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Originally Posted by StreamOfTheSky

Compunded with that, the updates are terrible. The last few have been what? A week or so apart?

Although he no longer releases m/w/f he still puts out nearly 3 full pages per week. (This was most obvious during parts of V's arc which had 1.5 page releases twice a week.) Sometimes this means he goes a whole week with nothing and then a single release has 3 pages. But if you actually do a page count the number of pages has not really diminished significantly since the m/w/f days.

Rich originally used the comic to just try and attract people to his website and/or entertain them, so they'd look at his work in game design, or so I've been told. Early on, I would surf around on his forums, read his rules updates, go the the site regularly. Now...why bother? The content is so infrequent, I might as well just look for the new oots threads here, click the link, and go back to whatever.

This is perhaps something worth being disappointed in. But I'm sure Rich wishes he could do more updates and write more strips and write more gaming material but the chronic ailment he has apparently makes that an unlikely reality.

It'd be one thing is the long-awaited strips really were "masterpieces." By all means, I'd rather wait a few days for a great comic than get a regularly scheduled mediocre one. But lately they've been infrequent AND mediocre. And yes, I know he's got illnesses, and that's a shame. And yeah, I know it's free, I can't "demand" anything. But you should still be able to criticize free entertainment and products if they're lackluster.

My only problem with criticizing specific strips "Oh, that one is just filler" or "why was there all that text?" is that from past performance he usually delivers a surprise in a future strip that relies on setup found in these "clunkers." So, even disappointing strips give me reason to look twice to see if there's some piece of subtext I'm missing.

Still, you can complain they are clunkers. And some of them are. He's only human. The difference between your post and car's though is you aren't raging and so you are not likely to receive vitriol in return.

Regardless, I can't understand rage about a webcomic not updating. Most webcomics just stop suddenly with no updates ever or turning in domain-catcher search pages and you're left wondering if the artists are even still alive. So infrequent updates are always better than the alternative.