Shlock's Theorem: given enough time to run indefinitely, any given webcomic will eventually become a metacosmic war game with infinite stakes
@irisjaycomics oh fuck this has happened to so many long running webcomics I can't even
like
holy shit to name a few I've previously read through years ago, Sluggy Freelance (though I stopped reading it when it started getting this weird), Elgoonishshive or whatever that was, fuckin' Dominic Deegan (I forgot I read through all that until this was mentioned), Megatokyo (that did not take long at ALL to get weird. goddamn.)
how long before XKCD goes and does this? Girl Genius?
being nostalgic about early Dominic Deegan
@Nine @irisjaycomics I actually still have the Dominic Deegan T-shirt I bought when it was a comic about a small-town fortune teller experiencing small-town adventures
that was a fun comic and kind of sweet
I gave up sometime after the legendary hero of destiny got his job teaching legendary levels of seer-skills at the super-magic college to oh god I just don't care
(although the guy with the facial scar he hid behind his asymmetric haircut had a pretty boss character design)
@irisjaycomics (only slightly facetious with the XKCD one tbqh it's gone on long enough and I am genuinely concerned that it might actually start having...
a plotline D: )