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Apparently while I wasn't looking, in 2020, Schlock Mercenary fucking ended.

Its unclear what brought the end of the comic on as well, as the post Howard Tayler made is a little weird and dramatic. For the unaware, Schlock Mercenary has updated once a day, every day, for twenty years, without missing a single day that anyone can tell. There's even one instance where Tayler's computer was fried and the man continued posting updates via his local library.

I admit I haven't read up quite to the end yet, so I can't comment on said ending as I need to really sit down and go through the last few years. Its still a tremendous shock as I expected him to update the comic until he was dead. That may very well be why he chose to stop and put a bow on it, its hard to tell still.
 
I got into Endtown fairly recently and very quickly got out of Endtown almost as quick as I got in. I've never seen character assassination quite on that scale and the running theory that the female lead was based on the creator's wife pre-divorce seems pretty accurate with how he proceeded to make a very likeable character suddenly extremely irrational/insane and then left her to die.

It's a comic that is great post apocalypse drama that all too often gets diverted into garbage Dr. Who fanfiction. I think a hasty conclusion is coming up soon, but I hope the author can turn it around come the end. It was really good at the start.
 
Every time I remember Girly aka the thing that got me into Webcomics I get really depressed because Josh Lesnick the artist trooned out and the original version of it has been wiped from the internet seemingly. He offers a free itch.io download version, but according to him, "This is the entire comic in two collections. This is version 1.1 or something, so my deadname has been edited out and some of the more questionable jokes have been replaced with new ones." Which really just means I can't apparently get the original version. The physical copies that got released forever ago through his kickstarter now go for nearly 800 bucks USD each volume too. So can't get it through that way. Anyone know of an unadulterated archive for it?
 
There was one I followed until the creator ended it called, You Damn Kid. It was about the creator's childhood with his Catholic family and the crazy things that would happen. (The uncle was my favorite character.)

I also follow Slackwyrm.
 
I just discovered the webcomic, Catbeard, via a strip from Breaking Cat News today. So far, I'm enjoying the adventures of a cursed pirate who has a cat for a beard.
 
I went from reading no joke like 20 webcomics every week during my teens down to 4 currently.

Badmachinery.com
Gunnerkrigg.com
Rice-boy.com/3rdvoice
Giantitp.com (Order of the Stick)

I loved me a webcomic. Many fond memories of opening a bookmark folder before school and squinting at our 15inch LCD monitor. But even ones I loved that are still updating regularly like Three Panel Soul and Penny Arcade kind of fell by the wayside.
 
Tour of Italy said:
I went from reading no joke like 20 webcomics every week during my teens down to 4 currently.

Badmachinery.com
Gunnerkrigg.com
Rice-boy.com/3rdvoice
Giantitp.com (Order of the Stick)

I loved me a webcomic. Many fond memories of opening a bookmark folder before school and squinting at our 15inch LCD monitor. But even ones I loved that are still updating regularly like Three Panel Soul and Penny Arcade kind of fell by the wayside.
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Same, I was reading a ton during my teens, but that included shit that didn't update like VG Cats. Most of my old faves are long dead and off the 'net, or I completely lost interest in them (I used to read Chugworth Academy and Abstract Gender. Jesus fuck I was retarded back then).

There used to be this site called Onlinecomics.net that helped find stuff. Basically you registered an account, faved the comics you liked, and if they had an RSS feed you'd get an alert every time it updated. In my case, I'd also trawl through whatever I had saved and randomly check them for updates. It was how I found stuff like Questionable Content, Order of the Stick and Mac Hall (which then became Three Panel Soul).

Then the site went down and I realized just how many of them I only checked out regularly just because they were in my list.
 
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I am trying to recall the artist/name of a webcomic from... let's say fifteen years ago. But I have very little to go on - and like anything with animals - furry porn has destroyed it's SEO.

The artwork was top-notch. Ornate, painted, no outlines, with a bright colour palette and few pastels. Late 1800s setting iirc, but anthros. The only characters I can recall is a shy, dandy, tall, constantly mortified, thin cat with blue and black stripes. And a white horse. In particular, a joke image where the two wake up after passing out in bed that's a play on the Godfather scene.
 
Seymour Glass said:
I found an archive of Return to Sender if anyone is interested. I remember liking this one


it's a shame she just dropped it
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Oh my God, I remember that one. Thought the name looked familiar, but the art style and site header brought it all back.

I used to read dozens and dozens of webcomics on and off. Lot of the sites are probably dead or lost. Some comics ended, like Zebra Girl, and too many just... stopped updating.

Sometimes I'll binge a few months' worth of pages for comics like Kill Six Billion Demons, but otherwise I seldom keep up with them these days.

I used to buy volumes when they went into print, but half the time the comic died and I ended up with an abandoned series taking up room on my shelf.
 
Currently still reading:
Wilde life
Unsounded
Kill 6 Billion demons
Between failures
Buttsmithy (NSFW)
 
Baumstriezel said:
K6bd is hands down the best webcomic online right now, I think. I also have a soft spot for nature of nature’s art , It‘s really one of a kind.
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Woah, an NofNA fan on Kiwifarms? I've kind of had an idea to drop a post in Animal Control's Book Club about it, but I haven't found the motivation yet (procrastinating for months lol).
It really is a one-of-a-kind thing. I can't think of any other webcomic series that has as much intellectual meat stuffed into it, without being too heavy-handed. I've probably read through Solar System 10 times at least and always notice something new. Oh, and the paneling, infinite canvas actually being used to cool effect, and those interactive speech bubbles. Never seen anyone else utilize all of these together the way Zach does. He's straight up decades ahead of the current webcomic landscape. Sorry for dick-riding a bit here.

Also, how's K6BD these days? I haven't read it in forever, probably about 4 years or so. I feel I'll have to reread the whole thing as I can't remember anything about the story.
 
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