• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      13 days ago

      The one that’s most amazing to me is Questionable Content, which has been publishing 5 comics a week for most of two decades. Started in 2003 and is rapidly approaching 5500 comics.

      • jacksilver@lemmy.world
        4·
        13 days ago

        How’s the quality on that recently? I had been keeping up to date with it before covid, but it had started to drop off for me.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          13 days ago

          I’ve had a rule for myself that if the comic went 100 strips without Marten I was done, because I’d consider it no longer the thing I was into. The cast of characters has ballooned so far, so many have come and gone, and it felt…well kind of like Oglaf for awhile. You know how it had a story with the harlot queen’s apprentice for awhile then that ended and it became random mostly bawdy mostly medieval mostly sex mostly comedy strip of the week? It started to feel like that, “What’s Clinton up to?” “Remember these three characters?” About a year ago he seemed to find a new story arc he wants to go on, and the last couple months have felt like tying up loose ends, visiting some old characters one last time before there’s a major shift.

          It might be telling that I’m struggling to come up with major plot points over the last few years.

          • jacksilver@lemmy.world
            3·
            13 days ago

            Sounds like it’s more or less where I left it. There definitely was a story there at some point, and it felt well written and heartfelt. However, over time it did feel like new characters were being introduced cause some had seen there story arc and the writer just couldn’t move on.

            I’d love to be able to jump in knowing there is some conclusion, or at least sunsetting for the original main characters. Not sure how realistic that is.

            This may be part of the reason why I’ve found conflict driven web comics less risky to jump into. Eventually you overcome the challenge or you don’t.

            Edit: Also, thanks for the info!

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      14·
      13 days ago

      Ever heard of Sluggy Freelance?

      I was also going to reference User Friendly, but they seem to be gone …

      I was also going to reference Schlock Mercenary, but while their website is still around, they seem to have officially ended.

      Bob and George was a lot of fun, too, but ended a long time ago. Same with 8-Bit Theater, I think.

      I didn’t realize how many webcomics I used to read. There are lots more good, classic and long-lasting ones!