I understand, Thomas, but let me elaborate...
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Originally Posted by The Poet
Point of order, Mark. At the risk of going all Dr. Sheldon Cooper on you, allow me to point out that you seem to be referring to comic strips, which differs from comics in that the former means those short serialized strips appearing daily near the back of many newspapers (and in color on Sunday in a separate distinct section), whereas comics mean the "books" published on a periodic schedule by the likes of DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, and many other houses. Though it is true that these had their genesis in the casual collection of daily strips into pamphlet form, that has long since stopped being the case, starting famously with the publication of Action Comics #1 in 1938.
Pedantic rant and hijack off. 
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1. You specifically called me out on the term "comics"
2. I replied that the term "comics" was not as you claimed in a posting where you deliberately stated that you were being "pedantic".
3. You further replied with links failing to support your position.
4. You finally stated that you really had a problem with the term "comix" when you did not use that in your "pedantic" post.
5. You then stated that you were done with this thread without so much as apologizing for what I believe was a rather strident position.
Now, a little about me. My principle business is as a testifying expert in federal court. In my professional world, two things bear on your post:
1. If I misuse a term, I dang well better own up to it and apologize. I have done so in video deposition in a suit worth well over $300M. We won that case on summary judgement (an almost unheard of result).
2. If I am incorrectly accused of misusing a term, I had darn well better be able to support my position.
In this thread, I do not believe that I have done #1 and I believe that I have done #2. Your response was to change your argument. That is your right.
If you had objected to the term "comix", I would have apologized, not because I know that it is wrong but because I strongly suspect that I misused it as a personal joke (a no-no on forums, but I could not help myself). However, that was not what you wrote and, I believe, not what you intended as you specifically claimed to being "pedantic".
So, to any whom I misled, I apologize for the term "comix" and would ask the mods to change the thread title to "online comic strips" if so asked (they'll do it, I've seen them do it). As that is the only use of this term, I think that may satisfy your (belated) concerns.
I will still give $100 if Dark Horse Comics tells me that I am in the wrong and do not expect you to make any donation if that is not the case. It is not my intention to place you in a financially untenable position just because.
However, I would suggest using an online dictionary to learn about the term "pedantic" and what that implies in public discourse.
Yours in pedantic bliss.
--mark
(who, I should note, is the worlds worst speller; but I have lawyers to fix that for me).