I like how people can automatically dismiss a differing opinion by calling people juvenile names.

But it seems to me that the target audience is the same for both seals: the people who are actually laying down the cash.

Have you bought books to read on the basis of them being award-winners without already being interested in the subject matter, the genre, or the author? Touting “quality” by itself doesn’t persuade readers who are concerned about other things. The same factors have doomed comics series such as S.W.O.R.D. and ATLAS, which are considered offbeat and feature little-used characters. Reviewers and fans praised them to the skies, but readers didn’t buy them, presumably because they weren’t interested in the characters.

I suspect that winning awards only reassures readers who have their preferences validated by the awards and does little to make readers disinterested in the creators’ work interested.

SRS

I like the knee-jerk reactions of butt-hurt fanboys who can’t deal with even a little overdue criticism of inherely boring comics concepts.

I like the comic fan’s ability to insta-hate something before they ever see it, let alone watch/read the entire thing and then judge it afterwords as a complete work.