It is rare that Webcomic artists receive what we could truly call constructive criticism. In our upcoming book, the four of us take turns critiquing each other’s work as a case study in the exercise. We called those chapters:”In the Hot Seat”.

And now it seems that PvP is back in the hot seat thanks to a blogger who calls himself “The Fake Scott McCloud.”

I think it would be easy to dismiss his site as hateful, but the amount of time The Fake Scott McCloud (hereto refered to as TFSM) spends thinking about PvP is staggering to say the least. I would suggest he thinks about it more than I do, and perhaps that’s his greatest criticism of me. I don’t think I could label anyone who spends THIS much time thinking about PvP as anything other than a fan. I hope that doesn’t insult him.

“PvP Makes me Sad” is now a regular stop on my daily surfing. If for no other reason that to continue our “hot seat” exercises. There are posts where TFCM loses his balance and begins to flail a bit, then catches himself before falling off the line that separates true constructive criticism with good old-fashioned “why does HE get to be popular?” bullshit. I would encourage him to take a healthy step away from that line before continuing in his critiques.

Perhaps by doing so, he could aid me in making PvPonline.com a less depressing destination for him.