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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

his comic has cyborg from ghost in the shell murdering the cast of star trek, why bother trying to do serious?

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this broken hill
Apr 10, 2018

by Lowtax
to make a good webcomic you must first come to the realisation that you're not actually a person in the way the 21st century defines personhood, but a momentary love song that the universe hums to its own reflection. only then can you sit down at your thousand-dollar drafting chair and paint some transcendent t&a

this broken hill
Apr 10, 2018

by Lowtax
it was a powerful moment for me when i realised that the rear end i'd been coveting all these years was not my own; this rear end belongs only to the lord who made it, and every time i extol its glories i am extolling not the glories of the rear end itself, but of its sculptor

this broken hill
Apr 10, 2018

by Lowtax
the other thing diaz needs to realise is that whether we try to or not, we all speak with the intonation of our father

this broken hill
Apr 10, 2018

by Lowtax
i hope he's reading this and that my words give him some comfort in his time of need

this broken hill
Apr 10, 2018

by Lowtax
honest realisation is at the heart of all good porn

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
God, I missed you.

Archenteron
Nov 3, 2006

:marc:

PMush Perfect posted:

God, I missed you.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

PMush Perfect posted:

God, I missed you.

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."
It becomes possible that Dresden Codak talk is poorly-suited to the thread for liking webcomics in.

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."
Instead we should probably talk about what's going on in Stand Still, Stay Silent, because god drat.

oh wait no that is the opposite of what He has done

jalapeno_dude
Apr 10, 2015
someone catch me up on Sluggy Freelance

I think I gave up reading it sometime during the 4U city arc

1. did we ever find out what the name of the comic means
2. what's bun bun up to these days? did he take revenge on all the holidays? last thing i remember was something with the groundhog's shadow
3. does the website navigation still have 99.9% of the comic in "comics not yet in books"

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


this broken hill posted:

to make a good webcomic you must first come to the realisation that you're not actually a person in the way the 21st century defines personhood, but a momentary love song that the universe hums to its own reflection. only then can you sit down at your thousand-dollar drafting chair and paint some transcendent t&a

yeah K6B is great

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://twitter.com/tomselleck69/status/986410575457636352

100 comics in there

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Bongo Bill posted:

I think that Aaron Diaz could be a great cartoonist if he can recognize the need to defeat his ego, and then subsequently do it.
Also if he wasn't the writer, because Dresden Codak is awful. The problem is that the "industry" work he could do literally pays less than Patreon and chews up/spits out people.

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

Typical Pubbie posted:

That's still progress, though? This is the guy who called Mary Cagle a poo poo for giving him some feather light criticism on tumblr. Shutting up is an improvement.




His patreon has been bleeding donors for over a year now. He's the only major webcomic creator I know of who's patreon is shrinking rather than growing.

I mean, that's fair. People can get sick of the lack of updates for their money, too. Maybe that is what prompted this? He's still getting $4k a month though, which is a pretty decent wage. Speaking of, he ever hire that part time assistant he promised if he hit a certain patreon threshold?

Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Apr 18, 2018

this broken hill
Apr 10, 2018

by Lowtax
i'm going to become a patreon multimillionaire and get a movie and a broadway musical

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Better start brushing up on your really hosed up fetish porn then

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

In Wilde Life today a bear is fighting with a giant snake and I'm like "woah cool"

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."

jalapeno_dude posted:

1. did we ever find out what the name of the comic means
2. what's bun bun up to these days? did he take revenge on all the holidays? last thing i remember was something with the groundhog's shadow
3. does the website navigation still have 99.9% of the comic in "comics not yet in books"

1) Bun-bun is in fact Lord Sluggy, the ancient god of power from the forgotten kingdom of Mohkadun. After their chief god threw a hissy fit and removed himself beyond time and space, every other god found themselves at a loose end. Basically every supernatural figure in the comic ever (Uncle Time, the moon twin, etc) is one of the gods of Mohkadun gone "freelance."
2) Bun-bun was defeated by the holidays after nearly killing them all and thrown out into timeless space (again). He wound up following his past self to find the way out because he didn't remember it (because he beat himself up and gave himself head trauma). He is now hiding in a box in the spaceship Zoe and Gwynn took to get to space.
3) Somehow the comic's navigation became even worse.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

Regy Rusty posted:

In Wilde Life today a bear is fighting with a giant snake and I'm like "woah cool"

I really like today's page. A man is watching a giant bear and a giant snake wrestle 10 feet away and his first instinct is to go sprint through the shallows to check on doggo fren :3:

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

This rips

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Straight White Shark posted:

I really like today's page. A man is watching a giant bear and a giant snake wrestle 10 feet away and his first instinct is to go sprint through the shallows to check on doggo fren :3:

And the peculiar Oscar religious undertones continue with him not-quite walking on water...

grassy gnoll
Aug 27, 2006

The pawsting business is tough work.

Isn't this the Lucid TV guy?

Wrist Watch
Apr 19, 2011

What?

Rand Brittain posted:

1) Bun-bun is in fact Lord Sluggy, the ancient god of power from the forgotten kingdom of Mohkadun. After their chief god threw a hissy fit and removed himself beyond time and space, every other god found themselves at a loose end. Basically every supernatural figure in the comic ever (Uncle Time, the moon twin, etc) is one of the gods of Mohkadun gone "freelance."
2) Bun-bun was defeated by the holidays after nearly killing them all and thrown out into timeless space (again). He wound up following his past self to find the way out because he didn't remember it (because he beat himself up and gave himself head trauma). He is now hiding in a box in the spaceship Zoe and Gwynn took to get to space.
3) Somehow the comic's navigation became even worse.

I'm not entirely unconvinced Sluggy Freelance isn't real and that I just imagined it during a particularly bad fever dream

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Last few years of Sluggy:

- Dr. Schlock became the de-facto main bad guy. Takes control of Hereti-Corp, did lots of horrible things to lots of people, including causing the death of Zoe. (She got bettter).
- Riff spent a while in 4U City, an alternate dimension where the entire world was a wasteland except for one city where everyone was kept alive, unaging, and drugged into a blissful stupor with nanobots. He eventually discovered that this was a potential future in which Schlock had stolen all of Riff's tech and wiped out the rest of the world with orbital dimensional flux agitators.
- Once Riff is back home, the gang discovered that their own Dr. Schlock is following a similar pattern, copying Riff's mechs and DFAs.
- Schlock is also obsessed with Oasis, eventually discovering that her whole 'fire-starter powers' and 'multiple bodies' thing is a convoluted setup where O.A.S.I.S. is actually an orbital computer AI that is quantum-entangled with the organic brains in the bodies. Her ability to make things combust by looking at them is actually the orbital satellite shooting down a laser or something. He is currently in the process of capturing the satellite and replacing the laser with another DFA, one step in the path to 4U City.
- Sasha, Riff's most steady girlfriend, is revealed to be a Hereti-Corp deep cover agent, who can also swap bodies like Oasis.
- Currently all the protagonists are attacking Schlock's orbital spacestation, hoping to kill Schlock before he can take control of the O.A.S.I.S. AI.


Resolved and unlikely to show up again:
- Dimension hopping
- Aylee
- The camel thing
- The Dimension of Pain
- Probably the Torg Potter stuff, that hasn't shown in up a long-rear end time
- The civilization of inflatable digbots
- The Holiday Wars stuff

Unresolved and will probably show up again:
- K'Z'K is still in Gwen's head and she may stay in orbit because apparently magic doesn't work outside of the atmosphere!?!
- The Sampire is, if I'm remembering correctly, still just a big bag of meat clumps.

Bobulus fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 18, 2018

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."

Bobulus posted:

- Sasha, Riff's most steady girlfriend, is revealed to be a Hereti-Corp deep cover agent, who can also swap bodies like Oasis.

More particularly, Sasha was Kusari all along.

Kusari is apparently a sucky attempt to make a new OASIS, but because her brain is quantum-entangled with an old AIM server, she has no emotions except petulant envy.

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

FATAL & Friends
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What happened to the alien goop dog dragon?

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."

Mors Rattus posted:

What happened to the alien goop dog dragon?

...I honestly don't remember. She's still around somewhere? I don't think she came into space.

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

FATAL & Friends
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2014-2018

did the demons ever stop crossing over with that one other webcomic about the weirdo bandit guy?

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Mors Rattus posted:

What happened to the alien goop dog dragon?

Rand Brittain posted:

...I honestly don't remember. She's still around somewhere? I don't think she came into space.

She got a stable humanoid form. I think she got stabbed on Earth during the last assault on the antagonists. She's not dead, but she's out of commission for now, supposedly.


Mors Rattus posted:

did the demons ever stop crossing over with that one other webcomic about the weirdo bandit guy?

Yeah, that ended. And then they invaded a dimension of purely 'good/naive' people and Torg had to go save it. I honestly don't remember how this resolved, but whoever is ruling the DoP at the moment seems to have no interest in invading Earth.

Oh, I do remember that the DoP was revealed to also be an alternate potential future for Earth, where mutagens that make people look all monstery and behave violently get loose.

Ditocoaf
Jun 1, 2011

You guys are making this all up, right? It's a spot-on parody of something or another.

AriadneThread
Feb 17, 2011

The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.


Ditocoaf posted:

You guys are making this all up, right? It's a spot-on parody of something or another.

nope
sluggy freelance makes homestuck look reasonable, imo

don't forget the shlock's space station that all the heroes are invading is made of inflatable technology, and so was the spaceship they used to get there

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Sluggy Freelance is a real wild ride. It can be fun when you're following it, but it's absolutely insane when you're trying to follow the long-running plotlines. It's like a soap opera with no editor. It's only really bad when it's going for wacky drama instead of wacky comedy, but I haven't been reading for a few years now, so I don't know how far it's gone down that road.

Did the talking sword ever get a ridiculous backstory? That seems like something Sluggy would do.

AriadneThread
Feb 17, 2011

The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.


SlothfulCobra posted:

Sluggy Freelance is a real wild ride. It can be fun when you're following it, but it's absolutely insane when you're trying to follow the long-running plotlines. It's like a soap opera with no editor. It's only really bad when it's going for wacky drama instead of wacky comedy, but I haven't been reading for a few years now, so I don't know how far it's gone down that road.

Did the talking sword ever get a ridiculous backstory? That seems like something Sluggy would do.

i don't remember what the sword's backstory is, but the recent strips have had some god awful 'puns' centered around a model of mechsuit code named DIRE-REA
it's not even dad-bad, just loving gross man

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

WASP CREW
I think we should all take fifteen minutes out of our busy lives to look back on the webcomics of our youth, the ones we abandoned or forgot or never read in the first place. See if they're still around. Did those long runners ever get a conclusion, or did the authors just give up on their schedule, or are they still going?

All the Sluggy Freelance stuff made me curious, it looks like General Protection Fault, Kevin & Kell, and Megatokyo, for example, are all somehow still kicking.

Burkion
May 10, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
http://www.fulltimeink.com/plt/20180418/

Still going

Rexxed
May 1, 2010

Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

http://www.clanofthecats.com/

Stopped years ago with some sputters of activity. The artist is talking about a reboot for the almost 20 year anniversary.

Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It
The guys from Mac Hall still do strips now and then at Three Panel Soul

Jackard fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Apr 19, 2018

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Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

Pokey the Penguin still going strong.

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