What Conan O'Brien Taught Me About Webcomics

We knew it was inevitable. We heard the rumors. We watched the news. We read the headlines. We talked about the future. And yet somehow turning my TV on at 1033, waiting for the news to fnish, it still didn't quite hit that this was the end. Even with the band blaring and the crowd cheering almost unceasingly, it still hadn't sunk in. And then all at once it did.

The Tonight Show was over.

I've lost a couple of shows that I'm upset about: Code Monkeys and Futurama are the two that come to mind and while I hate these new bullshit cartoons on Cartoon Network and am a FIRM believer the best cartoons were the early 90s Cartoon Cartoons, I've never cared so much for a show as I did with the Tonight Show.

Since my dad watched Leno when he was younger, I sorta assumed I'd sit my son down one day maybe when he's 16 or something in the 2020s or whatever and say "That's Conan O'Brian, this is the Tonight Show" and he could share that legacy.

It wasn't to be I guess.

And so the curtain closed and the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brian came to an end exactly five years after Johnny Carson passed away.

And all I am left with is one of Conan's final line (more or less verbatim)

"If you work really hard and you are kind AMAZING things will happen to you"

I know this hiatus came out of seemingly nowhere and I know this is how webcomics start their slippery slide to self-cancellation, but I refuse to let it end so soon. It's been almost two full months since December's first comic and at the end of the month I'll have 27 comics. We're--yes "we", me as the story teller and you guys as the readers--are still young and early into our run. This past week was the first hiccup. I can't promise smooth sailing the rest of my run with Singularity and I'd be a jackass to do so, but I will promise I'm going to work harder on this comic. I can't make it trump my college work but if I'm not working on college I'll be doing my damnedest to work on Singularity. Because I want to believe Conan. I think my work with Singularity can be the biggest Team Conan tribute I have. So thanks for the support so far and stay with me because there's a lot more comic to do.

"Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record it's my least favorite quality, it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard--and you're kind, amazing things will happen"

Thank you Conan. Singularity returns Monday. 24 Hour Challenge Sunday