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I know the "webcomics community" (barf) has a massive, veiny, throbbing hard-on for ComicPress but it's annoying the feces out of me. Maybe it's not ComicPress per se, but rather how so many people choose to set it up. Perhaps it's all the default settings people don't bother to change. Whatever it is, it's giving a sameyness to a lot of sites that are setting off the alarms of my overfamiliarity detectors. For example, I hate those lame << navigational brackets (not arrows, mind you) above and to the right of the comic. And then there are those pathetic, tiny "next" and "previous" links below the comics. Please. Give me huge honkin' navigational arrows (not brackets) below the comic, and preferably above as well. There are other less identifiable factors that spread uniform genericness across webcomic sites. I don't know if it's the fonts used or the placement of logos or what. But when I get this feeling of sterile yuckness, all I have to do is scroll to the bottom of the page and see the inevitable "This lame comic is powered by WordPress with ComicPress." My curmudgeonry is powered by your lameness. By the way, can we stop saying "powered by" now? If we can elect a black president, I think we can also manage to drop some artifacts from the mid-90s' information superhighway.

PS I'm aware my own web site could use some improvements, but I'd still rather look at that than anything ComicPressed.

PPS I'm equally annoyed by all those YouTube videos that begin with a blue screen and scrolling white text. What fart is that?