I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Gunnerkrigg Court is an ongoing (and excellent) online graphic-novel bildungsroman, set in a world that mixes magic, gods, and high tech. Each new strip has a comment thread (vanishing when the next strip goes up, thrice weekly) with usually quite civil and incisive commentary. But in the comment thread for today's strip, someone links to a review from a couple weeks ago on the blog "these web comics are so bad", attempting to make fun of GK by misinterpreting the "court" in the title and putting the heroine on trial. As a special bonus, the review incorporates bad emo free verse:

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The attempted humor of this review falls flat, as its earliest commenters already agree. But once GK's fans find the comment thread for the review, it quickly becomes a bashfest. A few of the more printable and non-tl;dr responses:

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