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Jumping the shark?
The Duke:
Suddenly it turns out to all have been a dream that Bob Newhart had.
Actually that would be awesome.
Or how about this:
One night, Marten and Faye hook up in a drunken haze. Faye becomes pregnant, and after a few months when she can't hide it anymore, Dora makes a joke to Marten about who the father is. Marten reveals in his awkward reaction that he is the father, and Dora goes berserk. He flees to CoD with Dora in hot pursuit.
Meanwhile, Steve, Agent Turing, and VespAvenger have teamed up to get to the bottom of a massive Internet-based money-laundering operation. They trace it to Angus' apartment where Marigold is revealed to be the culprit; however, they commission Angus to seduce her to find out who's pulling the strings. Marigold reveals to Angus (and unknowingly to Steve, Agent Turing, and VespAvenger) that Cosette is the mastermind, and that her endgame will take place at CoD that night. VespAvenger is resentful towards Steve and Agent Turing for getting Angus to use Marigold for information, and her betrayal is hinted at. Steve is torn between his job and his feelings for Cosette.
At the same time, Sven has agreed to help Faye raise the baby, but when she finds him in bed with Eva and Gina Riversmith, she is enraged and chases him to CoD as well.
While all this is happening, the drama at Smif comes to a head, and all involved agree to meet at CoD to talk things out.
Penelope, after a one-night stand with Meena's husband Dave, develops feelings for him and decides to break things off with Wil, telling him to meet her at CoD, not telling him that Dave will be there as well to support her. Unbeknownst to her, Meena is aware of the affair and overhears Dave and Penelope planning to meet at CoD, and goes herself.
Jimbo, drunk, mistakes CoD for a bar and stumbles in, followed by Scrambles and Gary (the alcohol-induced hallucinations).
There are reports of an Allosaurus rampaging through Northampton; it is headed toward, you guessed it, CoD.
Everyone arrives there at once.
The final panel is black, with only a gunshot sound.
The End.
dilbert719:
The worst way for the comic to go would be for Jeph to start slipping deadlines, a few hours at first, then a day, several days, a week... updates get more and more sporadic due to "writer's block" or "character fatigue"... eventually, the site goes dormant, save for the cries from the forum for updates... Then, one day, the site is simply gone. No archives, no updates, no information... just a DNS error. A cold, dark day, leaving no hope for the future.
:evil:
Tuitsuro:
Three words: Questionable Excel Saga. With Hannelore as Excel and Marigold as Hyatt.
jwhouk:
The worst thing to happen to this strip would be for something to happen to Jeph, and we're left in the middle of a story arc (and he didn't have a buffer space of comics).
That being said: I simply see the comic ending pretty much as it began: One last time at CoD, then maybe a beer or two with Steve, then Marten coming "home" to Dora.
Heliphyneau:
--- Quote from: The Duke on 10 Jun 2010, 14:26 ---Suddenly it turns out to all have been a dream that Bob Newhart had.
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Actually, replace Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette with Scrambles and Gary -- win?
Though for the record, this is the worst way things could end:
--- Quote from: dilbert719 on 10 Jun 2010, 15:13 ---The worst way for the comic to go would be for Jeph to start slipping deadlines, a few hours at first, then a day, several days, a week... updates get more and more sporadic due to "writer's block" or "character fatigue"... eventually, the site goes dormant, save for the cries from the forum for updates... Then, one day, the site is simply gone. No archives, no updates, no information... just a DNS error. A cold, dark day, leaving no hope for the future.
:evil:
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Alternately, I suppose Jeph could end the series with the one-word response he so loathes: "THIS" It wouldn't even have to refer to anything. ABSOLUTE EVIL.
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