When a webcomic updates but you don't want to make a huge deal out of it, what you do

[RickZarber]

Yeah. Today's broke me. I'm broken now. T.T

[BitVyper]

I'm waiting for the end of the arc to read it, I think. Siddell is doing a fantastic job of presenting and handling the themes, and it's making for an emotionally powerful story, but I think I need to be able to check the last page and make sure the villain loses before I can read the rest.

I don't know why, but in general, it's always seemed like GC fans are oddly entitled/rabid when it comes to thinking Siddell exists for them alone. I've watched him take shit so awful on social media that I actually felt compelled to email him some reassurance about it.

[Amake]

I can guess why. Reading Gunnerkrigg feels less like a communal experience than most webcomics (not that reading is a very communal experience to begin with). It's more like a personal exchange between Siddell and the reader, or even the comic and the reader depending on how much of Siddell's meager public presence you pay attention to.

I've never talked to anyone who seemed to want to talk about the comic with anyone, beyond talking about how much they like it and what the many mysteries might be about. I can feel that reluctance myself. Those characters hold a very special place in my heart - I think I've touched on that before - to the point where opening up about what I really think about them seems like I imagine talking about your own children might be like.

So I can see why some shortsighted people might forget the comic doesn't belong to them, especially when emotions ride high and updates come slowly. Maybe just because I've taken to buying the lovely hardcover books, but I'm starting to think the audience would be better served without the comic on the Internet. In ten years, when it's probably long completed, maybe we'll be able to deal with it like it deserves. . .

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

I'm rather liking this arc because it's turning things up to eleven for just about everything. Particularly in how people are reacting to it is no shortage of amusement.

As for other comics: DUMM Comics has some damn great contributors this year.

[tacticslion]

... something seems "off" here. Besides the obvious.

Originally Posted by BitVyper

make sure the villain loses

I'm still trying to learn who the villain is.

[tacticslion]

So. Old(ish) joke in OotS.

I... totally didn't get it.

I just recently remembered: "philter of glibness" was an old AD&D item.

It would, naturally, be updated to "potion of glibness" as glibness is now a spell.

Duh. I feel... I feel... duh.

[Flarecobra]

I can't believe Crystal is having more character growth as a golem then when she was alive.

[Menarker]

Yup! Although she still has some semblance of her mind intact. Well, as much as her seemingly brain-damaged mind could be called 'intact'.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Gunnerkrig theory time: When looking back at chapter 38, I've been led to think that Anthony sees Annie less as a daughter and more as the thing that directly led to the death of Surma. Something something keep the firehead girl from fraternizing with the forest folk; utilize fire elemental for the Court's use in seedier activities something something something hammering out the details on that one.

[Flarecobra]

Well, that was quite creative of OotS.