OOTS #600 - The Discussion Thread

[brionl]

While this was a pretty good strip, Vaarsuvius was right in at least one thing. It's long past time that we started moving on the main plot line again and just wrapped up all these sub-plots. I really don't want to see another 200 strips of Haley & Celia's and Durkon & Elan's wacky adventures.

One more thing:
Get on with it

[Nightfall]

How perfect was THAT??? Great comic, once again, Giant! I LOVE character development!

[itsmeyouidiot]

I kind of expected an anticlimax joke, to be honest. OOtS and Anticlimaxes go together like TV Tropes and the GitP forums.

Of course, given the Giant's tendency to defy expectations, expecting an anticlimax would've resulted in a climax, and expecting a climax because you're expecting an anticlimax would result in an anticlimax, and...AUGHH!

[Forealms]

The Giant has earned himself a cookie.

Have a cookie, Giant, on me.

[Mauve Shirt]

Heeheehee. What a ripoff. But a wonderful one.

[UncleWolf]

Great comic as always. Jambalaya is good.

[Georlik]

Great strip. Just loved it. Orange shiny-thingy is now one my favorite characters.

[Ceric]

Great comic. Did NOT expect to see Roy so soon and so very glad that the plot is starting to move! I wonder how many metaphorical floors that elevator has to travel through?

[Xallace]

Having a hard time breathing thanks to laughing. That was fantastic.

[Warren Dew]

He totally did that just to shove the #600 predictions in everyone's faces

Especially David Argall's predictions, which were spot on? David has been saying for months that Roy would not be resurrected in #600 and that likely nothing special would happen.

...I think we should just stop all these [Spoilers] thread and just enjoy the comic without too much speculation

I'd like to see the speculation keep coming, as sometimes they're more interesting than the strips.

[DaveTheTurd]

I'm afraid I officially love this web comic more than any other strip I check regularly. Just wanted to drop that in here. I hope you don't get sick of creating it for a long, long time.

Selfish of me, I know. Sorry.

[kerravon]

NOOooooooooo.....!!!

What is happening with Varsuvius?????

I am on pins and needles waiting! (Ouch - trust me on this)

Still, great comic - I was wondering when Roy would resurface...

[Mr. Scaly]

I hereby nominate Rich for Magnificent bastard status.

[ericgrau]

Hee hee.

No more predictions for me thx.

[Querzis]

I hereby nominate Rich for Magnificent bastard status.

I second that.

[Dunesen]

When I saw the new strip was I up I "squeed," and then I slowly moved down the page as I read it, expecting some huge thing in the last row.

And then nothing happens.

Please reference the last two panels here. That's my go-to imagery for anger.

[Ron Miel]

I found it rather disappointing. I'd have to say that it's my least favourite strip out of all 600. Not bad as such, just a bit meh.

[keilyn]

I was dissappointed at first thanks to my own hyped-up expectations- though I did kinda have a feeling we were going to change locale, though I was kinda hoping more O-Chul and MitD, how weird is that? Anyway, reading through the posts helped me get some perspective....but I'm still going away pouting. Maybe I'll even hold my breath, throw myself on the floor, all of that. ;) Well, thanks anyway, Rich, for the comic.

[starfalconkd]

How perfect was THAT??? Great comic, once again, Giant! I LOVE character development!

Perfect. That's the exact word I was thinking.

[Demon Slayer]

Nice comic. But I wonder if the cleric that Haley asked from Pete is 17th level if not then no dice.

[mlsq42]

Tossle? It's spelt tousle. But that's just nitpicking on an otherwise awesomely awesome comic.

[Nimrod's Son]

Seriously, at this point i believe that even a fully pitch black screen panel with no dialogues whatsoever would get acclamation and admiration.

Well, it would from me. Not only would that be the most punk-rock comic strip ever, but it'd be a well-deserved slap in the face to everyone who gets stroppy every time Rich doesn't come up with exactly what they want to see, when they want to see it. Like he's under some sort of obligation or something.

I know, fanboys and girls, its my prerogative to stop clicking on it, and believe me, I will probably do just that.

Anyone else get the feeling that this heralds the Apocalypse?

...No? Oh well.

[Enigma95]

Great comic giant. Heh it's true, everyone hopes for something big on each hundreth comic.

[Dunesen]

No training in the afterlife, yes? ;)

Valhalla...?

[the_tick_rules]

Oh giant, you tricked us again.

[Lord Seth]

I kind of expected an anticlimax joke, to be honest. OOtS and Anticlimaxes go together like TV Tropes and the GitP forums.

Seriously? I don't recall OOTS having too many anticlimaxes. That's more 8-Bit Theater's shtick.

[David Argall]

Especially David Argall's predictions, which were spot on? David has been saying for months that Roy would not be resurrected in #600 and that likely nothing special would happen.

And I shall now predict that 700 will not be particularly above average.

[Now 666, which might be the final page of the current book, I will make no predictions about. The last page of these books usually ranks pretty high.]

[Monation]

Don't know if this should go in the Class Geekery thread, but I just realized the feat Roy was talking about with his gramps might have been Mage-Slayer (Complete Arcane) or its derived feats.
Oh and I've heard people who don't understand the feat. Allow me to explain: Let's say you are right next to a spellcaster and you have the Mage-Slayer feat. He has a nasty touch spell prepared (Harm or the like) but hey, check it out! He can't cast defensively while he is next to you, so that means no same-turn touch spells.

[eggamagga]

I personally found it amusing. Not something to use often, but well worked in this instance!

Side note: 'jambalaya' is misspelled by Roy's mom...

[delguidance]

An anti-climax should resolve something.

An anti-climax would be if Durkon convinced V to stay because he likes Elan's cooking or something trivial.

You could even mark the occasion with a huge splash scene of Mr. Scruffy, that would be anti climatic, but still fun, this comic contained Marshmellowy niceties of nothing important. You could have shown every character doing nothing important and I would have been on board for that. But this left most of the comic in the lurch.

This strip is fine as a meta-anti-climatic scene in that it resolved fan speculation at the cost of the dramatic arc. While I suppose breaking the 4th wall is part of the Giant's style, this isn't a case were I would have done it at the expense of the story.

I guess its a pacing or consistency issue for me. Who gets to break the fourth wall, only Roy, all of the order, anyone at all, and or the author himself? If everyone knows its only a comic I'd expect the characters to talk to the giant directly more often like in the Duck Amuck cartoon where Bugs is drawing Daffy.

I mean Monty Python anti-climaxes were great because you could expect them. "Who cares, its all good fun" they seemed to say.

Conversely the oots does have people invested. People obviously care, and the giant can do what he wants with that.

For those invested in the drama this was less an anti-climax than a stall.

I love this comic. I'm on board. This comic was a tie.