Mortality Rates

Since goonigoogoo started the list that inspired this because of the 'curse' that any other strip he made a guest comic for was doomed to death, a more in-depth analysis of how many comics have died since I started this seems pretty overdue. You also get to see my rough criteria for each category here.

Green

Alive, actively updating

19 (50%)

Yellow

Sort of alive, sporadic updates or official hiatus

6 (15.8%)

Orange

Near death, prolonged period with no updates or word from the author

3 (7.9%)

Red

Dead, officially declared dead or site gone, no reasonable hope of a return

10 (26.3%)

My Favourite Comics

Candidates

Feed status

Like a lot of people, I use a lot of web feeds these days. Unfortunately, not all of the webcomic I read do. Those in red have no feeds at all, those in orange have at least one feed but also at least one serious problem (missing content, screwed-up dates), those in yellow also have at least one feed but not one in my preferred format (Atom 1.0), and those in green are perfect as far as I'm concerned. N/A means the comic is no longer active, and thus this is not applicable to the site.

Note that it's frequently far from easy to tell what version a particular feed is. I had to resort to looking at the feed source several times (all statements assume the 'rss version' element is accurate), and the Snafu Comics (Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi) feed was embedded in a web page, making it totally impossible to be certain.

Update: This section is pretty hard work, so it's going unmaintained for now. If it never comes back, xkcd won.

  1. ^ The dates on the feed articles are the original publication date of the comic rather than the date the article was published. This is intentional, but screws up the list in Akregator nonetheless.
  2. ^ There are Atom 1.0, RSS 0.91, and RSS 2.0 feeds (I know because I've found all of them by editing the URI), but I could see no way to get to the Atom 1.0 or RSS 0.91 feeds from the site itself. All three seem to work fine, but I'm marking this one as broken until all of them can be accessed from the site in some way.
  3. ^ The dates on this feed are entirely broken, all displaying either "1970-01-01 06:59" or "1970-01-01 07:00". The author knows of this problem, but does not know how to fix it.
  4. ^ There is a feed, but it only lists the standard comics, not the guest comics (which are the only new content these days). It's pretty much useless until changed to list the guest comics.

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