Same here. Iliad's got a real world life to deal with, and I doubt that UF makes enough money to do much beyond keeping itself afloat. The Ufie community is still there and tends to be as thoughtful and intelligent as ever - largely, I suspect, because they don't allow A/C's to post there.
I must've frightened you terribly - your stalking me. I'm flattered.
Oh, Slashdot Admins! I'm sure you'll be able to provide some salient information to the proper authorities about this particular Anonymous Coward should it prove to be anything more than an obnoxious troll, won't you?
UF is certainly one of the oldest web comics and one of the few to support the artist. If it had not been for plagerized it still would be running.
I would also point out that the old web comic I know about is I PhD, running since 1997 with almost 2000 strips.
I guess in this post factual world, no one will care.
My opinion is that since around 2000, it has been a renesance in newspaper style cartoons as the barriers to entry are non existent and for those who got in early, quality was all that mattere
Schlock Mercenary has been running daily strips since June 2000. Never missed a single day in all that time. 600 strips in 20 years? Meh. Even 2,000 strips in those 20 years isn't that impressive.
I followed it for a year or so, but it got old. Don't know what it's like in recent decades. Schlock is an alien with a number of useful talents, but beauty isn't one of them. There is (or was) also a handsome captain, a (slightly) mad scientist, a "beautiful" nurse, etc. And they get in a lot of fights. (I may have misremembered some of that.)
Never heard of it... (Score:2)
User Friendly was my favorite back in the day, before it went into a permanent loop.
http://userfriendly.org/ [userfriendly.org]
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Oh, Slashdot Admins! I'm sure you'll be able to provide some salient information to the proper authorities about this particular Anonymous Coward should it prove to be anything more than an obnoxious troll, won't you?
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I would also point out that the old web comic I know about is I PhD, running since 1997 with almost 2000 strips.
I guess in this post factual world, no one will care.
My opinion is that since around 2000, it has been a renesance in newspaper style cartoons as the barriers to entry are non existent and for those who got in early, quality was all that mattere
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Schlock Mercenary has been running daily strips since June 2000. Never missed a single day in all that time.
600 strips in 20 years? Meh. Even 2,000 strips in those 20 years isn't that impressive.
6,000 strips in 16 years? That's impressive.
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That depends on whether the comics-every-single-day are worth viewing, or just tedious.
I've never heard of Schlock Mercenary before.
I know what schlock is.
Why not provide a link so we can see what sort of daily strip is provided?
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I followed it for a year or so, but it got old. Don't know what it's like in recent decades. Schlock is an alien with a number of useful talents, but beauty isn't one of them. There is (or was) also a handsome captain, a (slightly) mad scientist, a "beautiful" nurse, etc. And they get in a lot of fights. (I may have misremembered some of that.)
So it's pretty much a standard formula, but not too bad. https://www.schlockmercenary.c... [schlockmercenary.com] thanks to Google.
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Yeah, I miss it. Did they ever say why they stopped?
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User Friendly was my favorite back in the day, before it went into a permanent loop.
http://userfriendly.org/ [userfriendly.org]
Same here. I've never heard of Pokey the Penguin but I always enjoyed the User Friendly comic strip.