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Post by Georgie L on Jul 30, 2020 10:20:24 GMT
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Post by speedwell on Jul 30, 2020 15:34:42 GMT
Answered
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Post by bedinsis on Jul 30, 2020 15:40:46 GMT
Small problem: I don't remember. I think the first time I read it through the first book was wrapping up, i.e. Fangs of Summertime. I read it, came to the conclusion that it was fine for what it was but not something I was interested in reading. Then a couple of months(maybe even half a year?) I encountered it again and decided that it actually was worth following it.
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Post by wies on Jul 30, 2020 15:40:56 GMT
Answered as well.
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Post by wies on Jul 30, 2020 15:44:50 GMT
Small problem: I don't remember. I think the first time I read it through the first book was wrapping up, i.e. Fangs of Summertime. I read it, came to the conclusion that it was fine for what it was but not something I was interested in reading. Then a couple of months(maybe even half a year?) I encountered it again and decided that it actually was worth following it. There are two questions, the first about around which chapter you started reading and the second about around which chapter you caught up. You could answer the first question with Fangs of Summertime and the second with the chapter when you were caught up. I don't think it is a trouble if there are a couple of months between the answers. Is that a solution?
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Post by bedinsis on Jul 30, 2020 15:48:25 GMT
Small problem: I don't remember. I think the first time I read it through the first book was wrapping up, i.e. Fangs of Summertime. I read it, came to the conclusion that it was fine for what it was but not something I was interested in reading. Then a couple of months(maybe even half a year?) I encountered it again and decided that it actually was worth following it. There are two questions, the first about around which chapter you started reading and the second about around which chapter you caught up. You could answer the first question with Fangs of Summertime and the second with the chapter when you were caught up. I don't think it is a trouble if there are a couple of months between the answers. Is that a solution? Ah, but I don't remember what chapter it was when I caught up. I could always guess, I suppose.
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Post by wies on Jul 30, 2020 15:52:11 GMT
Ah, yeah. Luckily a guesstimate is fine.
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Post by Georgie L on Jul 30, 2020 15:54:39 GMT
Yeah it's a really informal survey, I'm not expecting the answers to be accurate.
Just was curious after someone on the discord asked if there were any stats on that. And thought others may be curious too.
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Post by stef1987 on Aug 2, 2020 17:24:36 GMT
Wasn't there already a thread like this?
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Post by Georgie L on Aug 2, 2020 18:00:29 GMT
Wasn't there already a thread like this? Yeah, years ago. There's been a lot of new readers since that point
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Post by philman on Aug 3, 2020 7:26:38 GMT
Hmm, I don't remember precisely, and my forum date doesn't help as I didn't join here till way after I started reading. I know for sure that I was reading the first Coyote chapter (20: Coyote Stories)as it went out, and I definitely read 13: A Week For Kat all in one go as I didn't have any speculation in that phase at all, so it was definitely between those two. I think it was towards the end of 16: A Ghost Story, as I remember it being a pretty weird chapter as I read it and it was wrapping up, so probably read at least some of it slowly.
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Post by Druplesnubb on Aug 3, 2020 8:41:36 GMT
I remember what point I started reading perfectly, because it was this page that greeted me when went to th esite the first time. It was an excellent intorduction and almost worked like a prologue of sorts for me. Once I finished the archive it was only one page later, so I had a pretty clean break where I read all of chapter 35 in the archive but all of chapter 36 as it was coming out.
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Post by wies on Aug 3, 2020 10:41:20 GMT
Oh, that is a good page to land on first indeed!
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Post by ekimie on Aug 3, 2020 17:00:35 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page?
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Post by saardvark on Aug 3, 2020 18:26:24 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page? yo! that might be a record... welcome to the forum, ekimie! 3 times a week, usually - tho are they sometimes daily in the interludes between chapters? I forget...
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Post by DonDueed on Aug 3, 2020 19:33:32 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page? Each release is one page, at least as long as I've been reading.
As far as when I started reading, I don't remember exactly. It hasn't been nearly as long as some of the other forum members.
The main reason I don't recall the point of entry is the way I read new webcomics. I avoid going to the current page first if I can; I just go to the start of the archive and read the whole thing up to the latest page (assuming I like the comic enough to do so). So the "current page" isn't really too special, just the point where I switch from bingeing to reading at the normal pace.
I can't think of a single webcomic that I could name the exact page where I entered the real-time stream.
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Post by wies on Aug 3, 2020 20:33:21 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page? Welcome ekimie! And usually there is three releases of one page in a week, but there will be a hiatus of two weeks after this chapter. There will be stuff posted, maybe daily, maybe less frequently.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 3, 2020 22:06:50 GMT
i'm 90% sure it was chapter 5 that was going on when i heard and read a page
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Post by blahzor on Aug 3, 2020 22:08:44 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page? at least 1 break had a page a day monday through friday (city face era)
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Post by yumabill on Aug 4, 2020 14:26:50 GMT
Chapter 31 - Fire Spike. In particular, the strips where Annie is vindictively telling Reynardine that Surma never loved him and she won't even let him escape into his plushie form. That really made me want to read the whole series; characters with that kind of emotional complexity are pretty rare in webcomics.
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Post by mturtle7 on Aug 4, 2020 17:40:49 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page? Like people said, it's one page three times a week.
Tom is, I think, the ONLY webcomic artist I know who literally NEVER misses a page in their update schedule. As far back as I can remember, even when other artists are busy apologizing for being on hiatus or having technical problems or dealing with life crises, I could always rely on my regular Gunnerkrigg page, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, because Tom really is just that good at keeping a buffer. Even in the "interludes", you can expect exactly one page of bonus material every weekday for exactly 2 weeks. It's pretty amazing.
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Post by ekimie on Aug 4, 2020 17:46:23 GMT
ahw I had hoped maybe the added pages varied between 1 to 3 or so each mo/we/fri. I am really curious to know how it ends and knowing it has ran since 2005 isnt really making me feel better
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Post by DonDueed on Aug 4, 2020 23:18:33 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page? Like people said, it's one page three times a week.
Tom is, I think, the ONLY webcomic artist I know who literally NEVER misses a page in their update schedule. As far back as I can remember, even when other artists are busy apologizing for being on hiatus or having technical problems or dealing with life crises, I could always rely on my regular Gunnerkrigg page, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, because Tom really is just that good at keeping a buffer. Even in the "interludes", you can expect exactly one page of bonus material every weekday for exactly 2 weeks. It's pretty amazing.
David Willis ("Dumbing Of Age") is equally good. He even went through a pretty major health crisis without missing an update -- and he updates seven days a week. Smaller pages though, basically newspaper comic strip size.
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Post by DonDueed on Aug 4, 2020 23:19:36 GMT
ahw I had hoped maybe the added pages varied between 1 to 3 or so each mo/we/fri. I am really curious to know how it ends and knowing it has ran since 2005 isnt really making me feel better Well, feel free to join in the Wild Speculation!
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Post by warrl on Aug 5, 2020 0:14:17 GMT
Like people said, it's one page three times a week. Tom is, I think, the ONLY webcomic artist I know who literally NEVER misses a page in their update schedule. As far back as I can remember, even when other artists are busy apologizing for being on hiatus or having technical problems or dealing with life crises, I could always rely on my regular Gunnerkrigg page, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, because Tom really is just that good at keeping a buffer. Even in the "interludes", you can expect exactly one page of bonus material every weekday for exactly 2 weeks. It's pretty amazing.
David Willis ("Dumbing Of Age") is equally good. He even went through a pretty major health crisis without missing an update -- and he updates seven days a week. Smaller pages though, basically newspaper comic strip size. Kathy Garrison Kellogg ( Carry On) is doing really well on that regard too. For the last several years she's mostly been doing two newspaper comic strips three days per week - sometimes, when life gets busy, dropping to just one strip three days per week. This is in addition to helping with her husband's weekly comic 21st Century Fox, running their sheep farm, monitoring her mother's final years, and trying to monitor the cattle and general conditions on her mother's farm.
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Post by Runningflame on Aug 5, 2020 1:39:44 GMT
Tom is, I think, the ONLY webcomic artist I know who literally NEVER misses a page in their update schedule. As far back as I can remember, even when other artists are busy apologizing for being on hiatus or having technical problems or dealing with life crises, I could always rely on my regular Gunnerkrigg page, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, because Tom really is just that good at keeping a buffer. Even in the "interludes", you can expect exactly one page of bonus material every weekday for exactly 2 weeks. It's pretty amazing. I'm gonna name-drop two of them: Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary never missed an update in over 20 years--I use the past tense because he just wrapped up the comic a week and a half ago. And Bill Holbrook of Kevin and Kell hasn't missed an update since 1995--but he's some kind of machine who is somehow able to turn out two daily print comics in addition.
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Post by liminal on Aug 5, 2020 5:29:12 GMT
I started reading Gunnerkrigg regularly (with a host of other webcomics during my 'peak' comic reading/creating) around Chapter 12 (Mainly Involves Robots) to 13 (A Week for Kat), but it took some good ol' Order 66: Memories of the Worthless to become a forum member.
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Post by louisxiv on Aug 5, 2020 19:00:02 GMT
I think I started somewhere before chapter 11, because I recall the switch to 3 days a week. At the time I used to dip in and out of GC and didn't follow the story as such so that didn't kake a huge difference to me. I had to reread the early chapters again to get a grip on the story more than once.
I rather liked the art of the early days and sometimes regret the change in style as Antimony grows up, but it is an effective device.
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Post by Corvo on Aug 6, 2020 7:10:06 GMT
Well, this took me down memory lane! I believe the first page I ever saw was 182, back when it was just two updates a week and I barely knew how to form english speech was formed in engrish! I kid. But seriously, it took me a while translating almost word by word and putting them together in sentences that made sense! I would drop it and come back every now and then, so it took me about a year to caught up, I think. It was the start of Fangs Of Summertime. Good times!
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Post by Corvo on Aug 6, 2020 7:23:21 GMT
I started yesterday about 11am and finished around 7pm... but I swear I am not addicted! Is there only 1 page released three times a week, or sometimes more than one page? Like people said, it's one page three times a week. Tom is, I think, the ONLY webcomic artist I know who literally NEVER misses a page in their update schedule. As far back as I can remember, even when other artists are busy apologizing for being on hiatus or having technical problems or dealing with life crises, I could always rely on my regular Gunnerkrigg page, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, because Tom really is just that good at keeping a buffer. Even in the "interludes", you can expect exactly one page of bonus material every weekday for exactly 2 weeks. It's pretty amazing.
Tom has a system for it. Literally. A computer system. I remember two or three times when there was a problem with servers or something and the update was late for a few hours... in over a decade! Still, it's pretty awesome how Tom keeps the buffer up. It's one of the reasons GC is still my favorite webcomic, hands down.
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