...they're a bunch of amateurs. If they were the slightest bit professional, the story would have been over by the eighth page.

In fact, it should have ended something like this: "Damn right, cutie pie! This sista was only here on work exp-" *FLAMETHROWER NOISES*

... eg here, it seems that the author thinks 'Mary-Sue' is a synonym for 'OFC'... or 'fanon version of female canon'. Which is an incredibly broad definition (coming out as 'woman in fanfic'), and the fact that they are (almost) all portrayed as classic Sues says something bad about this author's respect for fanwriters.

Which is ironic, when you think about it.

hS

I agree - after about the third page, I found myself wondering if this is what Mary Sue-haters look like to the rest of the community.

And then I remembered how I used to react to Twilight-bashing - how I used to look at anyone who went about trumpeting their 'anti-Twilight propaganda,' which usually included pointing out the Sue-ishness of the whole thing - and (while I am now able to laugh at what is becoming less and less of a fandom for me), I find the answer to be yes...conditionally.

Since most of my old run-ins with anti-Twihards were on deviantART - and I've discovered that this is the comic's place of origin - I can't help but wonder if maybe some of the characterization for the Mary Sue Hunters comes from the comments, pictures, and forum posts made by deviants (members of the site, not rogue PPCers or anything like that). If you look, a lot of them - though not necessarily a majority - are less "why Sues are unhealthy for canon" and "how to avoid creating a Sue," and more "OH MY GLOD WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING SO STUPID YOU FAIL AT WRITING FOREVER!"

So, maybe the authors have only ever encountered the out-of-control Sue-haters who are fire and brimstone and BLARGH YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO WRITE. Maybe they don't even know the PPC exists, and think that all Sue-haters are psychotic and don't actually base their Sue-hate on anything logical, like canon breaking or character defiling.

Or...maybe it's just meant to be silly all around. Who knows?

I'm still convinced that someone will write a worse!fic about this comic and re-Sue all the Sues, quite frankly. By around page...30?...it even attempts to water down some of the Sues by portraying Bella Swan as an 'evil' Sue.

Which they all are...

Anyway, ignoring my pro-Twilight inclination (which, I discover, is waning significantly of late), the whole thing looks like an attempt to show people that Sues can be shades of good and bad too - or at the very least, it's an attempt to say that 'At least they don't kill people!'

Which might create character sympathy. Which could lead to fanfiction. Which would make me cry.

(So many 'which'-es...it looks like Halloween!)