Bad webcomics

[geckogoy]

Just saying but 'take as much time as you need. slay, my fat lazy nigger queen' is how you go from 5 updates a year to 0

 

[Arthur Morgan]

People had patience with creators fifteen years ago when OOTS was newer, but the economy has turned to shit and everyone has to work harder for less, besides the earlier days of crowdfunding where backers were burned by unmet goals. There just is no excuse for this level of output for so much compensation. He just released Dim Sun, a comic special. Why don't you finish your main fucking story for your backers. Maybe I'd be a patron if his work ethic wasn't absolute trash.

Back when he did the kickstarter to reprint the books, one of the stretch goals was that he would put out a page a day for a whole week, I forget if weekends were included but it was reached and... he did it. I checked the site sporadically so I didn't see them until much later, but one day I looked and there were either five or seven new strips ready to be read (It was in book five when Durkon fought Malack and got bitten). This just proved that, if he wanted to, he could get more pages out. He just doesn't.

I think part of the problem as well is that we're getting closer to the end. He's said that there will only be eight books and we're in number seven, so assuming book eight is set inside the portal he's going to lose his main source of income once the story wraps. He'll probably do another print run kickstarter but are there enough fans still left to reach the numbers the last one did?

What is really infuriating is befor Gabe went on mood stabiliziers and was sent to Leftard reeducation camp and was still a gamer, he and Tycho at would at least do something moderately interesting once a year or so. Cardboard Tube Samurai was a shitty oversold meme given there's like 10 comics of said character, but while fairly lazy retreads, the dialogueless story telling was different. But they haven't done anything with it. Same where they had the week where they pitched some different comic premises to gauge reaction. Their D&D comic was shit but the others had promise. But we got one Arc of the Noir Robots comics, and then nothing. They did like 3 twisp and catsby comics and never thought of it again. Just the same CAD-tier shit over and over as Gabe's art degrades.

It's funny going back and reading the old print editions, which they stopped doing because Kurtz convinced them they were a waste of time because he was too lazy to keep making his, and seeing how long some of those arcs were. They used to spend multiple weeks doing stories unrelated to Penny Arcade, or focused on characters like the Merch or Fruit Fucker, and now they don't. At least I assume they don't, I only dip in occasionally.

I think part of it could be because a lot of their attempts at side projects fell apart. They did that Treches strip with Kurtz and that fell apart because they were trying too hard to match each others' sense of humor and failed to mesh, and then would take months off in between 'seasons' of sixty strips. They did those one off strips that were pitches for other projects you mentioned that got a lot of buzz, but failed to materialize into anything real. That Automata thing they kickstarted flopped. The Lookouts graphic novel never happened. And there were other projects that were announced but also never came out.

The only thing that got finished was the video game and the Thornwatch card game but who even remembers those anymore?

 

[Ghostse]

I think part of it could be because a lot of their attempts at side projects fell apart. They did that Treches strip with Kurtz and that fell apart because they were trying too hard to match each others' sense of humor and failed to mesh, and then would take months off in between 'seasons' of sixty strips. They did those one off strips that were pitches for other projects you mentioned that got a lot of buzz, but failed to materialize into anything real. That Automata thing they kickstarted flopped. The Lookouts graphic novel never happened. And there were other projects that were announced but also never came out.

The Trenches had bad art (or I guess unattactive character design) and was just too late. Kurtz tried to inject his own new SJW religion into it and it just didn't work. He aped The IT Crowd without absorbing the lesson that people liked the IT crowd & Dilbert because there was no long term over arcing plot.

I think Penny Arcade projects failing is on Mike & Jerry nearly entirely. They had some great concepts and then they just stopped caring. and the complete lack of caring coincides with Gabe going on mood stabilizers post-Dickwolf saga and cucking out.

And I guess.... its all the more tragic because looping this back OOTS, if it was just a lack of talent the PA niggers would have had the resources and connections to bring in people who could deliver on the vision.

The issue is that a lot of their projects have no sticking power because they are about half a notch above Highdeas.

 

[Troon Whisperer]

A lot of the Penny Arcade success was due to Robert Khoo tard-wrangling the two and forcing them do things in order to improve the PA brand which earned them more money. It's kinda telling that pretty much everything except PAX fell off a cliff the moment he quit in 2016. PAX survives because they just licensed the name to an event management company, and that deal alongside their D&D stuff is probably what keeps them afloat.