(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 [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized HULK SMASH!) The Order of the Stick manages to do quite a bit with stick figures, but that’s not to say the format doesn’t have its limitations, and one of them is making close-in melee combat properly dramatic. That’s not to say OOTS hasn’t done this [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized make-out session.) The concept of the Mary Sue used to be so simple. Way back in the days of yore known as “the 1980s”, when the Web was but a gleam in the eye of a few idealists and, as far as those few people who [...]
(From The Order Of The Stick. Click for full-sized protected speech.) OOTS fans are known (at least among their own kind) for how speculation-happy they are, so it’s a rare treat when Rich manages to pull a twist that catches everyone off-guard. Simply put, no one expected Zz’dtri to come back after Vaarsuvius called him [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized champion.) Dammit, Rich, stop confirming wild forum theories, you just encourage more and wilder theories. As with “the white-haired guy in prison is really Ian“, I’d dismissed the theories proposing that the “champion” Roy had to face in the arena was actually Thog – half the [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized firing squad.) Everyone who reads Da Blog knows about my love affair with The Order of the Stick. I’ve called it one of the best webcomics ever made and able to stand up among the great works of literature. Yet I’ve realized recently that I could [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized family reunion.) If you only follow my webcomics posts, you may not know why there have been, well, none of them recently, which is that I’ve developed more of an emphasis on schoolwork recently. And between that and my football posts, I stopped reading OOTS for [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized perky eyes.) I still can’t get over what Rich did three strips ago. He took one of the most clichéd setups in all of literature, one of the most anticipated comics in the entire strip and one almost guaranteed to be hard to read, and gave it a [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized Darth Vader impression.) I am in no condition to be doing the heavy thinking required to make a blog post, let alone the schoolwork I’m behind almost the entire quarter on. (Let’s just say Thursday wasn’t a very good day for me.) But… damn if Rich [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized coordination.) Back in September, I stopped following OOTS and instead started on an archive binge from beginning to end. Last month, I finished it. Now, part of the reason for the binge taking so long was because of a side project I was working on at [...]