Trollbabe comics update

[Ron Edwards]

Hi there,

Trollbabe comics are tentatively scheduled to start rolling on the website next Monday, September 23. But that's tentative! The comics are done but we have to check out the auto-software and make sure it does its job.

I've scripted 52 strips and all of them are farmed out to the most excellent artists already.

Best,
Ron

[Ron Edwards]

Trollbabe comics are live! The first strip is now visible at the Trollbabe site so come check it out.

The first story is six strips long, called "Death and Sex, with Music." The artist is the fantabulous James V. West.

As new strips are added weekly, the current ones get shoved into the "previous three" link.

Best,
Ron

[xiombarg]

Will there be a complete archive you can browse if, say, you don't discover Trollbabe (and the comic) until a year from now?

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Kirt,

I'm leaning toward a "Too bad ya missed it" policy, at least for a little while. The whole crowd of 52 strips (all currently scripted and in artists' hands) will be available at the end.

Whether I relax that policy slightly, based on cries of distress, well, we'll see. Let's just say I want the cries of distress first.

Best,
Ron

[xiombarg]

Whether I relax that policy slightly, based on cries of distress, well, we'll see. Let's just say I want the cries of distress first.

Okay. Consider mine the first. Part of the popularity of online comics comes from the ability to look back at the archives, giving access to old story threads and allowing the comic to have more of a history than a newspaper comic. Comics that lack this aspect are, um, less popular. That is, any comic without a serious archive has ceased to exist for an extended period on the web.

YMMV, of course.

[Le Joueur]

I thought Trollbabe comics were eventually going to be collected for print?  Most of the on-line stuff I've seen like that, have limited archives; theory is then the reader will have to buy the book.

Like 'The Norm' only goes back so far.  (Although it was fun to hack the 'site and look at the next week's strips, before they were printed.)

Fang Langford

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Fang,

Yes, the eventual collection is slated either for print or PDF. I'm also surprising myself by coming up with material for 52 more strips relatively easily ...

Anyway, the decision remains open. I can always throw open the archives at any point during the process, so I don't mind starting it a little hard-assed.

Kirt, the cry of distress is noted and logged.

Best,
Ron

[Henry Fitch]

Ready for it?

Yeeargh!

[Ron Edwards]

Heh,

Aahhh, music to my ears ... within limits, a frustrated cry of distress is a happy customer. Beyond those limits, it ain't, though. So I'm notin' and loggin'.

By the way, I take all this to indicate that people like the first strip? Art, the "look," etc? Channelling Dr. Evil: "Throw me a bone here, people."

Best,
Ron

[Jeffrey Straszheim]

By the way, I take all this to indicate that people like the first strip? Art, the "look," etc? Channelling Dr. Evil: "Throw me a bone here, people."

I WANT MORE.  I WANT IT ALL NOW!!!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAA!

erm ... uh .. sorry.  I'm OK now.

[James V. West]

I might not count, but I like the strip too! Hehheh.

Now back to the drawing board...

[Valamir]

The only real comment I have is that I hate piecemeal stories personally.

I don't read comic books.  I wait for the graphic novel.

3 panels as a teaser...wouldn't matter, could be the beginning of the greatest piece of literature of all time...I'm not going to like it.

I realize that may be a minority view (piecemeal stories in magazines at one time were "standard"), and I'm sure that I will enjoy the comics and story they tell...but I can't read them 3 panels at a time.  It makes me cringe.

If the plan really is to only offer 3 strips at a time, I'm probably going to miss them entirely until they are fully collected in some fashion, at least collected by artist.

[Seth L. Blumberg]

When is it supposed to update?

If it's every Monday, then you need to debug your auto-updater, because it hasn't.

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Seth,

The update-additions start next Monday, as planned.

Best,
Ron