"last page" link [Archive] - Giant in the Playground Forums

yrudoy

2011-03-10, 10:38 PM

I've been reading Order of the Stick regularly for a while now, and I've particularly enjoyed it. However, one purely technical thing which I am unhappy with is that there is no link to the last page of the comic (that I could find). Which means that I can't bookmark the "last" page and just check it for updates. This, while only mildly annoying, is consistently annoying. Is there a solution that I've missed, and if not, are there downsides to implementing one?

Shale

2011-03-10, 10:41 PM

Bookmark http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html (linked by the scroll at the top of each comic) and if there's a comic you haven't seen yet at the top of the list, click on it. Alternately, bookmark any page on the entire GiantITP site, and check the sidebar to see if the current comic is new.

KillianHawkeye

2011-03-10, 10:58 PM

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/ootslatest.html will take you to the latest comic, but I don't know how you'd figure that out just by looking at the site.

yrudoy

2011-03-10, 11:54 PM

@shale: That's what I've been doing so far. It works but that doesn't mean I have to like it...

@KillanHawkeye: Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for.

factotum

2011-03-11, 02:29 AM

I come here to read the forums even if there isn't a new comic up, so I just go to the homepage and if there's a new comic click on the link.

Kareasint

2011-03-11, 07:56 AM

You could also do the RSS feed which will allow you to check for a comic without actually coming to the site. When you come to a site, it has to check and download images. It can be a time saver but the downside is that the RSS feed is usually one half to a full day behind when new comic actually appears.

Thanatosia

2011-03-12, 02:27 PM

Wow Killian!!!

I've been wanting something like that link forever. This should be a sticky.

Werbaer

2011-03-12, 06:57 PM

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript will also take you to the last page.

How to find out? There's a link To Most Recent Strip (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript) on the Cast Page (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/ootscast.html)

Mr. Bean

2011-03-13, 06:34 AM

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0736.html

This comic is about the ramblings of the gladiator trainer (?) saying that someone will steal bread (Belkar), someone will try to defend him (the one Belkar just killed) and revenge will be gotten. I think it's reversed now, though, seeing as the "weaker gladiator" should have been killed first. My doubt also lies with the other one having any chance of defeating Belkar at all. However, I think it's funny that the Giant even bothered to let it come to this. I doubt he's not going to at least have Belkar fight the other guy, why else have the plot point towards it?

Either way, that's not how he's going to die.

Tass

2011-03-13, 06:58 AM

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0736.html

This comic is about the ramblings of the gladiator trainer (?) saying that someone will steal bread (Belkar), someone will try to defend him (the one Belkar just killed) and revenge will be gotten. I think it's reversed now, though, seeing as the "weaker gladiator" should have been killed first. My doubt also lies with the other one having any chance of defeating Belkar at all. However, I think it's funny that the Giant even bothered to let it come to this. I doubt he's not going to at least have Belkar fight the other guy, why else have the plot point towards it?

Either way, that's not how he's going to die.

Wow. That is what I call a non sequitur. Wrong thread?