Poor Grey…At least this time its not him inserting his foot in mouth, it’s Rei.

Cue a street fight in 3…2…1…

Nice! Very nice!

Wait, what? Why’d come I out of lurkdom for a troll?

Um, wait. I didn’t really read that mass, but going away I saw “yank that right” and “I won’t take it from you”.

Threats, even or especially cloaked as passive-aggressive ones, are loathsome. But maybe you don’t need me to tell you that, once you have calmed down from whatever yanked your chain.

First, I am only going to comment once on this. Larsson you seem like an intelligent man but are you teachable? Passive-Aggressive is not the behavior you are describing. When you use “yank your chain” among older people is about pulling the chain of a raised toilet tank and among the younger like pulling a dog’s chain. You are either making the allusion that the person you are talking about is either a toilet or a dog. That is Passive-Aggressive, if that is not your intention it is better to not use such an idiom. The use of passive language or behavior as a tool of aggression.

Like I said, it seems you are an intelligent person. Sometimes a question about why something was done is better than saying you don’t like it. I wrote earlier something bothered me about Grey’s posture, I posed it as a question. Giving an artist a chance to explain their choices is fair. Constructive criticism is about a respectful conversation with the artist.

About are political differences, they are based upon our life experience and genetic outlook. We have much more in common as human beings than difference in political views.

@ AKADivya I hope you don’t take offense at what I said, it was illustrative and not a comment on your person-hood. I feel neither are appropriate to you or what you have said. I enjoy your additions to the conversation, as I have enjoy some of Larsson’s additions. Each person can add their point of view without being dismissive of others is much better than the alternative.

I too have been mad at times and say intemperate things about Larsson (and I admit of others). That is not an excuse of my behavior merely an explanation that it is part of being human. This is not an effort to correct or comment on the correctness of any behavior, displayed here. How about we call the game for intemperate weather conditions interfering with the field of play. (Called on the account of rain)
Then next comic time we can start again and try to remain on target with helpful observations or questions.

Dirty dirty hummie! ahem~

xD I am actually intrigued as to how this develops for all parties involved. I love Agrippa’s smirk(?) at the end for some reason.

It’s probably just me; but I like your transitions between panels now. They seem to be much smoother and paced better. But I am probably just brain addled. <3

Lovely. I make two rather bad jokes, without any personal connection whatsoever, and I am suddenly accused of trolling by several parties.

@ AKADivya: I now see you say you are an author. As an author even more than as a web commenter you should reinterpret others texts in the most positive manner available, you would know the problems involved. I wasn’t commenting on anything you said, but thought it was relevant, good and based my context jokes on that.

I commented on your threats, since it can’t be interpreted in such a positive manner and needs pointing out. We, society as well as individuals, can not and should not accept such (even if they of course are part of life).

@ Holly: I asked AKADivya as a reminder that I didn’t consider the long comment appropriate towards my short jokes, but fair enough.

I believe the same goes for all web commenters, interpreting positive, so for you as well. I have commented on this as a great comic, I believe initiated your realization and switch from a darker palette to a lighter (re “fair, insightful and helpful”).

That you consider “Most of what you have posted is more along the lines of trolling” is surprising to me. I comment mostly on science blogs, whence comes my “Order of the Molly” web popularity award; note you have to google “pharyngula order of molly” since scienceblogs is under attack. I am only mentioning it to show that a) I can or at least always try to back up my comments, this is my web MO, which is also reflected in the OM comments b) I have reflected and have reflections on my web commenting specifically.

I also comment on some other comics that interest me, and it has always been considered normal and welcome (ref the award, say).

As for misinterpretation, maybe you could consider that english isn’t my first language? It would help if you could give examples.

@ Jamming: I’m not sure what you mean by that I am not describing passive-aggressive, since you can read that out of what I said earlier, it suits. Nor if it is a discussion we should be having.

As for the “yank your chain”, see above, I had to google up some half remembered phrase that seemed to suit the situation for exact phrasing and somewhat normal usage frequency. My memory was likely prompted by AKADivya terminology.

For myself, I’m going to use the obligatory positive interpretation and behave like this was all based on misunderstanding.