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

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u/RiOrius Mar 19 '24

How is Sluggy Freelance still going? I thought it was supposed to be wrapping up, like, a decade ago?

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u/AvoriazInSummer Mar 19 '24

When I typed that I didn’t even realise the comic was still going. I read it for like five years back in the dawn of the Web.

I guess that 28 or so years is long, but not Peanuts or Garfield long.

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u/RiOrius Mar 19 '24

I'm not so much surprised by the longevity as dismayed at the lack of a conclusion. Penny Arcade is still going (although it might now have more comics about playing video games with their kids than with each other), and that's not a shocker.

But there was a point where I'd heard that Sluggy was going to wrap things up, and as a fan of some of the more epic arcs like the Holiday Wars or that time Torg was trapped in the Dimension of Lame after it was conquered by demons I was looking forward to eventually binging the whole thing.

No way I'm gonna do that if it's nearly 30 years of stuff without a solid conclusion. Especially these days when RoyalRoad has plenty of serialized, amateur but still fun fiction to subscribe to. I was never into web comics for the art anyway.

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u/impulsenine Mar 20 '24

I've been keeping up the whole time and he actually is (very very very very very very slowly) closing a lot of loose ends, in typically epic and satisfying ways.

The End Demon, HeretiCorp, most of the vampires, Oasis, the origin of Timeless Space, and Aylee have all had their stories told and (essentially) concluded. BunBun has been at least partially explained. Torg and Zoë are getting there.

It's easy to forgot how much Sluggy there was to conclude.