Schlock Mercenary ended today after a twenty-year run. The art never quite got better than "tolerable," but it's a competently written Heinleinian scifi space adventure comedy and worth reading imo
Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
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Buttlord has uh
Well
It’s aged poorly I’ll just say
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Schlock Mercenary ended today after a twenty-year run. The art never quite got better than "tolerable," but it's a competently written Heinleinian scifi space adventure comedy and worth reading imo
Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
The blue hair guy borrowed from another webcomic probably outlived that other comic by decades
I find many things impressive about Gunnerkrigg. One of my favorite parts is how the story keeps firing off Chekhov's Gun. Annie falling into the chasm as shown in the flashback in the previous chapter happened back in 2006.
Oh also I didn't realize "oh you're Eglamore's kid" is a running joke. It also happened here.
Coyote in panel 5 was pretty much my reaction to today's strip.
Speaking of endings, Schlock Mercenary concluded today after 7348 consecutive daily updates.
Man, my morning webcomic read is going to feel weird for awhile.
I'm having very strong feelings that are hard to fully process about this. I picked it up like 15 or so years ago and kept up with it ever since. It's also really the only webcomic that ever stuck with me for an extended time.
And today it's first ever guest strip is up. I'm not crying you're crying.
Schlock Mercenary ended today after a twenty-year run. The art never quite got better than "tolerable," but it's a competently written Heinleinian scifi space adventure comedy and worth reading imo
Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
The blue hair guy borrowed from another webcomic probably outlived that other comic by decades
Schlock Mercenary ended today after a twenty-year run. The art never quite got better than "tolerable," but it's a competently written Heinleinian scifi space adventure comedy and worth reading imo
Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
The blue hair guy borrowed from another webcomic probably outlived that other comic by decades
Schlock Mercenary ended today after a twenty-year run. The art never quite got better than "tolerable," but it's a competently written Heinleinian scifi space adventure comedy and worth reading imo
Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
The blue hair guy borrowed from another webcomic probably outlived that other comic by decades
Y'know, I'm rereading the archives and just an hour ago I found out his strip I've never heard of is in fact still updating
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the only blue hair webcomic guy I remember is squidi
Sometimes you are a hard fight man who loves a hard fight and you pick a fight and it turns out the person you picked a fight with is some sort of supermonster and you get stomped out like a bug before there is even a fight
Schlock Mercenary ended today after a twenty-year run. The art never quite got better than "tolerable," but it's a competently written Heinleinian scifi space adventure comedy and worth reading imo
Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
The blue hair guy borrowed from another webcomic probably outlived that other comic by decades
He often got to be a pretty fun lens into how much of a Ship-of-Theseus situation personhood occasionally got over the course of the comic.
Schlock Mercenary ended today after a twenty-year run. The art never quite got better than "tolerable," but it's a competently written Heinleinian scifi space adventure comedy and worth reading imo
Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
The blue hair guy borrowed from another webcomic probably outlived that other comic by decades
Update as I approach 2004 in Schlock Mercenary: the author was evidently unaware that "aborigine" and especially "abo" is an considered an offensive way to refer to primitive civilizations.
The author is also clearly a Heinlein-style Libertarian, as was quite common with 1990s scifi fans. His political leanings don't usually intrude too hard on the story, beyond a very general "military-industrial complexes are corrupt" theme, although there are some cringily on the nose moments about bureaucracy.
There are also some cringey "if the girl can beat up a man, that makes her a strong female character despite being a sex object" characterizations in that very early-2000s way. As I recall, the author got better at both of these, and in the end his character writing was quite good. (he was also already married and had a kid when he started, so he doesn't write with his dick as much as many of his younger and hornier counterparts of the day)
What surprises me is that the overarching plot was actually set up from the very beginning. I had forgotten that the lazarus project was mentioned as early as like 2003.
just plugging along for twenty years, never changing, never once learning how to draw or improving your art in any way. a lifetime of knocking out the most sublimely mediocre content
like, order of the stick is still going? i remember archive binging that during computer class in high school. oceans have risen and fallen in that time
just plugging along for twenty years, never changing, never once learning how to draw or improving your art in any way. a lifetime of knocking out the most sublimely mediocre content
like, order of the stick is still going? i remember archive binging that during computer class in high school. oceans have risen and fallen in that time
Now that Schlock's wrapped up, OotS is probably my favorite of my current default webcomics roll on the writing front. I'm still struggling to wrap my head around Durkon becoming one of the most interesting characters, but Redcloak's been my favorite comic antagonist for ages.
just plugging along for twenty years, never changing, never once learning how to draw or improving your art in any way. a lifetime of knocking out the most sublimely mediocre content
like, order of the stick is still going? i remember archive binging that during computer class in high school. oceans have risen and fallen in that time
Schlock Mercenary's art absolutely improved (the author had no prior experience as an artist before starting the comic), it just never got particularly good.
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Reading the archives from 2000-2001 is a trip because the author shouts out a number of other Keenspot webcomics, a handful of which ended and the rest of which simply died within a couple years, with the notable exception of Sinfest.
Well
It’s aged poorly I’ll just say
"Jesus dude, can you even move?"
It has some good bits but on the whole yeah.
That said every now and then I just love saying the line, "My bigness is perfection."
"Dude, your dad is fucking [stupid]."
The blue hair guy borrowed from another webcomic probably outlived that other comic by decades
Coyote in panel 5 was pretty much my reaction to today's strip.
And today it's first ever guest strip is up. I'm not crying you're crying.
Guest strip is by the LICD artist. Not who I'd have guessed.
Gav? Nukees is still going.
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Latchkey Kingdom
Drive symbolizes what is to come.
Also, geeks and nerds talking about stuff.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Y'know, I'm rereading the archives and just an hour ago I found out his strip I've never heard of is in fact still updating
Three Panel Soul
xkcd
Dumbing of Age has at least one set of good parents. Plus Dina's, so two.
Skin Horse
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SMBC
He often got to be a pretty fun lens into how much of a Ship-of-Theseus situation personhood occasionally got over the course of the comic.
Well I'm legitimately impressed
The author is also clearly a Heinlein-style Libertarian, as was quite common with 1990s scifi fans. His political leanings don't usually intrude too hard on the story, beyond a very general "military-industrial complexes are corrupt" theme, although there are some cringily on the nose moments about bureaucracy.
There are also some cringey "if the girl can beat up a man, that makes her a strong female character despite being a sex object" characterizations in that very early-2000s way. As I recall, the author got better at both of these, and in the end his character writing was quite good. (he was also already married and had a kid when he started, so he doesn't write with his dick as much as many of his younger and hornier counterparts of the day)
What surprises me is that the overarching plot was actually set up from the very beginning. I had forgotten that the lazarus project was mentioned as early as like 2003.
just plugging along for twenty years, never changing, never once learning how to draw or improving your art in any way. a lifetime of knocking out the most sublimely mediocre content
like, order of the stick is still going? i remember archive binging that during computer class in high school. oceans have risen and fallen in that time
(Pity about the update pacing, but...)
Schlock Mercenary's art absolutely improved (the author had no prior experience as an artist before starting the comic), it just never got particularly good.