This week’s episode had the most “engagement” by the GONOGO fan base in the history of this webcomic. (If you must know, these are the stats according to Facebook: 3764 people saw the comic, 510 did something like click on it, 17 shares and 9 comments) So, what has changed? I blame the Civil War. Yep, the one line “Hero of the War of Northern Aggression” seems to get people’s hackles up. I find it fascinating that the civil war has such a grip on us a century and a half later. Really, GONOGO was making a commentary on the removal of civil war statues (told by the statue’s perspective) and y’all are just stuck on the Civil War itself!
If I would have known about Colonel Runsandhyde’s popularity beforehand, I wouldn’t have “killed him off”. Perhaps he can return in a later episode…at low tide…