I do believe it has much more to do with the character's lives. This, like many here have pointed, is an ending with a new beggining hinted at it.

They are finally transiotioning from where they were when the comic started to new points at their lives. So the turmoil they were in, the discoveries, sadness and joy, is shifted to whole new things.

OctoPie was about a certain phase of their lives that is over now. So, there's no more story to tell that can be called OctoPie. I think it's something like that.

I absolutely freaking love how their segway lines are all performed inside really tight pannels, and when they open to talk the pannel doesn't even have a frame anymore. It's beautiful.

Also, just to add, there's so many comments going on complaining about Hannah, to the extent that some of them are just "she is toxic", and nothing else.

Of course, she is a person so deeply lost within herself that she looks at others as helpless enough that she can feel better/help them and feel like she has a purpose. Might be from personal experience, but Hannah always seemed to me as someone who depends on the existance of her friends because she can only believe on the value she has once she has helped someone out and this person aknowledges this for her. She needs to be as loud and present and right as possible, always, because if there's any possibility that she might be the changing impact in someone's life, she'll feel better about being to empty to herself.

And she's changing! So much. I feel like know she genuinely does much more because not only validates her, but she finally sees the effect she has on her friends through their eyes, not her heart. This makes me very happy.

So here, she is not lashing out on Marek, she in not complaining, she is not absolutely indignated he is questioning her armor. No. Here, at least to me, what she is saying is:
"Maybe I'm lying about caring, but it shouldn't matter to you. I don't want it to matter to you, because I need you to stop caring, because I can't get into this conversation with you". She is just trying to avoid to get her feelings and Marek's tangled again. But, y'know... She's very bad at communication.

I absolutely LOVE the colors one this one. It's such a short page, and although not dialogue heavy, the words themselves have heavy implications. And accompanying that, we have the first three pannels that start in a much colder hue of purple, a blueish one, that slowy translates to a warmer purple as the orange lights bleed into their conversation and high lights. At the last pannel, the purple is a coldish lilac, barely resembling any blue tint, that's slowy transitioning to pink... So overall, the page FAKES being cold but it's actually quite warm, exactly like their conversation.

This is too much, man. Also, Hannah's "3 colored" hair is A+. Style, story, and colors. OctoPie nails it all eh

I was about to comment that!
Hannah and not waiting, Jackie and time to think, Eve, Jane and Mari and a strong love. this is so great, so wholesome

Draw the Squad Meme

Oh, gosh. As a fellow gal with her girlfriend I gasp everytime she acts "mom like". Dang, I hope Jane and Mar have all the happyness. In caps. ALL OF IT.

This really warmed my heart. Plus, the coloring and lighting fit's perfectly. OctoPie is such a great art ref.

Happy 10th, OctoPie. Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for telling us this stories, Meredith.

Oh, that's a really nice take of that pannel, dude! Nice! I feel even sadder tho X'D

hahah oh no I was so emotional writting this I didn't notice I butchered the english language here I'm so sorry you guys I'm brazilian and sometimes the typos + sounds just go way over me nooo

Quitting the job the feels like the first gig you get in your 20's, that job that's confort and minimal income, feels and sounds like a gigantic step. Like said around here, it really feels like endgame stuff.

The realization of the need for an action to set thing into motion for a change that aims for empowerment and independecy, the cumplicity in knowing what a relationship means, the decision to share you chaos with another person... They are growing, shit. I'm so happy, and so jealous...

This is definitely my favorite webcomic, from characters and themes to art, format and feel. I'll def going to cry.