HEAD’S-UP UPDATE: In-house specialty auctions begin here at site update Monday (Sunday into Monday, Midnight Eastern Time) with some first-come first-serve buy-it-now options! Including Sluggy Death Cameos and 20 years of art!

We tried to make it ready for Friday (today) but the system needed more work than we thought. Waiting until Monday to DO IT RIGHT!

As part of the 20+ site prep, we've been doing some way overdue improvements and maintenance to the forums. Today, the dev team put in some new anti-spambot measures, added strikethrough and spoiler code to posts, and created a support thread for bug reporting. Most importantly, we removed the "when were you born" question from the forums sign-up process. Anybody who was not able to log in (because you could not prove you were at least 13) should now be able to re-send their confirmation email and activate their account at Sluggy.net. This will be the only username and login you need for the new website, and the forums will stay essentially the same as they are.

And the link to the support thread is http://www.sluggy.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=95899

When I announced things were going to change about a year and a half ago, I honestly didn’t know what the future held. That’s why I used terms like ‘retiring’. I knew I couldn’t keep up with the schedule anymore. But if I didn’t, then I really didn’t see a way to keep making a living at it.

Well now I have a plan, it’s a good one. As I said in that Pledge-to-pledge video, Sluggy Freelance WILL CONTINUE! Just not in a way you’re used to.

It’s extra important to tell you this now. Because I’d suggested months ago I was trying to keep to a schedule where I’d reach a certain “closing” point in the story. Of course I can’t time anything right, you guys know this by now. So August 25th isn’t going to be a ‘good place for the story to end’ it’s going to be a frikkin’ Cliff Hanger of unimaginable proportions. But I wanted to let you all know, it’s OK! We don’t need a good place to end, because (with a little help from you guys) Sluggy is not ending.

More on that later (not TOO much later)! For now, keep your eyes on the headlines and news of this site every day. Things are a’happenin’.

A lot of you are wondering "What is Sluggy 20+ going to look like?" Well for one thing we're going to have a completely remastered archive! And it took some DOIN' to make this happen! Everything that we could make bigger and higher quality, we did for the new 20+ archive! Here's some samples below! These have been taken from the old archive and the new one that we have under wraps!

Sluggy Freelance has never looked better!  Reference links to the old archive comics: (1) (2) (3) (4)! You can't see the new archive yet. Stay tuned for more sneak peeks over the next two weeks!

Oh and let me add with personal pleasure, you know that 'Archive Glitch' that's plagued us for a decade? The new system? NO GLITCHES! AT LAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!