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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3214311" data-attributes="member: 22882">I like Downer's art and love the concepts involved.  If it were either a full-fledged comic book (which would give it more space to tell its story) or a non-story-based dry humor strip (which would remove the need to tell a story), I'd probably like it a lot.  However, the actual storytelling, in the format it appears in, is just incomprehensible.It seems like Downer was faced with a problem similar to that of Girl Genius and Megatokyo - far more story density than its format lent itself to.GG and Megatokyo committed to plugging away at slow storylines in a thrice-weekly webcomic format and come off as painstakingly slow when read that way - but very entertaining when collected into the (comic and manga, respectively) formats they belong in.  The trouble with this is they're slow and either frustrating or boring if read in 'real time.'Downer went with the rapid-fire, disjointed, jumping around and hope the reader can puzzle out what's going on and now and then throw in some kind of character development or a witty line or a cool scene and isn't this breathless breakneck incomprehensible... ahem.  You get the idea.   The trouble with this is, even collected, it has all the same problems it has in installments.Still, it's gotten better over time.</blockquote>