Goblins XIV: Clerical Omission.

[nyarlathotep]

this is in addition to those above for webcomics with consistant schedules
Daily or Near Daily:
Least I Could Do (it's hideously terrible, sexist, racist, and not funny but it does update and is supposedly a "big name")
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (usually good)
Multiple Times per week:
Whomp (probably the best gag a day strip out there, immensely helped by not being a "gamer" comic)

[Anteros]

Sluggy Freelance updates Monday through Friday. Typically with filler drawings on the weekend.

[MammonAzrael]

Something Positive updates pretty consistently, and Sam and Fuzzy is incredibly reliable with a MWF schedule.

Personally I use an RSS reader, and didn't even know about Goblin's update clock until reading about it here.

[Forrestfire]

Hrm... thinking of some more, Unsounded is three pages a week, updating consistently at midnight Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Ava's Demon updates consistently at the same time every Monday and Thursday. Can't think of others off the top of my head.

[Lord_Gareth]

Hrm... thinking of some more, Unsounded is three pages a week, updating consistently at midnight Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Ava's Demon updates consistently at the same time every Monday and Thursday. Can't think of others off the top of my head.

Aaah Unsounded. Better art, better storyline, more consistent update schedule, actual serious treatment of moral issues...

It's like it's got an author who can actually write or so-OHWAITITDOES

[sum1won]

Unsounded artist does build buffers. They take a month off between "chapters" to do so and recharge. Of course, at chapter lengths of 70 or so, that's one month off out of every 4-5, which makes for a far better update schedule.

[EnragedFilia]

Sinfest has been released consistently 7 days a week for as long as I've been following it.
Diesel Sweeties is fairly consistent too, although I haven't been following it for nearly as long.
I have no idea whether either one buffers, although I imagine they do.

[Bird]

Dinosaur Comics updates 5x/week. (Unless it's fallen off recently -- I got a little burned out on it a while back. Great comic, though.)

[John Campbell]

Dumbing of Age has updated daily or weekdays (a year of weekend updates were a Kickstarter incentive, due to expire before long, but I expect they'll get re-upped in the Kickstart for the next book before they actually do), consistently without fail, since its beginning in 2010, and Wiilis is simultaneously updating Shortpacked! 3-5 days a week and rerunning his old Roomies! strip with author's commentary daily. The DoA buffer is, as I write this, up to June 11th, and the Roomies! strips of course were drawn fifteen years ago, but Shortpacked! is usually drawn not more than a day or two before update. Also he's drawing canon porn of Dumbiverse and Walkyverse characters for Slipshine, apparently in the breaks between drawing DoA storylines.

Skin Horse has updated daily (filler art on Sundays), consistently without fail, since its beginning at the end of 2007. Before that, Shaenon did Narbonic on the same schedule... though she missed a single Sunday filler update back in 2001. I'm not sure how deep Shaenon's buffer is, but I know she keeps one. She also draws Monster of the Week on a weekly (duh) basis.

Bobbins/Scary-Go-Round/Bad Machinery/Giant Days/whatever John Allison is calling his comic this year has updated on an occasionally variable but reliable schedule - currently daily - for friggin' ever. (Bobbins started in 1998.)

Gunnerkrigg Court updates reliably three days a week, and has better art and writing than Goblins has ever dreamed of.

The art in Nukees is a little rough, but it's updated three days a week without fail since 1997.

[Silva Stormrage]

http://www.egscomics.com El goonish shive updates 5/week as well. I find it to be pretty good most of the time. The beginning arcs are pretty bad though

[Anteros]

Dinosaur Comics updates 5x/week. (Unless it's fallen off recently -- I got a little burned out on it a while back. Great comic, though.)

Is that the one that always reuses the same 3 art panels? I don't think that's really a fair comparison to something like Goblins.

[EnragedFilia]

Is that the one that always reuses the same 3 art panels? I don't think that's really a fair comparison to something like Goblins.

Yes, it's what they sometimes call constrained. We're not really comparing anything to Goblins anyway, just naming the most reliable webcomics we can think of.

[Neoriceisgood]

My list of current comics with "good, stable" update performance:

Buffer? Don't know / dont care.
Why would that be important (to a reader) ?

Oh it wouldn't be. For me personally using a buffer has increased stability immensely though, so it just surprises me that some people can keep it stable without.

[T-O-E]

Whoever he traded with got suckered. Thunt has never had the ability to keep a consistent update schedule.

Meanwhile, Aaron Diaz notices his productivity has increased tenfold.

[Dragonus45]

Misfile is a comic that updates daily on weekdays, they only skip holidays when he puts of a image wishing everyone a happy-insert day here. He has another comic called 6-gun mage that updates three times a week.

[Vinyadan]

Star Power usually updates constantly. I remember one case where they forgot to put the update on monday while they were at a convention, but they usually manage.

Right now it is on hold because the artist broke his collarbone.

And I must say that the consistent updates are the strongest point of Blind Ferret, and the only thing about which they have something to teach other webcomicists. I find their organization admirable. They should just hire a PR consultant and Sohmer should accept that he is a good manager and a bad writer, and hire someone else to the scripts.

[Traab]

I like LICD. /shrug. Maybe because I refuse to take it seriously. And from a realistic standpoint, it cant be that unpopular, because enough people are visiting the site to keep it running.

[sum1won]

I like LICD. /shrug. Maybe because I refuse to take it seriously. And from a realistic standpoint, it cant be that unpopular, because enough people are visiting the site to keep it running.

People don't dislike LICD because they take it seriously. They dislike it because of a broad range of reasons, but mostly because of the kind of fodder it presents as "jokes"and "humor"

[Hullabaloo]

As for Goblins: Well, tbh, I'm starting to get a bit annoyed. Not at the lack of update, but the lack of information. Twice we were told Thunt would speak to us in the next day or so, and twice it hasn't happened.
The last time was over a week ago now, and nothing since then.

Honestly what do you expect when Tempts Fate 11 still looks like this
http://www.goblinscomic.org/tempts-fate-11/
even after collecting a ton of money for a house he ended up deciding not to get. I gave up on goblins soon after that, and happily just check back every 2-3 month, read the few comics then forget about it for another block of time.

*EDIT*
For semi regular updates, (2-3 a week)
http://pvponline.com/ (which also is included in Table Titans, which is more of a 1-2 a week)
http://penny-arcade.com/ (which also links to Trenches and Wedontwantca, which are again 1-2 a week)

[Draconi Redfir]

Honestly what do you expect when Tempts Fate 11 still looks like this
http://www.goblinscomic.org/tempts-fate-11/
even after collecting a ton of money for a house he ended up deciding not to get. I gave up on goblins soon after that, and happily just check back every 2-3 month, read the few comics then forget about it for another block of time.

he didn't "decide" to not get the house, he was completely incappable of it. He was trying to buy the house from his landlord so they wouldn't need to move, but despite getting enough money to do so, the landlord reffused to sell the house to them, there was literally nothing they could do, so they used the money to by a NEW house where they live now.

[Seerow]

While we're listing reliably updating comics:

Commissioned updates very reliably. He's gone between a 1-2/week and 5/week schedule at various times, and right now it's sitting at 3/week, but any time he says he's going to be on a certain schedule, he meets it. The only real problem is he's a S Rank master at dropping storylines to go try something new. He's been on the current story for the last 8 months or so though, and claims he has a lot plotted out in advance this time... so we'll see how it goes.

[Gellhorn]

Will save world for gold updates every weekday, or at least every weekday I've checked.

[Traab]

People don't dislike LICD because they take it seriously. They dislike it because of a broad range of reasons, but mostly because of the kind of fodder it presents as "jokes"and "humor"

And people like it because they find it funny. Different strokes for different folks and all that. My point mainly being that despite the rather overwhelming dislike and outright hatred it receives here, there clearly are a large number of people who honestly enjoy it, or else it wouldnt stay on the net for so many years being constantly updated. Not too mention the guys frequent kickstarter projects tend to be well funded. Dude's got a lot of support out there in the world.

[Vinyadan]

People don't dislike LICD because they take it seriously. They dislike it because of a broad range of reasons, but mostly because of the kind of fodder it presents as "jokes"and "humor"

To me, LICD is like fast food: easy to eat, but you shouldn't expect very much from it, nor ask yourself what you're eating. And I agree on the fodder thing: some strips are funny, but a lot of them are just easy to read but with nothing to laugh about. I find that a much better Rayne was Abe of Alien Loves Predator. (And that LFG was a much worse failure. Thankfully the NPC thing is quite interesting.)

Honestly what do you expect when Tempts Fate 11 still looks like this
http://www.goblinscomic.org/tempts-fate-11/

Well, that was quite a funny read plus, I like the green demon's design.

[T-O-E]

To me, LICD is like poison.

[Vinyadan]

To me, LICD is like poison.

It had to be done.

[Anteros]

I actually liked and followed Licd for years. Eventually though the preachy attitude, and the fact that everyone loves Sohmer (oops I mean Rayne) no matter how sociopathic he acts started to grate on my nerves.

[Spuddles]

unsounded has just as involved art as goblins updates both more regularly and more frequently.

CAD, PA, PvP, and LICD all update extremely regularly. Half of them have more than one person working on the comic, though.

[Silver Swift]

DrMcNinja and Freefall update fairly consistently (though freefall may have the lowest real life time passed to in universe time past ratio of anything I've ever read).

[Vinyadan]

Half of them have more than one person working on the comic, though.

I think this is the right direction, if people want to make it possible to live out of their webcomic. Some are very lucky and very talented, but I think that many end up wasting themselves trying to fill all of at least four different roles you normally have in a publishing house, and maybe they are very talented in one, but are horrible in other two.
I mean, normally you would have one person with the concept, another one developing it into a full script, another one doing the penciling, an inker and a colorist. Plus, if you want, an editor and a corrector for the script, and one for PR, and one for merchandising, and to keep an attorney ready, just in case.

Of course, this is an hypertrophic system, but it binds you to work fast with very clear deadlines, or everything will crumble. And trying to get hobbyist into such a thing is almost impossible. For professionals who want to branch out as much as possible, however, this should be a standard.