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So on Archive.org I found a bunch of zip files with old webcomics I used to read and it's been a fun nostalgia trip going through them. I remember the art being better but the humor is about what I remember. But yeah, there are plenty of webcomics to download and trawl through:

Snafu
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Abstract Gender
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Chugworth Academy
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Mac Hall
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And plenty more that there's not enough space to load up here.
 
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Arthur Morgan said:
Mac Hall
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Mac Hall is still up on its site. Ian has taken the Rodney Caston route and is now too busy adulting with a real career and moved on from webcomics, but Matt Boyd is foreever alone, learned to Art, and still posts on Three Panel Soul whenever Megatokyo updates, with like thrice a decade Ian guest spots.

Though I guess bitrott insurance is never a bad idea.

You want a real blast from the past even though its not a bad comic?
Freefall is still updating. Unike Pete Abrams who is very clearly done with webcomicing and is well past retirement age, but I think due to his relationship with the fan community and lack of anything better to do with himself continues on, Freefall is almost 30 years old and has never missed an update. I don't even think Peterson has even had a "guest week".
there's even still a phpBB.

The real cozy feeling though you'll get it is this
Freefall #1 from 1998
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Freefall #4345
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nigga refuses to even get an SSL cert.
its so wonderful.

I ended up dropping this one an age ago because I was off the internet for a few years and to quote someone at the time "IT TOOK 10 YEARS BUT SAM FINALLY MADE IT TO SPACE!". But I will come back to read a few strips every now and then and its such a nice feeling to open a literal web 1.0 time capsule like this.
(also keeps his degen furry shit off the panels, unlike the Ozzy and Mille troon)


Troon Whisperer said:
This one's amusing because the guy immediately pivoted to drawing porn shortly after that was posted.
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Its less amusing because it was fucked up gore porn, but your point still stands.
 
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Oh shit, we’re talking about Zen Pencils? Who could forget the three parter where a kid attacks his bullies with a hammer and gets arrested but it’s okay because I guess it strengthens his bond with his dad.
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really late to the party but this is some massive fag shit.
people don't get scared of you if you btfo the cunts annoying you, you gotta capitalize on it to get respected
 
I was reading about Sparklecare again because I saw it had an entry on the bad webcomics wiki and I was dying laughing when they made a super big ultra sad moment out of a pink bunny mole thing being moderately dickish to a gay unicorn thing, which is probably the tamest thing he does in the whole comic (The same mole rabbit thing was introduced by brutally maiming and torturing the protagonist.)
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Cave Fisher said:
I was reading about Sparklecare again because I saw it had an entry on the bad webcomics wiki and I was dying laughing when they made a super big ultra sad moment out of a pink bunny mole thing being moderately dickish to a gay unicorn thing, which is probably the tamest thing he does in the whole comic (The same mole rabbit thing was introduced by brutally maiming and torturing the protagonist.)
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I remember when the incest comic thing first dropped in this thread. It felt like walking in on a great movie during the credits. I feel like I missed out on some grade-A autism *sigh*

Obligatory TVTropes page:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Sparklecare

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Ghostse said:
Mac Hall is still up on its site. Ian has taken the Rodney Caston route and is now too busy adulting with a real career and moved on from webcomics, but Matt Boyd is foreever alone, learned to Art, and still posts on Three Panel Soul whenever Megatokyo updates, with like thrice a decade Ian guest spots.

Though I guess bitrott insurance is never a bad idea.

You want a real blast from the past even though its not a bad comic?
Freefall is still updating. Unike Pete Abrams who is very clearly done with webcomicing and is well past retirement age, but I think due to his relationship with the fan community and lack of anything better to do with himself continues on, Freefall is almost 30 years old and has never missed an update. I don't even think Peterson has even had a "guest week".
there's even still a phpBB.

The real cozy feeling though you'll get it is this
Freefall #1 from 1998
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Freefall #4345
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nigga refuses to even get an SSL cert.
its so wonderful.

I ended up dropping this one an age ago because I was off the internet for a few years and to quote someone at the time "IT TOOK 10 YEARS BUT SAM FINALLY MADE IT TO SPACE!". But I will come back to read a few strips every now and then and its such a nice feeling to open a literal web 1.0 time capsule like this.
(also keeps his degen furry shit off the panels, unlike the Ozzy and Mille troon)



Its less amusing because it was fucked up gore porn, but your point still stands.
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What the hell happened to Sluggy Freelance? It seems way too complex to read now.
 
Begemot said:
What the hell happened to Sluggy Freelance? It seems way too complex to read now.
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I need to catch up on the last year (so 7 strips) so I don't have the latest but:
*deep breath*
The comic's metaplot turned into stopping a demon KZK from ending the world. This was revealed to be some batshit complex comsic plot involving the the goddess of fate, her sister the goddess of the moon, and a pre-history king who was the King of Humanity, basically a moral god and the pincale of humanity.
This related to the other big bad org Hereticorp.
anywya, Abrams brought the comic to an "official end" by wrapping up that story addressing most of the unanswered question, including some big long set-up-and-slowly-delivered-over-20-fucking-years reveals. this was after his update schedule cratered (previously 7 days, then 7 days with guest sundays, then 5 days with guest sundays, then 5 days, then 3 and then "Whenever he has time & spoons to churn out comics")

Pete declared when that event/story/arc ended the comic was "over".
There was still a bunch of side characters never addressed adn bunch of shit left unanswered (like the fact all the lesser demons were runnign around, most of the side cast, etc) and he said he was going to continue to make comics with the main cast as an extended epilogue, but if you were looking for a time to stop reading that was your time, it would new adventures.

So what the comic became was the Scooby Gang with Turbo-powered Gwen (witch girl) going around and hunting various dangerous supernatural entities. And the first story post-"end" was actually pretty kino. But now they did some thing where... shit I don't even remeber why or how, but Riff got blasted into some random magic dimension and they were trying to find him and get him back. It was getting really maldy and angsty and unfun so I got busy and havne't had time to go back and catch up, but the last I saw they found Riff's mind, put it into a small harmless demon, and I think are now trying to find his body?

Basially he forgot all about the previous plotlines being done and isnow addressing them, much like any other comic that tries to do a "partial reboot".

Its a huge mess from the mind of an elderly boomer weeb, which honestly isn't the problem because when Pete has a kino idea is pretty fucking kino and makes dealing with the rest of the shit tolerable. The problem is that he isn't just using anime to come up with his plots, he's using fan-translated manga for his update schedue so he'll put out 12 strips in a week, then put out one strip the next, and then one strip in the next three months so when you come back to real you don't remember a single fucking thng that was going on.
And the comic is too text-and-lore heavy for a binge.

or tl;dr:
Pete is trying to tell a very involved story.
Neo-sluggy freelance works great when experiences as it was before: A daily comic strip where the action is moved along in drips and drabs and the action and plot continue at a steady pace, just enough to keep important parts fresh in your mind.
Pete is instead doing one strip every waxing gibbous, ensuring you have completely forgotten what is going, let alone all his clever set-ups, callbacks, and allusions.
 
Troon Whisperer said:
This one's amusing because the guy immediately pivoted to drawing porn shortly after that was posted.
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He was drawing porn before that, his handle was HentaiKid.

But it's also the fact that four strips before he drew this. At that point, you might as well have nudity because you practically already do.

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Ghostse said:
The real cozy feeling though you'll get it is this
Freefall #1 from 1998
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Freefall #4345
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Reminds me of General Protection Fault. Barely any change in the art skills except that he started coloring them.

Never read Freefall. Might give it a shot one day
 
Arthur Morgan said:
Reminds me of General Protection Fault. Barely any change in the art skills except that he started coloring them.

Never read Freefall. Might give it a shot one day
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Peterson also colors now, and also provides a greyscale people some people preferred it when he started. (he's not overly skiled at coloring) I posted the grey scale to make the nearly unchanged in 30 years aspect more readily visible.

Freefall is an extremely, EXTREMELY old-school web 1.0 webcomic. That is, a competitor/replacement/immitation/omage for newspaper comics in just about every way from format to content.

The comics usually have a punchline but it isn't particularly "funny" more "amusing". As I implied in my previous post, the premise of the early comics is the alien Sam (his appearance is an 'encounter suit' for human worlds and not what he actually looks like) wanting to leave the planet in his space ship which is out of fuel and in need of repairs. He's actually being practically forced to leave because he runs a lot of "good-natured" scams and get-rich-quick schemes.
he is aided by his niave but intelligent Robot companion who's name I forget. He takes possession of cargo, inside of which is a furry genetically engineered female wolf that is humanoid who has been made to be a engineer - she is more rational than the robot but still very naive and wants to see the best in Sam - a competent 'girl friday' for the lazy and scheming Sam.

So remember in 1998 the comic starts, the main goal of Sam is to have his ship go into space (because I believe he is a cargo runner... my mind has polished off the finer parts).

Sam's ship does not take off until sometime around the strips from 2006 or maybe even later. Its an entire decade of strips before the main plot point advances. To call the strip glaicial would be an overstatement a massive unwarranted insult to the movement of large ice sheets.

That said, if you just want something to do for 12 seconds three times a week, it is definitely not bad, obnoxious, or offensive. The creator is a furry and a liberal, but a liberal in the old style sense and for the most part he keeps (or at least kept) CURRENT YEAR politcal hottakes from his work, nor is (or again, was) the comic overrun with troons and dangerhairs.

If you REALLY want to go fishing for something problematic, the furry woman Florance meets a human (who was genetically altered by his parents as fetus to make him adapted for life in space) and over the course of like 3 years they go to have dinner at a restaurant with a sort of cringe Ninja theme. But they do have a very interesting, non-view pushing, conversation about Genetic Manipulation - especially given the guy has his body perfectly customized for deep-space travel but ended up never even going into orbit. And they have some implied romantic chemistry going on between them. that's about as far as the author went in cramming their Thinly Disguised Fetish into the story.
 
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Jennie, you're 46 and going through menopause, looking after an almost ten year old and an almost six year old because you decided to wait until you were 36 to start trying for kids. That's why you're exhausted. We're supposed to breed in our twenties when we have the youth to bounce back from it. Like how you used to get trashed on a Saturday night and then get up and run a booth at a con the next day.

Stop blaming Trump for your bad life decisions.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
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Jennie, you're 46 and going through menopause, looking after an almost ten year old and an almost six year old because you decided to wait until you were 36 to start trying for kids. That's why you're exhausted. We're supposed to breed in our twenties when we have the youth to bounce back from it. Like how you used to get trashed on a Saturday night and then get up and run a booth at a con the next day.

Stop blaming Trump for your bad life decisions.
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“Did I fuck up by having kids at an age where my energy is winding down and ensures I’ll be elderly by the time they graduate high school? No, this is all the fault of traditionalist conservative society.”
 
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