Mr. Burns, referral-log ninja, writes in with corrections:

“My point about writing vs. art is that good

writing can excuse bad art — and I won’t trash art in a webcomic,

typically. Just not my thing. The exception is when the art fails to

execute the strip properly (in other words, if you can’t tell what’s

happened or the viewer gets the wrong impression). That would get the

same critical response as bad writing would.

The theoretical reverse is also true — if a strip has bad writing but

gorgeous art, I might well read and snark on it too, and if I did, it’d

likely be to extol the art, not slam the writing.”

I stand corrected. By those corrections.

One thing I should have mentioned in that post was that it is a typical failing of critics to respond badly, even childishly, to criticism of their own work. That’s a trait wholly absent in Mr. Burns, who always responds (and I do mean “always responds”) to discussion of Websnark with equanimity and grace.