I still read this webcomic out of sheer habit, but it is really starting to drag on me. It used to be very quirky, with fun odd-ball characters, but now it feels like they’ve all become jerks and it’s taking too long to tell the story.
I’m really only reading anymore because I’m curious about Oasis, her origins and how they will deal with her. But I’m getting tired even of that, and now the author is saying he will finish as a webcomic in less than a year, but I don’t think he’ll wrap it all up by then.
Nope, not for years - since that stupid storyline where … BunBun was on a pirate ship in the sea of time or something? And I was a really huge fan, too - I have Kitten t-shirt even.
Oceans Unmoving, aka Motionless Oceans. I stuck it out through that one, but I dropped away soon after.
I like webcomics. I like “dull” and “talky” webcomics, sometimes (Questionable Content, I’m looking in your slow-paced soapy direction), if the characters and situations grab me. But something about Sluggy Freelance is just missing; I don’t know what, but I doubt I’ll come back to it anytime soon.
I read it religiously for years, and really enjoyed it back then. I even chipped in on a crowdfunding bit that he ran, and got a few original strips as a reward.
I drifted away from it four or five years ago…probably during that same time period (Bun-Bun in the Timeless Sea), when it felt like the story wasn’t really going anywhere, and the amount of humor in the strip seemed to be decreasing.
Same. Sluggy Freelance was probably my first webcomic that I followed with any regularity. I really enjoyed the earlier joke-a-day style format and then appreciated the longer narrative arcs he’d get into. But then the narrative sections just got longer and longer and less amusing. It was less a funny comic with some stretches of interesting narrative and more a long plod of narrative with the occasional flash of funny, which isn’t what I was reading it for. I think I dropped off during one of the Santa/Bun-Bun bits or parody bits from… God, at least seven+ years ago.
But, hey, if he’s still doing it then I assume he still has a readership so more power to him. It just became a comic that wasn’t for me. I’d say I’m curious about how it came together but I’m sure there’s a billion plotlines and characters that I’d know nothing about.
I also followed it until probably the Bun-Bun in the Timeless Sea stroy. I have a stuffed Bun-Bun with a knife plush toy I picked up at Comic-Con many years ago.
I still follow it because, if nothing else, I am a creature of habit. It’s much more plot directed now, especially as he seems to be trying to tie it all up in the next year or so.
Upon thinking about the last couple days worth of strips,
I’d guess that we’re going to learn a bit more about Oasis soon, in that one of the Hereti Corps prisoners (Chen?) told Teresa that he knew her mother. And there’s more than a passing resemblance between Teresa and Oasis.
It’s been years. I really liked the Timeless Space story, and certainly continued reading after it, but I don’t recall exactly what got me stopping reading it. Probably had a change in life circumstances and my daily routine was changed up. I have no desire to go read years of it though.
That was around the time I quit, although the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was the second or third Harry Potter parody. I’m vague on the details now, but I’d thought the first HP parody sucked and then a boring main storyline got put on hold for another bad HP parody and I decided I’d had enough.
I still read it, but he’s fallen a long way from the likes of Fire and Rain or That Which Redeems.
It’s funny, though. While I agree Oceans Unmoving was two(!) poor arcs, I felt the one in between that cut back to the main cast was one of the worst he’s ever done.
