With many projects in the works, 2026 is bringing with it a new era of Terminal Lance. With it, I decided to build a new website to showcase the comic and act as a home base of sorts.
Like many brands in the modern age, TL is spread out across many different platforms. Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, BlueSky, Discord… It goes on. However, the core of TL is right here, just as it has been for the last 16 years.
The core idea of TL 5.0 is focus on the core of Terminal Lance: the comic. All the way up until 2022, TL always had the latest comic featured on the front page with easy navigation to move between entries. This changed with the previous site redesign in the interest of expanding the TL brand into new avenues. This was great in theory, but the site really lost something in the process.
The nature of web browsing has fundamentally changed over the years, and websites gave way to social media in a serious way. Traffic on this site reduced significantly as traffic on social media picked up, so my focus was taken away from the site.
As part of the redesign, I also updated the archive! Every old 3-panel black and white TL classic comic has been updated for modern displays with over double the resolution. This was a monotonous task that needed to be done by hand, but it was much overdue.
While I was going through each and every one of the over 400 comics that needed to be updated, it brought back a sea of memories from the journey that this comic has taken me on. Many of the comics have, frankly, not aged very well. Many of the jokes are dated, but what bothers me more as an artist is just the execution of the drawings. TL went through many eras over the years, but we definitely didn’t start with the polished, professional look the comic has today.
Feel free to look around, enjoy your stay, and look forward to more TL.
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