Welcome to Webcomic Hell 2: The Tenth Circle (Update re: Plush and Blood)

So, on 23rd February of this year, I brought you the story of a terrible webcomic created by a questionable character. And today is May 30th, about three months later. So I thought I'd bring you an update. (This won't be long or in-depth, just a little thing I found interesting.)

Among other things, one of my criticisms of the comic Plush and Blood is that it promises to update on a rigorous schedule (and its author even brags about having NEVER MISSED AN UPDATE, and yes, he used emphasis), and yet, it just doesn't. Tuesdays and Thursdays are supposed to be the days it updates, as it says on the main page. Here are two screenshots:

^ From the comic itself.

^ From the author's (obnoxious) Patron.

Now, given this, you'd expect the comic to be dozens of pages ahead where it was when I critiqued it in February - and you'll see in my original post, which you can see has not been edited since February (which is proof that I'm not making this up), the comic was at page 1009 back then. So you'd expect it to be in the 1050s by now, or around thereabouts. (It's one in the morning. I'm not doing math right now.) Anyway, you'd expect the comic to be several dozens of pages ahead where it was back then, right?

WRONG, SIR. 

The comic is currently no further than page 1015, a mere six pages ahead of where it was when last I gazed upon its hellish contents. Notably, author Corey Messer's Facebook hasn't updated since April first, and the most recent posting on the Plush and Blood forums dates from eleven days ago, and is interestingly not from Messer himself (who hasn't posted since December of last year, far as I can tell).

Also interestingly, the last post (from 11 days ago) is in a roleplaying forum, not a fan in the Plush and Blood section asking what the hell happened to the webcomic. Actually, there are literally no comments in the Plush and Blood sections from fans who want to know what the hell's going on. In fact, most of the comments in those sections date from 2015, and the most recent one is from January. The same deal is happening on his Facebook: all of the comments date from April or earlier, and no one has bothered to ask (or demand, as they should) what the hell is going on with their webcomic. Does Messer actually have legions of screaming fans who would die for another page of his glorious, superior artwork, as he seems to believe? Hmm. Seems not.

So what happened? Did Corey Messer die? Did he just give up, realizing his fans don't give a shit? Will he mysteriously pop back into existence a few months from now and blame his absence on the birth of a new baby or something? One thing's for sure, if he comes back, you can bet your bippy he'll be pretending that nothing ever happened, and the next time he updates his Patreon, he'll still be screaming about how he's NEVER MISSED AN UPDATE and how HIS LOYAL FANS LOVE HIS AMAZEBALLS WORK THAT'S SO SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER WEBCOMICS. Except... they don't. What little fans he has left obviously don't give a shit about him.

I don't have much left to say, except "pride goes before a fall" and all that. It'll be interesting to see whether Messer ever comes back into existence and actually has an excuse for his unexplained hiatus, but somehow I doubt he's the kind of guy who bothers explaining for himself or apologizing. But at least, if he never does come back, I don't think there will be a whole lot of people who are sad about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I would be remiss not to mention how Mr. Messer has somehow managed to convince 62 of his fans to pay him a cumulative $265 a month so that he'll continue to regularly update, which he has obviously not done. I hope some of those fans either stop paying Messer the money that he's not worth, or sue his ass to kingdom come for stealing their money and then not delivering the product he promised (i.e., regular updates).

I close with a quote from Corey Messer (again, from his Patreon, and emphasis is his):

"To close, this is as near a sure thing as you can get. I do not need to make constant promises that the comic will continue to update or that I will do my job until the end. I have already established my fortitude, dedication, and motivation with the completion of The Unstuffed. Memory's Threads will run to completion without failure."

Yeah. Right.