That being said, someone in that position would be doing the webcomic business a great service to point people in the direction of lesser known strips, especially those that have a sidebar with links to other webcomics. That way a passerby could get a nice big mouthful of what’s available.

I think it is far more interesting to tell people something they don’t know rather than something they likely do. Go read Calamities of Nature or Eben 07 or Comic Blasphemy or a bunch of other comics which are just under the radar, but quite exceptional.

It is as if Mashables just took the top 20 list of trafficked webcomics and presented it as their favorites. Not very original and not very useful at least for me.

Sure, they could be somewhere outside of his top 20 (maybe in positions 21 through infinity) but that seems too easy.

Maybe there’s a better explanation, like that my favorite comics are actually above his top twenty, at positions negative nineteen through zero.