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Hotel 08
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Hotel 08

by Jon Cairns on May 17, 2018
Chapter: Hotel
Characters: "Diver", Charlie, Uniform
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Discussion (13) ¬

  1. Arianwen
    Arianwen
    May 17, 2018, 7:15 am | # | Reply

    PAGE
    GOOD PAGE
    GOOD FOX PAGE

    (will never be over how pretty this comic is)

  2. Roto13
    Roto13
    May 17, 2018, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    He’s too cute to reincorporate.

  3. rawman
    rawman
    May 17, 2018, 8:13 pm | # | Reply

    Holy shit, an update! This is a good start of my day in cold springless siberia

  4. tyg
    tyg
    May 17, 2018, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

    ADORABLE FOX TENOUTTATEN
    DET DYRET ER SØT

  5. Alec (totally not an asshole)
    Alec (totally not an asshole)
    May 18, 2018, 3:39 pm | # | Reply

    Me, earlier today: “This page here was published in April 2013, seems I have some catching up to do.”

    Me, now: “Oh.”

    I’m trying to be funny, not a dick. Life keeps you busy. But…gosh darn it, I hate being in love with a cool comic strip that updates about as fast as limestone erodes. First Mare Internum, now this.

    Anyway, my theory is that Diver is dead. I don’t think you wash up on shore wearing a heavy diver suit. I think you’re more prone to sink under those circumstances.

    Or maybe Diver is the soul of a submarine.

    • Jon Cairns
      Jon Cairns
      May 19, 2018, 8:38 am | # | Reply

      Welcome to Alpha Flag, the slowest roller coaster of your life!

  6. evileeyore
    evileeyore
    May 19, 2018, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

    Yay, new page!

  7. Pear
    Pear
    May 21, 2018, 6:56 am | # | Reply

    YESSSS another update!! The art on this page is so good TBH. :)

  8. Mason
    Mason
    May 21, 2018, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    Ah; welcome back at last Cairns!

    Charlie, you continue to test my concerns. If you’re a part of the set, you are going to have to reincorporate. Eventually. We’re not at that point yet, not by far, but I already don’t like the shape of this future challenge.

    And I still think the humanoid aspects of the Diver’s self are modelled after past shipmates. Time will tell!

    • Mason
      Mason
      May 21, 2018, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      Hmm. It would appear my flag has changed. Interesting.

  9. Kuggur
    Kuggur
    May 24, 2018, 4:46 am | # | Reply

    Incredible, a new page…
    Had kinda given up on this otherwise intriguing comic, didn’t stop me from looking in now and again though, against all hope.
    That said if the pace of updating stays in the geological time scale area, I don’t think it is worth it. It is a way too plot driven style to have to wait years for a single page, makes me wonder if those intruiging mysteries hou weaved will ever be resolved.
    I am not trying to be nasty, you owe me nothing, but I suspect your reader base melts away like this. And that’s a pity, I like your work very much.

    • Jon Cairns
      Jon Cairns
      May 24, 2018, 6:56 am | # | Reply

      Kuggur, if the way Alpha Flag updates is too stressful or frustrating for you, I completely understand why you would put it down. I’ve spoken to many people who say they’ll ultimately wait for collected editions–and I don’t begrudge them that at all. It’s a frustrating comic (I know I’ve spent many a sleepness night fretting about viewership and the update schedule!), but the economic realities and pragmatic realities of collaboration make it work out this way.

      I absolutely do not love asking the reader to make that kind of value judgment about whether to stick with it or not. But, I resolved way back that the one thing I do owe readers is finishing the story–the price of that being that it has to be at whatever pace Renee and I can mutually sustain. Until then, anyone who wants to share the frustration of the comic with us is more than welcome as a reader.

      I appreciate your thoughts on it, and enthusiasm, though, very much.

      • Kuggur
        Kuggur
        May 24, 2018, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

        Thanks for your reply. I reread my own post and think some of it sounds harsher than I actually meant.
        I dabble a bit in drawing myself, nothing serious, but enough to realize the time and effort that goes into creating such art.
        And as I said you don’ t own me anything, on the contrary, you provide free quality entertainment!
        So yeah it was written out of the sentiment that I would really regret this project coming to a grinding halt ( it looked like it had), because I like it and want to know how it ends.
        You say you are resolved to finish the story, that is good enough for me to check in now and again ( won’t stop me from hoping the pace picks up though ;) ).
        Good luck with this project.

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