ITT: Dead webcomics

The unofficial theme song was by far the best part of that comic

It's going to get rebooted, OP

>>92597182
Gunshow, Gone With The Blastwave, Homestar Runner...

Dragon Tails

>>92597290
For $$$

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>>92597182

>>92597951
you know its dead when not even trash has threads about it any more

>>92598143
it's post-dead

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http://hegemonycomics.tumblr.com/

>tfw this might be the only page that is still out there
>tfw you were the one to save it

>>92597951
The thread should have started with this image

>>92597182
Eerie cuties.

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Did anyone else read this ?

>>92600345
All the way through

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>>92597182
nevar4get

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Get a goddamn tumblr Spike

>>92597381
KC Ended officially ended Gunshow I don't know if it really counts, and GWTB updated 4 days ago: http://www.blastwave-comic.com/

>>92597182
shes was on doodledudes

>>92597182

Rock Cocks still updates but it's no longer a porn comic. Does that count?

>>92598183
I find this humorous.

>>92597253
?

>>92600596
Fuck me that one hurts a little still.

Any webcomics that got raped to death by Tumblr?

All I can think about is Homestuck.

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>>92601021
Olympus Overdrive. I could very easily see it becoming a shit-show, but I still would've loved to see everything play out.
(Or at the very least stir up some solid porn)

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As dead as its characters.

>>92600996
Homestuck was the only one where the creator was dumb enough to let tumblr push him around.

My MSPA-form comic which is formally beginning on Saturday is hosted on tumblr, only because I wanted an easy place to host it. I kind of want people to read it so I'm posting it in the (oversaturated) tags, but at the same time I can't stand tumblr's community.

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Not just dead but almost entirely erased from existence.

>>92600811
>it's no longer a porn comic
It is, but porn is displaced by plot. You can't honestly think them celebrating being on the radio can lead to anything chaste, do you?

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>>92600996
>>92601209

I still haven't read the ending of Homestuck. I ollied outie after Karkat had just been knocked out by Kanaya. Is it worth finishing the rest?

>>92601140
That looks.....interesting. What happened to this?

>>92598121
shit i remember this, but forgot the name of it waaay long ago.

>>92601408
for the sake of completion, you might as well. just don't expect a great ending. it's not necessarily bad, it's just highly disappointing given how much wait was needed to get there.
if it weren't for those retarded-long hiatuses Hussie would have managed to maintain most of the fanbase.

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51 Hundred shotas. Last update was in October and artist's Tumblr was last active in February.

I just want my short shorts wearing shotas damn it! And the story probably would've gone homo route too.

>>92601645

Well, that's not the best endorsement I could have hoped for, but it is about what I expected. Wish me luck.

>>92601140
Love that artstyle.

>>92601699
She has a new comic out! Countdown on the next shitshow starts now

>>92600596
What happened to him? What made him go fucking insane?

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>>92597182

I don't expect anyone to know this one.

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>>92602121
https://killscreen.com/articles/how-disappear-completely-internet/

I remember seeing a comic a while back about a little girl who had the powers of god. It was really good and felt both comfy and unnerving.

>>92601140
The hell is he wearing?

>>92602415
the author's fetishes

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This one

>>92602141
I remember that one and the melting pandas. Glad to see there's an archive still available.

Anyone remember Coolville? Artist renamed it to 'Intershadows' before shutting it down.

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>>92602255
>>>/wsg/1700019
>>>/wsg/1700022
http://picturesforwelladjustedadults.tumblr.com/

>>92602303
Minus

>>92601286
>several months
>boobs
>man ass
>that's it

Mark my words, it's going the way of Ma3. Now that they're part of Hiveworks they have to cut back on that drastically.

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DrMcNinja ended properly

>>92597182
The Tale of Jasper Gold

Pride Of Life (before they could introduce Josephine!!)

>>92603267
His friend saw this on the family guy starwars parody

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>>92597381
Homestar Runner wasnt a webcomic
you're thinking of Strong Badman: On-the-Line

the one I've been making your years but too paranoid/embarrassed to post

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Geist panik never ever

>>92601242
Sauce?

>>92597951
There was a new side story added less than a month ago. It isn't dead, Kaz is just shit at working.

it's practically dead

>>92602141
I do, it was even storytimed once. Had some good ideas.

>>92602613
Jesus, that one's new on me. Maybe I should reread to lap up the dregs I missed, much like Lyle is lapping up that potential crackhead milk

>>92598315
It looks alright

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Never forget

ever

>>92602695
Dr McNinja ended several years after it should have.

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I want more, I really really do.

>>92605964
Never coming back

>>92600947
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU-GDo2xiaM

>>92605964
the fucking cliffhanger got me so hard all those years ago

>>92597182
All of Endling's semi-formulated ideas.

>>92606220
>All of those dropped OCTs.
It still hurts.

Fucking Derelict man. I finally found the comic again and was going to catch up only for the site to disappear the next day.

>>92601699
What a shame.

>>92606030
It's alive, just extremely slow.

>>92603709
Oh god I forgot about that series

Too bad it'll never finish

Platinum grit

>>92606220
Yo, thanks for reminding me of years of disappointment during my adolescence. What the fuck was stopping him?

>>92606074
that's pretty good but not quite what I imagine Zoophobia would sound like

Did webcomics all go through some kind of holocaust or something?

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>>92601190
Every time a webcomic says that, it's pretty much an admission that that's exactly what's happening.

>>92600659
Good riddance. Templar, Arizona was a rambling, pointless piece of shit. I stuck with it for way too long.

>>92601140
Hmmm... It looks very nice, but I have a feeling they take a lot of shortcuts. Maybe it's JUST the face anatomy. No. It's also the shading. It's deceptively simple.
>>92602446
Also this. Never any shortage in webcomics of degenerate filth to attract hordes of people through base instincts.

>>92609094
Don't be ridiculous. Webcomics are merely a reflection of cultures, and as a result they are constantly going through a slow-motion holocaust.

>>92609146
Ten or even five years ago it seemed like there were all kinds of webcomics everywhere and I couldn't go anywhere without tripping on them. Where did they all go?

>>92609183
I slightly suspect Homestuck's three year drawn out death rattle of an ending sort of devastated the whole webcomic scene in the 'salt the earth' kind of way

>>92609094
I think people have just moved on to other media

>>92609094
A lot of webcomics set out as an alternative to more traditional creative outlets like print comics. The problem is that outside of a few notable examples, most webcomics aren't very successful. And a lot of people didn't realize that even though there's less restrictions than traditional media, no editorial oversight, you still have to work on your comic. If you're offering most of the content up for free, you need some kind of incentive for people to pay attention to you, because if they get bored they can just go on to another free thing.

>>92609094
They moved on to hosting websites like Tapastic or Webtoon. If you aren't actively searching for them, you'd miss a lot.

Not a lot of new webcomic creators are putting stuff on their own websites anymore. I'm not sure if they just don't want to pay for bandwidth or something, but something's stopping a good portion of them from putting up on their own host.

>>92606622
The archive is still online, and the artist is looking to get back into it?

https://derelictcomic.tumblr.com/archive

>that weird comic about the children of Grim and Mandy

>>92610150
Bleedman?

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>>92603267
The comic updated last week.

It isn't dead, just glacially slow.

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Feels bad man.

At least Viv has a job on Too Loud, and I have hopes for Hazbin Hotel.

>>92597290
Yeah, but probably not for a while.

>>92597800
From what I've heard, it'll get released for free eventually, but bakers just get it early.

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Ah-hem.

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Another in the line of "not dead but properly ended". Though, as great as Camp Weedonwantcha is, I wish Skadi has continued instead.

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>>92610230
Oh shit it did! i need to re-read the last chapter again to refresh my memory.

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>>92609828
this
pic related, anderslovesmaria is one I quite liked but last update was April 2016. Author tweeted it's not dead, but is too busy to update.

And Kukuburi effectively died when Ramón Pérez got pretty much full time work (Marvel and others).

>>92610369
I hope this is better than her other stuff

>>92600345
My nigga. Idk where that artist is today.

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This one is pretty much dead
I miss it, in a nostalgic way. It wasn't good, and the humour boiled down to "main characters insulting each other", but I enjoyed it nontheless

>>92612551
the art get better

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>feels very bad, man

>>92612551
My god, it was STILL going?

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>Discontinued March 2016
ITS NOT FAIR

>>92613055
Yep, it ended in August 2015. What was posted is an epilogue page from last year.

http://www.theclassm.com/

ITT: the reason why I know furries exist.

>>92612238
;_;

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>Comic is great and artist is a bro, but comic has a very irratic release schedule.
>Runs a kickstarter to get more time to draw.
>Decides to redraw all the early pages instead of making new stuff
>Artist vanishes off the internet for over a year
>Returns to draw some Pokemon Go fanart.
>Takes down his website.
>Deletes all the comic pages from his tumblr and deviantart profiles.
>Refuses to answer anyone who asks where it all went.

>>92601190
>these lies
>that twitter with the pinned tweet linking to patreon
>that patreon with 47 people still paying her to ship transformers with each other

>>92613156
>I went back and forth over whether to produce this script. It was originally written as a cliff-hangery epilogue for “Tangled Web”, before deciding to pack it in. There was never any story written for a Morth/Vitani alliance, we just thought that would be fun. Now, with no resolution forthcoming it may seem a bit of a tease, but I liked the implication that Eastwood and crew’s adventures and perils go on. Plus, we get to see Silas one last time.

>So, I have a semi-complete script for an epilogue comic involving the actual protagonists. I’d like to hope it won’t be as long a gap, but um, no promises.
>May 29th, 2016

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>nothing for more than a year
>gets update last October explaining stuff, says she wants to start updating in January or February
>nothing since then
F

>>92613435
Man what the fuck
Although Kamina always seemed incredibly out of character in that anyways

zoophobia was only good for porn of the 11ft werewolf girl

>>92611507
Good, anderslovesmaria told its story

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>>92613568
>porn of the 11ft werewolf girl

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>>92613568
>JayJay is objectively her most popular character
>She didn't even create her

>>92613435
Kinda reminds me of hiimdaisy
>draws ultra-basic anime-style scribbles
>pretty much nothing of value
>starts doing comedic condensed versions of Metal Gear Solid and Persona games
>they get massively popular
>suddenly people start paying attention to hiimdaisy
>people ask hiimdaisy to do more
>TIME TO HAVE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN!
>decides to go do some stupid webcomic with even WORSE art instead
>DELETES every single picture from the MGS and Persona comics because "FUCK YOU FOR LIKING MY WORK!"
>actively tries to get the MGS and Persona comics pulled anytime they get posted anywhere
hiimdaisy and the like are the reasons I don't respect most artists. Most people would consider taking the ball and going home to be childish behavior. Not artists.

>>92613773
>NTR isn't a great fetish

>>92614022
>the reasons I don't respect most artists
People would take you seriously if you didn't say stupid bullshit.

That's like saying "Charles Manson and the like are the reasons I don't respect most white people."

>>92613568
I... never thought it was great, but I liked aspects of it.

My favourite aspect being the possibility that the human woman would shag the fox or the cheetah

>>92614117
You can whine all you like, but Cucumber Quest is still shite.

>>92603732

Written and illustrated by someone else.

>>92614214
I don't disagree with that. I'm telling you not to say stupid bullshit.

Homestuck taught me that women are fucking evil

>>92603698
>Bleedman
show us faggot

>>92614872
>>92603698

didnt mean to include the bleedman part my bad, show us though anon

what makes Cucumber Quest so bad?

>>92615495
Bumping because I'm legitimately interested in the opinion of someone who has read it. How badly has Hiimdaisy's storytelling evolved?

I will pay you to story time it faggot.

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>>92616556
>>92603698
Fuck i didnt even link it write. But no joke man. Give us a storytime of your shit, brah.

>>92610593

That's been dead sin e Oct 3rd of what 2010 or 2011 can't remember

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>>92616829

>>92614022
I can't say I blame her. Speaking as an artist who's had some stupid shit go mildly viral it gets really fucking demoralizing when that's all people associate with you. I mean, of course the attention is fun at first. But there comes a point where you realize it's just a collection of shitty scribbles that you did when you were bored or having a bad day and now it's what defines you to tens of thousands of people. Worse, it will continue to define you to them even years after you've moved onto serious work that you actually put effort into.

Regardless of how good or bad you think CQ is, distancing herself from her old work while she had the chance was the smart thing to do.

Lumia's Kingdom. Seriously, is the author laying dead in a ditch somewhere?

>>92597394
I'd completely forgotten about that one until last week, when I discovered that he did go on to actually succeed at making video games (even if not the DT one). I'm more used to the authors just completely disappearing along with the comic.

>>92601731
What? This one died? I am not into shotas but the artstyle and setting was interesting enough to keep me hooked, damn shame.

>>92610369
"Hi Vaggie meet my friend Cunty"

Is "Sexy Losers" showing my age on /co/ now a days?

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Anyone remember this? I first found it when I was like 13 and it was my first exposure to this kind of edgy humor. I absolutely loved it

>>92610369
is this a yonic-themed demon?

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Mine's Bigger.

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>>92614543
Illustrated completely by Cider, but I'm pretty sure Kaz wrote it.

I'm trying to remember this one webcomic that ended in 2002-2003. It was pretty much like Dilbert with animals, and there was this one penguin who was obsessed with Linux. Anyone know what comic it is? I remember some anon mentioning it late last year

>>92618961
Kek, never thought about how unfortunate that name might be.

>>92620038
I dunno, ask Viv on Twitter.

>>92620738
Shit I meant to respond to >>92620016. Sorry.

I dunno any dead ones that are actually no longer updating, but Doctor McNinja ended a while back on a pretty damn good note.

I don't actually read a lot of webcomics, most lose my interest after 20 or so pages. The only ongoing I keep up with these days is Mokepon.

>>92602460

Is that from that guy with the creepy transformation fetishes?

"Perfect delivery. I'll leave it on your desk."

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I wish this comic stopped playing wih my emotions.

>>92620863
yep!

>>92610593
This one's dead on the inside, the worst kind of dead.

>>92620582
>and there was this one penguin who was obsessed with Linux
Wow I'm surprised nobody remembers with such a creative character like that.

>>92621314
if you run the numbers on it Outsider is actually updating at a rate of nearly 2,000 pixels per day, which sounds a lot better than it actually works out IRL

>>92601140
I feel like the only reason this was popular was because of the character designs...The format made it a slog to read, the characters weren't particularly likeable, and there wasn't anything very interesting in terms of story. All style, no substance.

>>92615495
>>92615672
It's not that it's bad, it's just mediocre. The art and character designs are great, and it updates fairly regularly, but the characters are bland and the writing isn't very gripping. It's just sort of boring. People around here overexaggerate how bad it is because they don't like the creator. It's a well crafted comic on the surface but below that there isn't a lot going on.

>>92621850
You could say the same for a lot of webcomics we talk about her, especially OP pic.

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>>92610762
Came here to post this.

>>92621314
It updated a month ago after two years of nothing, then went back to radio silence.

>>92620192
If Cider can draw a complete update, couldn't he have just helped with the main one?

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>only diary comic i thoroughly enjoyed
>wiped off the internet
JUST

>>92601699
>>92613113
a damn shame

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>>92606030
I never get tired of reading this page

>>92607734
divorce

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It's not even fucking hosted anywhere anymore and it's not fair.

Author apparently works for LAIKA now though, so that's cool.

>>92597182
Paranatural is dead to me, does that count?

>>92602613
it had a good run.

>>92617265

>distancing herself from her old work while she had the chance was the smart thing to do.
>pretty much erase the only thing that got you e-fame to write a mediocre webcomic
>smart move

And she is still known for her old comics, so what good did that do?

>>92624024

What went wrong with it? I lost interest and stopped reading after a million pages of dodgeball.

>>92624229
The pacing went to shit, the art and writing got lazier, also, the author hates you for browsing the wrong website and will do everything in his power to get you to stop reading his comic

>>92624590
>the author hates you for browsing the wrong website and will do everything in his power to get you to stop reading his comic

I forgot about that tweet. Ironically, all he had to do to get me to stop reading was drag out a seemingly inconsequential confrontation for dozens of pages. Mission accomplished, I guess.

>>92624229
Author heard 4chan liked it so he had the brilliant idea of sabotaging his comic to make us stop talking of, the result kind of worked because its now shit.

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>>92621113
It looked like it was on it's final arc too.
>tfw Harv is canon a closet case and Finn is actually straight
just twist the knife deeper

>>92611507
i read anders loves maria ages ago, i thought it had finished

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>thought Necropolis was dead
>go to check its tumblr that I follow
>it just updated on the 18th and I somehow didn't see the post

>>92617454
didn't he make an announcement on the page that it wouldn't be continued? same thing happened to his previous comic, the one with the zombies

>>92624208
It kept her sane and gave her the space she needed to work on CQ, presumably. The old stuff may still be associated with her, but I'm sure it's better for her that she doesn't have to see it everywhere or constantly deal with entitled fans asking if she's going to do more of it. Deleting everything and publicly disassociating from it serves that purpose.

E-fame isn't the be-all and end-all of what an artist should strive for, either. If you want to see how far prioritizing popular content over everything else gets you, go look at Owlturd.

Achewood, 2010.

>>92600345
it was good, the improvement it went though from its beggining to the last pages was amazing, even if it didn't get a proper ending

>>92600345
How do you think it ended for him?

>>92625775
misery, i doubt there would be good things in his future

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Don't look at my shame.

>>92626011
is this the sexy dragon comic with the tits?

>>92626071
Yes. The artist draws some porn now.
If you like herm shit.

>>92625485

There were better ways it could been handled, like simply ending the comic and just moving on. Deleting them only increased their demand.

>It kept her sane

Have you seen her Twitter account?

>If you want to see how far prioritizing popular content over everything else gets you, go look at Owlturd.

That's simply a case of someone falling into the wrong crowd and listening to the wrong advice.

>>92597394
dragon tail dragon tails~

>>92598183
i get where this person is coming from. shit seems hacknied

>>92598315
whoo boy this sux

>>92600512
why black?

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fuck you i liked it

>>92628122
What the fuck.

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>>92628122
I was going to ask if that was an Elf Only Inn reference and then I realized that was Elf Only Inn.
Holy fucking shit.
That is not dead what only dreaming lies and in strange eons and so on.

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:'(

>>92602613
I really wanted more Philippe campaigns

>>92620016
>yonic
Is that an anime word or is it a parody of the word sonic?

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>>92629189
>>92629204

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>>92625224
>thought it had finished
So did I.
Creators underestimate the effect of neglecting their public works like that - even a short hiatus will lose regular readers and potential donors/patrons.
Happens with YouTube let's players - "not feel like" doing a video every other day/ take a two week rest: watch views drop to half or worse.
The market is super-saturated and the great majority of aspirants will fail, even if they treat the work as a serious business.
Anyway, here's one that at least regular and ended kinda properly:
- Bruno The Bandit; by Ian McDonald, ran 1998 to 2009, then collections printed as books and one card game

I think the apparent mass death of webcomics can be attributed to a couple of things:

1. Modern audiences are not as receptive to original ideas as past audiences were. In the early to mid 2000's the most popular artists on Deviantart were producing artwork that wasn't based on pre-existing properties, not drawing fanart wasn't a hindrance to popularity. Now? You can't get noticed without fanart. Something about popular taste changed.

2. Audiences got tired of being burned. When multiple of the top running webcomics stop updating it can depress the audience's faith in the entire medium. Relatively few webcomics ever conclude. And then how do you attract *new* audiences if the landscape is almost cluttered with unfinished work?

3. Good art takes as long as ever but webcomics were/are hard to monetize and audiences fickle and fleeting. If an artist literally can't afford to take the time to produce the comic without starving of course they are going to stop. And even if they are trust fund kids not having your artistic/emotional efforts validated can be soul crushing and many artists get so discouraged they quit. This just leads back to point 2.

A smart creator uses a webcomic as a portfolio and springboard into paying work that pays the rent and puts food on the table.

4. People are more wedded to a smaller number of websites than ever before. A person in 2017 may only visit facebook, instagram, reddit and pinterest for the entirely of their online needs. In 2007 the average person visited a larger number of smaller websites.

If Patreon had debuted sooner perhaps webcomics would be stronger today.

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>>92629562
Dude just get bored or what?

70 Seas
the ending was so rushed Nick could've just drop it mid chapter as well.

>>92602695
McNinja is finished not dead.

>>92601209
>was the only one where the creator was dumb enough to let tumblr push him around.
Jeff Jacques handstabbing says hello.

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>>92613928
No way really?
Thats amazing if true

>>92613435
You got an archive?

>>92606074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fll0cod2t7M

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>>92624229
Yeah, Zack bit more than he could chew with more subplots forced in the new chapters increasing the page count. IMO, some of the ideas for the subplots in there were really great....but they just really got spurted out prematurely. One example: remember that bully character we barely knew for three chapters and saw nothing of his actual bullying as establishment for his character? Guess what - he got possessed by a very dangerous spirit and saw shades by the very goddamn next day!

Years ago, I'd be really enthusiastic if someone had wanted to adapt it to animation (the story flow and art would actually work well with TV anyway)...but now as we go beyond Chapter 4, that dream might as well be like asking for two-parter novel movies to be at least decent with a lot of embellishments added in. I don't really go nuts for it anymore as I used before, I'll just barge in only if the thumbnail stands out enough.

I just wanna see the capped MC and his red headed spectral bro thrash ghost asses together even it is for just one chapter, then I can get on with my life.

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>>92629464
good analysis
I posted a bit on >>92630692
and was curious who was writing the small strips in my local free newspaper, found recent interview, bad translation attached (he says comics are easier to read than books, not what google claims)
Note when he asked a bunch of Ticino students who read comics, none replied. Things have changed. Also note the common opinion (in Italy) about Marvel and superhero comics.

>>92629464
I think you're ignoring the real truth of the matter which is simply the impossible glut of above-average artists pumping out more content than anyone could possibly engage with. Do you really think anyone has the time or the drive to just plod through the "recently uploaded" section on DA or tumblr? No. They look up their waifu, or whatever show they're watching, or the latest fad. It's not that people aren't receptive to original content, it's that finding it is extremely challenging and more often than not, unrewarding.

>>92630912
>IMO, some of the ideas for the subplots in there were really great....but they just really got spurted out prematurely.

Yeah, it seems like he doesn't have much of a handle on when and how to incorporate new elements (or when to refrain from doing so). It's too bad, because the setting and basic premise are awesome.

If anything, though, I think the comic would be improved by adaptation to another medium. The unfocused storytelling could be improved with firm editorial guidance, and budgetary constraints would force the plot down to its bare essentials instead of the tangled mess of unfinished subplots we have now.

>>92602141
Shame about that one.

>>92628122
I liked his new comic too, which also looks dead.

>>92625369
Wouldn't surprise me. That's one of the most irritating things. Some comics have a main page separate from the update page so you don't see announcements.

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Escape from Terra

>>92612938
That one didn't even get off the ground it ended before the plot got started

>>92602141
I remember that, I had the hardest time trying to remember the name. Did they go anywhere after the artist/writer changed?

>>92625485
>It kept her sane
No it didn't

RIP Kiwis by Beat

>>92634732
What happens to the h2o molecules if there is no magnesium?

Why aren't there any webcomics where the author worked on the entire thing for a year or so and then posted the entire finished thing up on a site?

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Hellbound, by Eric "Maniac_Wolfman" Nault

>>92629562
No, shit, not this one too

I'm an obscure webcomic artist and I can tell you that the big names in the webcomic community right now are that oversensitive PC crowd. Basically if your comic doesn't star a black lesbian sailor scout you're never going to be noticed.

>>92613113
>Judecca
God, just when it was starting to get really good. I know the author started it as a school project but it's a damn shame they just up and cancelled it because they thought it wasn't good enough.

>>92606857
You mean proto-Oglaf?

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Sexy Loserz, White Ninja Comics, Matriculated, Everything Mitch Clem ever touched (Mostly Coffee Achievers), Ornery Boy, Goats, The Abominable Charles Christopher..

At some point I stopped replacing them, now I only read some old comics out of spite.

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anyone here read Spindrift? the story was ok but the artwork was really amazing. I think it stopped because the artist had some family issues (sister killed herself or something along those lines). shame...

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>>92597182

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>>92627010
RPGWorld. I remember a few months ago Ian posted a pic of him drawing the characters again, so it may not be entirely dead.

>>92639202
>Ian Jones-Quartey
So I guess everything he's made has always been some kind of banal parody or homage, hasn't it?

>>92637612
No that's Sexy losers

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>No Boxer Hockey
RIP

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I find this comic, smile brush, while looking for cute stickers. It's adorable

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Why the fuck are webcomic artists so bad at finishing a story?

It seems like every single time someone starts a story based webcomic they just write a guide of the first act, then after that just write as they go and inevitable keep loosing so much focus that they write themselves into a corner or make so many plot points that they couldn't even dream of wrapping them up, so they just kinda disappear.

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can you recommend comics with lizard people?

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>>92597951
she's still posting excuses, which is more than you can say for most dead webcomics

speaking of which - the single most angst-inspiring death of them all. would be easier to hate the artist if she wasn't so fucking good.

this and most of the old drunk duck comics.

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>>92640136
Scalie Schoolie.

any comics with TF
like shadoweyes?

>>92601418
He got busy with other jobs. But he did well to make a lot of pages for free. He isn't like other webcomic artists who have Olympus Overdrive merchandise or anything

>>92617265
Eh. Sounds like a normal fanart for more exposure dilemma

>>92640217
>most recent update was three months ago
so that's why i haven't seen any of those threads here for a while. what happened?

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"Hey, I have a great idea, people love to make sidestories and alt fics right? Well let's make some canonical ones."
"Should we really do that now, while popularity is declining?"
"Yeah, to really rope them in, we'll make all of them about absolutely nothing consequential and have no relevance to the comic, failing to fill in small gaps or do anything productive at all."

>>92638330
literally posted a page a few days ago, but thanks for the rec

>>92600596
Anybody got his stuff saved? Can never find complete collection

>>92629094
I used to read this and her other comic obsessively.

>>92635264
You don't get comments, reader responses/reactions, and in some cases steady income that way
It can be helpful for storytelling if you're doing a serial to get feedback along the way.

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>>92641340
try the magnet link in https://www.reddit.com/r/webcomics/comments/1z7men/trying_to_make_a_backup_of_the_former_webcomic/
that worked last time I tested it a few months ago - note all the usual links are dead or taken down

>>92606030

Surprisingly-good.

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>>92613113
>that art evolution

gerdamn. I'm not entirely disappointed because I feel like they handled cancelling the comic in a decent manner.

>>92619085
Looks gay.

>>92642187
Did the big download on archive.org get taken down?

>>92640136
Try The Draconia Chronicles.

>>92625485
>constantly deal with entitled fans asking if she's going to do more of it.
>has any sort of following thanks to these people
>has any sort of an income from art thanks to these people
>FUCKING ENTITLED FANS!

Yeah, how dare these people give her a living that doesn't involve a McJob and then ask if she's planning on doing more! Fucking entitled shitlords!

>maybe she didn't want to be associated with her old work
Artists are the only group of people I know who demand the right to erase parts of their history they don't like. You don't see musicians pulling their debut albums, you don't see movie stars suing studios to get their early films pulled, only in the art field do you see this sort of behavior. Or people attempting to defend it.

>>92612938
this looks great
what's its name?

>>92643678
Radiohead doesn't play Creep at concerts

(well, until recently)

>>92643879
Sure, but they didn't run out and try to get the record and song pulled permanently. Them not wanting to play the song again is just like an Artist saying "No, I'm not going to make more of that stuff." Nothing is wrong with that.

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>>92602695
And it wasn't depressing or stupid OR sudden.
Comics that don't take themselves/subject matters seriously nearly always have the best writing for some reason.

I really liked Astray3
Looks like both the old a new site are down, and the creator hasnt posted on twitter in years

wish i could know the ending

>>92643678
This is exactly why I keep my PFSC archive on my hard drive. It takes up 400 MB and I have zero intention of reading it, but knowing John Campbell wants it wiped off the face of the earth makes it so good.

>>92643678
Sometimes you do stuff for money or attention and you know it's insincere but you feel like you have to so that you can get a foot in the door. When you see — or feel threatened — that people associate you with that work instead of work that actually represents you it can chew at you pretty badly.

>>92613287
>http://www.theclassm.com/
oh I remember this one

>>92639677
We might get more soon. He stopped updating because he was hired to work on the sonic comic.

>>92640012
Fuck this shit, I want him to get back to HIKYM. Though my understanding there is he fucked up with some ownership thing there possibly with it getting picked up that ended up in development hell or something?

>>92641025

You forgot:
"Let's pay our small inner circle of artist and writer friends to make these comics even though some of them have little to no familiarity with the source material and there are hundreds of fans producing similar content for free already."
What a boondoggle.

>>92645251

I accept that reasoning for old porn commissions and such, but actively trying to purge old webcomics from the internet is just plain childish. The mature response is to make a public announcement explaining why that work isn't representative of their interests/abilities/opinions anymore and asking fans to let it rest. Expecting amateurs to act professionally is stupid, I suppose, but it doesn't help that artistic communities tend to be hugboxes that encourage self-indulgent behaviour.

>>92600345
Cheap Thrills was a ridiculously good comic.

>>92637319
>>92629562
>>92629718

I actually used to be friends with one of the artists for this comic back on dA. We used to make one off comics but he never really finished any or was always super late.

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>>92612551
Exterminatus Now was always good for a giggle.

>>92626011
>the titty monster dragon is just a guy with big tits that looks like a girl

worse then futa

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>>92648084
>he never really finished any
Please no

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Antics/the origin of that gay seal reaction image.

>check thread
>no mention of my in 6 months now hiatus webcomic
G-good i guess.

I always breath a sigh of relief when my webcomic doesn't show up in these threads.

>>92630912
>>92631106
The dodgeball arc was such a transparent case of 'oh shit I have all these side-characters I forgot about. Let's drag out an extended arc featuring them all prominently, and lets also dump even more characters and slam us with their generic QUIRKY personalities rapidfire style.'

It got old fast but died slow. But the problem was Zack followed it up by hitting us with even more rushed characterization that was really at odds with the slow and steady introductions we used to get.

>>92638527
More of a case of a dead author rather than a dead webcomic.

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i never actually read this but when i discovered the only site hosting it was dead i put it upon myself to excavate it

blue dog

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Because the creators sold out to make shitty 'gaming' videos with dated jokes.

So what makes creators just up and quit their work?

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>>92640901
They went to Namek for a little while during that beach arc, and the artist shifted priority to non-schoolie OC character design and professional commissioned work. Some people haven't given up hope yet, those poor bastards.

>>92652297
Is this like a parody of OotS where they don't try to cover the art with a small novel?

>>92650990
>>92650768
Hello, brothers.

>>92620038
>site got hacked
>they never came back

>>92622547
>>92610762
I love the camp weedonwantcha. Seventeen is perfect daughter.

>>92653010
bomango's the opposite of dead though.

>>92652620

Loss of interest in the project, changes in life circumstances that impact their free time, or problems with resolving the plot: writer's block, writing themselves into a corner, failure to plan the story out in advance,etc.

I'd say the first one is most common, at least in webcomics.

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Found this a few months back only to find out that it had been dropped after having barely started. I can't find the chapters anywhere anymore.

>>92653928
it doesn't count as dead if it finished and wrapped up

>>92597182
>>92597290
but it's going to take forever

>>92600596
I read his final kickstarter post once every few months or so because on some deep level I feel that I agree with him on some points.

>>92611507
Holy fuck wait I think I read this.
It's been ages. I don't even remember what it was about or if it was good. I think I remember liking it. I'll have to check it out again.

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>>92610593

Tatsua's creation is more of a zombie webcomic variety.
All reason for it to live is long gone, but peculiar malice of spirit stirring within keeps it going.

>>92646460
I dunno, he's pretty busy with Diesel now over at Boom Comics. I know he also did the art for the Gumball comic, but I don't know if that's still going or not.

>>92654144
The artist is rebooting it completely in 2018. The new designs look less interesting.
http://projectprotea.tumblr.com/

>>92623890
AAAAH MY NINJA THAT SHIT WAS MY FUCKING SHIT

>>92628154
their avatars for a forum. its actually pretty fuckin funny. lots of character development and shit.

>>92656751
Is there a link to it?

>>92657020

http://www.elfonlyinn.net/d/20020523.html

>>92657081
thanks m8

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>>92643316
well if you can't find it there, then yes, highly likely
even recent pastebins with magnet links are taken down

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Broken Plot Device feels like a shell of it's former self, so to me it kind of -is- dead even though it still continues (after spending 3 years in limbo).

Initially it was cancelled because Lizardbeth broke up with her boyfriend, and since one of the characters (Sid the lion) was based off of him, it presented an issue for her, and she retooled the comic entirely. It used to be a wacky slice-of-life comic with supernatural hijinks and pretty solid humor, but the revival feels rather bland and uninspired and we have yet to see any other side characters besides Inix and Sunny (I'm betting Sid will never show up for reasons I mentioned above. Important message, kids; don't base characters in your comic on friends or love interests, things might get sour down the line).

I'd still tap Inix.

>>92634851
The plot looked like it was hitting the final stretch. She and the American had teamed up and were hunting the demon down, they were having a moment about their future relationship, etc. Killing the demon and solving the romance problem would be the plot.

>>92629094
Came here to post this

>last update says she's going to need to do double updates to finish the chapter properly
>absolutely nothing after that
>site enters archive mode
>finally just fucking dies
No more adventures of anime australia ever, I guess.

>>92640168
Aren't they doing Oglaf now?

>>92642187
Link not working for me?

>>92619017
No not really

>>92653010
Man, her feet are good

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>>92660214
How are you using the magnet link? I copy the complete magnet string and paste it into qBittorrent's File/Add link to torrent, and it works.
I retest this every few months, and it still works, just retested it now and there are active seeds.
The string starts "magnet:?" and ends "ftracker.glotorrents.com%3a6969%2fannounce", if that helps.

>>92598270
So... rotting?

>>92652767
What bugs me is he's still getting paid to write/draw Scalie Schoolie and Death by Misadventure. Patreon was a mistake.

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Shame the artists newest thing is insanely boring and un interesting filled with just bland unlikable characters.

>>92662040

Even if it were incredibly interesting and full of amazing characters, I wouldn't trust her enough to try to read another one of her comics. She'll probably drop this one too.

>>92662138
The shit she did before were little pet projects but since Hinabn, she has been working as a professional comic artist / being funded through patreon.
Its a shame that the project that she isn't going to drop is easily her worst one so far.