Webcomic Extinction of the Month: The Goddamn Panty Brigade

A couple of years ago, there was a comic by the title of The Goddamn Panty Brigade! or Panty Brigade as it was most commonly known. It was about a group of girls who spent their time doing nerdy fangirl things (playing video games, card games, watching anime, etc. Each one was actually assigned a geeky obsession), talking about sex or just being slutty (not going to say promiscuous) and doing random acts of violence. Overall, the artist's favorite things about FLCL and Tank Girl (his supposed inspirations/aspirations).

The comic's art wasn't that bad mind you, there are some anatomy problems, but it did have a nice color and energy in the FLCL style. Humor and story wise, it was all sexual references, typical nerd references, and random acts of violence. But that's just the humor. The story revolves around the group trying to start up a band, but realize they can't play any instruments (except the "skin flute" according to one of them) and end up just starting up a myspace page for their fictional band. Some desperate guy contacts them and sets them up to play at a friend's party, where they proceed to steal beer, attack people, meet a new friend, and eventually destroy everything. Afterwards, with new group member on board, they hold and a yard sale and begin to kill everyone because coins come out of them. Like enemies in Super Mario Bros.

All of this was the original incarnation.

Then the artist decided to give the series a reboot because a review from Bad Webcomics Wiki. And so The Goddamn Panty Brigade was reborn with all of the characters, save for the new one (Jecks Huegrack), giving their spiel about how lonely and awful their life was before they met. It was a nice attempt, but lacked any real sentiment. This is where I left off.

Time Passed...

I recently thought about the comic during a recent visit to Bad Webcomics Wiki and thought about looking it up for old times' sake. What I ended up looking at was a page telling me that it no longer existed. Naturally, I tried looking it up with google and was led to a few hosting sites that had the last twelve comics of another recent reboot of the comic. I read through them and found it to be just be a remake of the original story, only without the sex and violence and stereotypes. The characters were cleansed of most of their original personalities and now lacked one of the original five members (the pyromaniac aptly named Cherry Bomb) as well as the newbie Jecks. The story switched from ruining a kegger to actually trying to start a fake band and win an online competition. The comic ends with them asleep after a long night of partying.

After finding this, I tried looking for the original comic again, but found only same page from before telling me it didn't exist. I then found the artist's own website, found nothing except new work and a small page talking about the reboot. From that point on I went on his deviantart account and found only a few pages from the original comic. They were last few pages of the second story from the first incarnation before he ended it and tried to flesh out his characters with a new story. I'll never know what happened after that and what led to the story that remains now, but a bigger question remains? What caused him to get rid of his comic and why? Was it attention to his other webcomic projects? Or maybe The Goddamn Panty Brigade wasn't working for him anymore. Maybe Bad Webcomics Wiki just got to the poor devil and realized no matter how hard he tried to make the comic appealing, it just wasn't going to work. I guess only he knows.

Here are some links of what remains of this comic.
Second story of the original incarnation: http://pandah-khan.deviantart.com/gallery/23720567
The third reboot or follow up to the second one: http://thegoddamnpantybrigade.smackjeeves.com/comics/956485/chapter-1-destroyer-idols/