OOTS #947 - The Discussion Thread

[Ghost Nappa]

Little Durkon is ADORABLE!

Backstory alert prepare the tissues and buckle your seatbelts, I think it will be a bumpy ride

Also, "Yarf" is a funny word.

yarf yarf yarf yarf yarf...

[Coldwind]

Why is the artwork so ugly? I didn't like it :/

[Chessecakeman]

Yay new comics and new forums!

Here's looking forward to some exchanges between Durkula and Durkon

[Anarion]

Those tiny beard bristles on young Durkon are adorable. I assume that all male dwarves are born with their peach fuzz already in place.

Also Durkon's Mom is awesome and I'm rather worried now as to why the High Priest of Hel is even taking the time to watch these memories. Is he planning to meet her for real?

[ImperatorV]

Is "yarf" a typo, or a word I don't know?

[DreadArchon]

Oooh, Dwarven cultural stuff. Kids, women... Good way to start a new book.

[ThatNickGuy]

Nice, not only an art upgrade (check out that feet detail, baby!) but looks like the comic has been resized to be bigger. That was the first noticeable difference I spotted.

Welcome back, OotS. We've missed you.

[Khay]

Holy art upgrade, Batman. Now here's something to return to.

I wonder if we're going to stick with Durkon's memories for a while, or if this is just an in media res thing again... probably the latter, if I had to guess.

Interesting that Durkula seemingly has to view Durkon's memories one by one, rather than just having access to them. I wonder if that's foreshadowing anything.

[DLcygnet]

Backstory alert prepare the tissues and buckle your seatbelts, I think it will be a bumpy ride

No kidding. For starters - how'd his mom lose an arm? Also, I wish I had that kind of upper body strength.

[Ghost Nappa]

Is "yarf" a typo, or a word I don't know?

It's projectile vomitting for devils.

[Loreweaver15]

Holy art upgrade, Batman! The colored arms'll take some getting used to.

Excited to have the comic back!

[Mollez]

I'm so happy. New shiny forum, new comic, and a beautiful art upgrade. You da man, Giant.

[FullStop]

I already adore Durkon's mum. And even just in two pages, it's pretty obvious where Durkon gets his sober sense of duty from.

Also little Durkon is the cutest.

[nogall]

New comic is up.

Welcome back! And I thought you were going to say "New comic is up. New forum is up."

[Cizak]

And it's back! Awesome. Can't wait to see where this is going.

The art upgrade... I'm going to be honest, I don't love it. It may just be a "need to get used to" thing, but the thicker limbs, the perspective on Ma's foot in panel 2 and the change to Durkon's bindings look a bit off. I also miss the High Priest of Hel's red eyes and fangs (though I guess that could be due to him being some sort of dark counterpart spirit in Durkon's mind rather than the vampire).

Sorry to have that be my first comment after the end of the hiatus. It's a bit of a bummer, and I doubt you'll change anything. This seems like something pretty majorly considered. But anyway, I still love this comic to bits and I'm eagerly awaiting everything that comes next.

[Living Oxymoron]

The bearded child is an interesting detail.

[Toper]

Our long national morning of refreshing the page is over. Cute!

The new font is big and readable. I wonder if the entire comic will continue to be extra-wide so things aren't squooshed?

The arms and hands will take some getting used to. It's a little odd to see the extra detail in things that are still so un-hand-like, I think.

[Oko and Qailee]

daaaaaaw little Durkon

[ShadowFireLance]

Can't be the only one itching to see what Xykon and the others look like.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Is this a brand new art style with the hands? Why did you change it?

[Knick]

Incredibly cute. And now I'm afraid of the horrible things I expect to happen. . .

[LasVegasLawyer]

Hooray! Durkon finally gets a pair of boots! (It took me until the last frame to realize that dwarven boots were an art upgrade, and not just part of some to-be-revealed backstory as to why Durkon doesn't wear them.) Also - young Durkon's proto-beard is AWESOME.

[Ezekiel]

Actually, with this art upgrade, I can't wait to see & again!

[Mike Havran]

Huzzah, the comic is back!

Durkon's story starts really well, and raises a few questions.

Don't the dwarves have a cleric capable of Regenerate? Durkon's mom seemed to be accustomed to live without an arm.

Does Durkula going throu all Durkon's memories, or he is just doing his research about Durkon's mom? He won't try to turn her as first, right?

[oppyu]

Full disclosure; the art upgrade is wigging me out a bit. It's great, but it'll take some getting used to. We'll be able to tell new readers that back in our day, the stick figures had stick limbs, not these fancy schmancy slim coloured rectangles. Does this comic still count as a stick-figure comic? I suppose they still have the stick eye lines and black dot eyes.

In other news, Durkon's mum is an awesome one-armed lady and not-Durkon (Even if the forum staff adopt Durkula as the official tag for the High Priest of Hel, I'm still sticking to not-Durkon. I'm a rebel.) is a horrible and evil monster. And yes little Durkon, the sky art is very pretty. As is the chasm poor ladder dwarf almost fell into.

EDIT: I also learned, courtesy of UrbanDictionary, that yarfing is a combination of yelling and barfing. Classy not-Durkon.

[Gift Jeraff]

Back again and about time, too.

Digging the art upgrade and font. Is the vampire controlling his eyes and fangs in order to come across more pleasant among the living, or is it just because this is all in the mind?

[ben-zayb]

Heh heh. Durkon has mini-goatie. I wonder if it's either because dwarves age mentally and physically (w.r.t. lifespan) different from humans, dwarf kids normally have beard, or Durkon being plain badass?

[Dracon1us]

very touching in a simple elegant wayù

welcome back you all

[Zmeoaice]

Is this a brand new art style with the hands? Why did you change it?

I'm not really a fan of it.

It just doesn't look right to have colored in "pitchfork " hands.

[Forealms]

I like to imagine the dwarf that fell was just walking around using a ladder for stilts. He certainly didn't seem to be going anywhere that was up.