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PHIZ KALIFA posted:i mean, if nothing else, how many old school webcomics are even still updating? I feel like QC is past the point where that kind of self destruction would have swamped the comic, and Megatokyo doesn't update often enough for Piro to drive it off the rails. It's just going to stop updating one day and no one will say anything in the blogs until like two years later. Freefall has been continuously updating since 1998. There are currently 3428 strips. I don't think it'll ever meltdown, it's too wholesome and boring. It is currently on an arc where the protagonists are on an interplanetary flight and the author is explaining all the hard science stuff, including communication delays because of the huge distance, and the problems with weeks of isolation. I find it fascinating. Utterly boring almost all the time. But consistently…
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Antigravitas posted:Freefall has been continuously updating since 1998. There are currently 3428 strips. Sluggy Freelance is still around.
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CAD and Penny Arcade are still chugging along.
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If the Penny Arcade people weren't married with kids I'm positive they'd have veered into full on CHUD mode.
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Skwirl posted:If the Penny Arcade people weren't married with kids I'm positive they'd have veered into full on CHUD mode. Didn't stop my folks
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Schlock Mercenary still chugging along.
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Sinfest absolutely hemorrhaging readers has been fascinating to watch as Ishida turned from feminism to SW/TERFism. His forums went from a healthy and robust discussion platform to a hate-filled poison pit almost overnight, and (having just checked) it's had five new posts in the last month.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Sinfest absolutely hemorrhaging readers has been fascinating to watch as Ishida turned from feminism to SW/TERFism. His forums went from a healthy and robust discussion platform to a hate-filled poison pit almost overnight, and (having just checked) it's had five new posts in the last month. Well, I mean, who the hell still uses forums?
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Paladinus posted:Well, I mean, who the hell still uses forums? i dunno but they're massive losers
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Brute Squad posted:Schlock Mercenary still chugging along. It's got few months left max. Author has stated that 20 years of stories is enough.
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VanSandman posted:It's got few months left max. Author has stated that 20 years of stories is enough. How many parallel universes is it up to now?
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Antigravitas posted:Freefall has been continuously updating since 1998. There are currently 3428 strips. This is one I'm unfamiliar with. Skwirl posted:If the Penny Arcade people weren't married with kids I'm positive they'd have veered into full on CHUD mode. Paladinus posted:CAD and Penny Arcade are still chugging along. I'd argue that PA has had multiple small-scale meltdowns and the only reason they've succeeded is because they're basically Couchgamers Elon Musk, two stupid faces over a team of underappreciated hardworking dorks who believe with all their stupid hearts in the pointless endeavors they're wasting their lives on. Like, the "dickwolves" thing absolutely has not been resolved, they have not learned their lesson, and they're 100% going to keep playing it up to their reprehensible fanbase because they know where the money is. like, their forums were, even by gabe and tycho's own admission, a toxic shitstorm apocalypse during a time when that wasn't the only way of being. the comic is a perfunctory excuse for introducing new t-shirts to their store. My point being, the webcomics that have survived this long have done so because they're made by Internet Stable people. they'll run till the wheels fall off the merch store. if they were going to explode, they would have done so already.
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Antigravitas posted:Freefall has been continuously updating since 1998. There are currently 3428 strips. I think freefall guy's fetish is boring people with his hard SciFi fetish comic.
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was there a webcomic besides achewood where the rudimentary art actually was compensated for by high quality writing? order of the stick also. i can't think of any others.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:was there a webcomic besides achewood where the rudimentary art actually was compensated for by high quality writing? order of the stick also. i can't think of any others. Hitmen for Destiny and associated comics.
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I was sad to just learn that Real Life Comics, my favorite lukewarm webcomic, seems to finally have died, having last updated june 2019. It ran for 22 years, the art never changed, and very little ever happened. I used to read it regularly for years.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:was there a webcomic besides achewood where the rudimentary art actually was compensated for by high quality writing? order of the stick also. i can't think of any others. 
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I always quite liked QC. It keeps a guy fed and seemingly happy whilst doing nothing that hurts people.
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Josef bugman posted:I always quite liked QC. It keeps a guy fed and seemingly happy whilst doing nothing that hurts people. meanwhile, on the QC forums: irl meetups that end up in rape
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Hardon Crime posted:meanwhile, on the QC forums: Oh no. When did this happen?
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Hardon Crime posted:meanwhile, on the QC forums: I didn't know SA hosted QC
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Garrand posted:I didn't know SA hosted QC I mean this is a secondary point. How many horrible people have we had as mods/ presences on this forum?
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Josef bugman posted:Oh no. Like over a decade ago. One of the inner echelon was this too cool for school Englishman who would meet up with women who posted on the QC forums and well there were a number of allegations
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:This is one I'm unfamiliar with. My favorite thing about the Penny Arcade guys just never learning their lesson or anything is that like, they've inadvertently produced good things as far as I'm aware. Or at least semi-good things. Child's Play and PAX came about directly as a result of their actions or success and they ultimately had to basically drop their names from both things because being associated with the two of them and their comic wound up harming them more than it did good. Though someone who knows more could probably provide a more detailed write up.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:was there a webcomic besides achewood where the rudimentary art actually was compensated for by high quality writing? order of the stick also. i can't think of any others. That dinosaur one that was just the same frames in every single strip e: ah, beaten, I'm proud of goons Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 14:52 on May 3, 2020 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Sluggy Freelance is still around. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith is still around I've never read Sluggy Freelance but back when I read a lot of TVTropes due to having a job with a ton of downtime and a weirdly configured web filter I noticed that pretty much every single trope page had and entry for it.
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I read Sluggly Freelance in the early 2000's and, as I've said before, I'm amazed it's still around. It was and is probably terrible but I will say one thing, I remember it at least having arcs (that get resolved) and things actually happening at a reasonable pace, which is more than you can say of many webcomics.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:How many parallel universes is it up to now? Just the one, and that was wiped out? It actually really did end up only doing time travel exactly once. lifg posted:Does anyone remember when they used to have webcomic awards, and they’d have a category for “best new female character”, and it always went to a woman with a hugely overdramatic backstory and destiny, and in retrospect always marked the downfall of the comic? No, but for some reason this feels familiar. It does feel like the prelude to the more recent trend in video games of putting female characters through pornographic levels of suffering as a substitute for a personality. Josef bugman posted:I always quite liked QC. It keeps a guy fed and seemingly happy whilst doing nothing that hurts people. P sure he's the guy who ended up stabbing his own hand because his fans got mad he didn't draw a woman fat enough for their liking.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:P sure he's the guy who ended up stabbing his own hand because his fans got mad he didn't draw a woman fat enough for their liking. Yeah I don't know if that was the reason but he does have mental health issues. I think he's on medication now. But again none of the work seems harmful, and he isn't a nazi/ fascist. I can live with weirdness or sad brains, I can't live with fasc.
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Josef bugman posted:Yeah I don't know if that was the reason but he does have mental health issues. I think he's on medication now. But again none of the work seems harmful, and he isn't a nazi/ fascist. I can live with weirdness or sad brains, I can't live with fasc. Jeph is a sensitive type who can't take much criticism. I think artists like him are perfect for platforms that separate the artist from their audience as much as possible, since he just breaks down easily
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Push El Burrito posted:Ronnie is just a series of meltdowns. Ronnie is a wonderful, wholesome man whose life is a constant, escalating melt-up
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Early It Hurts!! is definitely elevated by the writing over the art. I have to hand it to Sluggy Freelance. It was the webcomic equivalent of the strange and passionate but relatively wholesome nerd who listened to Weird Al well into his 30s, which is a far sight better than the ones who turned into chuds or disappeared up their own rear end. Granted I haven't read it in a decade and a half, but if the creator had a wild meltdown I never heard about it.
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DID SOMEONE SAY SHITMEN FOR DESTINY YET?!?!
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