[OJFord]

    > It'll vary in download rates across the global [sic].

Sure, but we're talking on the order of ~KBs, so many HTML pages are going to be bigger than font and CSS files, and seeing as the author is providing a webcomic, all those images certainly will be.

Nobody's CDN-ing CSS for latency when the rest of their assets are served from a single location. As the author says, it's just "laziness" (or 'ease of development').