Rereading Sluggy Freelance
by Early Sluggy Freelance was mind-blowing in a way, particularly because it was RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING of comics on the web and Pete Abrams was way ahead of EVERYONE else at the beginning in terms of ambition, consistency and an actual audience. And a lot of the chaotic pop culture borrowing and remixing was really fun — in a way that corporate owned comic strips in the newspaper would never do. Somewhere around the early part of the 00’s though it seemed like Pete got bogged down in longer plots, and an indecision over how seriously he wanted to take …