I read the first 800 episodes of 8-Bit Theater over and over again in Afghanistan in 2006; I’ve never gone back to see how it ended. (I had those ones in PDFs on a laptop with no internet connectivity.)
8-Bit Theater deserves some credit for ending. The author realized it was played out and ended at a good point, I think.
Same guy went on to write Atomic Robo, right? That’s a good series as well (in traditional comics, not web comics). Reminiscent of Hellboy, (which I’m reading a lot of lately) but a bit less angsty and heavy-handed (pun acknowledged). It acknowledges that ‘fun’ is something that can and should occur in comics.
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I had heard of Atomic Robo, but not read it (nor made that connection with 8BT). Now I’d like to finish the latter and start the former…
Schlock Mercenary is winding down. He’s either on the last book or the next to last book.
And Erfworld has finally finished the 4th book, which turned out to be the second half of what was labelled the 3rd book.
Goblins is still slow as hell, but finally starting to get somewhere again.
And OotS is still awesome, but super slow.
I also particularly liked the way that Dominic Deegan ended.
Did I mentioned Wapsi Square?
Carbosilicate Amorphs FTW!!!
Here’s my issue with a couple comics… I read them for years, and then stopped for a while, and it takes so long to find my place again I lose interest in reading them. I’ve picked this one up two or three times, including at the very beginning, and it drops off whenever I have a busy season.
I liked Wapsi for the longest time…but then the whole cast of characters shifted and now I have no gorram idea what’s going on. It used to be about Monica, Shelley, Tina, and the Chimera Girls. Now it’s about…highschool monster girls?
Hear hear.
College Roomies from Hell was sorta ok, but then the reboot happened, but it did not hook me in.
I still follow Wapsi, though yeah, it makes less sense after the initial arc finished.
I picked up Nothing Special by Katie Cook recently, and it has been cute.
Oh, bother. I was about to describe how I just found Nothing Special via the Dork Tower guest comic strips and it’s already been recommended. It’s pretty good. She posts the comics as chapters in a book. Currently on chapter 22 of book 2.
Working through Schlock Mercenary again, from the first strip.
And taking the time to read some of the comments by the cartoonist.
This made me laugh.
I’m so upset that I can’t find my roommate’s hard copy of the books. I bought all of them for him for Christmas and I can’t find them anywhere. 
Howard Tayler is one of the hosts of Writing Excuses, a wonderful writing podcast I listen to. I keep thinking I need to check out Shlock Mercenary - it sounds interesting when he talks about it on the podcast.
It’s awesome, and in it’s last book. I’ve been reading it since 2005 or so.
Ag no man, that is not good news 
If you haven’t read Nothing Special by Katie Cook, it’s picking up steam with a lot of intrigue surrounding an inheritance.
The comic is also very interesting from a technical standard. She’s posting it on WebToon, which has a vertical arrangement for comics to better fit a smartphone or tablet. I think Katie said at one point that she’s hitting the limit of page dimensions that Adobe Photoshop can handle.
There are some sections of the comics that could be rearranged if it ever was going to be published in a book and sometimes there are background images and transitions between the sections that would have to be cut up in order to do so.
In today’s comic, the background illustrations tie no less than eleven sections together into one flowing sequence. There is no way to chop this up into a format for a printed book without severely affecting how the story feels.
Noted a shit-ton of easter eggs liberally sprinkled throughout Schlock Mercenary. Great stuff.
We need a couple of carbosilicate amorphs to keep the bad guys in check.
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Nothing Special has been nominated for “Best Webcomic” for the 2019 Ringo Awards. Those are given out at the Baltimore Comic-Con, which is running October 18-20. So about this time next month, we’ll know who one. Go, Katie!
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