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Actually maybe sucker-punching Buck wasn’t a great idea after all…
That’s it for the 5-page Helvetica update! I really hope you enjoyed it. I have to get back to work on Barbarous again, but I hope to pick up again soon. If you enjoy Helvetica and stories about supernatural interpersonal drama, you’ll love Barbarous!! Please check it out and support it ♥
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Oh my gosh any longer into the hiatus and we’re going to end up Sherlockians…
(that’s a joke)
I’m already a Sherlockian…sooner or later I’ll be in a mental hospital…the hiatus is too much!
as of today it has been a year since the last update
Miss you! Hope you’re doing well!
OH NOES!!! I caught up…and it’s a YEAR AGO!!! I want to see moar! *Pouts*
Oh wow! It’s been two years.
Nah, just a little over one year. 2018 was the first year without an update since the beginning, though.
Nah, just a little over one year. 2018 was the first year without an update though.
So the year 2018 passed without a single panel being drawn by Wiedle. Throw in the fact that the 2017 “five page update” didn’t advance the storyline one iota and we can pretty much assume that much like a poor performing sitcom, this story will never have an actual, satisfying conclusion.
Sorry Helvetica, but it seems that you are doomed to spend eternity sitting on a couch, tightly tied up in the strands of a few dozen dangling story lines.
Hate to say it, but I think you’re right. I’ve officially lost hope. Sorry Wiedle. I’ve been dedicated for years, holding on for one update. I can’t do it. I understand that it takes a while and that artists shouldn’t be pressured. But I feel like my heart breaks every time I think about what this comic COULD have been. And it sucks. It could have been so good and I was so excited for so long. But now I’ve given up. Peace out.
Why the hell there are ads about dead comics( Now I’ll have to wonder about this cliffhanger forever((((
There’s other good comics out there guys. I would recommend reading Scurry and Harpy Gee :)
I just started reading. It can’t be over now! O-or can it?
Anyone else notice that Lucy and Autumn were never added to the cast list?
Huh still nothing?
To the people checking in every day: I personally suggest signing up for the RSS feed. It’ll tell you when the comic updates again so you don’t have to come to the site all the time. I use Feedly, but there are a lot of other apps to keep track of it for you. Hope this helps!
Ive come back to this comic to check what’s up! Hope you’re doing well J :D
Gotta say, I always imagined Buck with either a low, wispy, creepy overlaid voice, or the voice of the boogieman from The Nightmare Before Christmas (which is almost definitely not what you intended)- but in your askblog you said you saw him having the voice of John DiMaggio, and that’s SO perfect?? But now I have three voices in my head when I read Bucks lines and I don’t know what to do.
there was a comment a few years ago, i cant remember what page, and I cant remember what the username was, but they said something I didn’t agree with at the time, but now i see where they’re coming from. I’ve been waiting for this comic to update for over a year now, and if you look three pages before the five page update, you will see that each page has a different year it was uploaded. 2015, 2016, and 2017, but there have been exactly 0 made for 2018.
“If Weidle worked on this comic half as much as they made doodles of transformers characters, we might actually have an update now and then.” (or something like that.)
When i first saw that comment, i was angry, because i believed Jones just did that in their freetime with nothing else to do. Where they didn’t have the materials or real time to do Helvetica. I remember feeling bad for Weidle, but now i just feel bad for their audience. I feel bad for all the people that genuinely feel like they are going to come back and give us a good plot line. I feel bad for all of the people that Jones is giving false hope and empty promises of “Next update will be soon!!!” and sometimes, not even bothering to give us ANY kind of information on how the pages are doing. At this point, is it even worth staying? Are we, your audience, even worth giving an update to? Because it feels like you are refusing us the time of day. I understand you have responsibilities, life, job, but you know, as much as you talk about being bored and talking about going to parties, you seem to have a lot of time to yourself to not have a single update in over a year. Just stop giving excuses, we know you aren’t making this comic because you simply don’t want to. We all know. And those of you who didnt realize sooner, I hate to break it to you, but you’ve been lied to. As much as I hate to hurt you, Jones, I just don’t think I’ve got it in me to really wait on something that I know isn’t going to happen. The more i look at your twitter, the more i look at this still page, the angrier i get. So, i guess just go ahead and shut the site down, and start making comics about transformers since you love them so much more than your own creations.
Hi! I’m sorry you feel hurt by the fact that I just do not have the time to work on Helvetica. It’s as simple as that. I don’t talk about being bored, ever, so I’m not sure where you got that from. I am never bored, I don’t have time to be bored. And I know it’s attractive to think of me as this party animal who never stops, but the only parties I’m going to are my own birthday parties and the birthday parties of my friends. I understand that you’re jaded about my lack of updates and I do apologize for not putting up a notice that the comic is just not going to be updated until I’ve got the energy for it, but try not to project your feelings onto me when you don’t really know about my situation. If you *are* curious, you’re always welcome to reach out to me personally and ask how I’m doing! It’s never a bother.
I draw for pleasure when I have free time. I’m going to continue to do that. You are welcome to feel however you like about it.
Take care.
You sir, are a bloody legend *salutes*
How dare you not provide free content to me when I want it! I want a full refund of my $0.00 USD.
tbh yeah these ppl need to chill out. like i get it if youre impatient and getting antsy and stuff but jones isnt really required to keep making this. like they could stop at anytime if they wanted to but they wont because they /PLAN/ on giving us more content. If jones didnt care, dont you think they would stop paying for this domain url? I mean, i dont have any kind of evidence for that claim, but im pretty sure they pay for this?? and theres probably more financial stuff with Hiveworks and whatever. So like, jones kiiiiiinda has a lot on their plate considering all the money that goes into keeping this website up and a job and stuff to NOT be working as best as they can on the comic. I know its been over a year and whatever, but really, is it worth starting a flamewar over? if you dont want to read it, dont read it???? its that simple???
Wow people are really getting dramatic over a comic that the creator has chosen to do for fun huh? They don’t owe you anything. If you’re not paying them, you don’t have a right to assume that they just don’t care or that they’re being lazy. I used to be one of those people that tried to act all entitled to updates for this comic, but that’s before I fully understood that artists have their own lives. They are entitled to *their* free time and they have the right to spend it however they choose. Just because they’re drawing fanart and not using *their* downtime to make the thing *you* want them to doesn’t give you the right to throw a hissy fit on their website. Go find a different comic to read if you’re gonna get mad over this one.
I don’t care how long it takes- I will wait until I DIE for the sake of reading the next page- maybe by then I’ll meet them myself and ask how they got out of this situation. Just keep up with the great work!!! I can’t wait to read the next page!!!! See you then, I’ll just be waiting here to see what’s gonna happen next.
please update this comic or just delete it so I can pretend it doesn’t exist
go jump out of a tree in aokigahara
I agree. :3
I do really hope to see this awesome comic come back someday, I’ve had page one bookmarked for years.
Damn! Never thought he had it in him!
Hmm…There’s no updates last year, but oh well let’s be patient this year!
(I started reading Helvetica last year, so I’m still determined)
I just found this comic, and I like it. I don’t know your circumstances, but I hope you’ll continue drawing it someday.
Miss this comic a lot! I started reading it in 2015 and it quickly became one of my favourites. Love your work!
I know how hard it is to find any time to draw comics. I know how hard it is to draw comics. I hope your schedule loosens up sometime in the future, because I love this comic and I wish for you to do well.
What I’m most curious about is how this comic still has patrons that are continuing to actively give money for its production. Isn’t that false advertising saying that by giving money you’ll get content, but that content hasn’t been delivered since the end of 2017? I mean, the Patreon acct only has 32 patrons, but if they’re all giving $1 apiece: $32/mo. * 18 months (so far) = $576 since the comic went on hiatus. I really think that if JN Weidle plans to keep Helvetica on hiatus, she shouldn’t be accepting money for the production of the comic and really should shut the Patreon acct down, as an act of being ethical. But in the end, apparently the patrons for this Patreon most likely don’t care that they’re losing out on a dollar apiece, but it really has added up. >_>
Happy Comic-Birthday! Hope you’re doing well!
damn, it’s already been two years since this has updated? i hope you’re doing alright jones, maybe you could get someone to draw for the comic while you still write for it? please don’t feel obliged to continue this because other people scream at you to. i know how it feels to have a busy schedule and then just “sleep” over something you use to enjoy. take care of yourself. maybe someday, this site will see a new page.
Been awhile, but i thought of this today. Came here hoping to find an update, but was unfortunately disappointed. Maybe one day ♥
Just… One number away from a perfect 100… So close.
Maybe someday. (´;︵;`)
We all gotta be determined if we want to see this!
Why is the bad guy the only one with eyes? Do evil people get eyes when they die? Does it have something to do with *how* they died? DID THE BAD GUY DIE BY LOSING HIS EYES?!
Nope. Jn Wiedle stated that Buck put LEDs into his eyesockets to be more intimidating.
i love this comic, but i would love to see an update, but i also understand that art block can hit artists for months or even years, just do what you can, love you