A Development of Concern

The past several months have been very slow, updates-wise, at HomestarRunner.com. I think it's because the dudes who run it have been working on a Strong Bad video game? Or something like a video game? I've always been unsure about the concept.

So it's good news that they've updated for two Mondays in a row (they customarily update every Monday, but before last week, they hadn't put up any new material in over a month). But the two new things they have done are "hremails."

Hremails are Homestar Runner Emails, and they're . . . ok. They're better than puppet stuff (I don't know why, because it's the same people working with the same characters, but the puppets things are never funny) but not as good as Strong Bad emails ("sbemails"). I just don't like Homestar as much. In my opinion, he's funnier when he pops up for a few seconds every now and then to say something stupid than when he's carrying a three-minute cartoon. Plus--and I didn't notice this til the first hremail--he's kind of hard to understand when speaking at long stretches.

What makes me slightly more consternated about this is that it's been over four months since there's been a Strong Bad email, and that was #200, in which they introduced the concept of hremail. So--they achieved a big round number, and they invented a concept that maybe they have more new ideas for. That . . . that doesn't mean there won't be any more Strong Bad emails, does it? Does it?!?!?!?!!!??