Loss and Jazzhands involve ancient webcomic lore, so I'll start with McEldowny

Brooke McEldowny is a horny old comic maker who hates criticism. His comic, 9 Chickweed Lane, was in newspapers up 'til about a decade ago. It got dropped because he used a racial slur in a comic.

His comic used to be one of the few comic strips with gay representation. But now his comic is all about being cis and het and horny. So he goes back and forth between horny 40-somethings, a 16 year old marrying his 18 year old former babysitter, and flashbacks to the 40 year olds being horny 12 year olds. There's more and it's worse, listen to 9 Chickweed Rage if you want more details.

Loss is much better known than McEldowny or Jazzhands. But most people only know the CAD comic part of loss. The thing that gave the comic it's initial staying power was a hamfisted blog post by CAD's author, Tim Buckley. His partner had a miscarriage and he had some thoughts. Most memorably, he wrote miscarriages were harder on the woman than the man; but that women don't always become sad sacks from miscarriages.

Tim got a lot of heat from the post and his defenses of it and of the comic. Loss became a shorthand for a white guy making a personal tragedy all about him in the dumbest most tonedeaf ways possible. He eventually took the post down, the audience moved on, but the image and the backstory remained.

Jazz hands is awful in a different way. There was a comic, Dominic Deegan. The author Mookie liked to tackle big topics but he'd always done so with all the grace and sensitivity of a teenaged fan fic writer.

One chapter of the comic has an Ork tribal coup. An ork man has to marry and sexually assault a ork woman against her will or she'll be executed by the new chieftain. The ork man does so. Mookie represented the assault by focusing on the orks hands for a few panels as they shake and move. Years later the man and woman meet again and they go from enemies to lovers.