Update 4/22/11 – Following a bit of serendipity, I have received permission from the author, Meghan O’hara, to continue to house her work. Thanks, Meghan!
A while back, I managed to download the excellent webcomic Hammer of Grammar to my hard drive, just before the website went dark. For months I kept it on my rotation hoping it would revive itself.
It never did.
I promised myself that I would make those comics available somehow, but before I could, I felt the need to try to get permission to do so. Two years ago, in 2009, I found a lead and made inquiries, but never got a reply. Gweryc, the blogger in question, has not posted in over a year and a half. The last surfacing of Auden was over 3 and a half years ago. I don’t think we’re going to hear from them. I hope they’re well and happy together.
That leaves me with my unfulfilled promise. I have now delivered on it; up there in the menu you will now find a page that contains the entirety of Hammer of Grammar except for #1 – that one disappeared from the main site in 2007.
A couple of things:
I don’t have permission to do this.The page is a labor of love, and is borne of desire to share the wry wit of this most excellent series, however short it was.- I could be contacted and issued a takedown notice by the creator. I will comply if that occurs. I have no desire to go against the creator’s wishes.
- I am considering additional rescue projects. I’m looking at you, Scout Report. How long has it been?1
That’s it. Take fifteen minutes of your life and enjoy yourself.
- And, incidentally, if anyone has contact info regarding Scout Report, please pass it along. [↩]
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I concur with Scout Report. I would hate to lose that (though I’d rather just see more).
@Lisan – Oh, absolutely, moar is better than archived! But there is simply no way I can let that go unarchived. I’m already working on the crawler to go forth and obtain … scoutage.
These comics are incredible! Thanks for archiving and I sure hope Auden and Gweryc are still in business somewhere…immense talent, simply immense.
@Imraith – All it takes is one comment like that to move it from “glad I did it” to “so totally worth it.” Thanks.
I LOVED these comics and glad that you retrieved them from the interweb. I seem to recall a comic out there where a female protagonist goes into a shop and is shown the “female” version of the armor she wants to buy. It’s like a bikini. She slays the male shopkeeper and walks out in HIS armor (that, of course, covers everything). I thought that was this series, but it may have been a different comic.
@Zel – Nope, but now I have to go find the one you’re thinking of!
It isn’t either of the Flintlocke series, and it isn’t Scout Report, so that’s a start.
Oh, I know that one! It was actually an official comic contest winner.