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The Starcaster Chronicles On Patreon

March 21, 2025 by Tim

You can find more Starcaster Chronicles on the Starcaster Patreon for the latest pages and participation in voting on key story decisions!

The Starcaster Chronicles will also be coming as an added benefit to the main Ctrl+Alt+Del Patreon later this year at a low level read-only tier (a couple of issues behind like the website has been releasing them).


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Jason
Jason
10 days ago

So is starcaster becoming patreon exclusive?

Mor
Mor
10 days ago
Reply to  Jason

If that’s the case, then sadly, with everyone paywalling themselves, we’ll have to start picking and choosing who to support. We’re not infinite wallets over here. :/

Craig Stewart
Craig Stewart
10 days ago
Reply to  Mor

Blame Google, Meta, et al. The online advertising industry has been eaten up by the various ad brokers, to the point that the advertising spent on the internet is simply not making it in any great volume to the creators who rely on that income. While Google and Meta, and the few remaining large scale ad brokers, are strip mining your personal data to force advertisers to pay more, they are simultaneously stiffing the creators and end services that display those advertisements.

Rockie
Rockie
9 days ago
Reply to  Tim

Individual Issues- When an issue is completed, I can package it into a PDF and offer it for sale somewhere for a few bucks. This is for people that want to keep up on the storyline, but don’t want to fiddle with continuous access to benefits.

This works for me, thanks!

Alek
Alek
8 days ago
Reply to  Tim

I am one of those who tunes out entirely lol… Then again I also miss the og comic about dudes running a game store and their lives. Takes all kinds I suppose.

Tim Tucker
Tim Tucker
7 days ago
Reply to  Tim

As a long-time reader and content consumer I’m not sure what the answer is. I’m at the point in my life where I’ve already bought more content than is reasonable to consume within a lifetime. On top of that, even if you narrow down to a single platform like YouTube, there’s more content being uploaded every day than there’s time to watch in a lifetime. Once you’re at that point, how does one decide rationally what more to buy? When content is “free”, the decision to continue to follow a story is easier. As someone with ADHD, the executive functioning… Read more »

Pyre
Pyre
9 days ago
Reply to  Mor

In addition to the options Tim mentions, there is also the option of “Volumes” where you can buy the volumes if the Patreon option is not tenable.

Unless I missed something and Starcaster Chronicles will no longer be offered with any volume sets. If that is the case and I missed something Tim said about it, then ignore that statement.

Vampyrr
Vampyrr
9 days ago
Reply to  Jason

Not sure in a previous post Tim said the patrons are way ahead in the story so when it gets posted on the main site its more of a rerun situation for them as they are 6 months or so ahead. This is likely him building the next buffer of free comics to release in a few months when Patrons have another lead.

Oyee
Oyee
9 days ago
Reply to  Jason

I would also prefer a clarification on this. I really like reading Tim’s ongoing stories, but my monthly disposable is pretty limited

Who_even_knows
Who_even_knows
10 days ago

I hope you’re able to find a way to paywall the main site behind Patreon. I don’t mind paying (and already am on Patreon) but I come here to read because I prefer it. Patreon is not a good reading experience. At the very least, maybe something like webtoons would work.

Ashi
Ashi
10 days ago
Reply to  Who_even_knows

I think you meant “a way to NOT paywall…”

Zippy
Zippy
10 days ago
Reply to  Ashi

No, they seem to be saying they want the main site behind the Patreon paywall, because they’re paying for the Patreon but prefer reading on the main site.

Adam
Adam
10 days ago
Reply to  Ashi

I suspect they are referring to adding an authenticate with patron button or similar to the site, so that they can browse the patreon exclusive content here as opposed to on patreon.

Dagroth
Dagroth
9 days ago
Reply to  Adam

Something like that could get me to sign up for Patreon, I once tried it for another webcomic, REALLY didn’t like their UI and left.

Being able to download the PDFs with comic every once in a while would be great too (if Tim is going to go the route of making one, next to Patreon), as then it wouldn’t feel like I’m losing access to a past content, if I ever stop being a Patron for any reason.

Dagroth
Dagroth
9 days ago
Reply to  Tim

Oh. Yeah, that could work, if you had everything in one place (by that I mean, adding Starcaster to your regular Patreon, minus the voting).

raven0ak
raven0ak
8 days ago
Reply to  Ashi

yeah, there was one comic artist I was interested to read content and maybe buy books once reading, but she locked entire comic behind paywall and I said fuckthis, not worth reading and thus not worth even a penny to pay

Oyee
Oyee
9 days ago

Hi Tim, if Starcaster is becoming a Patreon only comic, I would love if we could get an option where we could buy your comics on a per issue basis too. Would that be a possibility? Maybe on Gumroad or another platform that supports ebooks?

Dramabear
Dramabear
9 days ago

Please tell me Starcaster is NOT going to Patreon to read it because the site is terrible and it does not suit reading web comics.

I come here to the website because I like it here.

I come here whenever the RSS tells me there’s stuff here.

Nightone
Nightone
9 days ago

Unfortunately if it goes pay-only, it will be farewell for me. I am only 14 and my parents are very paranoid when it comes to card usage online, having been skimmed more than once by reputable sites that have been compromised. They also will not let me get a debit card and as I am a minor, getting a new card requires parental consent. Unless you can offer something like Google Pay, I will be locked out of supporting you… and having potentially 6 week gaps where there is no comic while patreon supporters get to enjoy continued comics does… Read more »

Summener99
Summener99
9 days ago

Gosh darm. I wasn’t at all into the comic strip but the last few pages got me hooked real bad.

Marvin
Marvin
6 days ago

Ok, I understand the whole advertising motivation, but full page modal popups?

Marvin
Marvin
6 days ago
Reply to  Tim

I know.( I turned off adblock for this page some time ago). My comment was meant as a feedback, not a complaint. (Ok, wording could’ve been less… snarky…)

Another thing that would be interesting to discuss with the ad providers and/or web design people: Would it be possible to define the size of the delivered ad beforehand, so that the content isn’t jumping around as the ads asynchronously load in?

Marvin
Marvin
4 days ago
Reply to  Tim

You’re right, sorry. It was that way some time before, I think, and I didn’t really get that it stopped…

I really wish more creators were like you…