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trouserwearingbarbarian Since: Jan, 2001
#101: Oct 1st 2009 at 3:57:36 PM

Not counting dead comics:

  • Alas, Umlaut House, and Badly Drawn Kitties: Read all of them faithfully when I was younger, but lost interest over time. (Not to mention that Alas was an Orphaned Series for quite a while.) I tried getting back into the first two more recently, but they didn't really appeal to me anymore.
  • Venus Envy: Lack of updates and an increasing number of wallbangers.
  • Menage A 3: Did an archive binge a while back, but didn't bother reading after that because I didn't think it was good enough to bother.
  • The Adventures Of Dr. McNinja: I kinda just forgot to read it after the Robster storyline. Not that I've lost interest altogether, I'm just way behind. I really out to catch up sometime.

Also, while haven't stopped reading it, I fell behind on Girl Genius a while back and I was also a bit lost on what was going on plot-wise. So I've been doing another archive binge, and I'm up to book 6. (If anything, it's reaffirmed my love for it.)

iamathousandapples The Collective from Northeast Ohio Megablob Since: Oct, 2009
The Collective
#102: Oct 8th 2009 at 8:57:28 PM

Cyanide & Happiness just got so ridiculously bad(Especially the one where they rip off PBF with a straight face) that it got completely cut from my daily routine.

edited 8th Oct '09 8:58:07 PM by iamathousandapples

"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl Pilkington
Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#103: Oct 8th 2009 at 9:10:13 PM

I tend to prefer going on Archive Binges. I usually have problems keeping up with comics as they update after I finish.

Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#104: Oct 9th 2009 at 7:20:49 AM

Webcomics I did stop reading:

  • Questionable Content is about drawn tits that talk about indie rock and Love Dodecahedrons or something. And there are people who take it seriously.
  • Penny Arcade, though I'm not really sure why. Maybe because it's a random, Orphaned Punchline kind of comic now. I'll probably trade Ctrl Alt Del for Penny Arcade one of these days - the jokes in Ctrl became really... uh, nonexistent, and orphaned punchlines are better than nothing.

Webcomics I might stop reading:

  • Real Life Comics became an immensely boring diary comic about TV shows I don't watch.
  • Eight Bit Theater if it proceeds to be stuck in the damn forest for another three months after being stuck in a brown castle for the previous three months. After a three-four day long archive binge and laughing my ass off at nearly every strip, I'm very disappointed with where it goes, or doesn't go, to be precise.

edited 9th Oct '09 7:21:20 AM by Litis

JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#105: Oct 9th 2009 at 8:42:32 AM

I recently checked out the first few chapters of Aoi House. I was immensly annoyed, and someone told me it'dd get worse.

I might read it to end for the sake of know what to rage abou, but in general, it's pretty much everything I hate about the mainstream Anime fandom.

Pannic Since: Jul, 2009
#106: Oct 9th 2009 at 9:37:39 AM

One Over Zero

Because I finished it. Now I'm sad.

Pacific Oh Yeah? from da beach house Since: Jan, 2001
Oh Yeah?
#107: Oct 9th 2009 at 10:51:35 AM

I don't know how close the Cyanide and Happiness comic and the Perry Bible Fellowship comic are. I found this image someone else made, so obviously more people noticed it than me.

washington213 Since: Jan, 2013
#108: Oct 10th 2009 at 10:47:51 PM

I haven't outright stopped one I started, but I haven't been keeping up with Menage A Three as much as I used to, given there's no schedule for updates, and they're rather inconsistent.

I may drop Darths And Droids. It's just not very funny anymore.

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#109: Oct 11th 2009 at 9:31:44 AM

Huh? Menage a 3 is dependably Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and the new strip is almost always up by mid-morning.

washington213 Since: Jan, 2013
#110: Oct 11th 2009 at 4:46:42 PM

Oh, I guess I didn't pay much attention to the other stuff then. I could've sworn there were a couple weeks when the guy didn't do anything new, but then he might've been on a vacation of sorts. Oh well. I guess I'll be following it more closely then.

Vilui Since: May, 2009
#111: Nov 16th 2009 at 2:51:32 PM

The number of people that dropped Megatokyo when it started getting too serious makes me think my milage varied. That's actually the time I started liking it more.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. I did enjoy the early part — good enough to get me hooked — but it was Chapter 3 onwards that was when I knew I'd found something really special.

Getting back on topic, I don't really have any I've stopped reading. I have a few I've looked at and decided they didn't interest me enough for me to want to follow them, but that's not really the same thing, and anyway I couldn't remember all of them.

edited 19th Nov '09 4:23:43 PM by Vilui

HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#112: Nov 16th 2009 at 4:13:20 PM

I stopped reading XKCD because frankly it seems that Randall thinks that you don't have to be funny as long as you pander to a niche consisting of the nerdiest people on the planet. Really, it seems like the satisfaction comes from merely understanding his jokes, not how good they are.

edited 16th Nov '09 4:19:11 PM by Hilarity Ensues

oddball716 Since: Jun, 2009
#113: Jun 7th 2010 at 10:39:58 AM

I stopped reading VG Cats. Some of the jokes are funny, but I don't agree with his position about certain videogames.

PippingFool Eclipse the Moon from A Floridian Prison Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
Eclipse the Moon
#114: Jun 7th 2010 at 8:08:52 PM

I stopped reading VG Cats and Super Effective because not only were the updates no-existant but the jokes became shitteir as time went on. XKCD has a few good ones, but I don't like how it got alot more wangsty as it went on. Once I couldn't get my friends to MST Sonichu with me anymore I stopped reading that

Really, the only webcomics I read now are Cuanta Vida and Scandinavia And The World.

edited 7th Jun '10 8:25:38 PM by PippingFool

I'm having to learn to pay the price
Shale Since: Jan, 2001
#115: Jun 7th 2010 at 8:14:28 PM

Looking For Group's halfassed Cerebus Syndrome caught up to me a while ago. I kept reading it for a while because I still enjoy the odd Richard punchline, but stopped devoting any thought at all to the actual plot of the comic. When the recent Cerebus Retcon hit, I was done completely.

I stopped following Homestuck about when the trolls started talking en masse, because it became work just to read the comic. I'd like to get caught up, but the sheer number of updates I've missed by now is terrifying.

Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#116: Jun 7th 2010 at 8:22:13 PM

The only webcomic I've really stopped reading is 8-Bit Theater, and that's just because it finally concluded not too long ago.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#117: Jun 7th 2010 at 8:37:44 PM

Aside from concluded ones: I've stopped reading Warbot In Accounting. Because the createors succeeded altogether too well at making a comic that is soul-crushingly depressing.

I have a message from another time...
Anaheyla Since: Jan, 2001
#118: Jun 7th 2010 at 8:51:06 PM

I still read it from time to time, mostly catching up via Archive Binging, but I stopped regularly reading Ctrl Alt Del several years ago. Still don't see what all the fuss is about with the Hate Dumb. You'd think Tim Buckley were evil incarnate.

I've given up on The End Of Things altogether, because it doesn't look like it'll get finished any time soon.

I lost the link to some webcomic that I forget the name of about the Minotaur from Greek myth who used the name Max, I'd start reading again if I could find it. Alas.

edited 7th Jun '10 8:58:25 PM by Anaheyla

This is still a signature.
feotakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
#119: Jun 7th 2010 at 11:28:51 PM

Over and over and over, I've gotten into a comic through an Archive Binge, reached the point where I had to wait for updates, and discovered either that I only made it that far from inertia, or that the plot only made sense if all the previous strips were fresh in my mind. I've actually restrained myself from reading some interesting-sounding comics like El Goonish Shive because I get the feeling they're only worth it in a single sitting. As for comics I've dumped before that point:

Eight Bit Theatre. Actually, I've decided never to read anything by Brian Clevinger ever again (case in point: Warbot In Accounting), but I got farther through this than everything else.

Captain SNES: Because there's a fine line between Dark Fic and Canon Defilement.

Darths And Droids: Because with the possible exception of Annie, these people are just too stupid and irritating.

There are also a couple strips, like VG Cats and Awkward Zombie, that update so infrequently I don't keep regular track of them. I've noticed that whenever one of their updates is particularly funny or noteworthy there's a post about it on these forums, typically with a link to the update in question.

edited 7th Jun '10 11:29:29 PM by feotakahari

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Gelzo Gerald Zosewater from the vault Since: Oct, 2009
Gerald Zosewater
#120: Jun 7th 2010 at 11:57:01 PM

Three characters: "B" "^" and "U".

I quit at the same time many others did, for a reason that is well-documented.

Ruining everything forever.
Anaheyla Since: Jan, 2001
#121: Jun 8th 2010 at 12:12:51 AM

B^U isn't a very good explanation for the gargantuan hate the series and Buckley receive.

This is still a signature.
Shale Since: Jan, 2001
#122: Jun 8th 2010 at 12:17:09 AM

Buckley? Is that gibberish a Ctrl+Alt+Del thing?

Gelzo Gerald Zosewater from the vault Since: Oct, 2009
Gerald Zosewater
#123: Jun 8th 2010 at 12:26:29 AM

I suppose I need to clarify.

B^U is an emoticon representing the expressionless faces that Buckley draws.

I left after the abortion arc, because the overuse of drama was just stupid.

Ruining everything forever.
Anaheyla Since: Jan, 2001
#124: Jun 8th 2010 at 12:29:04 AM

I know what B^U is, but you say it like it's a crime against humanity, holding it up as the entire reason Ctrl Alt Del gets Fan Dumb. I just don't get it.

This is still a signature.
Gelzo Gerald Zosewater from the vault Since: Oct, 2009
Gerald Zosewater
#125: Jun 8th 2010 at 12:36:23 AM

You must have been misreading me, then. I don't harbor any seething rage towards the comic, and I never meant to claim it's the only reason CAD has a hatedom.

I think the trope you meant to use was Hate Dumb, yes?

Ruining everything forever.

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