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Posh Chinchilla posted:In other news, Oglaf remains amazing. TwoPair posted:It also has an epilogue today to the right of the comic, so don't miss that! I expected some sort of pun on "getting head" for the mantis strip's alt texts, but I guess that would have been too predictable.
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TwoPair posted:It also has an epilogue today to the right of the comic, so don't miss that!
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Aug 26, 2013 16:47
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How many Oglaf stories have had epilogues? This is the first time I noticed one 
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nimby posted:How many Oglaf stories have had epilogues? This is the first time I noticed one Plenty. I think some of them don't go up right away so they are easy to miss if you aren't looking.
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Ha ha ha apparently all updates to Ava's demons have stopped until January 2nd. I don't think stopping all updates for 4 months, and then posting them all at once qualifies as a faster update schedule.
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Aug 26, 2013 23:11
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Ha ha ha apparently all updates to Ava's demons have stopped until January 2nd. I don't think stopping all updates for 4 months, and then posting them all at once qualifies as a faster update schedule. It's not like the author has any obligations to me, I don't even follow the comic, they can do whatever they want, but: I can't imagine that is going to go over well. Fake edit: Well, she didn't promise to do more updates until January anyway. So it's not like she lied about it or anything.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Ha ha ha apparently all updates to Ava's demons have stopped until January 2nd. I don't think stopping all updates for 4 months, and then posting them all at once qualifies as a faster update schedule. 
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Ha ha ha apparently all updates to Ava's demons have stopped until January 2nd. I don't think stopping all updates for 4 months, and then posting them all at once qualifies as a faster update schedule. I'm used to the creater of "Unsounded" going on Hiatus at the end of chapters for a month or two, but to cut off in the story seems like a bad move to me. She's not obligated to continue writing her comic while she has other things going on but a reduced update schedule would probably work better in the long run.
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Aug 27, 2013 01:20
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The Leper Colon V posted:Isn't this exactly why webcomic artists make buffers? It is incredibly hard to both produce and publish comics and simultaneously build a buffer. You have a buffer so long as you maintain it but every time you take a day here to go to the doctor or a day there to tend to an emergency or you have a power outage here or you visit family there that knocks time off your buffer and you have to either work even harder to earn that buffer time back or just keep working and slowly watch the buffer dwindle away.
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Aug 27, 2013 02:19
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That's what guest comic weeks are for. 
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Aug 27, 2013 02:38
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As someone who has really enjoyed Ava's Demon and bought into the Kickstarter, I can understand taking a break to hammer out the book, but four months? I'm saying this less as a selfish fan demanding entertainment, and more as someone concerned about the comic's ability to continue after that kind of lull. Both in terms of the authors motivation to pick the story up from where she left off and followers' attention spans. Are there examples of comics that have successfully done such a long hiatus and just picked right back up from where they left off? Edit: Unsounded's periodic chapter breaks are shorter and, importantly, chapter breaks rather than just hitting pause on the story in the middle of things.
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Cugel the Clever posted:As someone who has really enjoyed Ava's Demon and bought into the Kickstarter, I can understand taking a break to hammer out the book, but four months? I'm saying this less as a selfish fan demanding entertainment, and more as someone concerned about the comic's ability to continue after that kind of lull. Both in terms of the authors motivation to pick the story up from where she left off and followers' attention spans. Are there examples of comics that have successfully done such a long hiatus and just picked right back up from where they left off? Homestuck's just come off a three month hiatus, but he spent the three months with good communication, and he was working on the Homestuck game and another project which turned out to be a Capcom high school dating game. MSPA's just a huge anomaly in terms of webcomics though.
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SynthOrange posted:Homestuck's just come off a three month hiatus, but he spent the three months with good communication, and he was working on the Homestuck game and another project which turned out to be a Capcom high school dating game. MSPA's just a huge anomaly in terms of webcomics though. Don't listen to this guy, he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's a Namco high school dating game.
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SynthOrange posted:Homestuck's just come off a three month hiatus, but he spent the three months with good communication, and he was working on the Homestuck game and another project which turned out to be a Capcom high school dating game. MSPA's just a huge anomaly in terms of webcomics though. Yeah, alternating between 0 pages for three months and 47 pages in a single day is pretty extreme.
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Speaking of Kickstarter-induced hiatus, anyone knows if there's a scheduled date for Broodhollow to resume? (And if so, when?)
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Cat Mattress posted:Speaking of Kickstarter-induced hiatus, anyone knows if there's a scheduled date for Broodhollow to resume? (And if so, when?) According to this post, it's coming back "no later than October".
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Today's Bad Machinery is much more immediately chilling if you've read Scary Go Round. He linked an old Scary Go Round strip for context, and I think it's clear what's happened is the girls' time travel trip retroactively changed the outcome of that older plotline, at least for the time being.
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SynthOrange posted:That's what guest comic weeks are for. Cugel the Clever posted:Are there examples of comics that have successfully done such a long hiatus and just picked right back up from where they left off? Last year I had to take a break about that long because I had a rough last couple months of pregnancy--my back pain was so bad I couldn't sit at my desk for more than ten minutes at a time. Then I had a baby by emergency c-section and felt like I'd been hit by a truck for a few months afterwards, so the hiatus was waaaay longer than I expected. I was mega-psyched to get started on my comic again, and my audience was super awesome and picked right back up where I left off.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Are there examples of comics that have successfully done such a long hiatus and just picked right back up from where they left off? Famously, Achewood is in the process of attempting to return from an extended hiatus, though it remains to be seen if it'll stick. Additionally, No Need For Bushido is just now picking up where it left off quite a while ago, with the intention of coninuing; the return was preceded by nine pages of out-of-continuity recaps. MS Paint Adventures has had a few months-long breaks, Order of the Stick slowed considerably due to injury not long ago (the author has since recovered), and I seem to recall GastroPhobia being more erratic in the past than it has been lately. Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life had a few lengthy breaks, and about eight months ago, A Lesson Is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible had its first update in over four years. The Perry Bible Fellowship still gets an update every couple of months. The big difference in whether a hiatus can be returned from seems to be: is the author taking a break because they're too busy or otherwise prevented from working, or did they just lose interest? It's hard to get back into something once given up.
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Nebiros posted:I'd like to post this up, I'm a bit on the fence with it, but it's something at least. Supernormal Step 
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Bongo Bill posted:The big difference in whether a hiatus can be returned from seems to be: is the author taking a break because they're too busy or otherwise prevented from working, or did they just lose interest? It's hard to get back into something once given up. The Meek had a hiatus at page 4.04 (January 3, 2012), came back briefly on October 15, 2012, and died again at page 4.08 (November 14, 2012). I don't expect it to resurrect again. More obscure example, something called Sweet & Sour Grapes went on hiatus on January 2, 2012, then got a single update on June 26, 2012, and nothing new since. The worst hiatuses, though, are those like this one: Twitter posted:JT Petro @JejuneComics 28 Oct 11 
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Cat Mattress posted:This was the last thing the author ever posted to the Internet. Her domain name expired since. I believe she might have, too.
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On a happier note, why not take a look at Awkward Zombie? I'm sure there's someone here that's been in the same situation.
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Onean posted:On a happier note, why not take a look at Awkward Zombie? I'm sure there's someone here that's been in the same situation. She made the right choice because my knowledge of Animal Crossing extends only to "Tom Nook is a crook" thus allowing me to enjoy the joke without knowing or caring about the inaccuracies.
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Cat Mattress posted:This was the last thing the author ever posted to the Internet. Her domain name expired since. I believe she might have, too. Well, if you google JT Petro, there's someone with the same name that owns a Facebook account and a LinkedIn account and they look kinda similar to the avatar on the Twitter account and both Twitter and the LinkedIn mention working at a laundromat. So I'm pretty sure that's her on the Facebook and that she's fine, given she last posted like five days ago.
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Onean posted:On a happier note, why not take a look at Awkward Zombie? I'm sure there's someone here that's been in the same situation. That should be in the OP of everything.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Are there examples of comics that have successfully done such a long hiatus and just picked right back up from where they left off? Order of the Stick has had several month-long breaks due to health issues, the latest was Rich Burlew cutting his thumb pretty badly and having to take a half-year break or something.
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Ron Wizard's reboot sequence consists in playing a bunch of MIDI files. And just like that, I love The Adventures of Dr. McNinja again.
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Holy crap, I just learned that Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a big red button below its comics which has an extra joke panel if you click it. It's like learning about alt text all over again.
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Today's Strong Female Protagonist features a rather surprising admission from Alison.
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DaveWoo posted:Today's Strong Female Protagonist features a rather surprising admission from Alison. Doesn't pretty much everybody fantasize about killing people from time to time? Like, there are a lot of infuriating assholes in the world and I find that it really helps me in the situations where I actually have to deal with one of them for an extended period. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Goddamnit why haven't I been reading this comic until now and why isn't there more of it. It's fantastic.
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Cat Mattress posted:Ron Wizard's reboot sequence consists in playing a bunch of MIDI files. And just like that, I love The Adventures of Dr. McNinja again. I cracked up the instant I saw "kennyloggins_dangerzone.midi". I guess watching Archer has turned that song into an automatic punchline in my mind.
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tehloki posted:Doesn't pretty much everybody fantasize about killing people from time to time? Like, there are a lot of infuriating assholes in the world and I find that it really helps me in the situations where I actually have to deal with one of them for an extended period. A lot of people have those thoughts, but not many have the same ability. Imagine how uncomfortable it is to have those thoughts while waving around a sharp knife or a loaded gun. And now imagine that you don't have the ability to put down your deadly weapons because your deadly weapons are your arms. The difference between Allison and Cleaver is that one of them could hold back and the other couldn't.
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To be fair to Cleaver (not that he deserves it), there's probably a lot more people pre-judging Cleaver on his appearance and treating him accordingly than Allison. Being able to blend is a pretty big advantage.
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I will never get tired of Kate Beaton's wonderful family comics. They're just my favourite thing in the world.Cugel the Clever posted:Are there examples of comics that have successfully done such a long hiatus and just picked right back up from where they left off? (Then again, at that time I had a "new chapters when they're ready" schedule where I'd update every few weeks or months with 5-30 page chapters, so maybe the readers were especially forgiving.)
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A Redtails Dream is powering on towards what I presume is it's final full chapter, which starts after a short week-long break. This final page of the current chapter reveals Ville the dog's new animal form...
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You're looking awfully bloodthirsty there, Strato. I guess raising a kid for thirteen years mellows out a guy. So that's a third Strato we've seen. First is dopey teen Strato from the flashbacks, then there's all-business Strato of modern day, and now we get to see this scary Strato. I really like the guy, I gotta say. Can't wait to see more of him.
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Bongo Bill posted:Today's Bad Machinery is much more immediately chilling if you've read Scary Go Round. He linked an old Scary Go Round strip for context, and I think it's clear what's happened is the girls' time travel trip retroactively changed the outcome of that older plotline, at least for the time being. Oh no! John Allison has finally grown tired of Ryan and Amy and is cleaning house
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