But Sluggy Freelance is and always will be a bad webcomic. It has bad art, bad writing (despite a few good jokes and a few more good jokes that were turned into terrible jokes by overplaying them) and almost three hundred thousand words of backstory for you to enjoy before you even come close to understanding what the fuck is happening. That's pretty much the hallmark of a bad webcomic. That's not to say that continuity and telling an ongoing story is bad, no, but Sluggy isn't doing that. It's weaving together a variety of parodies and, more lately, boringly over-wordy original crap into one incohesive whole. When you do a couple of weeks of strips that parody Star Trek and Alien, don't make it required reading for a storyline eight years later. Don't turn the Alien parody alien into a serious race with an all-original backstory. Just... just don't.

I really can't comprehend why webcomic jerks cannot simply end things. Why they can't say to themselves, "I have told all I can tell with these characters. Time for something new." Everyone else does it! Joss Whedon (whatever your opinion on him is) did not decide to send Buffy and her friends into space, he made Firefly. Why makes your webcomic any more special? What makes your amateur-hour shit worthy of going on and on and on until nobody cares anymore but you? Probably the fact that you are amateurs, I suppose. Take my advice: finish up, start something new and you'll see that people will prefer that to eight more years of switchblade-toting rabbits and tiring shit like that.