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[Link] Nothing Nice To Say [Comments] 
Like many webcomics I find, this one ended shortly after I found it before I could get the review posted. But I have enjoyed NN2S so much that its archives get a review anyhow, and who knows maybe it will start again. NN2S is a comic about about Punk music, a labor of love by an afficianado who is nonetheless continually pissed off by the stupidity of the "scene". The comics are brilliant, with a firm confident drawing style, fun characters and always on topic while making it interesting. However, accompanying each comic (and preserved in the archives) is a "Penny Arcade" style newspost about whatever was on the author's mind, associated with the comic or not, and this was the part I found added a whole other dimension to the reading experience. This newspost was apparently regularly trashed by readers for being too whiny or degenerating into a "blog" or whatever, but I enjoyed the rare opportunity to get to know the artist, especially since he kept his personal life out of the comics themselves. Mitch obviously thinks too much to fit in with a lot of the people who call themselves "Punk", and living on his own he would go through fits of depression trying to make ends meet, etc., so he decided to end the comic. He had a big buildup for the ending but characteristically the last comic was just a normal one about the music. The funniest part about, "Nothing Nice To Say"'s ending is that it will continue as only the personal half of the comic, the part that everyone else hated, in the form of a column in a zine somewhere. However I suspect that we haven't seen the end of Mitch's characters, because his art has just gotten so good over the course of this comic that he has become quite recognizable and sought-out on the Web.
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