Your first release...

[Acero]

What was the newest comic out when you discovered OOTS?

Personally, 663 (still one of the newbies)

Read it after reading ~17 actual strips and got really confused
about who the blue guys were and where's the order?

Good times..... Good times....

[Xesirin]

586, but I read 292 first. Of all comics. >.<

[Argeus]

The next to last release. I'm uber new here.

[Shhalahr Windrider]

Read it after reading ~17 actual strips and got really confused
about who the blue guys were and where's the order?

That's why you've gotta Archive Binge right away when you find a new webcomic.

Let's see… I think I found Order of the Stick when someone shared #102 on rec.games.frp.dnd. So, yeah, I've been here for 585 strips. Didn't start posting on the forums until much later, though.

[The Extinguisher]

Sometime before the Oracle, but after the trial.

I have no idea when though. My mind has been muddled by archive binges.

[Tyndmyr]

Lessee...after the dungeon of Dokuran, but before much else happened. I can't remember the exact strip #, but it was well pre-Miko, because I remember eagerly awaiting each of the many strips in that arc. I know that's a bit vague, but eh, I've got a terrible memory.

That said, archive trawling is a great thing to do whenever you discover a webcomic. Im a stickler for reading things in order.

[Zevox]

#304 was the newest when I started reading, though the first comic I read was 203. There was a link to it in someone's signature over on the WotC forums.

Zevox

[The Extinguisher]

My search-fu tells me I joined the forum sometime between 288 and 298

Apparently I've been reading longer than I thought. I must have been near the end of the trial, because I do remember not having to wait for the crayons... or did I?

I'm so confused.

[Darius1020]

572, technically, but i actually read origins first at my cousins house, then when i got home i searched for the site and read the entire comic straight through several times, (unfortunately, i knew right away Roy was dead, but whattya gonna do...)

[Andore Mordre]

561. 562 by the time I caught up, with an update the next day.

[Starscream]

The battle for Azure City was just starting up. I think it was around 417.

[Innis Cabal]

10...been here for a while, though lurked for most of that while

[Penquin47]

Either 344 or 345. And to think I used to be a Durkon/V shipper...

[FujinAkari]

227, I'm the blonde one.

[RebelT]

I read virtually the entire archive in one sitting. I have no idea which strip I read first, but I read about 3 in a row, then went to the beginning and read it straight through. I think I ended somewhere around strip 350, but that's not exact.

[drengnikrafe]

When I arrived here, the first "Brand New" comic at that time was 512. I started at comic 1, actually. I was told about the site by a friend.

[Teatime]

417.

I read through the entire archives over about a week. I read the newest comic every 100 strips or so to see if it would make any sense, and it never did. I kept waiting for those other characters with Haley to make an appearance, having no idea they were basically one-shot redshirts =p.

[Mystic Muse]

I was here at 608 and I read all the way from the start to there in six days.

I think about a year or two before that I might have come across the "my consience is appeased 27 potions of heroism please" line.

[Berserk Monk]

I think it was the one with all the Sapphire Guard "ghost" paladin charging Xykon.

[Sewblon]

I started reading some time during the last hiatus.

[Kroy]

Discovered it at 9 and thought it was okay. Later got NCFtPB at 363 and got addicted.

[Tass]

Someone posted 306 on a forum, claiming "know we know Vaarsuvius' gender!". I got hooked on the comic, and later discovered how wrong they were.

[kpenguin]

This one.

Oh wacky cat dude. We never knew ye.

[rainbowjo]

551 when I caught up, probobly a few behind that when I started reading.

[jogiff]

This one was the one that was up when I started reading.

EDIT: #429 if you don't want to click the link

[Mewtarthio]

#349 for me.

Only eleven more comics and I'll have been here for half the strip's run!

[factotum]

I honestly don't remember...does that make me a bad person?

[Nimrod's Son]

I'm not sure I even looked at the latest comic; I just started from the beginning. I caught up with the updates a little while before the Azure City battle.

[Totally Guy]

332 Was the newest one when I started. That's the owlbear one.

[Zxo]

I started reading from #001, read everything in a week and the last one was one of the part when V became evil. I didn't fully realize that the comic was still being written and clicked on "Next" many times, tried to enter the next number in the address manually, suspecting a broken link... and then I got it. Since then, I'm obsessively checking for a new episode every day. I think Rich's holiday was shortly after that, so I re-read it one more time, this time in full, because at first I was skipping some parts that weren't that interesting for me, like Haley's internal dialogues, and read SoD (which was what brought me to the forum, because it was after SoD that I really felt the need to discuss it with other people.)

Good to know I'm not the newest here