I started Tales from the Pit in late 2005. The idea came to me one afternoon and wouldn't let go. I'd been thinking of starting a webcomic for ages... so I thought "What about an Angband comic?". I drew my buffer of forty strips and set it going. I honestly thought that I'd keep going for a year or so and then stop.

That didn't happen. Five years later and it's taken on a life of its own. Didn't miss a single update. I didn't see where the characters (such as they are) would go, I didn't see most of the concepts from the start. It gets away from you. And it comes to an end. It's been quite a ride but it's time to call it a day.

I would like to thank everyone very much for supporting me along the way. Tales from the Pit has never been the largest webcomic on the net, but it's never been the smallest either. It's what any author wants - fans who like and appreciate the work.

I've really enjoyed all your comments over the years. I hope I was able to make you smile, make you giggle or at least make your day a little more interesting for a few seconds. Hopefully more than once. Special thanks go to those who submitted guest strips and those people who made me smile in return.

It's really been something.

Goodnight everyone.

Time for another multi-part story.

As before, the strip will run 5 days this week for the guest series. Have fun!

For the guest series, we'll be running every weekday until it's finished, then it's back to business as usual. Also, sorry about the outage - transit provider apparently experiencing major problem and had to perform an emergency upgrade of software.

Advance notice - due to the server moving datacentre, the comic will be down for a couple of hours on 3rd September and on 9th September. This will occur late night/early morning GMT.