Since I last posted here...
I did lose track of Questionable Content and The Phoenix Requiem; haven't checked either of those since forever. I also dropped Girl Genius and The Order Of The Stick because I just sorta lost interest, but I'm thinking I might catch up with those again at some point.
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffI dropped Questionable Content, mainly because while I did find it funny, I couldn't really bring myself to go back and read the massive archives to get up to speed on who all the characters were and all the drama that they've been through.
I also find myself checking MSPA less and less, partly because Hussie's update schedule is so sporadic, but also because it just isn't nearly as interesting as it used to be. :/
Corgis are a Welsh bread. I'm delicious.Since I last posted I've dropped Something Positive. The sense of "read one strip, read them all" finally caught up with me.
Ctrl Alt Delete: Got boring since the drama.
ADVENTURERS!: Ended.
Chugworth Academy: I don't know why, really.
Original Life: Stupid muffin arc. Will resume reading when the arc's over.
Mega Tokyo: No explanation needed.
Free bacon!Dresden Codak, because episodes 25 & 26 of Neon Genesis Evangelion make more sense.
Well, I wrote up an entire rant about a certain comic's practices, then checked the article on it and found out it was irrelevant because the site's been taken down by the host.
edited 12th Jul '11 10:07:55 PM by Ezekiel
Bobby G, The Phoenix Requiem actually ended earlier this year.
It was interesting, but personally, I thought it was a bit anticlimactic. Mainly because Anya doesn't do a damn thing in the finale. Really. The comic kept building her up like she was this big important character with a huge plot relevance, but she's really very passive in the whole state of affairs. Yea, she did have some use as a plot device, but as a character? Not so much. I was even totally fine that she did not get the guy, I just wanted her to do...something...anything...to justify her presence in the story.
edited 12th Jul '11 10:47:11 PM by Rebochan
Suicide-For-Hire. I used to like it a lot, but over time I was just more and more put off by it. The blatant author tracts, the walls of text with annoyingly wordy dialogue, not to mention the author's callous dismissal of the motives behind suicide as selfish and stupid... I understand that he lost a loved one to suicide, but the comic is just filled to the brim with bitterness and rage. And I just got sick of the characters being unrepentant monsters who never got any comeuppance for their actions. Because the victims are apparently idiots and deserve everything they get for ever contemplating suicide in the first place.
Ad to stop reading dead winter when they started showing naked people. I know only a few panels are nsfw, so could someone tell me what those are so I can finish my archive binge. I also find myself keeping up with Kevin and kell simply because I recently completed a 5000+ archive binge, and there is noway I am quitting after that!
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
Huh. I don't even remember that happened, let alone when, sorry.
Accidental Centaurs (Got the link through the crossover in The Wotch). I could stand a lot of stuff, including the reboot, but my Willing Suspension of Disbelief finally snapped when I saw a thrown dagger with a wide blade go through two layers of chainmail, one of flesh, and two more of ribcage
. Note that the guy who throw it has shown no prior nor posterior evidence of Super-Strength of any kind.
edited 1st Aug '11 2:53:12 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."![]()
Found out, skipped them, and enjoyed it throughly. Ever since I discovered Piperka, I no longer really drop comics; I just put them near the bottom of my "care about" list and read 4 or 5 in a row every once in a while.
Freefall: cannot freaking stand it anymore. Dilbert level business humor, AGW denialism, Libertarian rubbish and theist rubbish. Not to mention the fanatical fandom. There isn't anywhere except possibly /b/ or Facepunch where it won't be lauded. Gaaahhhh.
Girl Genius: Cannot be arsed to get back into it. Boobs get mildly boring after a while.
Questionable Content: GIANT HIPSTER, BUH BUH! Seriously, does the author go out of his way to be the stereotype?
XKCD: Snobbish. Not because of the anti-religious sentiment. That's one of the few bits that I have any sympathy for. It's generic snobbish nerdery the rest of the time though. And unfunny sex jokes. Besides, SMBC does everything better.
Anything by that idiot who does Nip and Tuck: Pro torture filthbag author. That would be enough to put him on the scum list. Also, generic southern armerican conservative/libertarian talking points for the fail.
Sluggy Freelance: The Avatar jokes on 2010. Realized the humour was getting generic then and left.
Schlock Merc: Boring Military SF.
Better Days: Randroid Rubbish. Been meaning to try and feed it to a chans' /i/ board some time along with freefall, see if they bite.
Cannot think of any more at the moment.
For what it's worth, I think most of us are solely reading for Florence at this point.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulI stopped reading Dan And Mabs Furry Adventures when I came back to my internet connection after a week away. It took several months before I noticed.
I may go back to reading it some day, but frankly I doubt it. I didn't care about the plot, I didn't care about the characters, the good jokes were getting increasingly far between. About the one thing it had going for it was the art, and even that suffered from a lack of imagination (same camera angle pretty much all the time and very little variation in panel layout).
What's /i/ ? The Image Boards page doesn't say and I'm not trying to connect to 4chan from work, thanks.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."The weird thing about RH Junior is that he is capable of producing a relatively subtle, balanced and restrained webcomic: Tales Of The Questor. I read it and enjoy it, and wouldn't touch the rest of his stuff with ten-foot pole.
edited 4th Aug '11 11:28:27 AM by Geoduck
The Mansion of E
Well, that may be because of the setting: it's easy to inject your viewpoints into a comic based on life embellished, not so much into a high fantasy. TOTQ is actually pretty good usually.
I didn't say it was impossible, I just said it was harder. In places that aren't earth, certain subjects can turn into Space whale aseops. Some examples: There is no animal rights debate in a world of sentinent animals, there is no gay marriage debate in a world of easy gender benders(Those are just examples, please don't argue them.). Also, a fantasy world might not even contain politics like ours, and if you make them too similar, people will complain it is unrealistic and author tracty. Still, it can be done. Just look at Narnia.
Getting back on subject, I stopped trying to archive binge schlock, and just skipped to the latest plotline. Oddly, it worked.
One more thing: This is a "Webcomics you've stopped reading" thread, not a "webcomics you don't read/like." thread.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

After reading the most recent story arc, I think I'm dropping Sandra And Woo. I thought the whole arc was kind of mishandled, but especially the part with the eagle.
I mean, after a bit of semi-Dead Baby Comedy where an eagle is horrified that the raccoon it picked up to eat and for some reason didn't kill before taking him back to its nest promptly eats its eggs, it's so upset that it... lets him go.
Y'know, if I had been that eagle, the strip would've required a rename about the time he picked up the first egg, because Woo would no longer be a character. Because he'd be dead. Woo's survival is beyond contrived, given that he was in a position of complete helplessness and decided to provoke the predator that put him there. Not only did him being Too Dumb to Live not get him killed, it got him a free goddamn meal. And this is a webcomic that stands out in my mind as getting pretty preachy on occasion about sensitivity to the plights of others and similar subjects, so to see it go for that kind of joke ignited my "someone's being a hypocrite" fire.
I'm pretty sure this has all happened before, too. Generally, stories focusing on Woo in the wild seem to be mostly repetitive and dull, as there are only three varieties; Woo messes with Sid, Woo has a close call with a predator/hunter/larger raccoon, and Woo finds a female raccoon to hump. Stories focusing on the humans are marginally better, and work okay for what they are, but they never seem to lead anywhere interesting and have a marked tendency to lead somewhere preachy.
It doesn't help that, on an unrelated note, I checked out their forum a while back and if I'm recalling this correctly, one of the creators had a topic created for the purpose of outright insulting a few people for having presented quite reasonable-sounding criticisms of the comic. Small Name, Big Ego much?
Basically, it's not something I'm going to be checking out anymore.
edited 6th Jul '11 10:12:42 PM by Ezekiel