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JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Jul 20th 2009 at 3:49:29 PM

Exactly What It Says on the Tin. I just thought this up one day, massively bored, and realising that I have quite alist.

  • Kid Radd storyline wrapped up.
  • Little Gamers got repetetive and annoying.
  • Devstyle indefinite hiatus.
  • O's Commissioned the author stopped updating the regular storylines.
  • Ctrl Alt Del the Hatedom got me.
  • Chugworth Academy actually, it was pretty reprehensible.
  • Ghastly's Ghastly Comic indefinite Hiatus
  • Sexy losers read it through, indefnite hiatus.
  • A Modest Destiny idenfite hiatus... for the third time.
  • The Noob updated at random, grew bored.
  • VG Cats updates more or less nonexistant, humour grew old.
  • Dinosaur Comics too giagantic, too wordy to check daily.
  • A Softer World too little substance to get a hold of.
  • Dilbert (online version). Website was changed, including pointless flash application, couldn't bother working it out.
  • Nothing Nice to Say/My Stupid Life more or less indefinite hiatus.
  • Better Days read first few chapters, almost spontaniously combusted out of rage.

BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
[AOD] TV Tropes #1 Anime Fan Since: Jan, 2001
TV Tropes #1 Anime Fan
#3: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:00:24 PM

Hexagon Death Squad

I am the author, and therefore have no need to. [smug]

Feedback Of Heteronormative Gender Stereotypes in Anime
Desertopa Not Actually Indie Since: Jan, 2001
Not Actually Indie
#4: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:01:12 PM

Which part of Better Days?

I personally hit flash point when the doctor deliberately gave whatsisface a lethal infection during surgery out of vengeance, but I can definitely see giving it up before then.

I'd need access to my favorites list to do a proper list here, and I only have access to a borrowed computer for the time being. Only rarely will I actually drop an unfinished comic permanently and not stop in occasionally to check how it's going, even though I may wait more than a year at a time.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:03:26 PM

Oh yeah, I still haven't finished my Archive Trawl for Irregular Webcomic, since I tend to pick it up every few weeks, and then forget it again. I'm aroun 700 at my last sitting, though I've used the story indexes to read through some storylines alone.

@ Desertopa. I was already close to the edge at little mr. Gary Stu's school essays, and I just ragequit a dozen strips later. I could try read it through out of Bile Fascination, and to create excess traffic to the site.

edited 20th Jul '09 4:05:13 PM by JethroQWalrustitty

Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011
#6: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:08:48 PM

  • Penny Arcade: Too much discussion of matters that are irrelevant to me now.
  • VG Cats: Boring now.
  • Dominic Deegan: KEEP ME AWAY FROM THE FLAMES.
  • Mega Tokyo: I liked it better when it was a wacky gamer comic and not whatever the Hell it is now.
  • XKCD: The Hatedom annoys me, yet at the same time I didn't like that strip where he criticizes superstition or whatever it was. I'm tired of hearing RELIGION IS EVIL so much these days.

Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#7: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:08:49 PM

Arthur King Of Time And Space's recent format change lost me, but it'll pick me up when it returns to usual.

Quite a few webcomics lost me at various transitions in my life. Dominic Deegan was one and, well, kinda glad of that.

I don't read Dinosaur Comics anymore, I don't know why, because it is awesome.

Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
Zephid Since: Jan, 2001
#8: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:08:52 PM

Ctrl Alt Del: Wasn't laughing anymore, and the drama wasn't interesting.
El Goonish Shive: See above.
Real Life: Honestly, I should probably get back into this one.
Order Of The Stick: I stopped keeping track of the story for around a month, and then settled on doing an Archive Binge of the whole thing again to catch up. I just haven't had the time or inclination, but I will eventually.
Least I Could Do / Looking For Group: I don't know why. Probably should get back into them.
VG Cats: Honestly, I don't think I'm behind here given how often he updates.

edit: Dresden Codak, though his recent stuff suggests I should get back into it.

edited 20th Jul '09 4:18:48 PM by Zephid

I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.
Anemotaxis legacy interface Since: May, 2009
legacy interface
#9: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:09:41 PM

Jethro Q Walrustitty: Dilbert (online version). Website was changed, including pointless flash application, couldn't bother working it out.

There's a "fast version" that cuts out almost everything but the comic and some strip navigation. It's much less of a headache.

Spoiler bookmarklet for iPhone and iPod touch
Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#10: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:21:07 PM

Uh...that's it. I never really read all that many webcomics to begin with, though.

I guess it is.
Noimporta Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:24:40 PM

Real Life: Honestly, I should probably get back into this one.

This is funny when read without the pothole, which was probably the intention.

As for webcomics, I am only starting to get into some, so I haven't stopped reading any, I mostly read the day-to-day strip format, so I can miss a few ones from time to time.

edited 20th Jul '09 4:28:12 PM by Noimporta

Oscredwin Cold. from The Frozen East Since: Jan, 2001
Cold.
#12: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:25:23 PM

RSS feeds help me stick with infrequent comics.

Sex, Drugs, and Rationality
ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
Ravenous Sophovore
#13: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:31:13 PM

  • Errant Story - I really don't know why, but I just completely lost interest at one point. I can't seem to get it back, either.
  • A Modest Destiny - Natch, since it's on hiatus. Again.
  • Dominic Deegan - Dear god, the Super Greg arc was horrible. And trying to explain why to the fans was even worse. I realized that the days when the puns made me smile had ended long ago and I was reading out of habit.
  • Sister Claire - Meh, potty humor can only hold my interest so long. I was hoping for something more since I liked the art, but it's taking to long to develop, if it ever will.
  • General Protection Fault - Somehow I hung on through the long once a week update dry spell, and then completely lost interest when it started updating more frequently. Used to be one of my favorites, too.
  • MegaTokyo - Pacing is way too slow, couldn't hold my interest. I imagine it must be at "snail in frozen molasses" speed by now.

edited 20th Jul '09 4:32:48 PM by ccoa

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#14: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:32:07 PM

The only one that comes to mind is Flaky Pastry. There are others, of course.

colin Since: Jan, 2001
#15: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:33:55 PM

I think I have, at one point or another, have read every single comic mentioned here, and have stopped reading for a short time. Sometimes I pick it back up, other times, I don't. The only execption are Irregular Webcomic, Darths And Droids, and Schlock Mercenary.

Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#16: Jul 20th 2009 at 4:35:18 PM

This is funny when read without the pothole, which was probably the intention.

I keep on trying to get back into Real Life, but it has a hard time holding my interest sometimes.

It does have some of the best Fanservice, though.

Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
CTrombley The Good Troper Since: Jan, 2001
The Good Troper
#18: Jul 20th 2009 at 5:32:41 PM

Is all of them fair? It is the truth, although not for any reason related to a change in personal taste.

Mathematics Is A Language.
Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011
#19: Jul 20th 2009 at 5:32:43 PM

It took me a while to figure out what was wrong with Dominic Deegan, but I'm glad I did.

I dunno why people stick around it to dump pain on it instead of getting lives, though.

Nornagest Since: Jan, 2001
#20: Jul 20th 2009 at 5:48:11 PM

I can't conveniently enumerate the webcomics I've stopped reading, but here's a few I remember off the top of my head:

  • Errant Story. Generic fantasy where it wasn't a retread of Exploitation Now. Ultimately not worth my time.
  • Megatokyo. Got tired of the pacing, leetspeak, update schedule, creator self-loathing, and contrived fanboy shout-outs.
  • Sluggy Freelance. Realized at some point that I was only checking it out of habit.
  • Schlock Mercenary. Same as Sluggy Freelance.
  • Real Life Comics. Same as Sluggy Freelance.
  • Half a dozen indistinguishable IT comics: Realized that all were ripping off Dilbert, and that I didn't particularly enjoy Dilbert in the first place.
  • VG Cats. Realized that I was about ten years and thirty hours a week of gaming outside of the target audience. Also got tired of ass jokes.
  • Penny Arcade. Nothing really wrong with it, just didn't speak to me.
  • Dominic Deegan. Binged the archive in about a week. Realized two weeks later that it was a terrible comic (this, incidentally, coincided with the beginning of the Snowsong arc).
  • Least I Could Do. Not really sure why; perhaps it was getting repetitive.
  • Better Days. Realized hours after finishing an Archive Binge that the political content was getting worse, not better.
  • Misfile. Realized that I wasn't a car fetishist or a transformation fetishist. Wondered what I was doing there. Couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer.
  • Under Powered. Too inane.
  • Sinfest. Too smarmy.
  • Sexy Losers. Update schedule slowed to nothing. Deleted the link after realizing I was spending more time checking it than the author was drawing it.
  • Sore Thumbs. Strikingly bad. Left when the Bile Fascination wore off.
  • Applegeeks. Fanboy content too much to endure.
  • Grim Tales From Down Below. Left me feeling inexplicably skeevy. Didn't last long.
  • Girly. Deleted the link in a fit of ennui.
  • Weregeek. Deleted the link in a fit of self-awareness.
  • Flaky Pastry. Content not worth the update schedule.
  • RPG World. Saw too many jokes coming.

I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.
Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011
#21: Jul 20th 2009 at 7:25:03 PM

I love how Mega Tokyo introduced leetspeak to the world and now everyone just speaks in lolcat.

BroDiddley haha! from New South Wales Since: Dec, 2009
haha!
#22: Jul 21st 2009 at 1:10:17 AM

I liked a few XKCD strips and decided to go on an archive binge, I stopped somewhere in the middle when it started getting too angsty/vulgar. Ironically, I was originally put off from XKCD because I'm completely shit at mathematics, but that's still better than the god damn relationship comics.

Also, Templar Arizona, not because I hate it but because I honestly haven't got around to it lately. What I've seen is pretty fucking awesome.

what?
Sabbo Since: Jan, 2001
#23: Jul 21st 2009 at 4:02:47 AM

Only Ctrl Alt Del (Shortly before the infamous miscarriage scene.)

Unless you count ones I never finished in the first place, that is. Like Something Positive or Penny Arcade. I certainly don't count ones which practically never update (like VG Cats)

Korgmeister Sapient Blob of Tofu from Zimbabwe Since: Dec, 1969
Sapient Blob of Tofu
#24: Jul 21st 2009 at 4:14:50 AM

Megatokyo because when Rodney left it went in a direction I didn't find entertaining.

Craving Control due to indefinite hiatus.

Muertitos due to eventually wandering from its fetish comic roots.

Templar, Arizona since I was mainly into that for the Fetish Fuel.

edited 21st Jul '09 4:15:04 AM by Korgmeister

Again with the data mining, dear Aunt?
EricDVH Since: Jan, 2001
#25: Jul 21st 2009 at 6:17:57 AM

  • Ozy And Millie, right around when Locke's relation to Millie was revealed. It used to be really good, keeping the right balance of witty mockery and believably lighthearted innocence that so many comics and cartoons struggle badly to get. Something vital just… Left it, starting about a year before that plot point.
  • Schlock Mercenary. I really wanted to like this comic. I mean, Niven, Heinlen, Hogan, Haldeman… The author reads all the same classic SF I do, and it does come out beautifully in the comic. Unfortunately, the cartoony slapstick hyperviolence of the typical webcomic doesn't really combine well with plausible settings depicted in a dead serious way, so the characters all manage to get off scot free with absurd bouts of random crime which then get immediately swallowed up into Negative Continuity that conflicts with the mountains of other continuity the comic's plot is built from.

Eric,


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