Every morning, as I sit down at my desk with my morning coffee, I indulge in a tiny pleasure. I spend 20 minutes ambling through my favourite online comics.

On 4 May, though, my coffee tasted that little bit less peppy. Jonathan Rosenberg has taken an indefinite hiatus. Goats, which follows its characters hapless attempts to save the universe from being accidentally rebooted, has been running since 1997. Rosenberg, in a heartfelt message to his fans, is throwing in the towel and planning to find a "real" job.