Megatokyo: dissatisfaction setting in

[wombat_socho]

Holy shit, Fred actually got a strip up in a timely manner! For the first time in...how long?

This was originally triggered by an acdragonmaster post earlier in the week, and to avoid repetition I'll repost my comment from there:
I'm starting to lose interest in it as a webcomic because of all the delays and omake sequences; the recent FMP omake left me

Comments

[nornagest]

I'm surprised you're still reading Megatokyo at all. I followed it in my first couple years of college, but eventually it just got too frustrating to keep up with; the comic never got updated on time, even after Piro went full-time on it, and his artwork (while it shows signs of technical improvement) has been getting less and less polished.

If you ask me, the "you're getting it for free" thing is a red herring. Sure, it's free to the end user. But this is Piro's job, and if he worked for me I'd have fired him years ago. Since he doesn't, all I can do is go read something that doesn't piss me off three updates running.

[wombat_socho]

...but eventually it just got too frustrating to keep up with; the comic never got updated on time, even after Piro went full-time on it, and his artwork (while it shows signs of technical improvement) has been getting less and less polished.

Yeah, it does seem that he's posting a lot of unfinished stuff lately when he posts at all, doesn't it? Still, it's a good story, and maybe I'll just wait to see when/if DC publishes the next volume. In some ways, I think going FT on the strip was a step backward - he doesn't seem to be able to keep to a regular schedule the way he did when he was working 9-5 and doing Megatokyo on the side.