I had a reader like that on Deviantart. The sad part is that I talked to them before and they seemed like a really nice person, but then they quickly showed their true colors after complaining about my comics in the latest updates and belittling my characters for their actions. I blocked them after I got fed up with the constant negativity.
To be honest, you know you are doing something right with your life when you have both critics and haters who keep sperging about how much they think your work is the equivalent of Satan's diseased cancerous prostate or what have you.
And the thing is, most of the time, these types of people that have such a rabid hatedom aren't actually bad people irl. Case in point, I think it was either the Nier: Automata guy or the Senran Kagura guy (or perhaps both? idk), but at least one of them got flak from feminists and social justice warriors simply for unashamedly liking sexy feminine looking women which is a theme prominently reflected in their respective bodies of work. Thankfully, both men being Japanese, neither of them gave any fucks what some "holier than thou" stuck up twat from America with an internet connection thought of their work. They know that their product is good because they know that the target audience will buy it because their passion for it as a creator shows. And ultimately, that's the only thing that matters as a content creator.
And that's not the first time I've seen this sort of pattern on social media. Hell, this song and dance existed long before the internet only it wasn't anywhere near as prevalent back then. Creator puts out or says something non-PC. Moral guardians go "RRRREEEEEEEEEEEE." Media creates an outrage narrative. Creator gets more sales for their product because of all the new fans who checked it out simply because of the outrage it allegedly caused thanks to mainstream media. Rinse and repeat.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is don't sweat the moron who's reading your comic only to hate on it every step of the way. If anything, all those negative comments he's leaving in I guess the hopes you will quit your comic or whatever is instead giving you traffic you might not otherwise have thanks to his brand of stupidity. 
@ladypcp It was pretty sad X'D Especially the stuff he was saying, on his alt accounts, in response to the criticisms on his comic.
Alt account A: "In a few years!!! You losers!!! will be flipping burgers and dumpster diving!!! while this artist will be a famous pro!!!!"
Alt account B: "PLEASE don't listen to these haters!!! Your work is the best!!!"
(Yes, he had a thing for multiple exclamation points.)
I have one guy like this on another site. His name is engraved upon my heart. I tried dealing with him two ways:
1) I thanked him for his criticisms and went through and painstakingly addressed them all [they were novels] while trying my best to see his point.
That didn't work because then he would just come back with a one-liner "You're so stupid you don't even understand what I said" instead of continuing the discussion. Well, after this happened a couple of times I knew I couldn't have a fruitful discourse with him, since he wouldn't respond to any of my reasoning. So I then I tried:
2) Finally saying "Gee whiz, I know you think I'm a horrible person but I'm just so impressed that you spent all these hours of your life obsessing over my work even if it was to denigrate it. You're more faithful and dedicated than most of my fans! You're the best dude. Keep it coming."
Never heard from him again...
@sandpaperdaisy
1) you just feed the troll never feed the troll
2) you just played with the troll always play with the troll
usually to get rid of trolls (not haters trolls) is to just ask for more they want hate or validation so showing them that what their doing is useless bores them and they just leave also agree with them then they lose the leg they stand on and leave also don't silence or ban them cause then drama will ensue and you will end up being the bad guy
Good to know! I always forget about the troll phenomenon and my initial thought is "goodness this fellow certainly is hard to please." Which ends up wasting my time, admittedly. I'll try and approach such feedback more efficiently in the future.
Hmmm I had a few like this. One was understandable, I guess. They liked my art and the story for the most part, but they hated me as a person. They kept talking down to me, criticizing my life, lectured me (on shit they knew nothing about, might I add) and took any chance they could to shove my face in the shit that was going on in my life and call me the fool of the situation or blame me for it.
Basically, a whole bunch of crap I don't need to take.
Person eventually admitted to being straight up against my piercings and my transition as a trans person. At this point I told them that if I could block them from my comics, I would, because I don't want to risk them running amok and hurting any of my many trans readers. I haven't heard from them ever since so I'll assume they took the hint and left.
Another one was just silly. They read like 11 chapters/400-ish pages or something and kept complaining all along about it being gay romance.
"I HATE BL SO MUCH WHO DO THEY DO THIS WHY DO THEY DO THAT LOL I'M A GIRL I SHOULDN'T BE READING GAY SHIT LIKE THIS IT'S DISGUSTING"
Aaaand another one complained a couple of times, made wall posts on their own profile about how dumb my comic was, yet they kept reading it.
Some people need a life.
I read a ton of comics I consider garbage frequently just because they make me laugh (they need to be a specific kind of bad). I'd never leave a negative comment though, that's just like going out of your way to make someone's day shit. I've contemplated a few times on the comics I read for unintentional laughs if it'd be okay for me to write like a legit critique, but I've never done that either since you can't really predict how the person on the receiving end would react, and I don't want to destroy anyone's passion for something just because I think it's trash.
So like, I get that they come back, I seriously don't get leaving shitposts for half the pages though.
as someone who from time to times jokes post, it's most about having fun and making jokes, if the author gets mad then he has a real thin skinn and needs some help (not death threats just jokes) but critiques are diffrent and are actually really helpfull, you should do it even if the guy in question has a really thin skin since if you don't tell him what's wrong he will never know :V (also if he gets mad at you or acts like a B**** at you he is the problem not the critic)
I strongly disagree with this. Yes, any creator with serious aspirations to go pro should develop a thick skin against criticism... but not everyone is in it to be pro. Some people are doing this as an escape from the rest of their life. Others just have severely damaged egos and need more time (and encouragement, hence their posting on the 'net) before they can take criticisms like a healthy person.
Giving an unsolicited criticism is one of those things that yes, you CAN... but doesn't mean you SHOULD.
ok I get what your saying, but to that I say "you are not your art" they are critiquing your creation not you, also this is the internet if you don't want comments or critisism don't post(seriously the internet is a rabid beast that can go off on you for the dumbest things), also all artist need critisisms to grow even if it hurts it's the only way, encoragement (or bootlicking in most cases) only hurts the artist and inflates their ego to unhealthy standards(see all the crazy artist that came from DA with zero critiques or with full "encoragement"), I'm not saying be and idiot and post, ugh thiz sucks you should quit, I'm saying post real problems like lighting, pacing, problems with continuity or just get better at such thing, hell send tutorials or examples, if this hurts the ego then so be it, it's the only way to grow
also think skinn is more for the trolls not so much for critiques :V
Not everyone is doing it to grow. Like I said, some people just want an escape.
Besides, doing a serious critique takes time. Might as well save it for those who WANT it.
Again, not everyone is the same. The same word of encouragement may have that effect on one person, while it might do something completely different for another.
an escape? this is the intenet dude a beast of chaos and crazyness bundled up in cats and knives, if you want to escape here that's ok but someone will come and will critisice your art, the sooner the better, cause if you just get "encoragement" you will phill fish dude and then you will implode and burn, and that is worst than just a simple hey I think you should work harder at anatomy, also they can easily ignore these words, they're just words on a screen it's not like your putting a knife to their throats
I attracted a person who stalked me for about 4 years (and probably still ongoing) just by being on an art blog and used to leave anonymous hateful comments on my art there every time I posted until she realized we all knew these multiple anons were her. She'd say stuff like "nice photoshop grass" and complained my lineart was "generic". A lot of criticsms that didn't really make any sense (Never used stamp brushes and been doing dynamic line weights since forever.) We found out later this person has a history of latching onto certain artists, posting about them on Encyclopedia Dramatica (made a page about myself and a friend) and bitching whenever they'd have any success. Like one artist got onto a TV show in Japan because of her comic and it majorly upset them.
I think it was extreme insecurity lashing out at other people with a mixture of genuine sociopathy. Not that I have any sympathy for her because she even tried to doxx me. Truly, ignoring these people is the best way to handle them. Just let them scream into the abyss and onlookers will laugh. The most ironic thing I think, was this person had major delusions about becoming a successful manga-ka and living in Japan. So it explains why the comic artist upset them so much and probably why I pissed them off too, because I had been talking about plans to start my own. In ithe ED article she wrote about my comics being worthless and "no wonder I got kicked out from home."
...Oh man I remember one time she even demanded we all apologize to her because she attempted suicide over us "cyber bulling" her. It was a wild ride. 
I hate the "just words on a screen" phrase because some of us actually recieve death threats. That doesn't go just for creators, it goes for pretty much anyone.
I was a victim of online sexual exploitation/abuse, emotional manipulation and death threats.
You can talk about thick skin all you like, but not all words on the screen are just words on a screen.
I am talking about critizm not death threats, trolls not sociopath, I mean some one calling your art bad isn't the same as someone sending you a death threat, or a photo of your house, please don't treat both of these as the same cause they aren't
sorry to hear about that and I hope your ok and that this dosen't happen to anyone ever :C
(also please don't trivialize such a horrible expirience with something so stupid and benign as critism or trolls)
I've had this happen to me one some occasions but not as bad as some of the horrible experiences I've heard other comic creators deal with. The most interesting one that I got was someone who went through numerous pages of mine explaining why I shouldn't have drawn something, I drew something wrong, or my comic would be better with a good artist. Freaking trolls.
