# Help kill Sluggy! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040 "2003-07-21T23:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/21 "2003-07-24T21:44:03Z")
> [@](#): > > In fact the whole web cartoonist community strikes me as a little creepy. They have their own awareness weeks and give each other awards and stuff like that. Crossovers. Let’s not forget the crossovers. Goddamn crossovers. I hate them. If you aren’t reading both of the comics that are being… umm… crossed over?.. what you end up with is trying to keep track of the loveable band of rascals that you’ve grown accustomed to and another loveable band of rascals you haven’t grown accustomed to but who are suspiciously like the first loveable band of rascals. And crossover give off that creepy incestuous webcomic community vibe. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/22 "2003-07-24T22:01:32Z")
I’m a Defender of the Nifty. I feel so special. I also have a stuffed Bun-Bun sitting on top of my monitor. I like Sluggy. A lot. Enough to donate the required amount to get two pieces of original art thrown in as a bonus. I think Fire & Rain was the best webcomic sequence I’ve ever seen, both in content and in presentation. On the other hand, I absolutely hate that no-talent hack who is doing his Saturdays for him (that schlmo from Bruno the Bandit?) and I think he takes days off much too often. I’ve got a two-year membership to the Nifty, and if it pays off (that is, enough behind-the-scenes info, alternate strips, etc, etc) then I’d consider donating again. If Pete doesn’t deliver enough content for the patrons, or continues his habit of taking days off and not updating (or even falling a week behind and then saying ‘screw it’), I won’t renew. Lousy freeloading bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/23 "2003-07-24T22:11:28Z")
[Shameless plug] Don’t read Sluggy! Read Ur Cult! [/Shameless plug] _hides in shame, hoping no one will hit him_ ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/24 "2003-07-24T22:16:07Z")
Seriously, though. I hadn’t read Sluggy Freelance, and based on what I’ve seen of it just now, I’m not going to. I just think it’s a shame that a site can get in trouble _because_ it’s so popular: there’s something very sad about that, really. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/25 "2003-07-24T22:24:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Short Guy \* > \*\*Seriously, though. I hadn’t read Sluggy Freelance, and based on what I’ve seen of it just now, I’m not going to. I just think it’s a shame that a site can get in trouble _because_ it’s so popular: there’s something very sad about that, really. \*\* Sorry, what put you off? ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/26 "2003-07-24T22:30:49Z")
You mean, about Sluggy? Nothing in particular, I guess. Maybe I sounded a bit too strong: I wasn’t necessarily put off by anything, I just wasn’t… attracted to it either. Nothing personal 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/27 "2003-07-24T22:47:47Z")
My misunderstanding, I thought something put you off. If you’re just not blown away by it, fine. Not everyone is ( just people with a sense of humour… kidding 🙂 ) Everyone likes different things. But as a favour to me read the first Department of Pain arc if you haven’t already 🙂 If you don’t like that you won’t like sluggy imho. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/28 "2003-07-24T23:04:29Z")
How can you not like a comic that gets **Phil Foglio** to do their filler week? _Phil freakin’ Foglio!_ Drawing pictures of Zoe in lingerie! It’s comic heaven! Plus, I giggled at the stupid “What sound does a Swedish light saber make?” joke. ---
**Author:** ![spectrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@spectrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spectrum)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/29 "2003-07-24T23:06:50Z")
Before anyone writes off Sluggy they should read: The Sci-Fi Adventure: [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=970929](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=970929) Torg Goes to Hell: [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980427](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980427) K I T T E N: [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000605](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000605) And then go back and read everything so that you can catch “The War of the Bug Squashers,” “Fire & Rain” (the only Oasis story I ever liked), The Cloney Saga and “GOFOTRON: Champion of the Cosmos.” It is nifty. Worship the comic. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/30 "2003-07-25T06:07:42Z")
To late it was saved. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/31 "2003-07-25T06:21:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gazpacho \* > \*\*To late it was saved. \*\* Wrong version. _ **TOO** _. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/32 "2003-07-25T06:49:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*How can you not like a comic that gets **Phil Foglio** to do their filler week? _Phil freakin’ Foglio!_ Drawing pictures of Zoe in lingerie! It’s comic heaven! > > Plus, I giggled at the stupid “What sound does a Swedish light saber make?” joke. \*\* He did? Phil Foglio? FUCK! Now I have to slog through that mess of a web comic just to find a handful of decent strips. Argh! (Big Foglio fan, but don’t much like Sluggy Freelance) ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/33 "2003-07-25T07:00:58Z")
I _should_ make you slog through 'em, **Miller** , but here’s the link to the first Foglio strip: [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030622](http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030622) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/34 "2003-07-25T07:50:56Z")
I didn’t like **Sluggy** the first time I tried it. Nor the second. _Third_ time, though, something clicked, and I became One of the Nifty. Didn’t care for the “Kitten” storylines, but most of the others generally rock. “Bun-Bun vs. Santa Claus” is a perpetual favorite, especially when Mrs. Claus goes packin’… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/35 "2003-07-25T10:20:09Z")
sluggy is still good - i’ll admit i don’t read it quite so vividly as i used to, but i tend to go through cycles of web-comicism - sometimes prefering pvp, sometimes sluggy, sometimes userfriendly, sometimes penny arcade etc. To be honest the only one that never dims in my estimation is Megatokyo. ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/36 "2003-07-25T17:30:01Z")
**lno** , I know exactly what you mean. I still have little fuming fits every time I think about how badly that _Bruno the Bandit_ idiot has raped one of the best “side plots” of Sluggy Freelance. However, I must confess to a morbid curiosity regarding how Pete is going to integrate the newer, shittier Dimension of Pain into the main comic this Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/37 "2003-07-25T21:22:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tarrsk \* > However, I must confess to a morbid curiosity regarding how Pete is going to integrate the newer, shittier Dimension of Pain into the main comic this Halloween. He’ll send those godforsaken demon kids (wtf happened to them? Why are they kids? I refuse to go through the past few months of Saturdays to figure out why – my eyes will melt) to try to capture Torg and he’ll have the aforementioned no-talent hack do half of the artwork. Or maybe I’m just a little bitter, and want him to hurry up and explain the origins of Oasis already. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/38 "2003-07-25T23:04:28Z")
Agreed, the new DoP storyline sucks the sweat off dead donkey balls. But apart from that, Pete still manages to not only conjure up storylines that defy prediction but also slip in jokes that come at you out of the blue. Funny stuff. And **Shade** : It’s the **Wet _Splappity_ of Doom!** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/39 "2003-07-25T23:19:59Z")
I dunno, I _like_ the DoP sidebar storyline. And I don’t mind the “guest artist” biz. Horribus’ wife looks terrible, though. Anyone else up for a(nother) Sluggy sci-fi adventure? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040/40 "2003-07-25T23:29:18Z")
Hey, thanks **Balance**! Ah, Phil. Always golden. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-kill-sluggy/190040.md?page=3)