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** Osmosis from cultural etiquette, one imagines. Whenever any form of media apologizes for something, they tend to use we. "We apologize for the inconvenience," "We understand your concerns," "We hope to serve you in the future." It's one of those things that people say without thinking too much about the meaning of the individual words.
** It's funnier that way?
** It's called the ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_plural:Majestic plural|Majestic Plural]]'', also known as the ''Royal We''. However, since most webcomic writers ''aren't'' royalty, [[Popcultural Osmosis]] plays a heavy role in its use.
*** Or sometimes the [[BOFH|Bastard]] 'we'. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/14/bofh_2006_episode_23/ It's like the Royal 'we' but far more dangerous].
*** It could also be a carryover from other forms of media, where it is very rare for only one person to be doing everything, and the "We apologise for the inconvenience" would be referring to the writers/producers/directors as a group apologizing.
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** Jumping the [[Penny Arcade]] bandwagon, I suppose?
*** The misstep is jumping on the [[Penny Arcade]] bandwagon but failing to be compelling.
* Why doesn't ANYONE EVER use some kind of hardcoded format (like [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Rel_attribute:Rel attribute|relation attributes]] or [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_keys:Access keys|access keys]]) to ease navigation!? It makes sense when Joe Artist decides to put his comic online in something visually appealing he knocked together with FrontPage, but for super popular comics like ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', comics by tech-savvy HTML macho men like ''[[Xkcd]]'', big commercial operations like ''[[Dilbert]]'', and ESPECIALLY huge special-purpose sites with automatically transcluded templates like [[Drunk Duck]] and [[Comic Genesis]], this kind of amateur hour retardation is utterly unforgivable. This makes it so that when I'm trying to relax for an [[Archive Binge]], I need to reach for my mouse and hunt down that stupid “next” button on ''every single page'', instead of just punching a keyboard shortcut. Some browsers like Opera have a feature that allows them to make a wild guess about the function of non-semantic links, but that obviously has its limits, and the HTML coder sparing a few seconds to type in one more tag in their template would be hugely appreciated by me and many other cognizant readers.
** The freely-editable HTML of [[Comic Fury]] allows for relation attributes - that's why [[The Way of the Metagamer]] has them.
* Why do most webcomic authors, when they have their comic go through [[Cerebus Syndrome]], decide that a main character or two ''has'' to die to create drama? I'll admit that it ''can'' work sometimes, but more often then not the character that gets killed tends to go out [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|abruptly]] and that permanently killing off a character almost always tends to go against the main nature/theme/setting of the comic in general.
** [[Death Is Dramatic]], but webcomic writers [[Sturgeon's Law|tend to]] [[You Suck|suck]] at [[Idiot Plot|writing.]]
* I can understand Manga doing it--they have the excuse of not wanting to mirror the comic and Japanese is very different from English. However, I swear I've seen at least one English-written Manga style webcomic that was written right to left.
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