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"We got another one."
"Which one was it? The one who claims to work for the conservative paper or the one who quotes the podcast with no fact checking?"
"Neither. It's the anon," Nathaniel held up his tablet, showing the alert he just received.
A short two part harmony filled the room as both of them groaned in unison at the mention of that.
"Seriously, does this person have nothing better to do?" Marc sat down next to Nathaniel, having a quick glance before deleting the comment without hesitation.
"What makes you think it's one person? It's anonymous; it could be anyone with nothing better to do."
"And if they even read our work, they wouldn't have claimed that this minor villain that they're claiming to be has won."
"I wouldn't have designed that minor character if I knew it would lead to this," Nathaniel sighed, resting his face on the table. "How many has it been?"
"I stopped counting after three months of it," Marc shrugged, leaning back on his chair and staring up at the ceiling.
"Maybe we should put them into another issue. Would that appease them? Get them top stop complaining? Or would it just encourage them to keep doing that."
"I don't think it matters what we do." Marc reached forward and blindly felt around for Nathaniel's head, flopping his hand onto Nathaniel's back and shoulder a couple of times before resting it on top of his hair.
"People like that will hate us no matter what we do. We could be making something that's revolutionary, and universally loved, and there will still be some people who will hate it because they want to."
Marc used the faint grip he had to pull himself forward again, while at the same time lifting Nathaniel up from his slumped position.
"Let's just do what we want to do; make a comic that we want to make and tell stories we want to tell. And once we scroll past these few people..." Marc moved his finger across Nathaniel's table, moving the display down from the deleted comments through the flood of other people writing positive reviews and constructive notes.
"There's a whole lot of other people we should focus on instead."
Nathaniel nodded, and he leaned against Marc as he started reading out the positive comments on their work. And looking through those was a much better use of their time than listening to the pointless hate comments.