It is with regret some of our affiliate groups mourn the recently-announced “indefinite hiatus” of the Webcomics Examiner.
While many would be satisfied to eulogize, I believe in a different approach. Is it really a shame to thin the field? Webcomics are a new frontier. At the outset, many pundits believed it a positive sign that so many new organizations had cropped up to “cover” them, as it were. Now one of those original critics has folded up shop.
Perhaps webcomics are coming into their own now, and this signifies the end of compassion. A mediocre review site closes, and a single tear falls from each bleary, onlooking eye? I did not mourn the loss of my malignant right ovary when its time came.
A great book says “if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.” Competition has plucked one diseased eye from this field, and it is no Cyclops. Who is next? Websnark? Comixpedia?
What difference does it make?