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[pmcd9]

I like any number of one offs more than the GOF, but GOF is the best of the "arcs."  Well maybe the toilet party, tough call.

[littlefallsmets]

Are we now 'fessing up to the sentiment that we "liked Achewood when it was good, before it got popular?"

Nah. I think we're talking a lot more about "before various factors caused the creator to lose momentum" than "before it got popular".

[pmcd9]

Yeah, we're not abandoning him because he's popular, hell, if anything he's abandoning us.  We're just speculating as to why it takes him two weeks to write and draw a strip these days.

[Limmo]

What would have been the cut off point, that ways, for Achewood?

The coda at the end of the "Phillipe goes home and comes back" arc?

I mean, from a storytelling point of view, it would kind of thematically have made sense for that to be the natural end of the strip, yeah?

Wraps it all up nice. It ends in a little arc that points out how it kind of had to end (creatively) but will always exist (meta-narratively).

That would have been a wonderful place to end it.  "Tidy, no?"

But noooooooooooooooo, we have to limp through this gross and boring Nice Pete arc ten days at a time.  I can't wait for it to end.  Probably around Thanksgiving.

At one point, I did a three month trial subscription to the pay site.  When that wasn't updated regularly, I let it lapse.  And now I'm supposed to "hit the tip jar" for a new strip twice a month?  Fuck that noise.

If Onstad would just update the site three days a week in exchange for me buying two t-shirts a year, I could live with that.  I know the muse is a tough buck, but this is ridiculous.   

[Arachno-capitalist]

I dont think being popular has anything to do with it. I think the glacial pace of uninspired arcs has done it for me.

[littlefallsmets]

If Onstad would just update the site three days a week in exchange for me buying two t-shirts a year, I could live with that.

Since the tiny cans of Dr. Pepper are imaginary, they are functionally limitless?

And still, I could not ever give you all the tiny cans you deserve for this statement.

Whichever one of us is secretly Onstad, please read and re-read that every day until Achewood is either over or good again.

[theinevitable]

I dont think being popular has anything to do with it. I think the glacial pace of uninspired arcs has done it for me.

HIPSTER.

[arkabee]

Yeah, we're not abandoning him because he's popular, hell, if anything he's abandoning us.  We're just speculating as to why it takes him two weeks to write and draw a strip these days.

i'm going to vote his child bangs on the door any time he is on the other side of it.

[Harlock Hero]

That "hipster" thing wasn't really a serious suggestion; just something that occurred to me because the consensus seems to be that the GOF was the "peak" after which things never really recovered, and that arc also marked his boom in popularity.

The GOF was never my favorite, either. My fave strip might be the "Giant apocalyptic machinery... just mowing us all down" one.

[arkabee]

That "hipster" thing wasn't really a serious suggestion; just something that occurred to me because the consensus seems to be that the GOF was the "peak" after which things never really recovered, and that arc also marked his boom in popularity.

The GOF was never my favorite, either. My fave strip might be the "Giant apocalyptic machinery... just mowing us all down" one.

dude, things have gone down hill since the retarded otter stopped standing on it.

[jay-ell]

i'm going to vote his child bangs on the door any time he is on the other side of it.

His kid is the same age as my oldest, which means she's probably starting kindergarten in the next couple of weeks (if she hasn't already). The frequency of strips may increase significantly in the next few months.

Then again, it may drop off even further as he realizes that once the munchkin is gone for the day he can go back to bed.

[Arachno-capitalist]

A quick regression of mine predicts 9/4 will be the next strip.

[Arachno-capitalist]

oh yeah, id have to put in a dummy variable if-weekend, but ive closed the spreadsheet now. The model is pretty accurate against history with a 3 day range. The early days of him posting 5 a week have to be discounted as well.

[pmcd9]

Has he ever posted five a week?

[Limmo]

Has he ever posted five a week?

I don't know, that would require me to apply some effort.   And since that is something that Onstad appears to be incapable of on anything like a regular basis....

I took a gander at the "free fanflow" thing with Pat's dance contest.  The few chuckles I got out of it were completely offset by thinking "this is Onstad's creative cumshot for the entire week right here, so I guess we won't have any forward motion on the story arc until after Labor Day weekend." 

I'm more entertained these days by complaining about Achewood than I am by the strip itself.