# Does anybody still read Sluggy Freelance anymore? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244 "2016-11-17T07:44:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/1 "2016-11-17T07:44:16Z")
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. Anyone else still reading it? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/2 "2016-11-17T09:32:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/3 "2016-11-17T09:48:40Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/4 "2016-11-17T11:39:23Z")
I haven’t even thought about Sluggy Freelance in years. Wow. I just wandered away from it and never bothered to look again. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/5 "2016-11-17T12:30:11Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > 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. Yeah, this is about where I stopped reading the strip, too. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/6 "2016-11-17T15:00:37Z")
Yes, I still read it. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/7 "2016-11-17T15:57:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/8 "2016-11-17T15:59:12Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I haven’t even thought about Sluggy Freelance in years. Wow. > > I just wandered away from it and never bothered to look again. 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. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/9 "2016-11-17T16:18:41Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I drifted away from it four or five years ago…probably during that same time period (Bun-Bun in the Timeless Sea) That’s actually more like 10 years ago… ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/10 "2016-11-17T16:33:50Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > That’s actually more like 10 years ago… I suppose that tells you just how long that plotline felt. 😉 I changed jobs in late 2011; I remember that it was about that time when I stopped reading the strip regularly. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/11 "2016-11-17T18:08:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/12 "2016-11-17T18:56:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/13 "2016-11-17T21:04:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/14 "2016-11-17T21:18:09Z")
I got annoyed with most of the original characters dying or being aliens and such …and it just faded away from memory ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/15 "2016-11-18T00:06:04Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Nope, not for years - since that stupid storyline where … BunBun was on a pirate ship in the sea of time or something? 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. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/16 "2016-11-18T00:37:57Z")
Yup. SF lost me during the Pirate Bun-Bun debacle, too. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/17 "2016-11-18T02:15:33Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Nope, not for years - since that stupid storyline where … BunBun was on a pirate ship in the sea of time or something? That’s when it lost me too. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/18 "2016-11-18T02:45:39Z")
Well hell, I like Bun bun. I wish he was in the comic more often. Santa-Waste the fat man! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-still-read-sluggy-freelance-anymore/772244/19 "2016-11-18T03:34:36Z")
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.