I figured the next post of this series would be about the "end" of Sluggy Freelance. HA!
To be clear, I am not surprised by this. For one, it was always been clear that Sluggy 20+ would be "different" but not "over." Secondly, there was no way Pete Abrams was EVER going to finish the mainline Sluggy story in the short time frame he had given himself.
Most of it comes from his own issues with keeping the updates rolling. This ever present problem has kept the comic from really hitting any kind of stride and various failures (like Oceans Unmoving) can be traced back to it. Once he started missing updates in the last year or so, I knew it would never quite make it. It is a shame he has never managed to make a buffer of any kind to help him sort out this issue, so perhaps the new direction of the comic might help in that respect.
It didn't help that a LOT needed to be tied up in such a short amount of time. So much to cover from Oasis to Chen, vampires and Kusari, Sasha and dig bots and I'm barely covering a fraction of everything. And even at this point I don't think he can "finish" the story in 2 years from NOW. Just too much to cover too fast.
So backing off, kind of, was a given. In doing so he's given himself some room to work. First he switched the update schedule from 5 days a week to, um, two I think. Strips are at least twice as big, if not bigger in some aspects and there's more room for growth.
It also gave him breathing room to go ahead and keep developing characters again. Torg and Riff aren't quite on the same page, even if they are on the same side. Oasis is still dealing with her stuff and Sasha, is apparently a series of clones? And Kusari! Weird.
So some of the secrets are revealed, but not all, and the final resolution of the story is still a long way away. Which means no "it's over" post from me.
My promise thus remains, to be there when it ends. After a 20 year run, the comic is likely going for a couple more, at least. While I likely won't update regularly after this year, I will be back for that ending. Well, assuming I remember how to log into this thing.
Until then I'll be waiting. In the mean time, I have more to talk about. Until next time kiddies.
Most of it comes from his own issues with keeping the updates rolling. This ever present problem has kept the comic from really hitting any kind of stride and various failures (like Oceans Unmoving) can be traced back to it. Once he started missing updates in the last year or so, I knew it would never quite make it. It is a shame he has never managed to make a buffer of any kind to help him sort out this issue, so perhaps the new direction of the comic might help in that respect.
It didn't help that a LOT needed to be tied up in such a short amount of time. So much to cover from Oasis to Chen, vampires and Kusari, Sasha and dig bots and I'm barely covering a fraction of everything. And even at this point I don't think he can "finish" the story in 2 years from NOW. Just too much to cover too fast.
So backing off, kind of, was a given. In doing so he's given himself some room to work. First he switched the update schedule from 5 days a week to, um, two I think. Strips are at least twice as big, if not bigger in some aspects and there's more room for growth.
It also gave him breathing room to go ahead and keep developing characters again. Torg and Riff aren't quite on the same page, even if they are on the same side. Oasis is still dealing with her stuff and Sasha, is apparently a series of clones? And Kusari! Weird.
So some of the secrets are revealed, but not all, and the final resolution of the story is still a long way away. Which means no "it's over" post from me.
My promise thus remains, to be there when it ends. After a 20 year run, the comic is likely going for a couple more, at least. While I likely won't update regularly after this year, I will be back for that ending. Well, assuming I remember how to log into this thing.
Until then I'll be waiting. In the mean time, I have more to talk about. Until next time kiddies.
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