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James Sawatsky · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: Ending a comic

What would be the best way to end a comic, especially if you may pick it up again some time down the road.

Zoe Robinson · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

Space whelks eat the universe.
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Casual Notice · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject:

Pretend to be hacked by a porn site and spend a few weeks showing nothing but badly-photshopped celebrity faces on pornstar bodies.
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mooncity · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:54 pm Post subject:

Watterson. Snow. Like a big sheet of drawing paper. Full of possibilities.
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Lord Pandar · Resident Loony Detector Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 2517

They were all secretly furries all along.
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dpat57 · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject:

Post a smiling/waving cast pic with an "On Hiatus" caption.
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Metruis · Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 992 Location: Canada

Rocks fall, everyone dies.

Oh, wait, you said you wanted to pick it up again...
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munkymu · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

Metruis wrote:

Rocks fall, everyone dies.

Oh, wait, you said you wanted to pick it up again...

You could pick it up again in the underworld! Or reincarnate the characters. Have them look almost exactly the same and have almost exactly the same names, but not quite.
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Chilari · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject:

Or you could kill of characters and then, when picking up the story again later, pass it off with "it was all a dream", possibly with the addition of "drug/alcohol-fueled" before "dream".
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fluffy · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:18 pm Post subject:

Why not just have the story come to a natural ending that still leaves enough possibilities open for a new one to start later?

(Or is that too obvious?)
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oppernaR · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject:

Animated "Under Construction" gif.
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Novil · Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 385

Let your domain name expire and surprise your readers with that ubiquitous GoDaddy 404 page.
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Casual Notice · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:04 am Post subject:

Novil wrote:

Let your domain name expire and surprise your readers with that ubiquitous GoDaddy 404 page.

Wait, are you saying that your domain name has to actually expire for that to happen?
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Metruis · Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 992 Location: Canada

munkymu wrote:

Metruis wrote:

Rocks fall, everyone dies.

Oh, wait, you said you wanted to pick it up again...

You could pick it up again in the underworld! Or reincarnate the characters. Have them look almost exactly the same and have almost exactly the same names, but not quite.

This is true! I'll have to end my comic that way! Too bad it has a plotted ending and no underworld... yet. Twisted Evil

I'm sorry, rocks fall and everyone dies is my favorite lame ending, right next to 'and everything exploded'.
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jinxtigr · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 473 Location: Vermont

If you're that worried about it, you're not really letting go of it, so you're not really ending it Wink

Resolve any plotlines currently happening and say 'see ya! and thanks!' clearly and directly. If you need to resume later, make new plotlines Smile

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