Slackerz Abruptly Ends. POS Chokes a Bitch.

[POS Industries]

Scott Smith has posted a big long dealie about ending the comic after reenacting the end to "Mostly Harmless" in the latest strip. (http://www.theslackerz.com/)

Meanwhile, XKCD will apparently run for eternity, now at the point where it is recycling its own convoluted math jokes and CAD is pretty much totally still just CAD and it always will be. I could list the continued existence of terrible fucking webcomics all day, not make a dent in the numbers, and mostly just waste everyone and--mostly importantly--my own time when my point is already made. That is, if nothing else, we at least have solid proof that there is no ingrained sense of justice in the universe.

I guess mostly I'm just pissed off that there's this seemingly endless sea of absolutely terrible webcomics with a finite amount of little islands of something good, and I don't like those islands floating off the edge of our flat, turtle-mounted Earth as they so often do.

So best of luck to Smith and Hepting in their future projects, of course. Yours was one of only a handful of webcomics I checked regularly for updates, and it will be missed. My library of reaction images just won't be the same without your continued contribution.

[Magus]

I've been reading Pictures for Sad Children and Dr. McNinja, there are still those.

[POS Industries]

I've been reading Pictures for Sad Children and Dr. McNinja, there are still those.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o159/posindustries/facepalm/slackerzyay.jpg

[Seil]

I hear Scary Go Round is pretty good. I don't believe their lies, though.

http://nedroid.com/comics/2009-12-13-harrisonstories19.gif

[POS Industries]

Yeah, that's nice guys but this isn't a thread about other webcomics. And I will ask that you not post entire strips of other webcomics in it, Seil.

This is a goddamn Slackerz thread. (http://www.theslackerz.com/index.php?nav=Comic&Page=93).

[Head Slacker]

There are least a hundred great webcomics out there, POS Industries.

And Slackerz was only marginally sort of not bad.

I aim to achieve greater. Maybe even make something that's okay.

(thanks for your support)

[POS Industries]

A hundred out of an endless sea is still pretty finite, Smith. And honestly, while I respect your desire to evolve your work and support your efforts to do so, I don't see the reason for you to be so down on what you've produced so far. There's a reason this sort of thing gets said:

What're you, fuckin' kidding me? On this forum the man who writes Slackerz asks permission for fuckin' nothing!

More often than not, you guys put out a comic that made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe, and not just when reading it at five in the morning when even CSPAN might give me gigglefits. That's not really something that any more than a handful of those hundred or so great webcomics out there could manage, which is why I kept up with Slackerz so frequently.

Hell, I've even used "Rad Chad" as an internets pseudnym screenhandlename on a couple occasions--usually when I didn't need whatever shit I was doing there getting traced back to me. So thanks for that!

So, hey, maybe Slackerz was "only marginally sort of not bad," but it never really pretended it wasn't, and I think really reveling in that is where a lot of the humor came from.