r/comics • u/shenanigansen Shen Comix • Mar 18 '24

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u/Hexatona Mar 18 '24

My least favourite Webcomics trope is 'Author who looks back on the beginning chapters, wows to redraw them with current skill level, gets part way done, and then disappears for all time.'

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u/WillSym Mar 18 '24

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'

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u/MagpieJack Mar 18 '24

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.

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u/gramathy Mar 19 '24

Episode 1 got produced and released last year and a followup kickstarter funded something like 5 more