Quote Originally Posted by douglas View Post
As I understand it, the new strips he's put up so far are not an attempt to show his supposed growth at all. The stuff he talked about learning was all about doing more serious story arcs with the main cast, and that's exactly the part that hasn't shown up yet. Wait for the first book/issue of Ethan etc. before judging him on that score.
When a webcomic does something as dramatic as suddenly killing off the main characters and rebooting then the judging starts immediately as readers ponder whether to keep the comic in their bookmarks. I got the impression Tim Buckley did this because he was dying to bring his strip back to gag-a-day, and if that's the case he really needs to hit the ball out of the park with his humour over the next month or I think he'll haemorrhage a lot of readers.

If Buckley is burnt out IMO it would better to have a break entirely, maybe release nothing but Sillies for a month or two, and be open and honest that the comic restarts again proper in February.