We were sent this sad bit of news today by Joseph of No Need for Bushido. I hope you remember our interview with him and his (former) partner Alex Kolesar.

The message is a repost of the author’s notes at the site:

Yes, this week’s comic is a little bit different. Due to irreconcilable issues, I’ll be continuing NNFB as both writer and artist - Alex will no longer be a part of No Need for Bushido.
As I’m sure you can tell, based on the recent decrease in the comic’s quality, that Alex has lost interest in making NNFB. Apparently you can only rip off so many fight scenes from Kenshin before it gets boring. Because of this, my only options were to let the project die, or continue it in a new form that I can produce myself - a sprite comic.
Before anyone emails me, I’ve considered looking for new artists, but I think that NNFB will actually thrive under this simpler form. Like OOTS or Dinosaur comics, the writing will be best appreciated in a streamlined visual format. There will be no more time wasting splash pages, or 20 page-long fight scenes. Instead the comic will focus on It’ll take a little getting used too, but I think you’ll like it.
I’ll keep you informed of Alex’s future online endeavors when or if he begins them

Needless to say, I am quite upset about this.

I found this ZP rant profoundly amusing. Not because of it’s subject matter, or because it was funny (as it was pretty meh) but actually because the guy behind ZP did a webcomic.

Most of the rant is aimed squarely at Control Alt Delete, so, pretty par for the course as far as webcomic rants go. The problem is, this is all stuff we’ve heard before. For a guy who is popular for complaining in an entertaining way, he didn’t find anything funny to complain about when it comes to gaming comics.

The whole impression I got “hurr hurr gaming comics, game references, sprites, walls of text”. He really didn’t even bother criticizing Penny-Arcade, which disappointed me. Granted, Penny-Arcade is pretty well polished, but there are some flaws in there that should be addressed in all fairness. I liked the little dig about Comic Genesis, as that’s where his comic is archived (which interestingly features himself as a self-insert. For shame, Mr. Croshaw). He also has a few other gems, and I use the term ‘gems’ loosely. A sprite comic… really?

Oh, and as always, drama and ZP go hand in hand, check out the forums for your dose for the week.