Sluggy Freelance?

Fifthfiend · 12-19-2008, 05:44 PM

It's been really good lately! The "Year in the Life of a Villain" thing he just did has just been, like, the Sluggiest damn thing that Sluggy's done in ages.

BitVyper · 12-19-2008, 09:34 PM

Seriously. I've been waiting for him to get back to this plot forever.

Fifthfiend · 12-20-2008, 03:04 AM

Yeah I'm really happy to see that Sluggy's sloughed off all this nonsense about extradimensional pirates and schools of magic and demonically haunted houses and has gotten back to the basics, like inflatable spaceships and sinister pizzerias and mad-science-created assassins.

Seriously though Sluggy has always been at its best when it gets nigh-incestuously self-referential and lately Abrams has been humping his continuity like he paid it money for the priviledge. Torg and Zoe! Oasis project! Hereti-corp reborn! God I love this shit. All we need now is for a bikini-clad girl with a frisbee to knock over the milk dish for a litter of deceptively adorable-looking kittens and it'll be the most shamelessly sloppy Slug-fest there's ever been.

Meister · 12-20-2008, 03:48 AM

I am glad to hear that as I've been meaning to get back into reading Sluggy for, well years now.

BitVyper · 12-21-2008, 12:07 AM

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Yeah I'm really happy to see that Sluggy's sloughed off all this nonsense about extradimensional pirates and schools of magic and demonically haunted houses and has gotten back to the basics, like inflatable spaceships and sinister pizzerias and mad-science-created assassins.

That Which Redeems is still the best damn arc in the whole comic though.

Masked Jedi · 12-21-2008, 12:12 AM

Lies. Holiday Wars was the best, and you know it.

I'm really liking bROKEN. Although I pretty much like all the Sluggy Arcs.

Fifthfiend · 12-21-2008, 12:22 AM

Holiday Wars is retroactively tainted due to its having led into Oceans Unmoving.

BitVyper · 12-21-2008, 01:32 AM

I like Oceans Unmoving, but it should have been released as a graphic novel and not put up as part of the ongoing strip. It was a really good story, but not remotely suited to the format in which it was told.

Loved the anti-climax.

Fifthfiend · 12-21-2008, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by BitVyper

I like Oceans Unmoving

So time to update the ol' list I guess

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BitVyper

Masked Jedi · 12-21-2008, 01:45 AM

I enjoyed it, even though it was completely fucking incomprehensible. Pete Abrams is that good of a writer.

12-19-2008, 05:44 PM	#1
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	Sluggy Freelance? It's been really good lately! The "Year in the Life of a Villain" thing he just did has just been, like, the Sluggiest damn thing that Sluggy's done in ages. __________________ check out my buttspresso

12-19-2008, 09:34 PM	#2
BitVyper History's Strongest Dilettante Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Arcadia Posts: 6,662	Seriously. I've been waiting for him to get back to this plot forever. __________________ "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!" Awesome art be here.

12-20-2008, 03:04 AM	#3
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	Yeah I'm really happy to see that Sluggy's sloughed off all this nonsense about extradimensional pirates and schools of magic and demonically haunted houses and has gotten back to the basics, like inflatable spaceships and sinister pizzerias and mad-science-created assassins. Seriously though Sluggy has always been at its best when it gets nigh-incestuously self-referential and lately Abrams has been humping his continuity like he paid it money for the priviledge. Torg and Zoe! Oasis project! Hereti-corp reborn! God I love this shit. All we need now is for a bikini-clad girl with a frisbee to knock over the milk dish for a litter of deceptively adorable-looking kittens and it'll be the most shamelessly sloppy Slug-fest there's ever been. __________________ check out my buttspresso

12-21-2008, 12:22 AM	#7
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	Holiday Wars is retroactively tainted due to its having led into Oceans Unmoving. __________________ check out my buttspresso

12-21-2008, 01:32 AM	#8
BitVyper History's Strongest Dilettante Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Arcadia Posts: 6,662	I like Oceans Unmoving, but it should have been released as a graphic novel and not put up as part of the ongoing strip. It was a really good story, but not remotely suited to the format in which it was told. Loved the anti-climax. __________________ "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!" Awesome art be here.

12-20-2008, 03:48 AM	#4
Meister Pure joy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 10,689	I am glad to hear that as I've been meaning to get back into reading Sluggy for, well years now.