Friday marked a mental/emotional checkpoint for Greg’s transition (the character). This week seems to be starting physical and behavior changes.
Schlock Mercenary as it’s next to last, maybe, strip tonight… I’ve been reading this for 15+ years, I don’t know what to do now.
Same here.
There’s Girl Genius, but I will miss the amorph.
Schlock on the rampage is a sight to behold.
Me too. I started reading it when it was about 10 years in, so I had a lot to catch up on, but it’s been part of my daily routine for years.
Space, the final frontier.
These are the voyages of Schlock the Amorph and its friends, to boldly go where no amorph has gone before.
I’m trying to get back into a few webcomics as it’s a better ‘break’ activity for me than some other ones, and I do currently have a Very Short Commute.
Schlock Mercenary is a bit daunting as it’s quite long. I’m skimming the early books (that I’ve read a few times previously) and no idea when I dropped off.
Real Life is good in the new iteration: I looked at some archives and I think it’s one of those strips that works best when it’s a step away from reality, but struggles when it’s too far off. More ‘Real Life’ less “Calvinball in Space” where the characters are doing weird sci-fi adventures, but you somehow know it’s going to revert to the characters basically at home.
Order of the Stick is epic similar too Schlock… But trading daily short updates for infrequent page-length updates. I’ve had it in my RSS feed forever, but been avoiding it.
Mostly up-to-date on Penny Arcade, XKCD, and a couple others.
I’ve started a complete read through again.
I read Grrrrrl Power and I’m letting it build up again so I can read more.
I haven’t read Penny Arcade in ages, I need to find somewhere to read from.
Goblins is slow as usual.
I miss the carbosilicate amorph. And the rest of the crew.
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Reading some comics I have let slip. This one is surprisingly close to discussions my wife and I have had:
http://www.dorktower.com/2020/06/30/bread-ahead-dork-tower-30-06-20/
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I never have a problem with leftover bread. If anything I have a hard time keeping it around for more than an hour after it comes out of the oven. The new roommates really, really love my sourdough.
Well, my “Get back into webcomics” means I’m caught up on Dork Tower after last week. So… One down.
Brooke McEldowney draws 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn. Sometimes the two cross over but mostly Pibgorn is separate. It’s a bit more adult than 9CL and typically has a fantasy setting or a mix of fantasy/reality.
In January last year, he started a new chapter called “Luda and Ut, or, the Provenance …of Pib”, set in a particularly repressive part of the Middle Ages.
That ran for most of the year, and then on October 13, he posted the following, which is he’s restarting this story line as more of an illustrated novel. The publishing schedule is erratic. Sometimes it’s a couple weeks in between releases, others it’s just days. It’s worth checking frequently to see what’s new.
In today’s 9 Chickweed Lane, the space alien Thorax is talking with his son, I think, about his patronymic (a name derived from one of your male ancestors like a parent, grandparent, etc.) He lists it as “Ichbinderweltabhandengekommen”. When you break that up into separate words, it’s German for “I got hold of the belt.”
Jeff Darlington just updated the News section of his General Protection Fault comic website. Highlights:
- It’s GPF’s 22nd anniversary.
- He was interviewed recently by Betty Adams, who wrote Dying Embers and Humans Are Weird: I have the Data. You can watch the interview on YouTube in two parts.
- He announced the GPF will be ending in a few years. The way he’s tracked years has varied in the past, so it’s either going to be on the 25th anniversary (November 2nd, 2023) or at the end of the 25th year (October 31, 2024). Depending on how things go, it could wrap up early or extend a bit.
GPF is coming up to a nice cliffhanger. Can’t wait for this arc to be concluded.
in SECURITY has been around since 2017 and has a lot going for it. First of all, it’s a primarily hand-drawn comic strip that only becomes digital in the final artwork stages. Second, the author and her husband did long-term planning for the comic.
How long-term? It’s been mentioned a few times that they planned the comic to run five years. The story arcs are given titles which are posted on the Webtoon site, but often change once the comics are published in a book. Book #3 was released earlier this year.
Beyond that, they had been leading up to a very heavy sports story that plays out at “Supper Bowl LVI”. It was going to be their swan song/magnum opus until they confirmed they’ll keep going for a sixth year They just announced that this story that takes place at this one sporting event is going to span an entire year. When some people complained about it, the artist’s husband (who works with her in making the comic though she’s credited solely for it) popped into the comments section yesterday and said they had this planned back in 2016 and they’re not changing now.
I’ve been working on cleaning up a wiki dedicated to the comic strip and have been matching when each strip was published online versus where it appeared in the books. Once I get a bit more done, I’ll post the link.
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If you’re a fan of Girl Genius, the short story they started on Friday the 25th is titled “Franz Scortchmaw, Great Dragon of Mechanicsburg And The Story We Haven’t Named Yet”.
I think we might be close to losing Real Life Comics. The updates are very intermittent and the website has been offline for a couple of weeks. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine shows more instances where the site has been unreachable than the few times it was working.
Understandable.
Schlock is gone. I miss him.
I’ll most probably also miss GPF.
You may be happy to know I’ve heard the animated Star Trek shows have apparently recently featured an immense space koala. Maybe a Schlock reference.
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