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Thanks! All done.
Long time coming but the new comic is awesome, as expected!
What is happening with this project? It would be kind of Patrick to state whether we can expect something to be completed or not. A simple "Yes, something coming" or "No, I've abandoned this".
I don't get anything out of verbally abusing you, dude. I know how it goes, and believe me I know that it's been a tough year (or five) for all of us lately. I *want* to see this succeed, I want electric sheep to rock. You're awesome and I know you can do it. I ain't mad atcha and I know you didn't spend all the money on hookers and blow - but if you did I would have liked to be invited to that party :) Stay cool, mang.
Hi Gary. I deserve any and all verbal abuse thrown my way at this point. I've had an extremely difficult year and I'm pretty sure nobody wants to hear me whine about my personal hardships -- they just want me to publish new stuff. And to that end, I'm working day and night. You can talk to me on skype (patrick_farley) or find me on Facebook if you'd like to know more. Cheers.
A year and a half ago I jumped at the chance to kick in fifty bucks to this project. You did great work with Electric Sheep and several of your stuff remains some of the best webcomics ever made. I loved your work, man.
That's why I'm so disappointed, even a little angry when this kickstarter turned out to be so full of empty promises. Kickstarter isn't ebay, and I know this is more like a charitable donation than funding a real project, but is there no accountability? If I was giving this money to a charitable organization and they spent it all on hookers and blow I'd be pissed. I just wanted some new comics and this was a way to fund them. I would have paid just as a reward for years of great work a decade ago, but instead I was promised a bold new beginning and all kinds of great stuff that turned out to be.. so much bullshit. What the hell, man?
At least give us an explanation for why you took six grand and disappeared. And not any more "real soon now" promises, I know stalling for time when I hear it.
August, huh? :)
Dear Gary: I deserve that!
I've been absent for 7 months without so much as a tweet, but please know that there is new content in the works, set for debut in August, and you -- my Kickstarters -- will be the first to see it.
I don't really care about the rewardy thing. I hope Patrick's doing well, and that he's secretly cooking up more awesome comix :)
So, we paid our money and got like three pages of a new comic and then bupkis. Thanks a lot, Scotty Zaccharine.
Hoping there will be more activity on Electric Sheep soon. Also never received any donor item...
:(
Nver got anything? Just a Q
Just got sucked back into Spiders -- can't wait for new juicy content. Thanks for reminding us that one can indeed live their dreams. Happy to contribute!
yay!!!!! excited to see what's coming . . .
Now THIS is what capitalism is SUPPOSED to do! Not only is my money going to bring me more fabulous Farley product, but the whole Kickstarter project has me seriously thinking about who the rest of the money in my budget is supporting (fill up the gas tank? Is that paying for one of BP's lawyers to help defend them from whatever fallout they have coming for messing up hundreds of miles of sensitive coastal habitat, not to mention all the nice beaches in the area? Maybe I'll walk, and spend that $40 on oysters, instead, while we still have some . . . ) Sorry for the off-topic downer, but it's obvious we could use some of your future visions right now. Bring on Delta.
I'm so excited that new e-sheep comics are on the way in the next few months... I've been waiting years for this :D
congrats! i added literally only a couple bucks but i WISH i could do more if i didn't have my project on the brink~~ and super thanks for your help~ COMICS COMICS COMICS!!!
Congratulations!
Congratulations! Looking forward to more of the best web comics ever!
WOO!
BAM!!!
Really? We have to take this all the way to the final day? Can't we just get another few backers and be done with it? *bites nails*
$129.00 to go, brilliant final push!
I can't believe I only just discovered this! I've been an enormous fan since I first saw "The Spiders". I just tweeted and Facebooked about this project, so maybe that will help.
WOOT! 98%
Do the pledges keep accumulating if you go over $6,000?
I hope this time next year I'm reading an E-Sheep book I picked up at Stumptown.
Isn't there some naked rollerskating fan club that should be hitting the streets by now with their credit card swipers?
Go! Go! Go!
We have definitely just left J and are moving firmly into U formation.
Of course, Gary Numan. Thank you! That music is so perfect. It viscerally conveys what I imagine as the manic caffeinated cartoonist mindest. And the title! "Are [there] Friends [of] Electric [Sheep]?" You're too cool.
I keep re-loading the page every now and then - and it's starting to look *within reach*... good luck!
How's that 'U' shape coming along?
The Spiders is one of the best things that has ever been on the web. I am desperate for the next installment. Off to spam Facebook now.
"Are Friends Electric?" by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. Sorry, I should've added appropriate credits!
I know I know that song in the video (perfect music by the way), but I can't place what it is. Please, somebody help me! What's the song?
"Spiders" is still one of my all-time favorite alternate present stories (well okay, alternate recent past by this point) in any medium. Can't wait to read the next chapter!
Every time I watch that video I wonder why you aren't in some program where you get a FedEx box stuffed with cash every month just to do shit.
Delta Thrives literally changed my life when I was 14. Good luck.
Can't believe this isn't closer to the target.. I loved Spiders - for the story, but also for how you were developing something that seemed to expand how comics behaved on the web...
Hopefully the online comics community gets behind this in the last 11 days...
And on a tangent, I wrote up a piece about your work a while back..
http://www.skynoise.net/2010/02/15/patrick-farley-the-attack-of-the-drones/
good luck!
Just two weeks to go. I plugged this in several places but I'm out of ideas.
Have been loving your work since... since... you were posting work regularly! I wish I could pledge more and sell your work to more of my friends. Good luck!
I read "The Guy I Almost Was" countless times, each time in a single sitting---I just couldn't pull my eyes away. Now come to find out through the comment thread on the boingboing article that led me here that the comic is back online after many years... well, I guess I won't get much sleep tonight.
I found you in like 1999. I thought your work was the best then and now in 2010 I still think your comics are among the best that have yet been made in any media.
I love you Patrick Farley!
R.U. Sirius (Ken Goffman)
I am a big fan of Mr. Farley's work. It's great to see that a reboot of Electric Sheep might be possible. His work made me aware of the possibilities of storytelling in electronic mediums that I didn't know were there. Fingers crossed for this.
If anyone wants to work perhaps more directly towards 1,000 backers, please call me: Lion Kimbro @ 206.427.2545 (Seattle,) or email me via LionKimbro@gmail.com. I'd like to collect energy for talking about how important Patrick Farley's work is to us more broadly, and figuring out how to get to the 1,000 mark.
Spiders is in a class by itself. But simply to get Mr. Farley to finish "Don't Look Back" is worth it by a long shot! Gosh... I hope this gets the support it deserves.
"Spiders" remains my favorite piece of contemporary alternate history fiction. "Don't Look Back" has been pretty great too. I'm really happy to see you getting back into things.
You are and always have been one of the most talented artists on the web. I'm spreading the word. Hope we can make this happen.
Patrick, you're fantastic.
Godspeed, sir.