I hope thread necromancy is not a problem on this forum.
The only webcomic I dropped so far is The Noob. It got out of the good jokes (though occasionally it still made some), and along with the rare updates it got boring.
I'm also thinking on dropping Goblins. My Willing Suspension of Disbelief just dropped below zero a few times in a row.
Fjón þvæ ég af mér fjanda minna rán og reiði ríkra manna.I used to read Schlock Mercenary, but dropped it. Not sure why — just got bored with it. The characters seemed too flat, the stories not particularly fun, the moral twist of the story seemed a bit off to me; a bunch of things added up. Basically lost interest in it. Also it's this weird case of sci-fi that's actually pretty "soft", but sometimes seems to take itself way too seriously, as if it were "hard". O_o
Pat. St. of Archive Binge
Spinnerette is in the rare category of comics I have dropped because I couldn't physically read them. The creator released a volume in print only,which I can't (and won't) buy. The first time it was a fanservice issue; I was disappointed, but let it slide. Then he had the great idea to refer to its plot in the main story. Annoyance... rising. Now he's released another print-only volume and I am not going to let him hold the story to ransom again.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.I don't stop reading comics very often. Usually if it is interesting enough that I complete the initial archive binge, I'll keep reading until it seriously pisses me off. However, I read around 80 of the things, so it figures that I would drop some from time to time.
Dominic Deegan: I dropped this a long time ago. First by mistake, then I realized how bad it was when I was catching back up.
Misfile: Once it became clear that nothing was going to be resolved I dropped it. It hadn't sunk to the level where I would usually drop something, but I was in a bad mood that week.
Fey Winds: The comic was mediocre at best, which is not good enough to justify following something that couldn't keep a weekly update schedule.
Earthsong: I was in a weird mood when I started reading it. Eventually the weird mood wore off.
The Continentals: Slow. So slow. Slow slow slow slow slow.
There are several others that died, or went on hiatus, but I cannot remember them all.
edited 19th Feb '12 12:11:36 AM by CompletelyNormalGuy
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.Well, now three webcomics I used to read (Keychain Of Creation, Ow My Sanity and Bibliography) have gone on hiatus.
Likes many underrated webcomicsDropped Schlock Mercenary because well, it just wasn't funny.
Shortpacked just became more trouble than it was worth to keep up.
Almost dropped Sluggy Freelance during the endless 4City arc but it's gone back to it's roots lately so I'm sticking with it for now.
Was dithering for a whiile as to whether American Barbarian was Do Bad Its Good or So Bad Its Horrible and for now have decided on the former.
Trump delenda estNow I actually did drop Goblins, for some time, at least.
Then there is 6Commando, which goes so slowly I simply forgot about it. Now I caught it up again, for who knows how long.
Now that I'm thinking about it, there was No Need For Bushido, which I was reading for a time while it was still going, then dropped it, restarted later when it was finished, then dropped again in the middle of the Archive Binge.
Fjón þvæ ég af mér fjanda minna rán og reiði ríkra manna.I don't drop many comics. I usually just put them in the folder that I don;t read very often.
However I have dropped Sluggy freelance after following it for years, and doing 3 count them 3 re-reads. The humor was wither getting more juvenile or i was getting older, and the 4-city plot arc and Zoe's death and inevitable return were taking forever.
I also loved Homestuck, but dropped it in the middle of the trolls because the long off colored text logs were literally painful to read, and once I stopped reading continuously, nothing made sense anymore.
What do you want Bronn? Gold? Women? Golden Women?Decided to drop Brawl In The Family and The Unspeakable Vault Of Doom as just not funny enough to bother with.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful- Magick Chicks: Was never really all that invested in it anyway. I only read it because it was related to Eerie Cuties, which I'm also considering dropping.
- Trigger Star: Stopped updating for several months, and once it started up again I realized I no longer cared.
- Gastro Phobia: Same as above. Didn't update for several months, once it started up again I didn't care anymore.
- VG Cats: Dropped because of the legendary Schedule Slip. Apparently it's updating regularly again, but I don't care anymore.
- Grim Tales From Down Below: I stopped reading this one YEARS ago. The plot just dragged on and nothing was ever resolved.
- Selkie: I realized that I no longer cared about the characters and, despite my hopes, the art simply was not going to get any better.
- The Wotch: I only read it in the first place because of its popularity. I dropped it once after the fetish aspects got to be way too much for me, and then after giving it a second chance I dropped it again because the story turned to utter mush and the art somehow got worse.
- Axe Cop: It just got old. There are only so many 7-year-old's hero fantasies one can take.
edited 11th Mar '12 10:38:50 AM by SergeantLuke
Do loafing!![]()
Mercifully, The Wotch is now being drawn by a more professional artist.
EDIT: Since again I've gone off topic, I'll add Pibgorn as another example on my list. I think the straw that broke my back on that one was one too many comments from the author along the lines of "I am a towering genius and you readers are all knuckle-dragging hunchbacked cretins."
edited 13th Mar '12 5:39:27 AM by Geoduck
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- Axe Cop: Like others, I got tired of it's basic concept once the trippiness and gimmick wore off.
- Least I Could Do: It got tired and repetitive, especially once I realized that Rayne was rapidly becoming some perfect human with an awesome life as a Marty Stu. Every time I checked later on, things were even worse, and he's started ranting about things that personally bothered the author.
- Penny And Aggie: I really started to hate the strip by the ending months, and only read because it was free and I wanted to finish the whole story. I started it's spin-off, but hated it, because the Lisa character is unbelievably irritating.
- Penny Arcade: I was so outside of the Gamer culture that none of the strips meant anything to me. I don't mind the funnier strips, but I can't get into the whole thing.
- VG Cats: Same jokes over and over again, and like PA, I got out of the Gamer Culture.
edited 23rd Mar '12 5:59:51 PM by Jabroniville
Stopped reading Homestuck around November, due to a combination of unattractive storytelling techniques (the damn HTML 5 walkarounds which choke my browser to death and take forever to complete), the worsening plot (Act 6 and its cadre of new characters, almost all of them uninteresting or downright insufferable), and the same-sex romance taking increasingly center stage (I signed on for an adventure, not a work of queer literature).
*sigh* But the memes and the music are awesome, and I don't regret the time spent reading.
Also stopped reading Girl Genius (I used to liveblog about it... poorly) simply because I didn't find it very interesting and was forcing myself to read on.
Finally, Dresden Codak... not even sure why, I guess I simply didn't care about the characters or the plot at all, even if the art and writing was nice.
edited 19th Jan '13 11:29:58 PM by Korodzik
El Goonish Shive because of it's slow pacing. I guess I haven't so much stopped reading it as I just binge on it every few years and then after getting caught up I see how little content there is in each up date and go back to not reading it.
The Wotch, I can't remember why I stopped reading it, but now I can't even remember what I ever saw in it.
I've lost a few, although it's largely because I'm disorganized, relying on remembering the UR Ls of the ones I read versus bookmarking them (my brother has a fairly nice system where he's got separate bookmark folders for each day of the week for webcomics that would update then).
- User Friendly — I lost track of the thread of the story about seven years ago and just never felt like archive-binging to catch up again.
- The Wotch ... I honestly don't remember. I think I just lost track of it for a few days and just never got around to picking it back up again.
- Blue Milk Special — I love the premise, but I lost track of updates and never got back to it.
- Eerie Cuties and Magick Chicks also make the list. I just couldn't keep up with the spinoffs.
- Krakow Comics, I enjoyed the original story, but the follow-up ones just didn't grip me.
- Romantically Apocolyptic is one of those ones where I don't remember why I stopped read it. It just kind of fell off of my radar. I should look it up some time.
- Irregular Webcomic I highly enjoy, but again, I basically just forgot about its existence.
- Er... and probably about a dozen where I remember the basic premise, but have forgotten the actual strip name whether due to lack of updates or lack of further interest. Sometimes, the course of figuring out the name of the strip is more entertaining than the strip itself was, involving me piecing together several fragments of memory involving the circumstances of when I accessed the strip, somewhat like a very personal YKTS quest.
There's a whole subset of comics which simply stopped or have been on hiatus for forever. Mind Mistress, The Bare Pit, Coming Up Violet... every once in a while I bring up the URL just to see if anything has changed.
Shortpacked when it stopped being about jokes about pop culture and toys and became about the characters I didn't care about, and full of author tracts.
Least I Could Do: Just sort of... stopped. I'd keep reading, but I would have to catch up and I don't remember where I left off, and I don't care enough to find out.
Mega Tokyo: Got bored of nothing happening.
8BitTheater: Same as LICD, just stopped at one point and while I want to get back into it, the idea of finding out where I left off and starting from then is just daunting.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.- Penny Arcade: Not enough humor to make up for the vulgarity.
- Little Tales: Just plain boring.
And some time ago...
- Misfile. I admit I tried reading it a few years prior because I was intrigued by the premise. I very quickly realized it wasn't in my taste and dropped it.
- Elf Only Inn: Lost interest after the AOL chatroom antics ended.
- Axe Cop: It's fun to see a five-year-old's fantasy illustrated, but once the novelty wears off, what's left is a completely inane comic.
I'm also considering dropping VG Cats. It's not too funny and too many comics rely on the reader having played the same video games (or having watched the same movies
) as the author. Writers of Penny Arcade at least explain every time what the comic is about; VG Cats doesn't (apart from mentioning the game's name in the table of contents), so a lot of it is incomprehensible. note
edited 1st Feb '13 12:55:53 PM by Korodzik
I read few and drop few webcomics, but of the ones I can remember:
- Sailor Twain because it ended. Also Eight Bit Theatre, though it took a lot more willpower to finish after slogging through ~1000 pages of little-to-no character development.
- El Goonish Shive because of its increasing focus on teenage drama and a cliched high school setting.
- Goblins for reasons I'm not sure. Some poor decisions the author made didn't help.
- The Meek, Dresden Codak, and Astray3 because of their update schedules/state of hiatus. I love all of them, but I the updates are so infrequent that I check up on them later. That reminds me, I should check up on these...
edited 4th Feb '13 12:41:27 AM by SinisterShenanigans
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?I tapered off with Femmegasm after Shelly left the cast. After that, it seemed to devolve into a Random Events Plot that moved way too slowly, and had less interesting characters than Shelly and June. (The strip's also been hammered way too much by the artist having constant health and financial issues.)
VG Cats I dumped quickly because I realized that, since I'm not a gamer, most of the jokes were going way over my head.
I tend to lose focus easily with webcomics, and don't tend to Archive Binge anything. And when I do, I tend to hit an uninteresting strip early on. Dan And Mabs Furry Adventures lost me early on because I know nothing about fantasy, so it was going over my head. Similarly with Broken Plot Device. Sandra And Woo lost me early on with a few jokes in a row that I didn't get.
I have a friend who's a big fan of Sabrina Online, and links me to new strips whenever they come up. Some have been kinda funny, but a lot of the time, it just seems like the same jokes over and over again.
edited 4th Feb '13 11:23:56 PM by Twentington

Yeah yeah.. I was reading one called Space Base 8 for a while. The art was good, but the jokes eventually came across as too sitcom-ish. I finally gave up on XKCD because so many of the jokes were uber-geek references.
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