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Fascinating how some articles manage to pop up on the front page. I wonder what prompted this to be submitted and upvoted? I remember reading Megatokyo back th

Fascinating how some articles manage to pop up on the front page. I wonder what prompted this to be submitted and upvoted? I remember reading Megatokyo back then (fifteen years ago!) and stopped when it got too — excuzes le mot — cringey. Long standing webcomics can change over time as the author(s) age and change. Some stay fairly constant (e.g., XKCD, The Perry Bible Fellowship), others change so much they alienate many of the readers (e.g., Sinfest). And some just stay awesome (e.g., Oglaf (NSFW)).

pavel_lishin 7y ago
What happened to Sinfest? I remember reading it, but I eventually just sort of stopped, but I don't remember why.
- Anon84 7y ago
  It’s still around. It effectively went on a political rampage after the Obama election in 2008
  - cotelletta 7y ago
    >I'm launching a new forum for people who like the message of my comic. >The new forum will be anti-pornography, anti-prostitution. >It will favor the radical feminist perspective over a liberal or conservative one. Radical feminism is a dude telling people what they can and can't do with their bodies, apparently. I swear these people want to be puritans but it's too unfashionable where they live so they wrap it up with some token progressive buzzwords.
- esyir 7y ago
  Tldr: Became absurdly preachy and political.
- mcv 7y ago
  My experience is different from the others; maybe I don't mind the political message. But at some point it was just rehashing the same jokes over and over again. A bit like Dilbert. Still great, but nothing new anymore.
- jeltz 7y ago
  For me it was that it reused too many jokes too often.
SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Oglaf is still around!? I have a lot of catching up to do.
- Freak_NL 7y ago
  They are, and I envy you for getting to read a bunch of their comics you've never read. I find Oglaf intriguing in how its backdrop is essentially a mediaeval fantasy world, in which the authors (Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne) manage to consistently present a world where diversity and sexual diverseness are a given, without coming across as forced or overtly political. From skin colour ranging the whole gamut, to physical characteristics (boobs in different sizes including A-cups, hair styles both above and below the fold), to sexual attraction (gay, straight, dead, and everything else), it's all there, and yet it never really jars or gets in your face. I find that quite an achievement and inspiring.
  - tialaramex 7y ago
    These days I give them money through Patreon, but back in the day the usual way to support comics was merch, and since I wear T-shirts most of the time it's no trouble to buy merch from most comics I read. I'm wearing one right now which says "Jetpacks are impractical and dangerous". But Oglaf seemed to go out of its way to make it difficult to find anything sane to buy. I own the Sithrak shirt, and almost bought the Derp Fox recently, but "I'm telling!" is a sufficiently unsubtle joke that I'd have to actually think about where I might wear it, and likewise "Steak and Bitches". These days they have a few more options I may buy one day, but definitely when I was last looking it was harder than it has any right to be, for a comic that is often much Safer For Work than it has any right to be. Take last weekend's "Fog of War". You could make a shirt of that (not the entire comic but you get the idea). Most D&D players would laugh at the joke even without knowing what Oglaf is. But nope, there's more chance Trudy will decide to do a joke shirt about medieval architecture or something. Not complaining, they should do whatever they want, but it's weird is all.
    - Freak_NL 7y ago
      I've just bought their new mediaeval architecture joke T-shirt a month ago: https://topatoco.com/collections/oglaf/products/og-upright https://topatoco.com/collections/oglaf/products/og-upright I like it. Subtle, droll.
tokai 7y ago
Fred really needed a guy like Caston. I thought the series became too insular right after Caston left.

pavel_lishin 7y ago

What happened to Sinfest? I remember reading it, but I eventually just sort of stopped, but I don't remember why.

Anon84 7y ago
It’s still around. It effectively went on a political rampage after the Obama election in 2008
- cotelletta 7y ago
  >I'm launching a new forum for people who like the message of my comic. >The new forum will be anti-pornography, anti-prostitution. >It will favor the radical feminist perspective over a liberal or conservative one. Radical feminism is a dude telling people what they can and can't do with their bodies, apparently. I swear these people want to be puritans but it's too unfashionable where they live so they wrap it up with some token progressive buzzwords.
esyir 7y ago
Tldr: Became absurdly preachy and political.
mcv 7y ago
My experience is different from the others; maybe I don't mind the political message. But at some point it was just rehashing the same jokes over and over again. A bit like Dilbert. Still great, but nothing new anymore.
jeltz 7y ago
For me it was that it reused too many jokes too often.

SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago

Oglaf is still around!? I have a lot of catching up to do.

Freak_NL 7y ago
They are, and I envy you for getting to read a bunch of their comics you've never read. I find Oglaf intriguing in how its backdrop is essentially a mediaeval fantasy world, in which the authors (Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne) manage to consistently present a world where diversity and sexual diverseness are a given, without coming across as forced or overtly political. From skin colour ranging the whole gamut, to physical characteristics (boobs in different sizes including A-cups, hair styles both above and below the fold), to sexual attraction (gay, straight, dead, and everything else), it's all there, and yet it never really jars or gets in your face. I find that quite an achievement and inspiring.
- tialaramex 7y ago
  These days I give them money through Patreon, but back in the day the usual way to support comics was merch, and since I wear T-shirts most of the time it's no trouble to buy merch from most comics I read. I'm wearing one right now which says "Jetpacks are impractical and dangerous". But Oglaf seemed to go out of its way to make it difficult to find anything sane to buy. I own the Sithrak shirt, and almost bought the Derp Fox recently, but "I'm telling!" is a sufficiently unsubtle joke that I'd have to actually think about where I might wear it, and likewise "Steak and Bitches". These days they have a few more options I may buy one day, but definitely when I was last looking it was harder than it has any right to be, for a comic that is often much Safer For Work than it has any right to be. Take last weekend's "Fog of War". You could make a shirt of that (not the entire comic but you get the idea). Most D&D players would laugh at the joke even without knowing what Oglaf is. But nope, there's more chance Trudy will decide to do a joke shirt about medieval architecture or something. Not complaining, they should do whatever they want, but it's weird is all.
  - Freak_NL 7y ago
    I've just bought their new mediaeval architecture joke T-shirt a month ago: https://topatoco.com/collections/oglaf/products/og-upright https://topatoco.com/collections/oglaf/products/og-upright I like it. Subtle, droll.

tokai 7y ago

Fred really needed a guy like Caston. I thought the series became too insular right after Caston left.