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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:40 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:43 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:11 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:46 pm 
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And? All you'd hear is the sound of crickets. Last update was July. Ridiculous.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:10 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:41 am 
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And we have an Update!

that's a rather nice looking shuttlecraft. wouldn't look all that out of place in battletech, i think.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:39 am 
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Wow! It only took him seven months for an update.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:35 am 
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Image Which part of "day job" don't you guys understand?

:soapbox: I don't know how Piro gets by with his rate of update, when MegaTokyo is his income, but that's not Arioch's deal, confound it! Outsider is done 'cause he damn well feels like it!

Geez: It's not like y'all pay a dime to the man … :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:30 pm 
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And I read two webcomics produced as a second job for both writers and they manage to update at least three days and as many as five per week.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:45 pm 
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:soapbox: I don't know how Piro gets by with his rate of update, when MegaTokyo is his income, but that's not Arioch's deal, confound it! Outsider is done 'cause he damn well feels like it!
megatokyo updated fairly regularly for awhile, long enough to build up a good sized archive and a strong following. plus it's been around for a long time. it helps the story and art is pretty good. now they make most of their money off of selling things like T-shirts, printings of the compilations, bags, plush toys, art supplies, etc., to their fans.

on the otherhand, you have comics like Schlock Mercenary, where the comic hasn't missed a single daily update (even when their server room literally exploded, it was only delayed for a few hours) in over a decade, and is still ongoing.. it makes it money similarly, mostly by selling compilation books (since archive diving can take forever otherwise), and some spin off products (like the plasma cannon instruction manual coloring book and their upcoming miniatures game)

honestly, while i find the glacially slow update rate of Outsider annoying, i understand it. and frankly, i read some comics that update even slower (looking at you Dresden Codak!), not to mention a number which are so irregular in updates that they haven't updated in years (Alpha shade, Dela the Hooda, and others..)

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:01 am 
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Image Which part of "day job" don't you guys understand?
Sorry, but I call bologna on that one. I really want to love Outsider. I really, really do. It's got superb production value and there is a great backstory here. But good grief man, we're down to maybe two updates per year now. To me, this says that Arioch either has too much going on IRL or just has a shoddy work ethic. Either way, it means that this comic, at this rate, will NEVER get finished within a human lifetime. This is not an exaggeration. And I, for one, refuse to remain invested in a comic that seems not to acknowledge that it DOES have fans that will wait 7 months for a single update. It's flat-out disrespectful.

For that reason, in my opinion Arioch needs to take a long, honest look at his capacity, ability, and desire to produce this comic and either move forward with a realistic and REGULAR production schedule, or quit.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:03 pm 
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or he should, as an alternative, find interested and capable fans that help with the work, he can then just give the basic storyline and leave the rest to a team.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:41 pm 
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That worked so well for Angels2200 …

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:28 pm 
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Honestly, Schlock is the example I'm following with Jack of Harts. There is an update every single day. Period. End of line.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:10 am 
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What is it that face reminds me of?

:o Death by Snu-snu! :yikes:

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 1:47 am 
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:zzz:

What was zat? Someone say something? :confused:

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:07 pm 
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:zzz:

What was zat? Someone say something? :confused:
Image Within two weeks, someone said?

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:43 am 
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Honestly... **** this comic. If the author can't bother to post an update, I'm not going to be bothered to follow it.

I reiterate what I said earlier in this thread. Based on the current speed of updates, all of Outsider's current readers will have literally died of old age before the planned story arcs have been completed. This is not an exaggeration.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:39 pm 
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Hire Chuck Norris. He will finish that Comic in no time.

by staring at it.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:13 pm 
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He's doing art assets for a computer game if you check his other projects.

My assumption is that once he gets done with that he will return to doing this...

maybe...:)

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2015 2:43 pm 
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Page 103 is online

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2015 8:56 pm 
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Heh: It's almost like I only care about the Update Thread now, and not the actual comic …

:disguise:

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 11:53 am 
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Whaddya know, page #104 is up! And 2 days before!! Let us pray he can keep the pace few pages more...

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:41 am 
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While we weren't looking, he has uploaded TWO PAGES MORE!! Up to 106 pages now.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:03 pm 
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That's nice, but I stand by my assertion that everyone currently reading this comic will be dead before it's finished.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:14 pm 
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Really now? Comic just got another page! It is up to #107 now!

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:59 pm 
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That's nice, but I stand by my assertion that everyone currently reading this comic will be dead before it's finished.
Oh thats guaranteed, it has been going so long that I have come back to the Heavy metal forums in time to hear about an update.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:09 am 
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And new page! For a change loroii with some sense of humour.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 4:37 pm 
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When I saw this one walk out on the last page, it occurred to me Our Hero might still be under mindprobe, like some Farscape story I half remember, or the "simsence prison" thing from Shadowrun …

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:13 pm 
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Yeah...a sense of humor...And here I thought most of them came genetically implanted with a stick up their :o

;)

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 3:42 pm 
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Since last month (May), this comic has got 6 new pages :o
:dance:

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:30 pm 
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Woop-de-doo. And for a whole year we had NONE. Or maybe 1 in 6 months.

Nothing has changed with this production schedule. A slight burst of activity doesn't make up for the fact that this comic's targeted production is unfeasible.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:49 pm 
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New page! He's on the roll now!

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2018 3:24 pm 
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While I wasn't checking, the comic has gained 10 new pages! So about a page a month.

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 Post subject: Re: Outsider Updates
PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 12:13 am 
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New page on April 1st :toast:

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