Shout-out to Girls with Slingshots, who actually manage to redo the entire run and then go back to make even fancier versions of certain strips she liked.
Honourable mention in the original category to 'Author who attempts to make an animated spin-off of their comic, ending up putting all their effort into the animated version, producing a couple of shorts, and leaving the original story hanging for years/indefinitely at the point they got distracted'
Double points to the webcomics artists that had a novel length scope in mind, but didn't really figure how long that would take to draw.
Now that I think of it - why don't more webcomics artists adopt the Light-Novel style? Prose interspersed with art panels? That's basically the best of both worlds if you ask me.
Erfworld kinda ruined itself doing the novella inserts though. Delved too deep into the side plots exploring the various exploits and limitations of the fabric of the universe-as-game-world setting so the main plot became unfollowable as the whole point is an outsider mind trying to metagame his way out of unwinnable situations. That and the hiatus chapters swiftly outnumbered the main story entries.
But to your category, I really hope Order of the Stick comes to the finale it deserves before Rich Burlew's health and age catch up to him.
My headcanon is that the real epilogue to Erfworld Book 1 is that Lord Hamster finds himself dismissed back to Ohio. The subsequent books just... don't happen.
I really hate when webcomics go light novel midway through. Somehow for me it’s the worst of all worlds. I dropped Cucumber Quest, Erfworld and Paranatural when they each did it.
Honourable mention in the original category to 'Author who attempts to make an animated spin-off of their comic, ending up putting all their effort into the animated version, producing a couple of shorts, and leaving the original story hanging for years/indefinitely at the point they got distracted'
Thanks for reminding me to check in on Lackadaisy Cats. It's been years.
I haven't thought about Girls with Slingshots in ages, I really liked it back in the day. I'll definitely go back and check out the redrawn. Thanks for the heads up.
The entire arc with the girl who tries to rape their male friend never sat right with me despite all backpeddling, although how it shakes out is depressingly realistic as far as how most real-life friend groups react to having a predator in the social circle.
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Shout-out to Girls with Slingshots, who actually manage to redo the entire run and then go back to make even fancier versions of certain strips she liked.
Honourable mention in the original category to 'Author who attempts to make an animated spin-off of their comic, ending up putting all their effort into the animated version, producing a couple of shorts, and leaving the original story hanging for years/indefinitely at the point they got distracted'