1661

You guys thought that was moving? Wow. Guess I’m just out of touch with this comic at this point. I thought that was ham handed and stupid.

1662

I couldn’t decide if it was moving or ham handed and stupid. I guess that means it was closer to the latter for me.

1663

Well, wish granted. DRAMADEY AHOY!

1664

De gustibus, etc. Seemed a bit poignant to me.

1665

I’m pretty sappy and I did find it sort of moving… but… it seems a world where death is just a stepping stone between you and the next resurrection spell, there’s something about the dramatic impact of it which is lessened… and having characters announce on their deathbed that they don’t want to be resurrected kind of feels forced.

1666

Remember when…?

I’m really kinda hoping he’ll wrap this arc up already, or at the very least, start taking steps to reunite the characters.

1667

You know the drill.

1668

Not really a satisfying direction to go. Not particularly funny, either.

1669

Really? I thought that was funny. And satisfying.

1670

Same. I understand those who want the Order reunited, the sub-plots concluded, and Team Evil to return–I’m ready for it too–but I can still appreciate the current strips.

1671

It makes me think of people in MMOs who rush to the level cap. The meandering is the strip.

1672

Good way to look at it. I’m certainly in no hurry for OOTS to end. I know it’s been said before, but the side-plot strips really do read better in big chunks. If you’re bored right now, walk away for a month and then catch up. When I read the books (just got War and XP’s to complete my collection to date; it’s excellent), I find myself enjoying the overall flow of the comic far more than when I see a couple pages a week.

1673

Where was the humor in this specific strip (which is what I was commenting on)? You can maybe say that it was funny that Elan punched the guy at the end and so the baddie had the “pressing charges line,” but that’s about it. And the whole thing of the baddie taking advantage of Elan being a good guy (basically an alignment joke) has been done, just a few strips ago.

I thought the Therkla moment was pretty well done and a surprise move. I just don’t think this follow-up strip had much humor in it, given that it had to resolve the issue of the baddie getting away.

1674

No, I have no problem with meandering when the group is mostly together and the story is fairly easy to follow. All these side stories and minor characters just aren’t doing it for me.

1675

Like Dave says, go back a bunch of strips and read them through. The Roy in heaven arc, say. IMO he’s got an astonishing control over an absurdly complex story, and that really shows when you read it in a decent chunk.

The inevitable flipside of that is that some individual strips might be less immediately enjoyable.

Again, YMMV. In any case, I’m pretty sure something big and game-changing is coming at the 100 mark - any guesses?

1676

I like how Elan is now pretty much a badass. He’s come a long way, baby.

1677

It’s because he stopped being a straight up bard.

1678

how about elan’s comment about the armor? i thought that was the best part and the "punch"line at the end was the lesser joke.

1679

Eh, I dunno. He has big events occur on some of the 100-multiples, but not always. Nothing really happened at 500, for instance.

That said, if I had to pick something big to happen, it’d be that something bad would happen to Varsuuvius with regards to his exhaustion.

1680

I take things in arcs. The Banjo as god of the orcs was dumb.

I have to hand it to Burlew though, his stories and arcs are much more complex yet subtle.