Webcomics you don't read anymore

Did you grow to hate them or did you just give up on them?

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spinnyverse.com
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I stopped reading Sluggy Freelance for a year and then just found I couldn't get back into it. That was 12 years ago.

writheandshine.com

The fucker ruined his archives.

Most if not all of them, they either cancelled, ended or should have. Is Megatokyo still going?

The latter

Megatokyo is still going in theory.

Elaborate, how can a a webcomic be ongoing in theory?

in theory, my popeye vs. doomsday comic is still going on, if I ever get past page 1.

God damn but Fred-chan's artwork is actually getting worse, not better.

It's going but slowly and nobody really reads it anymore.

Wasn't there supposed to be a visual novel?

Oh, that's tedious.

Wapsi Square
Grew to hate it when the creator decided to dump the entire original cast for high schoolers that invariably included a new MC with giant fucking titties who once again wasn't meant to be objectified, oh no

Yeah he raised something like $150k on kickstarter for it but then went "Videogame programming is hard and I'd rather not do it" and there's been nothing since.

Fuck I can't count all of them, I check in on Order of the Stick every 2-3 months and that's it at this point.

I still hate-read Dumbing of Age through the general here.

He's turned Ping into a fat chick too so he has a "body positive" character.

Did he go full Sinfest or just dip a toe in?

No, it's still mostly just loli fantasy shit.

I can't hate sad cat. I can only mourn.

Well, at least he's consistent

Wow, glad I dumped it before then

How divorced from reality do you have to be to make you mc a titty monster and not expect to have them be a subject of sexualization?

>Did you grow to hate them or did you just give up on them?

whats the difference

Well I guess Data on Star Trek already proved robots can get fat.

Oh god that artwork looks terriblé

this thread lead me to finding one I haven't seen in ages. I saw it once about 12 years ago, forgot about it, and hadn't seen it since
wtfcomics.com/archive.html?485_1
It looks way worse than I remember.

I can lose interest in something without hating it.

I liked that the character in black has a weapon strapped to his back in every panel but the last one.

I haven't read Penny Arcade since I owned a Gamecube. Anything noteworthy happen since then?

Atsali wasn't so bad; it's random timeskips and Castela that makes it a trainwreck.

So many have been deleted from the internet but surprisingly "Pawn" is still up even if it hasn't updated in 7 years or so

Its the same iirc, excepting a dust up about dickwolves? I can't remember. The art style is, well tumblr nose.

Art style peeked around 2006

I can't believe I used to go on memecenter and read Gearboy, Jago, and some other guys. They always did suck. I remember when someone blatantly ripped off Gearboy's OC girl claiming it was "her" works from years ago, and people actually defended her. However, there was an artist called Halo who I still follow. He was a cool guy who made decent art. But I can't imagine looking at that website now.

Dude Blood lust teddy was my favorite memecenter "artist". I remember spending so much time on this website i got tangled up in some community drama.

>Dumbing of Age
First I read It's Walky. And it was fine. Then Shortpacked and it was also fine. At the time. So DoA was fun read. But then Willis stopped leaving the soapbox. In fact, he built a house on it. For a while, I at least enjoyed getting mad at it, but one time I just didn't have the strength to catch up anymore. And I haven't looked back since, except for the occasional Sup Forums threads.
Now if only I can escape Questionable Content, I can finally be free!

girly and zombie hunters

I don't read Poppy O'Possum or Paranatural anymore. I just lost interest in them.

>Megatokyo: 14 years later they still haven't done anything
>Applegeeks: No update in a decade
>Dresden Codak: Stopped being fun once Diaz embraced his fetishes
>Misfile: Well at least the lesbians fuck
>It Hurts: 10/10, good ending would ride again
>Bomango: ended, rebooted(?)
Now I'm onto
>Hunters of Salamanstra: Terrible but I love it
>[un]Divine: I wanna see the demon fugg Dani

Yeah, I got him on my Steam friends list along with Gearboy. They're cool to talk to one on one. But a better question is who was the worst? I remember someone using me paint and making terrible drawings but he never started shitnso he was cool with othe- WAIT! I know who the worst is! He started out making edgy comics that looked like humans, but later on just began drawing bean shaped people. Ah yes, Irwincardozo. He made comics about his exes and would always start shit with other artists, making a lot hate him.

I didn't read any of Willis' comics before DoA; I feel betrayed that Randy Milholland ever linked to it in the first place. My QC habit is proving much more difficult to kick, even though I know Raven is never coming back.

Yes, I'm the guy who always complains about that in all the QC threads.

I remember giving up on megatokyo.
Shit wasn't funny anymore and everything became shitty drama featuring the boring fuck with the glasses.

>Penny arcade: simply got sick of it
>sinfest: obvious reasons. Still love the art style
>bittersweet candybowl: even when I started reading it I felt it was a guilty pleasure and it wouldn't last
>awkward zombie: for some reason I couldn't access the site from my PC doesn't matter the browser I used, so I just let it go
>non-ironically CAD: first webcomic I ever stumbled upon when I was 12 or some shit, read it for years probably until I stopped for some reason

And he made every single woman bi.

>Questionable Content
Grew to hate it.

>Penny Arcade
Outgrew it. I check check every now and then but at this point it's pretty much just Garfield for gamers.

all of them because they upload too slow

I can deal with a "strip" style comic uploading whenever but a chapter book releasing 1 page every other week kills pacing (and my interest)

Similar. Read It's Walky and thought it was fine, went through Shortpacked where the quality steadily dropped, then in Dumbing of Age it hit rock bottom.

The fool does a comparatively decent job when it comes to outlandish sci-fi-comedy-dramas, probably because that's what he enjoyed in his youth, but this shift to topical social justice shit has rekt anything resembling quality he could produce.

The fact that he's a cunt and proudly doesn't give a shit about making effort in his work doesn't help.

I take a look once a few months and have the same feeling I had when I stopped reading: who are these people, where are the main characters interacting with each other?

More than that. It raised $299K and was supposed to be done February 2014. Last update on the project was in July.

>lol thanks for the money losers

I think the Oceans Unmoving arc left me distracted and somewhere around that period I gradually stopped reading. Iremember finishing that arc, but at that point I felt the author was somewhat tired of telling the main story of Sluggy Freelance and was using arcs like that to take a break and try new settings that interested them personally.

It amuses me though, the first thing I thought of when I saw the Rick and Morty 'Battery Universe' episode was 'THIS IS JUST THE FUCKING SLUGGY FREELANCE PUNYVERSE ARC... BUT SOMEHOW STILL SHITTIER THAN A MONTHS LONG ANIME REFERENCE JOKE WRAPPED IN A VAGUELY METAPHYSICAL SCI-FI STORY!"

I don't even remember when I stopped. The last arc I really remember was the Pain invades Lame one, and everything after that is just kind of a vague blah.

>LFGcomic.com
In my defense, I didn't realize Sohmer was such a scum-sucking asshole, but I only stopped reading when he introduced a "villain" literally made of butts.

>megatokyo
Just got tired as hell of watching it drag, and frankly the romance- which I never really cared about, and which took up the lion's share of the plot- was going nowhere.

>MS Paint Masterpieces
Damnit, DisgruntledFerret, I know *I* was still reading you.

>It's A Hard Life
...I should really get back into that, now that I think about it.

I stopped reading this when the funny dude got booted out and he stopped parodying anime/weeb ideas of japan and just made a shitty story about a weebs idea of Japan.


I also used to read Dominic Deegan back in the day up till they resurrected the knight as a demon badguy.

No... You LIE!

I think that's also when I started to give it up. I kept reading for a while, but from that moment I just kept losing interest until one day I dropped it and never looked back.

Gone with the blastwave, I got out of it when he/she took the hiatus going into the military, never got back into it.

I mean, Poppy's last comic pages are going up today, so you didn't miss much.

I stopped reading QC in like it's second year. I stopped posting on the forums like six years after that.

looking back, almost all the punchlines were basically "thing in video game doesn't make sense in real life"

maybe i should make a webcomic.

>Applegeeks

Hawk's the creative director at QMx, so Applegeeks is pretty much done.

It's been 9 months since I read any of it.
I just don't know why I stopped.

Give me your pitch.

uh...
boobs

Good start, but you're going to need a little more. Unless it's a porn comic, then that's all you need.

I miss when it was just Lost references.

nah, okay, real answer...

Humanity has long since abandoned earth for the stars, and the robots have taken over.
The robot society is very hierarchical, as some units are just better than others. but while its not the nicest place, it works. theres a religion however, of frothy mouthed zealots who believe the humans will come back some day, and that when they do its the robots purpose to serve them.
the head robot, NO 1, has done his best to stamp out this religion as he feels it is anti robot and threatens the world he has built.
no one knows this though. to the world, NO 1 is a tyrant, and the religion, while creepy, isnt that bad.
then a cleaning robot is loaded with secret data and sent out of 1's citadel. It makes its way to the slums and delivers news of an important lost trasure. a treasure NO 1 will kill anyone who knows about it. so, a team of robots set out to find it because they think it might help make the world better.
basically the two big world forces are authoritarian government and creepy lobotomy religion, and the main characters are just shitty outdated robots from the slums trying to find a place in all of it. and when they find the treasure, shit goes totally upside down.

what is the treasure

is it hoomans

the treasure is one human. this predictably causes the religion to go fucking bonkers and crusade and the government to tear itself apart trying to stop them.

knew it!

i'm pretty sure everybody is gonna guess that if you ever get around to this, but as long as the journey is good i'm sure it will be fine

it doesnt matter if its predictable, because the focus is less on "whatcould the treasure be?" and more "how does the treasure effect this already really precarious world?"

Anything with two guys sitting on a couch talking about videogames. None of those comics are very good. QC used to be decent but it just kept getting worse and worse. Same with sinfest. Numerous others which... just weren't all that good and didn't get any better(or in some cases got worse).

And a few of them just ended, like Irregular Webcomic.

Oh, and Guilded Age hasn't gotten mentioned in this thread yet, has it? Making the whole thing meta didn't do it any favors and then the writer just kept making Gastonia more and more into assholes to the point where I started wondering why every other race hadn't gotten together and genocided humanity yet.

what do you mean last comic pages?

I only liked the comic thanks to that guy making youtube videos giving the jokes and characters more energy and personality.
Really helped it work.

Powerpuff Girls D took so long to update that eventually I just forgot it existed and never looked at it again.

Morbi has realized his pacing is glacial and it will take him decades to draw this shit.
Rather than fix it, condense his story or even just write a BIT further in advance so he can stop the redundancy, he has decided to go with the illustrated novel format.

Considering Poppy's strongest quality was the artwork, this is incredibly stupid.

so basically we`ll have to pay to read it. And this guy wants to double dip both patreon and buyer money? jeez

What? No.

It's going to be an illustrated novel now. As in, he writes prose with a single accompanying image. He's aiming at 2000 words and two images a week.

Nobody mentioned money.
It's gonna be like this.

spinnyverse.com

>spinnyverse.com

thats pretty bad. i liked the art and i dont think his writing will compensate

If only Largo were here.

Here's Morbi's first try at that format from last year.

poppy-opossum.com/extras/holiday-1/

I think I stopped reading Girl Genius about 9-10 years ago. Are they still in the castle?

No, but I doubt it got much further.

I keep a bookmark folder of web comics. I try to check in on it once every three or four months. Gives me more than a couple of pages to read of each one at once, and stops me from getting butthurt over how slow some creators are.

Except VG cats.

of course not. why would they still be there?

I haven't read Sam and Fuzzy in years. Just fell out of reading it.

Poppy mostly because of the relationshit. I just feel like it was shoved in there to be cute without any regard for the story. It could have went in so many different and much more interesting ways.

This, I remember the comic but it just got so far up its own ass

Used to follow Order of the Stick religiously, and Ctrl-Alt-Del while it had a story.
Dumbing of Age also but that got weird.

What I really hate is when webcomics use too many pages to explain a friggin story arc. In the end waiting on updates becomes tedious.

So, in conclusion, webcomics were/are a mistake?

Webcomics used to be cool and fresh, in earlier internet days. Now they're I don't know what.

Very sadly this. By the end of Chapter 10 there was a huge emotional climax but at the same time I felt really empty, like something was missing.
The next chapter started and all the characters picked up their previous shtick and I realized I wasn't invested in any of them except Duane a bit. It was a weird breakup and I had a thought or two about starting it over from the beginning but in the end I didn't care enough to.

Still probably the best webcomic there is out there.

The only thing I don't really like about the format is its generally one page at a time, 1 to 3 times a week.
While I like drama, it makes me want to blow my fucking brains out when I have to wait months for a story to continue forward because a couple of characters have to straighten out their friendship/relationship or something.

This is why gag strips are still king after all. It's simply unnatural to stay invested in a story like this. It's like reading a book one page a day.

•Looking For Group
I honestly can't recall why I stopped reading it. Maybe I was never even a regular reader.

•Commissioned
I lost interest.

•Sinfest
For about a year I thought maybe he was going somewhere with all of..."that". Like maybe it was a clever ruse. I realized I was deluding myself and stopped reading.

•PvP
Another one I can't recall why I stopped reading. I guess I just lost interest.

•Penny Arcade
I haven't stopped reading it, I still check every M-W-F. I just mention it because it has really really really fall down for me. Particularly in the last year or so. Nothing but dad jokes and inside-industry commentary that I do not care about. The last time I read something slightly funny/mildly interesting was that takedown on No Man's Sky, which I just realized was exactly a year ago - at this point I keep reading out of habit.

Duane is best dad; Ashley is oddly obsessed with human organs and despite how much I love Duane and Sette I honestly don't care about the rest of the case.
Every page and chapter that isn't Duane and Sette really doesn't even begin to interest me.

Unrelated to Unsounded is Erma, a comic that's steadily growing on me.

>ywn have such a deticated fandom
>ywn have a project so successfully backed it makes it into the 100ks
>yet other people do and don't even fufill it loyaly

so what's being done about it anyways? can't imagine it just sliding under the rug without so much as a peep