ITT: dead webcomics you miss

ITT: dead webcomics you miss.

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>Dead for over a year now.
>Only does stuff on paetron

Prequel

I think when the artist legit runs out of ideas its a good time to stop.

Homestuck

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Brawl in the Family.

Dragon City.
Mediocre art, but interesting enough characters. Plus, it was the only consistently-updated webcomic about dragons, where the characters are dragons all the time (unlike that dragon maid manga).

For a similar reason, I also miss Catharsis. The site got hacked and taken down, though fortunately archive.net made a backup. Cute dragon, neat characters, somewhat interesting setting details (dragons are only visible to those who believe in them; others see a dog or child or something).
I particularly liked the brief arc where Rremly's "dragon instincts" were sometimes taking over, prompting him to nearly eat the squirrel whose name I forgot.

N E V E R E V E R
Kaz doesn't update shit. Not Prequel, not side comics, not even his tumblr.

Does anyone remember Paranatural? They just boarded a train and the comic stopped all of a sudden.

fuck...

Cheap Thrills

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Are webcomics dying as a whole?

That comic was some crazy shit. I never bothered to check but... did he also make Kit-n-Kay Boodle?

I still miss Boxer Hockey

It's dead to me.

Shit, came here to post this

I'm honestly not surprised if webcomics, as a whole, are losing popularity. The issue I have with many, many webcomics is oftentimes, they can't commit to a goddamn update schedule. I understand that art takes time but it shouldn't take almost half of a fucking year just upload a new page, unless you had a damn good reason for the hiatus. Hell, informing your fans of your hiatus' seems like the exception rather than the rule now.

It also seems like the creator never bothers to have a basic outline of where they want to take the story; you wind up with multiple pages of characters just twiddling their thumbs waiting for something to happen. And then when you do have something occur, the pay off is almost never worth it cause of all the hype surrounding it. And to add on top of that crap heap, you have these artists with such a fragile ego that a stiff breeze is enough to make them not want to work for weeks on end.

Actually, I think this video sums it up perfectly.

youtu.be/aOLzS2MmkzQ

>you have these artists with such a fragile ego that a stiff breeze is enough to make them not want to work for weeks on end.

Literally the 2017 creative process.

You gotta kiss a ton of ass if you want them to make Steven Bomb 7 next year.

Hannah Is Not A Boy's Name.

Same. But that's what happens when people move on to bigger better things

i miss Boxdog

Jay Naylor is my hero

Sword Interval isn't *bad*, per se, but it's just not my thing.

it's really weird that one of the OGs of the furry fandom passed away and the furries didn't as much as blink.

That fandom changed so much it wouldn't recognize itself in the mirror

>tfw you'll never get to enjoy wolf cucking again :'(

Mine is Pawn, it had a qt3.14 adventurer and her seducing a literal demon and trying to turn her into a lesbian.

The Secret Lives of Mobs

It wasn't good, but I liked it anyway

It's a shame the creator went full retard.
Seeing the breakdown was amazing though

What exactly happened?

Fuck you I liked it.

If I had a monkey paw, I'd wish back Fanboys

There is no vidya comic more pure.

Loserz was my thing in high school. I saw quarter-life crisis, but it doesn't look the same, and I don't think it updates much.

Long story short
>creator does kickstarter to print the webcomic into books and ship them
>funded successfuly
>printing, publishing and shipping is more difficult than he thought
>money is not apparently enough
>fucking snaps
>sends about 1/3 of the books, burns the rest
>takes down the entire webpage and archive forever
>starts ranting all about how society is unfair and depression shit
>never heard from since

The whole meltdown was glorious desu

Webcomics as an art venue have become too popular, now everyone wants to make one and, as it's the rule, the more people do something the less prepared the average person doing it is. It has gone to the point were most people starting webcomics don't really understand what they are for or how to actually do it as a whole project. I blame tumblr for it's layout allowing a crappy yet accessible webcomic format and the rise of "askblogs".

>tfw saw the beginning and the end of Bitf

He did well to stop it before it became BUckley, even himself he knew it was happening

Only for the eyecandy.
The premise was also interesting, too bad the execution was total shit.

It's not dead but it may as well be since the slightest criticism causes Zach Morrison's wrist to explode, preventing him from working for a week

I think eventually everyone who backed got a copy

It is nice he knew not to run things into the dirt. At least he's left some great stuff behind.

Yeah, gonna miss that. It was crude and cheap, but had some good laughs now and then.

It was shit compared to BD, and he dropped the promising looking fantasy webcomic for it.

Not until we find Kaz's corpse user.

Did they ever find the artist/author or are they still MIA entirely?

Never cared for that comic, but I respect that guy all the same.

RIght up there with Awkward Zombie when it comes to good vidyagame comics.

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>>sends about 1/3 of the books, burns the rest
That wasn't a euphamism or whatever, the nutjob literally burned a bunch of books that were bought and paid for. And his entire reason for doing this was because he decided that he doesn't think he should have to do anything or produce anything of value and should just have all his wants and needs provided to him.

Gone With The Blastwave... oh wait.

I laughed more than I should've at this

Double K.

I still have my shot glasses from the kickstarter

Oh shit I didnt realize he started updating again

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i miss this like i miss a dead elderly relative.

its sad, but they are in a much better place now.

>And his entire reason for doing this was because he decided that he doesn't think he should have to do anything or produce anything of value and should just have all his wants and needs provided to him.
That was sort of the crux of his breakdown, that he felt that transforming art into money was fundamentally evil/inadvisable. I don't know if his conclusion was that society should suck artists' dicks or that all artists should be destitute.

Just looked up the timeline of that whole mess. Big fucking shocker, the creator is also trans now because of course they would be.
Also to add,
>Guys behind Cards Against Humanity were the one to help ship out the original books that were promised to the backers.
>Torrents of old strips still exist but the author is notorious for filing DMCA take downs on them.

What a glorious trainwreck.

Thanks for reminding me how someone can fuck up something so good.

>Wikipedia:
>According to DNAinfo.com, Campbell spent $30,000 USD producing the 200-page hardcover book and even more to include a plastic-wrapped dead wasp in each copy, leaving little money for actual shipping.
What the actual fuck happened here? How do you completely lose it like this?

Why am I not surprised?
>So I have this webcomic, but I REALLY don't care about this thing. At all. So I'll update whenever, if it updates again. Not interested in hearing from any readers about this, I just care about my art.
>opens Patreon solely for the comic
>makes it monthly instead of by the page
>suddenly starts producing content left and right
>suddenly has time to make more artwork for the comic
At least prostitutes are honest about why they are there. All these fuckers trying to pretend they are Bill Watterson, they always fold the moment money gets offered.

I miss both Homestuck and Brawl in the Family.

Homestuck and BitF got endings. They ended, they didn't die. Homestuck's might be... wanting but it didn't just get abandoned.

He seemed like an honest man doing what he loved. He died watching furries become nightmare caricatures of themselves.

No but they were friends. That strip appears to be on permanent hiatus.

>It also seems like the creator never bothers to have a basic outline of where they want to take the story; you wind up with multiple pages of characters just twiddling their thumbs waiting for something to happen. And then when you do have something occur, the pay off is almost never worth it cause of all the hype surrounding it. And to add on top of that crap heap, you have these artists with such a fragile ego that a stiff breeze is enough to make them not want to work for weeks on end.
It's a shitty cycle where an artist with very little formal background in writing lucks into a few appealing characters that readers can project their own frustrated desires onto, then have no overarching story with a conclusion in mind for them.

LEARNING HOW TO DRAW DOES NOT MAGICALLY CONFER THE CRAFT OF STORYTELLING UPON YOU. CONCLUDING THINGS IS A COMMITMENT AND IT CAN MEAN LOSS OF REVENUE BUT THAT'S NO EXCUSE NOT TO LEARN ITS NECESSITY.

It was the only webcomic I actively kept up with

He didn't say he didn't care about the comic, only that he didn't prioritize it, with a patreon he can actually get to work less giving him time to work on blastwave.
I only resent the spin off being exclusive to patreon.

I still kinda want him to finish it some day.

I used to read webcomics constantly in the early 2000s. I even got my older brother hooked on them the way he got me hooked on cape books earlier.

I have very sour feelings about them now. I can only enjoy the shitty ones I know will go on indefinitely. The good ones either feel like they wrap early because the creators lost interest or life got in the way, or they turn to shit you can't even enjoy unironically.

It doesn't seem to be mentally healthy for creators either. The few I know personally (not naming names) are genuinely unhappier now than they were 5 years ago. Readers treat change as betrayal, conflict as personal politics, and characterization as a direct reflection of the creator's individual traits and/or biases. And the ones who DON'T are sycophants who can't honestly confront shortcomings. To be fair this is where most fandoms have gone now, but creators feel the pressure a lot more directly and all too often cave because they've let the system fund them.

didn't they blame the sun too? saying it told them to burn the books

d3vil dolls

i know the guy started so good, posted like a page every week. its been a while, and right before some lewd shit was gonna happen. anyone here know what happened?

That's another nutjob whom some guy trolled literally roleplaying as the sun on the internet.
I don't have the image but it's side-obliterating hilarious

Story time Part 6 Never
It hurts

>author says he's going on hiatus
>months of no updates
>abandons project
>let's lease on web domain expire with no alternate way to access the comic anymore
>old fans pick up the torch and re-hosts the old archives

I dunno what the fuck happened to Hellbound, but I still miss it.

Elf

Mallmonkeys

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I'm still surprised this has an active fanbase.

I found the book for $8 at a secondhand book store.
One of my greatest finds.

Anyways, for anyone who hasn't read it
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I've never read any of Jay's sfw comics
is the writing just as pretentious?

It sorta felt like he ran out of ideas after chimneyspeak

I liked Wendy when it was out.

Never ever

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>found out GWtB is updating

From what I understand he also surrounded himself with terrible people. Its like being in a gang, you gotta act like you belong. But in this case it was all crazy people who all lived in the same hipster neighborhood.

commander kitty.

doubt there's a considerable amount of people on Sup Forums even aware of its existence.

I never liked Chimneyspeak, but Redd was decently entertaining. Also New Kowloon was pretty good porn wise. I have no idea what order to read those in though.

>the promising looking fantasy webcomic
Which is...?

I'm waiting for The Miskatonic Project to drop, and see if he's going to do anything with that future story he had a few ideas for.

No, it's MORE. He tries to play off the pretentiousness as a joke so it's safe for him to go all out but you can tell what's really going on.

Everything by Chochi

>Spinnerette went to shit the instant he stopped drawing it
>Lovely Pets has an update schedule similar to Hunter x Hunter
>if the stars align we might get one page of Beatriz Overseer a year

You have a pretty shitty taste in heroes.

Yeah, but his characters are alright.
I was really liking the quiet girl with the lesbian crush.

Same. Pretty sure Miskatonic should have been released by now but he keeps trying to add more shit.

We got that side story at least.

I might give those a look.

>BnG ended 10 years ago

Nigga, what? If anything you should be praising Patreon for motivating content creators.

his stories are mediocre at best, I only want cheesecake pics.

Furries are pretty loosely defined. Because of this, almost nobody is on the same channel. It's just more obvious now that the "community" is a lot bigger.

I legitimately hated the comic for never covering TW101

Lesbian Mystery Club, dead for six years.
Shit art, stupid story, god how I loved it.

>the creator is also trans now because of course they would be.
Explain?