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Neglected Mario Characters did sprite comics before Bob & George, and I'm ... sort of confident? That 8-Bit Theater was more successful, it definitely felt like it had more influence at the time (in that it colored how half the internet characterized black mages). Bob & George is a weird pick, is what I'm saying.
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Now that I think about it, Lesnick should be on that list. Slipshine provided a working subscription model and has provided an income boost for a fair number off people to have their day job be comics.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:Now that I think about it, Lesnick should be on that list. Slipshine provided a working subscription model and has provided an income boost for a fair number off people to have their day job be comics.
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while we're on the webcomics cult of celebrity thing, just for the record i have been incredibly unfair to tom siddell, a man of inhuman work ethic and dedication, and i regret my words and deeds
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I never would've expected that Annie's dad issues were due to nanomachines, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense
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Ditocoaf posted:
It's weird to already be seeing nostalgic throwbacks to that very late 90s/early 2000 style of comics where in the third year the two gamer guys on the couch are thrown into the very serious battle to save Earth from the alien Zo'Loft and the wacky Linux penguin sidekick tragically sacrifices himself to save the team, but otoh I kinda want Questionable Content to do the same thing
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the only two comics i've seen that successfully transitioned from zany early-oughts Jhonen Vasquez fare to actual drama were Sam & Fuzzy and Zebra Girl, and while the latter did it with more elegance the former managed to stay reasonably funny even after the change
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how zany was early schlock mercenary
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Pretty zany, but most of what changed there was just the scale, it's still pretty fuckin' zany to my understanding.
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to an extent, but it actually feels like it hit a certain stride at some point and has held on that tack since. like, it found what it wanted to be? which is goofy mil/merc sci-fi mixed w technological singularity stuff although that might be partly because of the comic also finding its serial formula plot-wise somewhere down the line. yknow the whole character turnover conveyer belt etc
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The first couple years were really fuckin silly, nothing but lawyer jokes and poop. It settled down pretty quickly, but I don't know what it's been doing for the past 8 or so years because I gave up.
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long story short dark matter aliens from the andromeda galaxy are teleporting lasers into a specific kind of technology in the milky way, also the singularity is happening in the background
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that might sound loving awesome but i only really ever read it because i forget it exists for a week or two at a time and then when i remember hey it exists, hey theres a bunch of pages to read before going back to compulsive opening and closing browser tabs/roguelikes
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The comic is interesting in that the large-scale plot has scaled up and scaled up so much that we've reached 'Everyone has functional immortality provided the universe isn't destroyed', which is just bonkers. Also, yes, there is functionally no difference between meat-brains and computer-brains, and it is technically possible to hop back and forth between them, although it isn't an everyday occurrence.
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Tollymain posted:closing browser tabs stop lying
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Bobulus posted:The comic is interesting in that the large-scale plot has scaled up and scaled up so much that we've reached 'Everyone has functional immortality provided the universe isn't destroyed', which is just bonkers. Also, yes, there is functionally no difference between meat-brains and computer-brains, and it is technically possible to hop back and forth between them, although it isn't an everyday occurrence. functional immortality provided their capacity to revive/resurrect the dead is not disrupted/destroyed simultaneously w other infrastructure tall order but the enemy is literally teleporting lasers at them from another galaxy so it kinda evens out Mors Rattus posted:stop lying hey im closing them almost as fast as i open them
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i guess the best way to put it is that schlock has an internal logic and its pretty consistent to that internal logic, zany as it is
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Schlock has almost literally become Lensman.
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Tollymain posted:how zany was early schlock mercenary Schlock Mercenary has remained perfectly tonally consistent while adding so many layers of sideplot and vast galaxy-spanning revelations that totally change everything for so long that it's absolutely impossible to tell what the gently caress is going on in it anymore. Like yeah since the comic's start everyone's become immortal and learned to teleport anywhere instantaneously and an omnipotent war computer has taken over the galaxy as god-emperor and ancient invisible eldritch monsters have started plotting to consume civilization and some kind of dyson sphere of undead also-omnipotent also-AIs has just also taken over the galaxy, and all of these things are always directly relevant and need to be understood, in order to make sense of today's dad joke. I'm pretty sure I missed a couple of things somewhere in there. Oxxidation posted:the only two comics i've seen that successfully transitioned from zany early-oughts Jhonen Vasquez fare to actual drama were Sam & Fuzzy and Zebra Girl, and while the latter did it with more elegance the former managed to stay reasonably funny even after the change it's still decently funny it's just really not gonna make me care about or take seriously the problems of the, uh, ninja mafia kingdom A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Nov 29, 2018 |
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it's gone the dr mcninja route of taking absurdist concepts and incorporating them into a functional narrative framework (in S&F's case it's mostly about the disintegration of identity and morality) instead of just jazz-handsing at a ninja polar bear or a malevolent refrigerator and waiting for the APPLAUSE sign to light up whether or not it's successful is a different matter but at least it shows significant growth on the creator's part
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the most influential webcomic is megaGAMERZ 3133T
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In the "also still going for some reason" category is Sluggy Freelance... I guess. I just opened the site for the first time in about a decade - you have to scroll past 2 screens of web 2.0 garbage that makes you think the site is down before actually reading the current page, the comic now looks a lot like Megatokyo, there's links to archived strips to explain the plot references in the current strip, and I can't find the "back" button to read a previous strip. So yeah, it's aged really well! Oh, you can still buy a plush toy of a rabbit with a switchblade. So random! NIFTY!
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Rotten Red Rod posted:the comic now looks a lot like Megatokyo, It doesn't look anything like Megatokyo. Honestly, Sluggy's basic look hasn't particularly changed in years.
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Ok, maybe that was a bad comparison, but it certainly looks considerably more anime than it used to. Which makes sense, from what I (barely) remember about the plot it was just thinly-veiled Tenchi Muyo.
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The latest update has kind of a How to Draw Manga vibe to it, that's what I mean: I'm not doing any more research than that because it's not 2001
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I can't find the "back" button to read a previous strip. Yeah, Sluggy's archive were changed some time ago and there's no longer separate pages for individual strips. Instead you get entire books worth of strips on each archive page. You'd better not have a limited data plan! So when you look at one of the references given, then you first need to wait forever as every single other strip from the same book is also loaded.
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Cat Mattress posted:Yeah, Sluggy's archive were changed some time ago and there's no longer separate pages for individual strips. Instead you get entire books worth of strips on each archive page. You'd better not have a limited data plan! So what was the intended use case of this, do you think?
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Meanwhile, Monster Pulse closes out its 32nd chapter with a graphical approximation of this day in US political history.
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Mors Rattus posted:So what was the intended use case of this, do you think? Beats me.  Bingers perhaps.
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nine-gear crow posted:Meanwhile, Monster Pulse closes out its 32nd chapter with a graphical approximation of this day in US political history. i hope lulenski still exists to somehow make worse decisions
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I've been thinking that one of these days I'll catch up on sluggy freelance for a few years now. That's the main way I fall away from webcomics, the backlog gets big enough that it's too much work to catch up.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I've been thinking that one of these days I'll catch up on sluggy freelance for a few years now. but why though
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Is there a trick to finding webcomics that don't seem to move at a snails pace? I feel like I keep finding these cool, well drawn stories with interesting premises and when I reach the end I realize it's been going for multiple years and still hasn't finished the setup.
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Xun posted:Is there a trick to finding webcomics that don't seem to move at a snails pace? I feel like I keep finding these cool, well drawn stories with interesting premises and when I reach the end I realize it's been going for multiple years and still hasn't finished the setup. A "trick"? You could read only the ones that have been completed, I guess, but there's really no such thing as a good webcomic that doesn't update slowly... It's kind of the nature of the medium that it takes a while to do.
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