Not only is this a stretch, but I’d really be happy if we didn’t confuse a tragicomedy about the end of the world brought about by a deranged fossil and his evil henchmen with my favorite web comic.
I’m pretty sure that he started planting the seeds for this mutiny before the election, and I imagine that he intended right from the start to show that the chief mutineer was unsuited for leadership. Plus, “incompetent leadership” is about the only commonality between Andi and Trump: She’s extremely competent in her proper role, she took power through a sudden mutiny instead of through a protracted legitimate election, she’s a young woman instead of an old man, she has good hair, etc.
Yes, you’re right, Chronos. Politics has been on everyone’s (certainly mine) mind way too much the last half year or so, so this kind of thing jumps out at me where it wouldn’t under more usual conditions.
Besides everyone knows Xykon is the strip’s Trump stand-in.
Not worth the wait, IMHO. I probably need to take a hiatus from viewing the strip.
On the plus side, it looks like there’s another Haleo and Julelan story for sale (pay-what-you-want) and Blood Runs In The Family’s now out in .pdf.
Yeah, this side plot involving a crew of people we’ve never seen, will likely never see again past this particular arc, and thus don’t care about in the slightest, combined with the lengthy times between installments, isn’t exactly retaining whatever is left of my interest.
Huh, I would not have guessed that Andi would be older than Bandana.
Why not? She’s been complaining about “taking orders from a kid” from the start.
O.K. guys: which of you dropped this bomb over at GiTP?
[Kidding. Mostly.]
But while I don’t agree with a lot of the OP, and I don’t think Burlew is only in it for the money, the quoted material makes some decent points. They’ve been on the airship since last March? “Pointy Death Incarnate,” was a great line, but still.
OP quoted in full because I’m still surprised their site hasn’t nuked the thread yet:
EDIT: I don’t want the story to end; I like reading about the OOTS. But there was a time not too long ago where each strip update would lead to two or three pages of discussion here. And now? A few follow-on posts and then the thread falls off the SDMB for another two weeks.
And a final post on this, now that I’ve read Burlew’s contributions to the thread.
As much as I like reading updates to the strip, I selfishly would prefer it if he could put the strip on hiatus for a half year so he could finish his commercial obligations. The pitfall though, is that once he stopped the strip, I think it’d be awfully hard for him to restart it. I suspect he wouldn’t. The need to satisfy those commercial obligations and “the income-generating products” will never go away.
As well as what I perceive is his need to see if he is going to only be remembered by his OOTS work. I suspect that part of Burlew would like nothing better than to burn the whole thing down and try and create something else. If only to avoid feeling the pressure about the work like this alleged quote from him infers he does:
Though I do think he’ll eventually finish the Kickstarter rewards. (Aside, where does the time go? Has it really been since 2012 that he had the Kickstarter?)
I don’t want the strip, like so many webcomics, to stop and never restart. I kinda want to know how this all ends. And how they get there. So if he needs to hobble in this sort of three legged race between the free strip, the Kickstarter stuff, and other commercial endeavors, then I guess that’s what we’re going to have to expect.
In 20 years, the comic will be forgotten, which means no one will judge you on it.
That’s just an excuse to discard opinions now. He foolishly thinks the comic will have a larger lifetime after it is finished. But it won’t. No webcomic does. When was the last time you got recommended a webcomic that has been over for years?
FWIW I still recommend Digger to lots of people. As indeed I recommend it to you.
Semi-regularly, especially if it’s a webcomic that established and concluded a plot arc. That’s the beauty of the internet, after all - everything on it is forever. Various blogs will occasionally put out lists of defunct webcomics worth checking out. There’s a certain freedom to knowing that you’re reading a finished product.
For a comic that hasn’t updated regularly in years, I would recommend Perry Bible Fellowship.
For a comic that wrapped up just a few weeks ago, check out *The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. *
Closer to OOtS would be 8-Bit Theater which ended in 2009. Although, I do agree with BigT in principle.
Gyrate, thanks for reminding me about Digger. I was reading it once upon a time but reached the “end” at the time and never went back to read the new stuff.
I’ll second this.
Sadly not. You’re dependent upon the author continuing to pay hosting fees or for someone to archive it. Link rot is real.
True. Luckily, most successful-but-defunct webcomics seem to produce enough residual traffic to justify keeping them around.
Thirded. I have the gathered volumes and the omni hardbound book. I still go through the website at least once a year. Some of the comments are excellent.
And here I thought it was just me getting seriously annoyed with this long damned boat ride.