well, Fuck, just like that, Pete reveal the secret origin of

>used to read this comic in the 90s
>he gets around to revealing this now, nearly 20 years later
Jesus Christ

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For those wondering, Slaughteresa's sister, Monoc-cruel, the sister of Slaughteresa, was zapped in a random dimension.

>>88110577
You should give it a retry. Sluggy is enjoyable on the binge-reading and it has picked up its pace again, in the recent years.

>>88110914
There are some slogs, but they were only truly slogs when it was day by day.

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Also, here is the first time Slaughteresa was connected to Oasis.

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>>88111202

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>>88110914
>>88110962
> 2003
> Spent weeks catching up on 6 years worth of daily Sluggy Freelance comics
> Almost 2017
> Realizing I would have to retread through stuff I've forgotten along with almost 12 more years worth of daily comics

I... I don't know anon. I liked this back in the day but I think I've played 100+ hour JRPGs with less time commitment than this. I hope y'all are right about it being worth it.

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>>88111954
I'll give that to pete, He make a point to provide ref link to past comics everytime he make a ref to past events. One might said he put more than needed, but those aren't obtrusive and more is better tahn not enough.

Thanks to that, it's actually rather easy to catch to what is going on.

You can reprise reading without worrying too much about not remembering everything. Every time there is something you might not be sure on what it is based, you can be sure there will be an handy link to help you get what's going on.

Will Sluggy Freelance one day have more material than Cerebus?

>>88112273
It's hard to tell if you remove the fillers. and some fillers are actually an integral part of the comic, like the super non-canon crossover.

It's funny, when you think about it. Sluggy Freelance started at a time when webcomic artists were a much tighter community and it's like they all knew each other...

>>88112273
Cerebus is a wok of more than 6 000 pages.
I think a fair comparison is to compare it with the amount of pages Pete has already available in prints, as it contain no pointless filler or Hiatus holder, plus extra canon-story and they got to have several weekdays comic on a single page, which make it a fair comparison to Cerebus's format.

He has currently 16 books in print (actually, 1-2-3 and 4-5-6 are in megatome form), all of them containing up to chapter 51 of his comic.
So basically
1-2-3: 336
4-5-6: 342
7: 128
8: 128
9: 128
10: 148
11: 148
12: 124
13: 140
14: 168
15: 144
16: 196

So, this sums up to 2 130 pages of in prints for 51 chapter, thus a ratio of 41.76 pages per chapter
I am going a bit on a limb, there, but we will apply the same ratio to the chapters that haven't been printed yet, Chapter 52 to 69: 12 chapters. So this roound us out to 501 unprinted pages

So, in a more or less comparable format to Cerebus, Sluggy Freelance is currently constituted of 2 631 pages.

Not too shabby and I didn't take in account that chapters have tended to get bigger and bigger over the years, with bigger daily comic stirps, so the ratio might actually be bigger for the unprinted comic, but even then, it's still quite far from the 6 000 pages of Cerebus. Even with an increased ration, it's still not half of it.

sluggy freelance is such an odd comic. The plot gets going strong, things are really moving along and then- it all comes to a screeching halt. The gang plays a psp knockoff, or some random stupid pop culture thing happens for a while- and then it all goes into high gear again. Until it comes to a screeching halt. And repeat.

>>88113092
Alternating silly act an more overarching arc was the fomrula of many webcomics of the era of Sluggy Freelance, when it started. In a way, I am glad SF still does that, as I have a nostalgia for that format.

But yeah, I get that for some, after such a length, it can get on nerves.

>>88113092
He had complaints at times when he got too wrapped up in 'serious' plot and stopped being funny.

At times he goes back to sitcom humour format.

I suppose it's a bit like buffy in that regard.

>>88113070
>I didn't take in account that chapters have tended to get bigger and bigger over the years, with bigger daily comic stirps, so the ratio might actually be bigger for the unprinted comic
Maybe a better approximation would be done by counting the years instead of the chapters.

The 2 130 page count for the years from Augustus 1997 to January 2007. Let's round it up to 9,5 years.

So, 2 130/9.5=224.21
For the unprinted comics, from January 2007 to December 2016, lets round it up to 10 years, we get 10*224.21= 2242 pages.

Sluggy Freelance might actually be a work of 4372 pages.

Still below the 6 000 of Cerebus, but way more than the half of it.

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>>88110672
Additional info on Slaughteresa's mom.

>>88113612
Let's short it out to 4 000. The pages/years ratio seem a bit too generous (also, it's easier to handle). So, in a few month, Sluggy Freelance will be 20 years old (augustus 2017).

4 000 page in 20 years. One could hazard that it would still take 10 years for Pete to catch up with Cerebus, but it won't work that way.

Pete has announced this year that after the 20 year anniversary of the comic, he will change the way he output them:
>what would this "Sluggy 20+" format be?

>I still love the characters, the writing, the drawing. I still love you guys. And thanks to all the recent Defenders of the Nifty support I've received, I'm highly considering continuing the comic online, but not on a schedule. I could put up comics at a less strenuous more "elbow-roomy" pace. From a quality point of view, "Sluggy 20+" maybe the best thing to happen to Sluggy Freelance!

So, he will stop the daily schedule. If it's for better quality, good, but with a slowed down delivery rate, don't expect Sluggy Freelance to reach the level of Cerebus any time soon.

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Okay, I messed up, let me restart this, I want to do this chronologically.

What we have learned about Oasis so far.

The first real lead emerged when Bunbun got info on Oasis's childhood out of the Santa Claus elves (who better than them to know, after all?)

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The orphanage she comes from is found out

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This lead get them to discover an Orsi

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Long story short, Gwynn see the Orsintos symbol and remember it from a time she had to deal with Zombies (that's an other story).

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After some zombie killing, they finally access an old database. (Jane is a zombie that tried to kill Gwynn)

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Small time-skip, lots of stuffs have happened on the side, nice recap from the fate-spiders to help out.

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MEanwhile, Oasis has got back to their house, killed someone who was wearing an Hereticorp Hat and Zoe and Aylee barely escaped. Bunbun is currently fighting Oasis.

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Chocking reveal

Is there any webcomic artist more worthy of praise than Pete? The guy's worked on the same thing for almost two decades at a consistent pace and never once fallen into the stupid drama that kills newer webcomics.

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Interestingly, this storyline mark a point in the Sluggy Freelance comic. Basically, this is the year 2009 and things go for the worst. It will literally take 2 years, in 2011 before we see Riff and Zoe return.and for some different reason, Gwynn will only really be back in. 2014.

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And finally, here is some more recent develoment we got from Oasis.

Oasis has a sort of "family" she has to "protect", or else Hereticopr will capture them and use them as leverage against her. The young girl is not always pleased by this situation. Here is Oasis coming back from having killed some rich crimelord and stolen all of his money, she got badly hurt during it.

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And this is, here is all the important revelation we have got on Oasis so far.

Took her long enough to realise her love might be watch induced, though.

Sorry for messing up so much with the posting. It's not easy to sort all things out.

I am still weirdred out about how what started as a Blair witch parody meeting a crzay man in the wood lead to one of the most important over-arching arc of Sluggy Freelance.

>>88116115
>misspelling to make a false lead
Pete is the king of false-lead, but this one is quite cheap.

>>88116115
Seeing Bunbun's actual rabbit teeth is kinda weird.