And now it’s stalled again as of July. Maybe Commander Kitty will fare better, after being on hiatus for three years.
Oh Erfworld totally imploded in October. They’ve stripped the site and had OOTS pull his mirror as well. It’s a big tragedy, and they kept it on the down low, but it’s their son that had the issue, I think he was her son and his step son.
But the whole thing is gone and quite a bit of the original stuff and fan stuff is totally inaccessible unless you were a high tier donator at the end.
Any Schlock Mercenary fans here?
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I read it.
will post in the spoiler room, something I want to discuss about the current story arc
I used to, but haven’t in several years. It kind of got in a rut for me, and my schedule changed so I wasn’t eating breakfast at a desktop in the morning like I used to.
Some of the old Erfworld stuff may still be salvageable through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. I’ve used that before. I need to spend time going back through the old Angst Technology comics and the 2 or 3 others Barry T. Smith did. He took them off his website a few years back, then put the archives back up, and they’re gone again. His website is a straight “here’s my professional qualifications” website now.
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I really enjoyed Angst Technology… I may still have a backup laying around somewhere from the last time I read it through, but I suspect it is sadly on a defunct machine.
And then I poked the sleeping giant to search: https://comics.beardedcoffeemonkey.com/series/angst-technology/intro/
Ah. I was looking at intank-studios.com. He must have removed the links or moved everything over to a different site.
I think he may have either gotten an Offer He Couldn’t Refuse for the URL or was trying to ‘go legit’ with it for contract work, and it didn’t pan out.
Honestly, my webcomic list is a shadow of it’s former self as I only read via Facebook or RSS. So:
- XKCD
- Bloom County
- Penny Arcade
- Devil’s Panties
Today marked the end of the Retail comic strip. The author decided he wanted to focus on writing children’s books. Unless you get a subscription to the Comics Kingdom site, only about the last seven days of each comic they publish is visible.
Retail appears to have been completely removed from the Comics Kingdom site.
Real Life’s back yet again and has had a consistent publishing schedule for about a month now. In it, the character Greg Dean is having a conversation with his inner self, which is strongly female and has been trying to get his attention for a while.
So, we’ve had a long hiatus due to undiagnosed sleep apnea and depression, followed by about six months of a semi-regular publishing schedule, followed by about another year gap before the current storyline. I’m thinking we’re going to hear an announcement from artist Greg Dean not long from now.
That announcement’s already been made via Twitter and the Facebook group.
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I ignore Twitter as much as possible so I didn’t see that. But on the website and on the individual comics, Dean’s previous name is still listed, so within the comic it hasn’t been announced yet. It’s still in the talking stage and hasn’t reached the decision point.
I think she called that out and mentioned that the name on the comic was going to remain as-is for the archives and throughout (at least some of) this 3-week story, and then would likely get updated going forward, but you’re not wrong. She’s basically adapting her own discovery story for the comic and using it as both an announcement and a way to tell her story.
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I haven’t ever read this comic before but I went back to June 29 and started the current storyline. Holy shit I could have written about 85% of that myself.
Good on the author finally being able to be her true self. I was a bit older and it took a bit longer for the egg to crack, but so much of this mirrors my experience.
I almost put this in the Something Completely Different thread. I think that’s what made me guess the current storyline was leading to.
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I read it years ago and it was int he “meh” category when I last read it, admittedly. Wasn’t particularly entertaining, but wasn’t bad Just kind of there. Like a lot of newspaper comics. Your experience may, of course, differ. (And the current comic may be very different from the past… couple decades?)
I briefly got it confused with Ctrl-Alt-Delete, which I think imploded a few times and was more a more exaggerated “slice of life” kind of thing. And did the infamous “loss” comic and following controversy. Similar styles (both of which have been described unflatteringly as peers or knock-offs of turn of the century Penny Arcade, but I think this was generally the better of the two. Just kind of a ‘b’ tier comic back when I read far too many.
I kind of need to prune my old Webcomics links since I do touch my desktop in the morning now.
https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=july-17-2020
And there it is.
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