I get those too, so I started to reply with this:
"I demand a 5 page essay (A4, font size 12pt, no double spaces, no title page) within the next 24 hours about the reason behind this statement."
I don't get mean comments; I only get stupid ones. Either they're good, normal, or stupid; and 'stupid' comes up far more often than I deserve, IMO. T_T Like, at least you can feel righteous anger when someone is mean to you. When someone just doesn't think, how do you react to that?? You could get mad, but it wouldn't be the same...
Anyway, the closest thing I've gotten to a mean comment recently is someone saying "wow I can't believe this comic has zero comments". Sounds nice, right? Like, yes, I AM an unrecognized genius, thanks for noticing. ;]
But then they come back when I post the next episode and say "wow I've never seen only one comment before". And now this is starting to sound...snide. Like, are you making fun of me for having a small audience? Are you going to come to every subsequent episode and make the same pointless statement??
Of course, there's always the off-chance that they're being literal, and are still (still??) genuinely surprised that my work hasn't gotten super popular. Or maybe they're not a native English speaker, and they don't know how they sound when they say things like that...
...Ugh, you see what I mean?? I don't even get to be mad! I just get to be...annoyed! And confused! I honestly think I'd prefer straight-up insults to this ambiguity...
This has me half tempted to make a self promo thread where the catch is to leave insults in the comments of the comic above your's XD Although I'm pretty sure that won't go over well
Everyone has their style of writing, It doesn't really matter if it's slow or different what's really important is for you to have fun doing it. I got one comment like that too, it kinda hurt but I didn't really care about his opinion. If he wanted to read something good, he could've just moved on to a different comic.
Thanks for that beta, the thing is someone dies in the first episode, and i intentionally did this because i knew my story would have a slow start. Thankfully i can brush these off because i know there are a lot of pepole who enjoy my work, but someone who was a smaller creator who didn't have any positive comments i could see comments like this stopping them all together.
very true, I also think it could be said in a nicer way, "it has been 3 chapters so far and nothing has really intrested me" but instead kind of went out of thier way to say how they had no writing experience ect..
My only "bad" comment wasn't the worst, not really insulting or very disrespectful, just... Unnecessary.
I had worked very hard on an episode and the only thing this person could muster up was "I must kill the students". To my teacher main character who was going through a rough time, is depressed, and most importantly would never EVER take it out on his students.
After a pretty lengthy response of how they should understand the context before making joke comments like it, they deleted the comment. lmaooo
I get a lot of bad ones simply because webtoons has a really loud yoooooung sudience, but my favorites are when they criticize the MC for having flaws and suggest they could do better. I dont want to screenshot any particular comment since the commenters are probably like 11, but its something along the lines of
"scarlet is such a bad grim reaper if i were the grim reaper i would just massacre everyone on the street and laugh as their blood pours down from the sky. i have a dark side irl and i keep a secret from my friends but i wasnt held back i could kill everyone but i keep it inside..."
Like, okay little jimmy, now grab your warm milk and run off to bed
@beta1042
I may have done that one or twice before realizing that authors/artists don't like it (and I understand why), and I'd like to add something: as a reader, it's extremely difficult to know if it's going to be taken as an insult or a compliment, depending on how conscious and true the similarities are.
Let's see what can happen with a comment that was neutral in the intent.
Not conscious, not true: Mildly insulting. You may think the reader think you have no imagination.
Conscious, true: Compliment! The reader got your reference/homage. If it was quite hidden, it's even something to gloat about!
Not conscious, true: Two possibilities, here, depending on artist/writer and context:
- Very insulting. you realize you actually may have been too inspired by something, that was not your intention. The reader's comment is true, it's very hurtful. It may even make you rethink your story entirely, because it undermines the whole credibility and originality of your work.
- Rather positive: Your readers make you realize things about your work. You are now more aware of some of your influences.
I'm not sure I've got bad comments or not. 
It sound confusing, right?
So the thing is I like to answer to comments, but sometimes I get comments what contain words I don't understand(google also can't help me with them), I replay them anyway with a "Thank you!". And I noticed sometimes the original comments of these examples vanish... Sooo... I suspect some of them were something mean, and the owners regretted it when they got an answer... Or maybe not. It is just a speculation, but it happened a couple of times.
Oh! Now I realized I got one, but that also turned into not that bad. Someone said:
"Those outlines are bad!"
And I responded:
"Sorry if you don't like them, I use outline because my characters are in a very dark area and outline helps to make them more visible."
And he responded:
"I didn't say I don't like them, I just never seen outline is used like this before."
Sooo.... I think this case is a bit similar to those cases I mentioned first. For me it seems he regretted his first state.
Oh dear, that shit is giving me flash back to those comment section on some anime. "If the Mc was me I would just Kill the master mind and Save only myself" and " Why didn't he start Screwing her, what is he gay?, I would totally do that". It's just embarrassing to watch.
tbh i dont get comments n webtoons, only one i got that wasnt a friend or an advertisement was someone bitching about the episode length
This one was probably the one that irked me the most:
It was an old page and the art was pretty bad, but it was very obviously not MS Paint, lol.
I think the worst comments I get are ones that I just don't understand lol. Usually they're jokes that go over my head, referencing memes or something that I don't know. :'I
although I did get a comment that bothered me once, insisting that it looked like something inappropriate/sexual was going on in one of the panels. I could have laughed it off if the characters weren't a mother and son. I had to run to get reassurance from my partner that the comment was baseless haha;;
Also have gotten a couple comments on my characters' appearances that I didn't really care for, but nothing major.
I cant remember any bad comment in my comics and it’s been a long time since i posted a proper comic in Tapas. But I remember someone on twitter mentioned my username said, “god this artist has such a same-face syndrome in their art.”
Lmao...Tbf, I’m not good with faces. I try to give them different expressions and features. I always thought the way I drew faces wasn’t a big deal in the same way that Ghibli’s main characters have that same facial style but are still different characters. Not that my work is on the same caliber as Ghibli... but I didn’t think my art had the worst case of “same-face.” Oh well. I’ll try to be better LOL. 
Wow, people can be that rude... 
I'm really glad that I have nothing actually bad to write in this thread!
The worst comment Hexameron got was on the last page, when we didn't wrote the translation for the message written in German, which was done intentionally (fyi: I'm not German).
I understand that the subscriber didn't mean anything bad and he previously only complimented our work, and it was a cute smile even with this comment! But this made me cringe a little.
"eeerrrrr?? translation please, of the last panel, some of us are not so privileged to understand most European languages -- so, pls give a detailed interpretation, thanks"
Well, in my country most people are not privileged to understand English. It would be okay if he would just write that he doesn't understand and ask for a translation, I would willingly write it or maybe something like "ooooh, I wonder what's written there".
Anyway, I'm glad that I have nothing to be offended by after all the things you guys put in this thread, I would probably crawl to my bed and won't make anything for a year after some of these comments.
I actually don't care if the comparison is similar. most comparisons have been characters I don't know, so when I get one of these comments I look it up. If the characters do have similar designs or personalities or something, I'm like "Oh. Yeah they are pretty similar" and think nothing more of it.
What annoys me is the comparisons where the characters are really not similar at all. Like I just can't see anything. I have a character with neon green hair, and so she gets compared to every green haired character ever, even if it's different hair styles, diff shades of green, skin tones, etc etc. And it's just like... come on give me a real comparison if you're gonna do this XD.