The real "holy *crap*" about Modern Tales

[demiurgent]

In Joey Manley's words, the other shoe just dropped.

A few people, when they congratulated me yesterday, grumbled about not wanting to subscribe to see what's going on. Or talked about... well, niche-like stuff.

The Modern Tales I'm editing? Is going to be free. Ad supported. And shooting to expand, to broaden in pretty much every way.

There will still be a subscription component, for a small number of series. But Modern Tales will be far more a community of really good comic strips that anyone can go to.

That's my mission. To find quality. To seek out the art and the story and the funny. To make the world a better place! To build a shining obsidian monolith of sequential GODHOOD!

Or, you know. To help make a really cool free comics site.

Comments

[the-zaniak.livejournal.com]

I tried, but I only got through the first few hundred comics. Not enough time!

Is Narbonic becoming free? Please, please please. Please.

Narbonic is not becoming free

[(Anonymous)]

Shaenon has expressed a desire to stay within the pay portion of Modern Tales, at least through the duration of Narbonic (which ends in a year, BTW).

Joey
www.moderntales.com

Re: Narbonic is not becoming free

[the-zaniak.livejournal.com]

Aaaaw. What's the situation after it ends? Will the archives be freely available, or will you still have to subscribe to read them?

Re: Narbonic is not becoming free

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

Well, now. That's a very interesting question. Very interesting indeed. Gosh, but what an interesting question that is....

(My God I love my job.)

Re: Narbonic is not becoming free

[the-zaniak.livejournal.com]

lol, I'm going to read this either as "I don't know" or "I do know but I'm not going to tell you because it's an awesome surprise." Want to clue me in on which it is?