Thanks for all the fish
Folks, thank you for the tremendous outpouring of supportive comments. I want to take some time and answer as many questions and dispel many of the rumors that were posted here, rather than address them individually in the long column of comments for 666.
First: Discontinuing this comic because I can’t make money.
The amount of effort that I expend to put up the comic three times per week was far outpacing the monetary return. Contrary to what you might think, they best way for webcomic artists to make money from their comics at the present time is to print books and sell the collections. That’s where the big I-can-quit-my-day-job money is. Without that resource available to me the best I can do is dice sales and the occasional T-shirt. Quite frankly it is not enough. Make no mistake: I have many, MANY more models in my work room than I would have had without sponsors that paid me in store credit, so I cannot say that I did not ever benefit from the comic.
B: Games Workshop shut me down.
Not quite true. Don’t blame GW for this, I was the one who decided to use their IP. They are well within their rights to allow or not allow any use of their property. I was hoping that since Turn Signals has always been an advocate of Games Workshop and their products that a mutually-beneficial arrangement could be made. That did not happen. If someone at GW wanted to make it happen tomorrow I would be all ears, but for now I’m moving on. They let me live for almost 6 years when they could have really shut me down any time they wanted to and for that I must thank them.
3: Kren and Frep are dead.
As anyone who has read Turn Signals knows, no one is really dead, no matter how badly they are obliterated, atomized, shredded, or vaporized. I have plans for them, and Cavendish, and everyone else, assuming I can get Games& off the ground.
Delta: I am getting Games& off the ground.
True. It was supposed to pick up where Turn Signals left off, but that has not happened yet. I am not a computer genius like Webmaster Larry and I still need to sit down with him and work out all of the web page, WordPress, and ComicPress bugs that I am currently staring at. I’m hoping I have entertained you enough that you will point your eyeballs at my next comic but I know that statistically I cannot bring ALL of you over to a new and different webcomic, but I hope that some of you will join me and Keenan, Eric, Klak-Nor, and Reg over at the game store. Keep checking here for updates that will direct you there shortly.
V: Turn Signals is going away:
Nope, it will be here as long as I keep paying Dreamhost, which I intend to do for the foreseeable future. So the archives will exist for as long as you wish to paw through them. I’m trying to figure out a way that ComicPress will randomize comics and show a new one every day, but I’m not sure it’s capable of that function yet.
Well, I’ve got some drawing and some computating to do… SEE YA!
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 am
thanks for all the laughs, i will miss the comic very much
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:17 am
Well sir, good luck in all of your future endeavors. It was a fun ride while it lasted.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:41 am
You have actually inspired me to do my own 40k webcomic. However I need to know if Kren and Frep can cameo.
You are an amazing comic artist, and your humour runs wild through the TSOALR. Thank you and from all the readers, ‘POKE EM INNA EYE!’
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 am
My hat goes off to you sir, this comic was, has, and always will be awesome
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“And all these memories will be lost in time, like tears in the rain”
That is all
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 am
Hi Stephen!
Thank your for all that 667 comics, for all that laughter and lighting up the heart on sad and grey days…
I hope, maybe on some even greyer day in future, some people at GW might have that good idea … you know…
But until then: Thanx a lot, and now I’m waiting for that new comic and pawing through the archive of E9M that I’ve overlooked far to long…
TSOALR-Fan until the Hell may freeze!
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 am
Sad to see the comic end, it has been a good laugh for quite some time now. However, I fully understand that you cannot go on forever with what is essentially a hobby project (small income source or no).
So, thank you for this time, and I wish you the best of luck !
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:40 am
Hey!
Thanks for all the comics. The laughs were momentous and memorable. It will be missed everywhere, even down here in Kangaroo-Infested Melbourne!
Hope to see you at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, we can talk about Life, the Universe, and Everything! Maybe we could make a Guide…
-Sean O’Connell
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 am
Many thanks for the many laughs, and I’m eagerly awaiting Games&.
And hey, if that fails, you could always try fortune telling. It worked once before…
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:18 am
Thanks from one of your readers from Oz. I will drop in from time to time and hope to see your new comic up soon (and that you’ve managed to give up your day job)
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 am
Many thanks. My brother turned me on to your comic and I sat down and read it from the beginning. I have checked it avidly for the last year and I must say that I am sorry that you cannot keep it going. Kren and Frep are AWESOME! Not to mention, the TANK.
Keep up the funny.
Many thanks.
-DrewPy
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:36 am
Well, end to a chapter. Thank you for laughs and the insight into other gamer’s minds. Good luck with the new venture!
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
Well, it’s been a good run, but all good things must end, I suppose. TSOALR will be missed (I know it’s staying up, but you know what I mean).
Thanks for the laughs, the thrills, the chills, the spills, the mischief and malarkies – wait, wrong line.
But seriously, forks, I’ll miss waiting impatiently for new updates to the comic and all, but I understand that it’s simply not really cost-effective for you to continue. If I had any money, I’d send you some dough for some rye, if you get my drift, but I don’t. So have an internets instead.
Au revoir, auf viedersehen, etc.
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
It was a beautiful ride! I looked forward to this comic, but I can’t wait to see where you go next
Good luck in everything, and thank you, for all the laughs to date!
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Man- and it’s not even April 1st! Stephen, thanks so much for all the good laughs over the last several years. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I am requesting a release of the full Archieve to Torrent.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Thanks for all the laughs. I would have loved to have bought the book. Here’s to Kren and Frep!
August 4th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Top man Steve. TSOALR has been a favourite of mine for several years now. I’ll miss it a lot. All the best for the future.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:47 am
WHAT!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I can’t believe it D:
I’ve been following this comic since strip numer 5 or something, and i’ve loved every single one of them.
Someone make a phonecall to some commitee or something and arrange for bailout money so that this fantastic piece of art can continue!
I’m real sad to see it end, and I’m very grateful for all the laughs you’ve given me the past years.
From the bottom of my heart and soul, thank you so much!
I’ll still be monitoring, and checking if there’s any KA-SURPRISE updates!
Best of luck for your future projects!
August 4th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Thanks for all the fun strips dude and good luck with all future endeavors! It has truly been a ka-blast!
August 4th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Thanks, your comic is the only thing that could get me to even take a look at WH40K. Now I have a bunch of Orks who simply need more dakka.
Thanks once again, and I’ll be watching for your future endevours.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Hi!
I’m supporting “soilent” with his request! Then we would be able to create a TSOALR-book of our own!
That would be fantastic!
August 5th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Question…Is it acceptable for GW and possible for you to maybe make available the entire archive as a downloadable pdf or something that you would then just release to the web ether not profiting on their IP? If it owuld be too big anundertaking I’d understand, but remember you have some major fans that would jump at the chance to have a copy of thne entire archive for the sad day when this site goes away for good. This can’t be lost to the world.
August 6th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Hey, I loved all the comics you posted, and they provided hours of enjoyment. I loved your preview of Games & and would like to see that happen, on a side note, I agree with LordCalger, and if its not too much to ask, i think it would be a great idea to PDF the archive. I was just wondering whether it would be possible, so, no big deal, but good luck in the future, whatever it brings you. Thanks for all the great work!!!!!!!!
August 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I have enjoyed these comics for the past 5ish years. I wish you good luck on the new job and hope to see your other endevors pay off for you.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Im really sorry to hear of your problems. Ive enjoyed your cartoon for the last 2 years, it’s the best one around. I think its better than LFG and crtl alt del. Possibly because i love warhammer :p .. I do hope that you are at least able to make some profit from all your effort you have put into this almost livelong work. It is simpy the best and most funny comic out there…
Best wishes and luck from Holland,
alex van der kort
August 7th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I am very sad to see the comic go and if you ever make a book with all the ones in (including all those juicy exclusives) i will be second in line (lets face it i can’t run that fast).
May they all rest in pieces!
August 8th, 2009 at 9:28 am
it sucks that this is truly the end for turnsignals, but on the bright side, we’ll have games& to keep us happy. the saga (dis?)continues!
August 9th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Gotta love the Hitchhiker’s reference… In the meantime I’ll wait for Games& and maybe paint a Land Raider in EPS colours… (but I do like my emo green coloue scheme…
August 9th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Damn sad to hear you go.
I’ve enjoyed Kren & Frep’s crazy antics on a semiregular basis for about a year now, and will seriously miss those hapless bumblers.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Why? Becuase you Re-Lit the two fires that meaned something in my life. Those Two Things are Warhammer 40000 and comics.
When I started reading you great comics, I had a small portion of Orks. After reading, 100 comics, I was in the fire. I NEED to play this game more! So now, I have 2000 oints of CSM. And I thank you.
Comics. I started the drawing again, and the portion of that goes to you. I love your style, its simple, yet very artistic. I nowadays draw everyday something.
I wish you a good, and I’m gonna read this all-over again, starting Tomorrow.
Long Live Turn Sights On Land Raider.
Atte.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Look at that TSOALR helped someone get addicted to the plastic crack. Guess that means there will be some lost sales for GW in the future due to the way they do business.
August 12th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Monkey, GW doesn’t care about that.
August 16th, 2009 at 7:19 am
When will you guys get it, GW didnt shut this comic down, steve himself did because GW wont let him make money from THEIR product.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
When will you get it, my comment was directed at the fact that things like is 80% of the time will generate interest in the hobby. I have known his reasons for stopping the comic and completely understand it. What you have failed to understand is that by the looks of everything that GW does they don’t care about the hobby just the money they get from sales of said hobby products.
August 20th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Steve I gotta thank you thousands of times for putting so much effort in tsoalr, cause I had a lot of fun reading them(must have read through the archive about 3times). Please put as much effort in Games& and i don`t see why it should`nt be a great succes. I`m looking forward to it.
With fubar wishes
Marlborough
August 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Damn. I liked this comic alot, turned me on to several different websites about the hobby. Well, I will not let Kren and Frep(and Harkon, and Jack) go quietly into the night. To keep those men alive, they shall be made into minis!!! (as long as you tell me not to.) In the meantime, I’ll be pouring over the archives. Bye TSOALR.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 am
Thx for a great comic!
It has keept me sane many a time on my dead-end jobb.
-Calle from sweden
October 7th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Hi again… I wonder if someone may read this.
From the last comic on I just read through all 667 comics again…
… and saved ‘em. In this way, TSOALR will never die…
I just wonder where comic #182 is gone?
originoo
August 29th, 2010 at 2:05 am
I really hope you will consider re-opening TSOALR once things become more stable in your life. i understand all too well how much time these things can take (im a 3d graphics artist myself) but this comic is too good to die. Make it a 2/month comic or something like that just so we can get a taste of the goodness again. I wish you well finding a job, and getting back on track.