Anyway…. if you didn’t see yesterday’s comments, I think you might want to take a look back…. it’s definitely worth reading through it.
But the upshot is, apparently Jerry Van Amerongen is retiring at the end of March, and NEW Ballard Street strips are ending.
“Some Idiot On the Internet” (her name, not a description) posted a link to the article…. worth a read (thanks, Idiot..um… I mean… ).
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth…. lots of tearful goodbyes… I don’t mean to put that down, cos if this place truly disappeared I’d be lost.
Right now, though, in case you see it, or hear rumors, I just want to stave all that off.
I think things will stay pretty much the same….
We’ll be here, the Tiki will be doing business as usual…. but we’ll be reading old strips we’ve probably never seen before instead of new ones.
I don’t think GoComics would throw away a successful forum and years and years of archives without a reboot.
In fact, Happy x3 said Mr Van A confirmed that there would be re-runs. (thanks, Happy… and where, please?)
I wrote a longer comment to that effect near the end of the forum, in case you want to read it.
I was going to re-post it tonight…. but some of you read it already… and it wouldn’t make a lot of sense without the prior comments.
If you go back…bear the probable re-boot in mind before you panic, OK?
Anyway…. if you didn’t see yesterday’s comments, I think you might want to take a look back…. it’s definitely worth reading through it.
But the upshot is, apparently Jerry Van Amerongen is retiring at the end of March, and NEW Ballard Street strips are ending.
“Some Idiot On the Internet” (her name, not a description) posted a link to the article…. worth a read (thanks, Idiot..um… I mean… ).There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth…. lots of tearful goodbyes… I don’t mean to put that down, cos if this place truly disappeared I’d be lost.
Right now, though, in case you see it, or hear rumors, I just want to stave all that off.
I think things will stay pretty much the same….
We’ll be here, the Tiki will be doing business as usual…. but we’ll be reading old strips we’ve probably never seen before instead of new ones.
I don’t think GoComics would throw away a successful forum and years and years of archives without a reboot.
In fact, Happy x3 said Mr Van A confirmed that there would be re-runs. (thanks, Happy… and where, please?)
I wrote a longer comment to that effect near the end of the forum, in case you want to read it.
I was going to re-post it tonight…. but some of you read it already… and it wouldn’t make a lot of sense without the prior comments.
If you go back…bear the probable re-boot in mind before you panic, OK?