As a relatively recent but what I would still consider “longtime” fan of The Order of the Stick (four years, since a little after the 500th comic), I wish I had something new to say about the astonishing success of Rich’s Kickstarter effort to reprint his compilation and prequel books, which has, within two weeks [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized perfect crime.) As with Homestuck, it takes a lot of doing for me to post on the same comic twice, and the previous strip certainly ranks high on the list of OOTS strips that would qualify if any did. In this case, after giving myself a [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized puppet strings.) This comic would have warranted a post even considering all the knowledge already out there. For someone who hadn’t read the Start of Darkness prequel or any synopses of its events (a group that apparently includes Gary “Fleen” Tyrell)? I’d have to imagine they’d [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized crushing.) Warning: This post will contain spoilers for the Order of the Stick prequel Start of Darkness. As such, we’re hiding it behind a jump break. This means the comic image will overflow past the post itself on the main blog page; I can only hope [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized family affair.) When I predicted that Nale and Tarquin might make up and form one side in the battle for the Gates, this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. Although Tarquin seems willing to accept his son’s direction, as at least one person on the [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized negotiations.) Rich finally proved a forum theory wrong for once… sort of. Quite a few people speculated that Tarquin knew something about the Gates, and while theories about Tarquin and Nale working in collusion had died down considerably, I myself was still toying with them. Both [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized race against time.) After a year-and-a-half in the Empire of Blood, it’s looking like we’re finally starting to move back to the main plot. Tarquin just took a single strip to drop most of the knowledge, for what it’s worth, on Girard that he’s promised during [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized architectural knowledge.) I have very little to add to this strip. (Not a good thing when it’s a whopping four pages long. Oh well, let’s see how it goes this time…) I have very little to add to Roy taking time out in the middle of [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized influence.) Rich rarely makes huge storytelling blunders, a result of how straightforward the comic’s art style forces his storytelling to be, but this comic contains a pretty big one. In the midst of Belkar dealing with Mr. Scruffy’s injury, we get a random panel showing Enor [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized job interview.) I ordinarily wouldn’t comment on this strip. Ever since #600, it’s become increasingly obvious that Rich doesn’t particularly care about multiples of 100 anymore, to the extent he ever did. #700 was basically just another comic, and the same goes for this one. Not [...]