While listening to the latest podcast of Webcomics Weekly (#62), laughing at how Kellett, Guigar and Straub are poking fun about how the same topics keep coming up in every cast they do, I decided to skim through my list of bookmarks on Delicious. One of the sites I skimmed through was SPLITREASON.COM, a site that has some pretty good geek apparel.

One of their partner stores is for Tim Buckley’s Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD), which has been with them for a while. As a good number of webcomic readers may know, one of his story-arcs in the past year was a pretty drastic twist in the series.

While some of the criticisms were hilarious to read, such as Mike Krahulik’s (Penny Arcade) description of Buckley as an “art criminal,” one that stood out was Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s video discussion on webcomics on Zero Punctuation. It starts off like an ironic stab at a form of gaming-culture entertainment, but then it later feels like it’s more of an angry stab against just CAD. Unlike his poke at Penny Arcade’s sacks of infinite money, his criticism against Buckley’s comic seems almost genuine.

Fast forward to today, where I realize something I didn’t notice before, but has possibly been there for a while.

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Apparently, CAD and Zero Punctuation are sharing the same vendor for selling merch! From what it looks like, they’ve been doing so for a while, but I don’t really know if it was before or after Croshaw’s video, nor do I really know if Croshaw’s whole anti-CAD anger bit was just another folly made by him to fool us all.

Either way, it’s frickin’ amazing.

Even to those who don’t read webcomics so much, I think I’ve supplied enough info for discussion. Any thoughts?