huh!

This is FASCINATING to me.

The update pace is VERY slow (the comic before that was in May, but the most recent update was a "dead Piro day" illustration and that was November 28th.)

Apparently there's a webtoon he also does (spin-off from MegaTokyo?)

What the fuck

LMAO some parts of the internet never die

I just sort of assumed it went the way of MANY webcomics from my teens, especially webcomics by people who have mental illness, and... idled to death. I'm in awe.

dominic deegan is still going, too

it's from SUCH a different era of the internet, too

I did start reading the second--or third? Comic? of Dominic Deegan. I remember the first one finished and I was reading the next one for sure.

And yeah it IS. I'd re-read that one but tbqh I once sent the creator an email telling him that my favourite character was the obvious villain (for reasons I kind of elaborated on but which are embarrassing in retrospect because they were definitely actually "you are delusional and have schizophrenia, Raile") and the memory deals psychic damage

I did not do that kind of thing often but the Chaos guy and his powers really inspired me and in retrospect: Young Raile. Dude. I know you can't chill because you need antipsychotics and you didn't say anything explicitly embarrassing, but come ON.

LMFDKFhgfg oh NO

if it makes u feel any better my embarrassing megatokyo experience is that i got yelled at on the message boards for using too much leetspeak in my posts

LMFAO?

That seems hypocritical at best!!

to be fair i was 12 and in retrospect it WAS excessive

like my posts were illegible.

Oh, that would do it, I suppose--wait, how old are you now? Are you younger than me???

but i thought largo was so cool....

NSDKJLAGSLKASD

i'm 36!

Largo... cool..............

Okay we're the same age, what the heck.

listen. i also read ctrl+alt+del well into high school

i was a webcomic Consumer and i would not say i had Discriminating Taste

I guess I didn't really meet "weeb culture" until later middle school.... I was just enjoying anime and manga on my own, blissfully unaware of what was about to hit my peers like a truck.

ohhh yeah that would do it. i was steeped in it from the start lmao

LMFAO I read Penny Arcade for a few years, but I didn't read much CTRL+ALT+DELETE, I guess I can be thankful to my asshole snob mindset for that

all of my early anime exposure was through my middle school bff whose older sister had the bootleg dvd hookup

HONESTLY YEAH CAD HAS NO REDEEMING QUALITIES WHATSOEVER

as a tween who dreamed of going to japan megatokyo was a fantasy i was DEEPLY invested in

I had a childhood friend who was Taiwanese and since I'm mixed I immediately got into his Gundam toys and it went from there. That was elementary school. So, like..... please imagine me going from reading Inu Yasha (back then it was 17 bucks a volume!), which no one had ever heard of, in early middle school, to... suddenly in high school there was an anime.

im so curious what other Vintage Webcomics did you read

Oh god uh

I read 8 Bit Theatre, like everyone. I read one called Alter Meta. I definitely read Fallen, by Aiko.

oh man that's such a fun vector to have gotten into anime

8 BIT THEATRE

One time I lost my mind and read all of Bob and George in like three days (it was not GOOD but I was on WAY too much Ritalin and no antipsychotic)

LMAO

And of course I read Inhuman, but that's PROBABLY not news to anyone? Considering I am friends with the artist nowadays.

Oh yeah, I read JACK and Vinci and Arty, which were furry webcomics but they were webcomics so

Oh, and Gene Catlow....

Something Awful!

Which is also still going but I think that's less unknown to people

Questionable Content! I fell off that one during college, as with many comics... Least I Could Do didn't last long for me but I did read it.

Looking For Group. Order of the Stick. Erfworld for a while.

HUH

love_letters: RIGHT

i hear QC is still pretty good

LFG AND ORDER OF THE STICK.. man. classics

WILD

i'm not sure if i'm thinking of a different comic but i def read one called something positive way back when

you were a man of distinguished early webcomic taste, my good sir

LMAO

Thanks??? I think....

Squints at that Bob and George binge

Order of the Stick was fucking good and I'll stand by that one

i dont think i ever read much of bob and george but i think i remember it

you're right though order of the stick WAS good

runawayballista: It was a sprite comic made with Megamon sprites. EXTREMELY a product of its time. In a way though, it was very... like, meme jokes culture before that had even really FORMED?

I didn't mean to @ you but

YEAH the megaman one!! that one never caught my attention for whatever reason, probably bc i didnt know anything about megaman, but some of the early sprite comics were weirdly ahead of their time humor wise

They really were. It's kind of fascinating how art can predict the culture before it arrives (but also often gets left behind during that evolution?)

I also knew basically nothing about Megaman, hilariously. But that Ritalin, man.

FALLEN BY AIKO

sorry I was so obsessed with that artist's stuff as a kid

I also read VnA/Jack/Gene Catlow

god i remember bob and george
i remember applegeeks too, which i was looking at recently to figure out what hawke does now since i know ananth still does comic scripting

sneaks in here

I read me some VG Cats back in the day

megatokyo is what

its WHAT