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in reply to @TalenLee's post:
sometimes I shudder to think where I would be now if my early webcomic (my half of which was absolutely inspired by Megatokyo) had gotten this level of success and I, as an author, ended up in the same place
I’m glad I get to make small things that are done in a few months to a year, and then I move on to the next one, having grown from the experience
I’m a person who has dodged quite a few bullets in her life and this article gives me a lot to reflect on; thanks for writing it
Yeah and i think it's very important to decouple Megatokyo the text from Megatokyo the cultural space in the same way Piro the character is not Fred Gallagher the person.
Fred is trapped in a miserable position that really only capitalism can give him, having forced on him a kind of success he clearly does not want and cannot sustain, all while it fails to give him what he actually needs in his life.
It's super sad, even as the text itself is really odious.
Writing fiction in the long-term myself, and having missed the Megatokyo train myself, a very appreciated read.
I'm excited to read this. I was obsessed with megatokyo as a preteen and it was one of the things that got me into drawing, but at some point I kinda just fell off it... That it's still going at all is kind of wild.
i love the detail that apparently the plot takes place over the course of a week
The Megatokyo Forums were my first real internet community, and Megatokyo my first big webcomic read. I fell off it and them around the time I graduated college but they'll always have that formative place in my online life.
Thanks for writing this. Frankly speaking other than the first couple of pages (i.e. where Largo responds in l33t to someone calling for a doctor), I don't really recall anything from Megatokyo's narrative, though I still regularly interact with people I met on the forums (and now follow on Twitter, lol).
That's a pretty interesting point. I don't remember finding people who remembers major moments in the comic.
Did you remember the character Boo, from Baldur's Gate 2, is a recurring character?
That's also interesting, because while spelunking through my memories of "webcomics I used to read" from that era, I remember another webcomic I started reading around the same time, Howard Tayler's Schlock Mercenary, in fair detail.
That strip (which ended a few years back after starting in 2000 and publishing consistently ever since) was probably the #2 on formative online comics for me.
in reply to @widr's post:
I feel like it's incredibly cursed to know that sluggy freelance is still going. Somehow
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