnark now.