[Webcomic] The Order of the Stick thread
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982: Respirate in Peace
The name of the god....Can't help but wonder whether or not it's an ASoIaF reference.
Also, heh.
Also also, hey, new updates, three times in a row, at exactly a week. I feel spoiled.
Also, heh.
Also also, hey, new updates, three times in a row, at exactly a week. I feel spoiled.
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You're missing an "l" on the end of that link. Rich ends his links with ".html" instead of just ".htm"
--Patrick
There's also another very different possibility.
As well as another, most fitting one.
#983: A Healer's Reason
Man, Rich is just churning them out lately. Good to see him back.
Also, we're now 17 strips away from the big #1000. He's never been one to do anything of note with milestone strips. In fact, he's lampshadded them many times. But I don't know. I get the feeling this might be different.
Man, Rich is just churning them out lately. Good to see him back.
Also, we're now 17 strips away from the big #1000. He's never been one to do anything of note with milestone strips. In fact, he's lampshadded them many times. But I don't know. I get the feeling this might be different.
984 Hence the Fence
The quality certainly has stayed high the whole time, though, in some respects, I like the big, sudden, 3 pages of comics thing like #981 (end of Crystal) better than the fairly fast single pages like these. There aren't always hilarious punchlines at the end of every page, nor do there need to be, and now they're coming quite rapidly one after another, but...well, no, I'm not complaining - I'm happy we're getting so much and so often. I'm just saying, as a reader, there's something to be said for an update a week or less where something actually happens every time, in contrast to now, what, 3 in 10 days, but with only one actual action in all of them. I may be wrong and there may be a lot happening here I haven't cottoned on to, of course, that turns out to be vitally important soon.
The quality certainly has stayed high the whole time, though, in some respects, I like the big, sudden, 3 pages of comics thing like #981 (end of Crystal) better than the fairly fast single pages like these. There aren't always hilarious punchlines at the end of every page, nor do there need to be, and now they're coming quite rapidly one after another, but...well, no, I'm not complaining - I'm happy we're getting so much and so often. I'm just saying, as a reader, there's something to be said for an update a week or less where something actually happens every time, in contrast to now, what, 3 in 10 days, but with only one actual action in all of them. I may be wrong and there may be a lot happening here I haven't cottoned on to, of course, that turns out to be vitally important soon.
They visited the blind priests, who're hiding something, Durkula wants a cleric to try for some reason, and they'll find one - that's not a LOT of development for 3 pages of updates, contentwise. Again, not really a complaint about quality, I guess I've just been spoiled back when they were rarer and something happened every page. Now, with more updates, things happen slightly slower and feel slightly more prolonged. Again, I think that's more to do with how I read them than with actual content/quality. Reading all three in one go is fine. It's just that this feels "light" for a weekly update. Which it no longer is, so the point is....Err...I dunno.
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Man, he is just cranking them out lately. I'm loving it. 
figmentPez
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Not that I'm at all complaining, but I'm curious what brought on this surge of strips. We haven't seen this much activity since he did the Kickstarter promise of two straight weeks of daily updates.
Durkgelus is one of my favorite villains in this strip, the definition of manipulation.
We call him Durkula, thank you very much!
You Durkula, I say Durkgelus, you say Greedo*, I say Solo! Greedo, Solo, Greedo, Solo, let's call the whole thing off!
*Song may not be factual.
#989: Stares & Stripes
So we have a cat, a tiger, a raven, and a polymorphed t-rex on the ship. Quite the menagerie we have on the ship. You could arguably add Durkula's bat form, too.