That’s basically been my trajectory! When I was a kid I had dozens of bookmarks organized by update day, then I learned about RSS. But now I’m down to maybe 10 comics still in my reader, the ones that survived my political awakening and, frankly, just my expectations of narrative and comedy changing. Half of what’s left barely updates. It’s very sad. xkcd wins by doing nothing.
In the interest of sharing, I’ll leave you with a rec to my current favorite narrative web comic, Runaway to the Stars. Spec bio sci fi, very queer, can be a bit lib at times but nothing egregious and you can tell their heart is in the right place. Still somewhat early days of it so it’s a little slow but the creator’s been world building for years
In the interest of sharing, I’ll leave you with a rec to my current favorite narrative web comic, Runaway to the Stars.
Oh, word, thanks! I’ll check that out.
Yeah I think I’m down to Penny Arcade (super lib, but keeps me up on the crap gamers in my life whine about), Sam and Fuzzy (which is over), Something Positive(barely alive), Questionable Content (I still enjoy), xkcd(I just check out of habit), and oglaf on sundays(I’m a pervert. lol)… I think that’s it now. dang. I mostly just read manga, really. Did you ever use the page that was just like a fifty webcomic images on a single page? I think it was high5.net or something like that?
edit: lol, I got curious and checked the wayback machine.
When I was a kid I had dozens of bookmarks organized by update day
Same. I think it’s also because new artists are more likely to publish their work only on big social media sites. And those all enshitify over time and do everything to enclose content in their gated “echo systems”. So you need to have accounts on many platforms to even find the comics. Plus, artists face increasing economic pressure and are forced to monetize or drop out of the game.
That’s basically been my trajectory! When I was a kid I had dozens of bookmarks organized by update day, then I learned about RSS. But now I’m down to maybe 10 comics still in my reader, the ones that survived my political awakening and, frankly, just my expectations of narrative and comedy changing. Half of what’s left barely updates. It’s very sad. xkcd wins by doing nothing.
In the interest of sharing, I’ll leave you with a rec to my current favorite narrative web comic, Runaway to the Stars. Spec bio sci fi, very queer, can be a bit lib at times but nothing egregious and you can tell their heart is in the right place. Still somewhat early days of it so it’s a little slow but the creator’s been world building for years
Oh, word, thanks! I’ll check that out.
Yeah I think I’m down to Penny Arcade (super lib, but keeps me up on the crap gamers in my life whine about), Sam and Fuzzy (which is over), Something Positive(barely alive), Questionable Content (I still enjoy), xkcd(I just check out of habit), and oglaf on sundays(I’m a pervert. lol)… I think that’s it now. dang. I mostly just read manga, really. Did you ever use the page that was just like a fifty webcomic images on a single page? I think it was high5.net or something like that?
edit: lol, I got curious and checked the wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050320111217/http://high5.net/comic/
at least we’ll always have https://www.jerkcity.com/
Same. I think it’s also because new artists are more likely to publish their work only on big social media sites. And those all enshitify over time and do everything to enclose content in their gated “echo systems”. So you need to have accounts on many platforms to even find the comics. Plus, artists face increasing economic pressure and are forced to monetize or drop out of the game.