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Don't you guys get tired of being angry about other people having fun?
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Nov 2, 2015 08:16
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I was gonna say the comic is late today. But then I remembered daylight savings time 
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Nov 2, 2015 08:21
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Tom has never been late once as far as I can recall. Coyote looks fun to draw.
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Nov 2, 2015 09:26
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COYOTE TIME
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Nov 2, 2015 09:36
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Lurdiak posted:Tom has never been late once as far as I can recall. He has had technical problems a handful of times.
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Nov 2, 2015 09:52
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Wittgen posted:Don't you guys get tired of being angry about other people having fun? It's what propels me through life
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Nov 2, 2015 10:00
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Lurdiak posted:Tom has never been late once as far as I can recall. To be fair, IIRC hes ahead of schedule on his drawing and has a backlog of comics to post, so hes never having to rush to meet his deadline. The comics just go up automaticcally by a bot. Hence why he never has to put up apologies or guest strips when he goes to conventions.
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Nov 2, 2015 10:00
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Don't you guys get tired of making the same jokes over and over? Having a running joke is always handy as long as its not too sinister.
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Nov 2, 2015 10:13
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ElMaligno posted:Having a running joke is always handy as long as its not too sinister. eh, it's all right.
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Nov 2, 2015 11:12
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Enourmo posted:eh, it's all right. Sometimes it's all that's left to do.
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Nov 2, 2015 11:16
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Conot posted:To be fair, IIRC hes ahead of schedule on his drawing and has a backlog of comics to post, so hes never having to rush to meet his deadline. The comics just go up automaticcally by a bot. That doesn't make it any less impressive.
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Nov 2, 2015 12:01
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Lurdiak posted:That doesn't make it any less impressive. "He's on time every time" kind of misses the point when there's no time pressure on being on time by virtue of having a backlog. Being impressed by tea-san's ability to maintain that backlog, sure, but the timing of the updates has little to do with it except in-as-much as backlog exhaustion is concerned.
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Nov 2, 2015 12:26
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Being able to create such a backlog is the impressive part. Most webcomics don't even have a one-comic margin of error, Tom's managed to create and maintain a 2 month buffer through sheer diligence.
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Nov 2, 2015 12:33
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Are we sure Tom's not just Coyote in disguise, writing stories about himself? 
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Nov 2, 2015 12:43
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Hremsfeld posted:Are we sure Tom's not just Coyote in disguise, writing stories about himself? I could answer that, but I'd lose a hand.
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Nov 2, 2015 12:44
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Don't you guys get tired of making the same jokes over and over? Technically they are different each time.
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Nov 2, 2015 14:39
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YF-23 posted:"He's on time every time" kind of misses the point when there's no time pressure on being on time by virtue of having a backlog. Being impressed by tea-san's ability to maintain that backlog, sure, but the timing of the updates has little to do with it except in-as-much as backlog exhaustion is concerned. It's impressive because no other webcomic author has been able to Kirk a backlog going add consistently as him. Most people make one and then blow it after going to a single convention.
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Nov 2, 2015 17:19
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Begemot posted:It's impressive because no other webcomic author has been able to Kirk a backlog going add consistently as him. Most people make one and then blow it after going to a single convention. Schlock Mercenary has been doing a strip a day for years, like more than a decade now.
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Nov 2, 2015 17:26
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VanSandman posted:Schlock Mercenary has been doing a strip a day for years, like more than a decade now. Yeah, the only time he has been late was in 2008 when the place he hosted his site at literally caught fire and burned down. There is something quite respectable about the creators who recognize this is a business and treat it as such. Very few do, and Howard Taylor is probably foremost of them. He runs the whole show without missing a beat while having enough income to serve as a replacement for a full time job + benefits. In comic news this may be the best page ever.
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Nov 2, 2015 17:37
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Man these loss edits are getting elaborate
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Nov 2, 2015 18:04
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Tatsuya Ishida has also been absurdly consistent on Sinfest for years as well.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:06
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Fried Chicken posted:There is something quite respectable about the creators who recognize this is a business and treat it as such. Very few do, and Howard Taylor is probably foremost of them. He runs the whole show without missing a beat while having enough income to serve as a replacement for a full time job + benefits. It's almost as if those two are sort of related? most webcomic authors can't treat it as a full time job, because they don't have enough income from it, and as such mostly write their pages during breaks at work or once they get off their actual full time job. I mean I bet if most comics made enough money to be a replacement for an actual job, they'd have more consistent schedules.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:22
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Coyote fun time!
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Nov 2, 2015 18:30
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KittyEmpress posted:It's almost as if those two are sort of related? most webcomic authors can't treat it as a full time job, because they don't have enough income from it, and as such mostly write their pages during breaks at work or once they get off their actual full time job. This is the answer. Back when Tom had an outside job he couldn't have made such a backlog, but now that the comic IS his job, thanks to Patreon, he's able to keep a consistent schedule. Say what you like about Patreon, but it keeps Unsounded and Gunnerkrigg coming with consistent quality and the artists don't starve, and it is therefore a moral good.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:49
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AFAIK he's always had a backlog, at least as far back as when I started reading (The Coward Heart). Maybe he's got a bigger buffer now, but it's been around far longer than he's been full time.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:55
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While I agree with the above comments that full-time comic artists have an easier time maintaining regular updates - this is obvious - I don't think it's fair to Tom to say that that's the ONLY reason. I don't recall the comic ever being late back before Tom went full-time, and I can (but won't) point to many, many more successful webcomics which are the author's full-time gig that don't update anywhere close to regularly. That isn't to say I could do better than those artists (because I doubt I could), but I think we should give Tom credit for being an unusually dedicated, industrious creator.
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Nov 2, 2015 19:01
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He definitely is, the comic has never missed an update by more than an hour or two, caused by technical issues.
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Nov 2, 2015 20:30
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I think that moving to working on the comic fulltime had nowhere near as much effect on size of the backlog as it did on the quality of the pages.
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Nov 2, 2015 20:46
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Andarel posted:Tatsuya Ishida has also been absurdly consistent on Sinfest for years as well. Most people have regular bowel movements to be fair
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Nov 2, 2015 22:41
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I love that Patreon gives me a way to support comic creators in a direct way, and has enabled a number of comics I love to become full time jobs for their creators, update more often, etc, but credit where credit's due: Tom was doing his 3-days-a-week thing long before Patreon and before he left his job to do GC full-time. I assume the regular income from Patreon makes it easier for him to continue doing this, and not having a "day job" clearly gives him much more time to put into GC and related projects.
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Nov 3, 2015 03:40
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Tom also made GC his full-time job before Patreon was created.
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Nov 3, 2015 13:25
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Hremsfeld posted:Are we sure Tom's not just Coyote in disguise, writing stories about himself? We're all coyote <-----
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Nov 3, 2015 13:32
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Andarel posted:Tatsuya Ishida has also been absurdly consistent on Sinfest for years as well. That's easy when you keep making the same comic over and over again.
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Nov 3, 2015 13:43
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Now that is a chapter page.
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Nov 4, 2015 09:02
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GodFish posted:Now that is a chapter page. I think it's gonna be a fake out and not all cloak and dagger poo poo. Tom has been building that up too much.
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Nov 4, 2015 09:07
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Demiurge4 posted:I think it's gonna be a fake out and not all cloak and dagger poo poo. Tom has been building that up too much. The chapter is going to be one page long: Annie will walk in and say "I want Reynardine back." and then Tony will say "Fine." THE END
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Nov 4, 2015 09:11
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Similarly even if it were a cloak and dagger chapter we've already established how trivial a task it is for the gang to get into Tony's house  . It'd be over in one page as they just blink in, pick up Rey, and blink out.
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Nov 4, 2015 09:24
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This chapter is going to be about Annie dealing with teen acne.
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Nov 4, 2015 09:28
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The chapter is going to be about Annie spending her class break out in the courtyard with her dad and Rey.
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Tom reversed the page again, it's actually a belated Halloween zombie episode.
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