Order of the Stick

Jarmo · 2009-07-16T06:56:45.000Z

Logic and realism, the tools of the thinking man. Surely they’ll never fail you.

Maniac · 2009-07-16T07:16:35.000Z

Sebmojo:

Yes. But noone, AFAIK, was predicting the link - though it’s pretty obvious. It’s just nice plotting is all.

That link was common knowledge for a long time for GITP forumers.

noun · 2009-07-16T08:01:13.000Z

Meh, filler strip. What used to be a two line gag now takes 2,000 words.

Rimbo · 2009-07-16T09:45:11.000Z

shit is deep

Sarkus · 2009-07-24T11:18:28.000Z

New one is up.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0670.html

That mid-strip “initiative” joke was kind of weak. And when did OOTS go to weekly updates?

Pjerrot · 2009-07-24T14:17:04.000Z

Sarkus:

New one is up.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0670.html

That mid-strip “initiative” joke was kind of weak. And when did OOTS go to weekly updates?

What are the first sentence in the new strip??

Oh, yeah… I remember:

“Sorry to keep you waiting. I needed to take care of something…”

Sarkus · 2009-07-24T15:57:50.000Z

Pjerrot:

What are the first sentence in the new strip??

Oh, yeah… I remember:

“Sorry to keep you waiting. I needed to take care of something…”

I don’t think that means what you think it means . . . That theory would make sense except that you can go back and look. Here’s the dates of the recent updates:

6/29
7/2
7/9
7/16
7/24

See a pattern there?

:-)

Pjerrot · 2009-07-25T02:30:18.000Z

Sarkus:

I don’t think that means what you think it means . . . That theory would make sense except that you can go back and look. Here’s the dates of the recent updates:

6/29
7/2
7/9
7/16
7/24

See a pattern there?

:-)

Let me give a few choices of what could be going on:

He has been buisy drawing the 3’rd off-line campanion book
He has been away on vacation -it’s summer!!!
It’s well known he’s very ill, and he might have been too sick, or in hospital for test.

Rich 7/7/2007:
“For more than two years, I’ve been experiencing a medical condition that often leaves me unable to work (or even sit at the computer) for 2-3 days at a time, and the symptoms tend to come and go in clumps. I’ll be fine for a few weeks, then have a few really bad weeks where I struggle to get any work done. This is part of the reason I never can manage to create a “buffer” of strips in advance: I spend all of my working time catching up on stuff I was supposed to finish while I was sick. (No, I’m not going to tell you exactly what is wrong with me; it’s nobody’s business.”

“…especially erratic of late, presumably due to Author and artist Rich Burlew’s unspecified and chronic illness. He has said in the past that this illness is not fatal, and that he is being well cared for, which i am very glad to know.”

Sarkus · 2009-07-25T20:21:05.000Z

I think we’re all aware of Rich’s situation. I’m just pointing out that we went from having about two updates a week on average to a period now where there has been about one a week.

It’s not a criticism, just a comment.

Brandon_Clements · 2009-07-26T10:53:09.000Z

He might be gearing up for GenCon.

Angie_Gallant · 2009-07-29T20:27:39.000Z

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0671.html

New one’s up. More moving things along.

Andrew_Mayer · 2009-07-29T23:07:48.000Z

Very perfunctory strip for Burlew.

Sebmojo · 2009-07-30T17:39:27.000Z

Andrew Mayer:

Very perfunctory strip for Burlew.

Yes, basically narrative spackle.

Dean · 2009-07-30T20:47:50.000Z

Is O-Chul still wounded or are those scars?

Dejin · 2009-07-30T20:58:58.000Z

Dean:

Is O-Chul still wounded or are those scars?

I think they’re scars. Someone did heal him in 663 although it might be a paladin lay of hands from Hinjo and thus not a full heal.

Rimbo · 2009-08-08T03:03:00.000Z

A familiar conclusion

Nice reveal.

Sarkus · 2009-08-08T03:36:57.000Z

On hiatus for the rest of the month. :-( Not that I blame him and it’s a good time to do it. At least he acknowledged the recent update pace hadn’t been what he would like.

And please explain the reveal. I assume you are talking about the planet, but I didn’t really have a “lightbulb” moment there. :-)

noun · 2009-08-08T06:52:38.000Z

Order of the Stick meets Crisis on Infinite Earths?

Preachy_Preach · 2009-08-08T07:50:12.000Z

I’m thinking that it may be a clue that the Snarl isn’t perhaps as lethal as it’s been painted…

Jarmo · 2009-08-08T07:56:12.000Z

Worlds within worlds, ooh! Imagine if every atom is like a planet, and our planet is just an atom in some huge universe!

I know it’s not going to be that, at the least. Burlew did not suddenly turn twelve.