Category / Bill Bickel

by CIDU Bill

Bad Reviews

bad reviews

I’m getting flashbacks from this one…

Back in the early days of Yelp — it might not even have been called Yelp yet, or maybe it was just something Yelplike –nine of us were wandering around looking for someplace to eat. My brother checked his phone and said “There’s a Chinese restaurant  couple of blocks form here.”

“Okay, that’s good.”

“Well, it has bad reviews.”

“Then let’s skip it.”

“Let’s give it a chance,” he says, using classic Sergio Bermudez logic.

We hit Satan’s Trifecta: unbelievably bad food, rude and terrible service, and the place wasn’t very clean.

(But my sister-in-law insisted we leave a big tip, because that’s who she is)

by CIDU Bill

Something I’ve been noticing the past few years. Maybe I’m wrong. Anything’s possible, after all. But I suspect there might be something to this.

Back in the day, Sunday strips seemed like the highlight of the week, and everybody brought their A-Game. Lately, it seems as if a lot of artists kind of phone in the Sunday gag.

Now, I’m not saying the overall quality of the strips have gone down, just that Sunday has been non-prioritized (along with Saturday, which has always been a dead zone).

And I’m thinking this might be because people are no longer reading Sunday comics in all their large, all-color glory: now almost all comics are in color seven days a week, and online comic readers might actually be less likely to read a Sunday comic than a weekday comic.

I wouldn’t submit this as hard evidence, of course, but I do know that Sunday traffic on CIDU is generally about half of Monday’s.

I don’t know… any thoughts?