The ending of an era
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Today the world saw something it has not seen any day in over 20 years: there was no new update on Schlock Mercenary.
In 2000, Howard Tayler started this phenomenal webcomic, which has updated daily, every single day without fail since then... until Friday, when the story reached its end. There was a cute little "bye everyone" strip on Saturday that was not part of the storyline, and today, nothing.
Howard's said he still has stories to tell, but for the moment he's going to be on sabbatical. Hopefully it won't last for too long.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The ending of an era:
20 years:
I wonder how many things have this sort of history...
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Since we're talking about web comics, I think Penny Arcade is still around, and they've been going since 1998 or 99
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@hungrier Well, Sinfest started off on Jan 17th, 2000.
Though that one won't be well liked now with certain parts of our denizens.
Then there's Kevin & Kell - started in 1995.
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PvP is still going.
Diesel Sweeties as well, it seems.
Not that that one takes much effort, methinks.
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@Rhywden said in The ending of an era:
@hungrier Well, Sinfest started off on Jan 17th, 2000.
Though that one won't be well liked now with certain parts of our denizens.
Obviously not:
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Yes, I'm aware there have been a few webcomics whose histories stretch back longer, but how many of them are daily strips that never missed an update?
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@Mason_Wheeler dunno about "never", but SMBC is a daily feature too, and I've yet to see it miss a day (but then, I've been following it for only a year or so, and it has a lot of graph jokes which shouldn't count as comics.) But either way, it still has some time left before 20th anniversary (it started in 2005 IIRC?)
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@Mason_Wheeler Sinfest is daily and very, very rarely misses an update. Kevin&Kell plays in the same league.
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@Rhywden Schlock Mercenary updated every day for over 20 years. Not almost every day, not every day except for non-canon guest strips during holidays and vacations. Howard made sure ther was a buffer so that there would be no interruption, even for hospital stays.
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@SirTwist So? K&K did that as well. Sinfest too, save for the one time the site was down due to a server crash.
I'm not getting this
fetishcompetition where you guys have to one-up everyone and worship this guy's feet or so it seems.
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@Rhywden said in The ending of an era:
Sinfest too, save for the one time the site was down due to a server crash.
Yeah. Schlock had one of those a few years back. Transformer explosion at the data center took down hundreds of websites.
It still updated that day! They got a backup site spun up within hours to make sure the comic's run would continue uninterrupted.
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@Rhywden So that's 3 put of how many popular web comics? K&K also has the distinction of being one of the oldest web comics ever. I started reading it on Compuserve.
