Dark Legacy Comics#1000: Reality Bites: Part Nine
Dark Legacy Comics main characters, Keydar, Mijikai, Krom, Narya, Gigzara, and Nyteblade.
Created in 2006, the comics follow members of the Dark Legacy guild on a series of mostly standalone gags and adventures, featuring a recurring cast of NPCs and fellow players satirizing various elements of World of Warcraft. Releasing (almost) every Sunday for the past 20 years, the comics have been an immensely popular view into many of the activities, tropes, attitudes, and beliefs within the game, from damage meters, to Mythic+, customizable player UIs, the experience of melee vs ranged combat, and even vendor mounts.
While this announcement does not permanently close the door on any future WoW comics, it marks a pivot to a new personal project, which fans should look to for continued weekly content.
Dark Legacy Comics
I know some of you have been dreading this announcement for a while, especially with the millennial issue approaching, but comic #1000 is going to be the last Dark Legacy Comics. At least for a while.
One thousand comics. Holy moly. I’ve been drawing this comic by myself, almost every Sunday, for 20 years. That’s a loooong time. Some of you weren’t alive when I started. That’s weird to think about. I made a similar joke nearly 500 comics ago, so you can only imagine how I feel now.
I still enjoy making the comic and I love the community, which is what drove me to keep drawing, but I think it’s time I focused on drawing more for myself, and my own passions.
I’m not going to stop making weekly comics, I just want to spend that energy on something new that’s fully mine, and not tied to another IP. It will still be my sense of humor, it will still be silly, weird at times, but rather than weekly standalone comics, it will be an original serialized story, told weekly.
Keller and Funk is a comic idea I’ve had cooking for a while now, it’s something I’ve been reading to my kids at bedtime as I’ve worked on it. I’d like to focus on that for a while. I will be pivoting to posting that comic every Sunday, at least for the time being. If you're interested in this new comic and my process of making it, check out my Keller and Funk Patreon. Like with Dark Legacy Comics, I will be posting weekly commentary there, and Patrons will see new comics a week early.
I will however continue posting Dark Legacy content on Patreon. This will include commentary on old comics (Throwbacks) every Wednesday. Bonus panels on old comics every Friday. On Sundays, since I won’t have new comics to make commentary and Bonus Panels for, I will be adding an additional weekly throwback commentary and a Bonus Panel on an old comic (starting from #902 and working my way down).
I’m also not completely closing the book on DLC. I may still decide to add comics if an idea strikes me down the line. We’ll see.
Stay tuned, I love you all! Thanks for reading these past 20 years.
