OOTS #1187 - The Discussion Thread

[Agi Hammerthief]

„calibrating proudness“ is code for „let’s go and make out“?

[137beth]

Two end-of-book leader speeches in a row are on the airship, yay!

Also, good job Elan.

[Resileaf]

Words of wisdom from both Elan and Roy. I feel blessed.

[crayzz]

„calibrating proudness“ is code for „let’s go and make out“?

Its code for "what you did is impressive no matter how I look at it" AND for "let's go make out".

[2D8HP]

No love for "I thought he had an undiagnosed medical condition"?

That's what gave me chuckles.

[Quebbster]

Love this!

The strip where Roy decides to not sleep because no-one can be trusted to stand guard is one of my favourites.

To be fair, the rest of the Order has had a lot of character growth since then too...

[Ron Miel]

Did Elan just bull****ed the entire group?

In a real sense, no he didn't. Everything he said was the truth. Roy really does trust them all much more than he used to.

[i6uuaq]

That's so sweet...

[factotum]

Elan being moderately competent? Boy, he really *has* changed since Azure City!

[Jay R]

It helped accurately calibrate my respect for Elan, too.

[axus]

Elan's dad would be proud, too!

[Zhorn]

I feel inspired

[Lheticus]

Woah, Elan just made a speech that was actually inspiring. And you know, it totally makes sense--the world IS coming to an end after all. Although, if I were the IFCC seeing this, I'd be checking whether someone had messed with the thermostat recently.

[HandofShadows]

Character Growth on so many levels.

[Psyren]

Didn't he sleep through the party handling Nale?

Great callback to Roy's sleepless nights Giant!

[Ninjaman]

New comic is up.

Wait... did Elan do something... clever?

[DCR]

Wait... did Elan do something... clever?

Deliberately, even! It's rather amazing.

[Kelenius]

Wow, Elan making an inspiring speech that doesn't immediately backfire? How far we've come.

[Darkohaku]

Nice for Roy, he is really confortable around the rest of the Order, everyone has grown so much since the first strips.

This books is nearing and ending? I still can see like a 20 or more strips before the end of the book.

Cheers!

[Jaxzan Proditor]

Aww, Elan. What a touching strip.

[KorvinStarmast]

Minrah: I'm so confused.

Welcome to the Order of the Stick, Minrah. You did volunteer.

Elan: Stumbling off in a drunken stupor to pass out in his bunk is the ultimate vote of confidence

I had a boss like that once.

Enjoyed the strip. Elan is doing what he's supposed to be doing.
He's inspiring people.
It's a whole Bard thing.

[gatemansgc]

Nice callback to #14 too.

eta: Wait, how was i ninja'd!?

you were ninja'd cause people were thinking the same thing LOL

[chy03001]

That was such a meta comment on Elan's part.

I can totally see what his dad meant when he said bards should be ruling the world and not singing in taverns.

[Rogar Demonblud]

I shouldn't laugh that hard while recovering from a bout of bronchitis.

[Anarion]

That was awesome on Elan’s part. Especially since every other time he’s tried to inspire people directly, it has backfired. And hey, it really does show how much everyone has grown over the comic.

Considering how tough Roy is though, he must have consumed a LOT of off panel beers to be that out of it.

[Psychronia]

I never expected Elan to know how to be inspiring.

This is...touching and pride-inducing.

[TheNecrocomicon]

This books is nearing and ending? I still can see like a 20 or more strips before the end of the book.

I mean, I think so -- theoretically, the book could end next strip, but I can also see how it could be several or more at this point. It just seems to keep slowly inching bit by bit towards a formal conclusion.

There's a bit more inherent vulnerability to arc fatigue and ending fatigue when OotS typically advances a page (or rarely two) about every week or so. I recall people raging near the beginning of this book that it wasn't getting going as fast as they wanted it to. It's just a symptom of an impatient world inuring us to immediate gratification, not to mention us getting spoiled by other webcomics out there that are much more prolific (and often simpler to draw and produce).

One factor, though, in the book ending sooner rather than later is that there is a publisher out there waiting for the complete volume so that it can be printed and shipped. So my bet is on this book ending in 1d4 strips/pages, rather than 1d20.

[Turin_19]

Well, in the past few comic-days, the team has done everything.

Haley in the last comic just agreed things up with Bandana.
Elan now has just fixed his speech.
Belkar saved Durkon (and Roy realized that).

This whole book has shown how less Roy-dependent the group is now. But mostly, it's amazing to think how next book will be.

It will be the badassest OOTS ever.

Also: it is GREAT how the background is developing, Mr. Giant, and the mountains passing by slowly behind Elan is amazing artwork!

[Windscion]

Minrah: I'm so confused.

Welcome to the Order of the Stick, Minrah. You did volunteer.

This. So much this.

[Hiro Quester]

I had never noticed before how the art style, with everyone having slightly different-sized eyes, uses perspective to make it clear where each person is looking. It's very clear in panels 3 and 4.

And now I look back at the very early strips, I see that style was always there.

It's another example of how very subtle elements of how the characters are drawn convey story elements that we all process, without noticing the skill and foresight behind creating the effect.
Kudos, Rich.