What was the first comic you ever read?

[slipper]

Basically, at what point during the comic did you start reading
I'm sure most people wouldn't remember the actual comic # that was up when they read it the first time, but the certain story arc, perhaps?

I'm pretty sure I got in around #200

[Surfing HalfOrc]

I stumbled upon the strip around Elan's speech on the walls, read the strip for about a week, then went back to the first strip and started reading from there!

Read the strip three-four times since then, copied every strip onto my hard-drive just in case I need something to read on a long flight, and bought On the Origins of PCs and am waiting for my copy of SoD.

Yeah, I'm pretty much hooked.

[MoelVermillion]

I read the archives all the way to 199 only to find that it was the latest strip, i must say it was quite good as i got to experience the dramatic cliff hanger.

[Rockstrel]

Weirdly, I do remember the actual comic.
I got redirected to #184 'Hawaiian Love' about eighteen months ago (from a Futurama website, oddly) , but didn't read any of the others.
A couple months after that, I thought i'd have another go and started from the beginning. The latest comic posted at that time was #384 'Words Get In the Way'.
Yeah, i remember weird stuff. :smallsmile:
Ah well.

[Spiryt]

Basically, at what point during the comic did you start reading

It must be around that strip (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0253.html).

I'm pretty sure that I just finished reading first strips (took two days or so - and it was too fast, anyway :smallfrown:) then.

Maybe not, anyway i'm 666% sure that i was waiting for every next Crayons of time (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0273.html) episode. So then i caught up.

And first strip i ever read was that one. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0020.html)
So great.

[Thanatos 51-50]

The first strip I read was #1.
Although, I haven't been on the site that long.
I got linked to the site from Dueling Analogs,which linked to the homepage.
From there, I started at the beginning.

[Baalzebub]

I started reading the very First one. I never, NEVER start reading a webcomic from the last strip. I always start with the first one. Ditto. :smallsigh:

[Selv]

Wow, I feel old. I was certainly checking for updates in the 2004/05 academic year.

I think I remember The End of the Beginning (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0120.html) being an update. Do those dates fit, or is my memory playing tricks on me?

EDIT: So the research I should have done before posting tells me that GiantITP.com came into being around September 2003. I'd have started reading around 12 to 18 months after that, which seems to fit if updates were weekly or twice-weekly back then.

[DomaDoma]

My sister introduced me during Haley's game of charades in the trial room. I kind of glanced over it and thought it was an entire strip devoted to the fourth wall - the spotlights were that weird. To get me hooked, she showed me the one where Durkon and Hilgya kiss, the one where Miko wants to sleep in the ditch, and, oddly, the one where Elan knows how to mount a horse, which makes no sense if you know nothing about Elan or Belkar.

[dish]

I clicked a link that took me to comic 382 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0382.html), which is right in the middle of several complex story arcs. After puzzling at it for a few seconds I realised I'd have to start from the beginning. Found myself hooked by comic 003, and managed to read through the archives just in time for comic 383. I've been following religiously since then.

[Emperor Ing]

Probably the one where redcloak decides to send in the reinforcements, so i cant find the comic, sue me! :smalltongue:

[banjo1985]

Weirdly I actuall bought the boardgame before I'd heard anything about the actual comic! I then read Origin of PC's and bought the next two main books, so I guess I've gone through the comics in chronological order, go me!

I didn't actuall check out the website until about two months ago.

[Vva70]

I got linked to Up a Level, Down a Level (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0012.html) first. It wasn't the newest at the time, just used as a reference. After reading that, I went to the beginning.

[Rai Thunder]

Mine was #354.
The one with the centipede reference. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0354.html)

"I don't get it."
"Before your time, kid. Before your time."

I love pop culture!

[Sir_Norbert]

Weirdly, I do remember the actual comic.
I don't think it's weird at all.

Mine was #282, the closing speeches at the trial; pretty hard to mistake for any other comic!

Actually, Kimana had linked me to a couple of other strips before, when it tied up with something that was going on in our game, but she linked me to #282 when it came out and I knew then that I had to go back to the beginning and see what this was about. Got to #6 and I was hooked.

(IRT Baalzebub, I didn't choose to start reading it from the latest strip; I didn't know I was going to start reading it until that strip got me interested. See the difference?)

[Icewalker]

I think the story arc was around the bandit camp, the V=lizard, or the starmetal segments of it when I started. I forget exactly where.

[Poukis]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0214.html
...after having a discussion with a friend of mine about paladins :D
Cheers!

[lavidor10]

I was led into this site by a friend and the newest one at the time was number 400 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0400.html)
:smalltongue:
For some unknown reason I decided to read it first, and it was weird. Immediately after that I jumped to the cast page, then proceeded to read every single Oots before 400... the next day 401 came out and I kind of felt just like Roy in that strip.

[nerulean]

I read 001 first, though that was going back through the archives. Don't remember when I actually started reading, but I stopped for a while because I was internetless and re-joined just as Miko fell. That was satisfying.

[titan_monarch]

I started at #150, but then went back and read the whole thing from #1. And I've been hooked ever since.

[SteveMB]

I discovered it by picking up Dungeon Crawin' Fools at Balticon, so I began with the new intro section Rich wrote for the book.

[PhallicWarrior]

I think I started when the bandit camp b-plot was in full swing. I read it, thought it was the awesomest thing ever, and went back to the beginning to read through it up to that point. I introduced my sister, about halfway through when she started asking what I was laughing at. I had to read it out loud to her, and thus had to come up with a specific voice for each and every unique character. (Even the girls, which i awkward when some of my friends who don't read the comic hear me reading Haley and Elan's bit from #395-400.)

[Lord_Butters_I]

I came in on comic 317 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0317.html)

[Tach13]

I started with number 270. In an online D&D game we were talking about wine for a group of hirelings, and he mentioned there were other things to be done with wine. I read it, laughed really hard, and then started at the beginning and read until I caught up.

[Pyro]

I started at 329 and didn't get what was happening so I read the entire archive.

[Xiander]

Afriend linked me to comic one. It took me a week or so to ge through the archives. and when i did the newest comic was this: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0114.html

Damn, i am among the earliest readers on this thread
:smallsmile:

[Chronos]

On another message board I'm on, the injunction against Detect Evil (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0228.html) served as the springboard for a spirited discussion about the ethics of the use of various forms of searches by law enforcement officers. Since the OP had of course linked to the comic, I read it, and a few before and after. Then, a couple of weeks later, someone else linked to Vaarsuvius' deduction about Elan and Nale (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0397.html), in response to a comment that the Evil Twin is a tired old cliche. So I read that comic, too, as well as a few before and after it. Then I realized that things weren't making any sense, reading piecemeal like that, so I went back to the beginning and read them all through in order, and now I'm hooked.

[Ithekro]

I think I made a passing look at the comic once before, but it didn't strike my fancy (I don't even remember when that was). I hit it again the comic V disappears in the face of the charging hobgoblin army and marked it for reading while Hinjo is being attacked on the wall by ninja.

[Tmabbbb]

The first comic I read was #337. After that, I went back to #1 and continued from there. Fortunately, that took me so long that I forgot important information from that comic: Nale broke out of prison, Nale kidnapped Julia, etc.

[TheBoneSplitter]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0424.html

"Paper beats rock." :smallbiggrin:

[Celébrith]

I was having a debate with someone over on the BioWare boards about what the uses of clerics were (I personally think they are more than just healers), and my "opponent" linked to the strip where they all imagine Durkon as a band-aid box. Click Here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0006.html) And I got hooked on :elan: and :vaarsuvius: .

[Jops]

I don't remember which one was the last page at the time, but still one of the very early ones. I started reading Oots when it was first plugged on OnlineComics.net.
Oddly enough i was attracted by the artwork. My thought was "These are definitely the finest stick figures ever!"

Came for the art, stayed for the humor and still reading to enjoy both. :P

[Setra]

119, maybe a couple earlier. I know it wasn't after 120. Because I can specifically remember looking at 120 and not being able to click next.

[Hushdawg]

Waaaaaaaaaaay back around strip #34 I was introduced to OOTS.

I had blogged about how complex that combat math had gotten since a bard joined our party and then three days later a friend emailed me that strip to show that I'm not the only one with that problem.

then, like everyone else, went back to Comic #1 and read everything current.

When Rich published the first book I didn't pre-order and took my chances.

I've pre-ordered every single book since then.

[shakes019]

For me, it was around 135. I don't remember exactly which strip was current, but either PVP or Penny-Arcade had sent me here, and it was during the interim between the destruction of Dorukan's Gate and the side quest for the star metal.

I remember that #135 was the first strip that I forwarded to someone else.

[BobTheFerret]

The first OotS I read was a link to 'Double the Entendre, Double the Fun'. Then I read the series from the beginning.

[David Argall]

Pretty much guessing, but definitely before Roy asks "How bad can it be", as I can recall the wait and disappointment that the nasty details were offstage.

It was a great deal later before I became a regular tho. You try to follow 200 comics and you get an impossibly long favorite's list, or you get something like http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/latest/ to let you know which ones have just posted.
Been here a long time, but only recently started hitting the forums.

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

#215. Taking Charge. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0215.html)

I read this one, went backwards about 6 strips and then decided to read it from the beginning.

[Snake-Aes]

I think I had an Evilgasm. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0197.html)

I fell in love for it the moment I saw it.

[Selv]

Dang, all this talk of links has jogged my memory. The first Burlew strip I read was the Guest (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/GuestStrips.html) one at 8-bit theater.

It was the line "I'm walkin' on sunshine" that really got me*, though in retrospect "My personal life is not on trial here!" is more typically Burlew.

*(I am open to the possibility that this makes me a terrible person, as does the way I can't stop lauighing at a distraught Sovellis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvo7UMc-sYo&mode=related&search=))

[Bucephalus]

i read this one (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0423.html) when it was posted in a facebook group, found the site, then started at the begining.

[redcodekevin]

As a Magic player I was introduced to it in #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0049.html), where oh the irony of booster opening is displayed. It looked really funny so I went straight to #1.

[Accountant]

I stumbled upon the strip around Elan's speech on the walls, read the strip for about a week, then went back to the first strip and started reading from there!

Wow, I was actually the exact same strip.

[mikeyq6]

It was #323, where V gets covered in slime by the owlbear. I found the link from wikipedia when I was looking around at some stuff related to D&D (I can spend hours on wikipedia just jaunting around from topic to topic...) I was hooked straight away and read the whole story from the beginning.

Now I hang out for each strip, like some web-comic junkie... :smalleek:

[gnomas]

when i learnt about the comic it was the one where v fixes the wall. i started from the beginning immediatele. (and the comic didnt update untill i finished)

[Imrahil]

I've been with the site since #192 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0192.html). A friend sent me the link when it first came out, and "sacrificing minions" made me a committed reader.

[Sage in the Playground]

The one where Haley changes the time of day by saying "Later that evening"

[Belkar's Left Foot]

I was linked to the first one and read from there, the latest one I got to the end was this one. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0335.html)

[Tolkien_Freak]

I don't know when exactly I started (I read through the archives first), but the first comic I had to wait for was 409 - Miko looks like she's about to kill Belkar. Again.

[Dugray]

Started with #17 and been here since. I still have my autographed Dungeon Crawling Fools from the pre-order he did so he could quit his dayjob.

[Elderac]

Like many others, I don't remember the first comic. I do remember I had to go back and start from the first one. It was early in the series, back in the dungeon and way before the first book came out, back in the day when we only got two updates a week.

[Wonton]

I started when #216 was the new comic (the one where Roy fights the half-ogre with the spiked chain). A thread on the Wizards of the Coast message boards, which I was very actively reading at that point, cropped up, discussing the fairness and abuse of spring attack, and linked to the strip. I read the strip, then spent the next two days reading the previous ones, and have been a regular reader since. :smallbiggrin:

I have yet to buy a book.... :smallredface:
but once I earn some money, I will buy OotPCs and SoD, I swear!

[Harry Joy]

I started reading the strip when it was only a few weeks old or so. There weren't many strips at all. Nor sure if I heard about it at ENWorld or in my gaming group first. Might have been about the same time. But I didn't start reading regularly, as in, waiting with some anticipation for updates, until it was several months in. I'd remember about the bookmark, and play catch up at various times. Even once I became a regular reader, I'd let days pass and read three or four at once.

Don't do that no more, and I can't recall which strip turned me into a manic reader, but I am now.

[jeffh]

#1. I thought it sucked and didn't read the strip again until well past #100, but I soon learned the error of my ways.

I tell my players to start at #13 and read a bunch from there, going back to the first 12 when they feel like it. Don't get me wrong, I have learned to appreciate the D&D jokes in the very early strips, and in fact they are among the most-quoted at my table, but I don't think those very early ones make as engaging an introduction to the strip as I would prefer.

[Kurien]

I do believe the latest comic that was up when I first started reading was http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0417.html
However, the moment I reached this site and went to the comic, I didn't read the current one at that time; instead, I went straight to the very first. I took a few days to read the entire comic, so by the time I finished all the posted comics, the next comic had already been posted.

[Em Blackleaf]

I started reading it at #1, but I've glanced at my brother's computer screen one time and it was #53. See, They're Flying, Because It's an Air Sigil. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0053.html)

[Plactus]

#24 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0024.html) was the first one I read, and then I proceeded to start from the beginning and read all the strips that were up. When I started, #350 was the newest one; by time I'd finished, #351 had been posted.

[Darkstar90]

When I first started, Belkar was at the barbarian guild fighting the three barbarians. And the latest one was the one where Shojo through the digested skeleton of the drunken wizard NPC at Roy.

[Ezlo]

It was actually Shojo's death comic. I read that one just to see what the comic was like, and was awed by the amount of story in just one strip, so i read the whole archive then and there. Also Erfworld, and read the gaming articles, and the Duke's Wolf.

[Sye216]

My bro introduced me to Oots, but before I started, he showed me this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0367.html) comic. And then I went back to the beginning.

[admerwill]

The first one that i read was 1, BUT the comic was up to 198

[Siwenna]

The first one I read was #353, and after that I pretty much forgot about the comic until I saw someone else mention it. After that I read through the archives. At that point I think it was up to around #400, but I'm not really sure.

[Baru]

270 Dueling Egos (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0270.html)

[Woof]

Hmm I *think* it was the comic when Eugene appeared to Roy while everyone was asleep. I've still got that bookmarked (accidentally) on my laptop, don't think I would have remembered otherwise.

[Oberon]

When the comic was nearing the end of the 200's, and I had never heard of it, a friend of mine at a dnd seesin receited almost all of 216 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0216.html) from memory.
I then checked out comic one.. then two.. and by the next morning I was pretty much caught up, and waiting for the new one to update

[Rare Pink Leech]

Like all webcomics, I start reading from #1. OOTS was around #55 then. The only reason I remember this is because only a few weeks after I started reading did the one-on-one battles with the Linear Guild begin, which was a pretty big thing, because Rich released a strip a day. It was even advertised on the banners in the site and everything. Since OOTS was updated Monday-Thursday then, that would be ~4-6 strips before the one-on-one battles began.

[Impikmin]

The one where Hinjo is taking Belkar, Tsukiko, and that archer out of jail. Then I read the whole thing up to a few comics after that in a week or so.

[the_tick_rules]

i started at #1, is there any other way to do it?

[Aethir]

I started at 432, I only remember because I accidentally clicked on the newest comic button while I was reading through the backlog.

[prongs43]

Um, it was a comic that was a little bit before the one with the Winged Buffalos.

[[Insert Neat Username Here]]

First the one in Dragon about attacks while grappled.
Then the one where durkon calls "able to be picked by a rogue a pretty serious defect"

[BigDumbFighter]

The first comic I read was 400. Admitedly, it made a little more sense the second time around.

[Gallanoth]

I started around #300 but I began with number one

[WoDHells]

Elan was about to get rescued from the bandits.. in fact, the first one I remember reading was when he got caught with the sorceress..

[Snipers_Promise]

I got in just when v made the giant soldiers.

[Stormzen]

The comic that was up when I started was #259, and about 5 seconds later it was #260. I read through the archives in 2-3 days and have been reading it to this day.

[Wulfolme]

The first one I ever read was #130. Free standing joke every other panel, with a zinger at the end. Awesome. I then read through the whole archive, been reading ever since.

I found OOTS when it was listed on a webcomic popularity poll that was linked to by Penny Arcade. That's also how I found CtrlAltDelete. I'm not sure how I found and started reading Penny Arcade, and it's alarming to think I might never have discovered OOTS had the event that started me reading it not occured. I would have found CAD eventually, as the first webcomic I ever read, 8 bit theater, would have led me there about 2 years later in a strange faked takeover crossover they did. I was led to 8bit by a hilarious FFVII spoof flash I discovered on newgrounds that had an FF1 sprite preloader, also hilarious. I found Newgrounds because of my friends telling me about a fun flash shooting game. It was a sequel, and on its opening screen was a link to the original, which said 'Great for storyline freaks!' which I am one of. The original was hosted on Newgrounds. I met the aforementioned friends at elementary school. However, some time later, I saw Dungeon Crawlin Fools at a warhammer n' D&D store I used to go to all the time, so I might have been intrigued by this and discovered OOTS that way.

Welcome to my brain. KEEP YOUR HANDS AND THOUGHTS INSIDE THE RIDE AT ALL TIMES.

[Shatteredtower]

I was there at the dawn of the 3.5th age of Elan...

[Gefangnis]

I think 008 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0008.html) was the latest comic when I started reading.

[nephtis]

Somebody on the wizards boards mentioned it and gave a link to #1 (I think on the art gallery in a discussion of 'all I can draw is stick figures and that's no way to portray a hero') and I checked it out.

I read to about #20, and when there still was a 'next' button I clicked the list and discorvered that there were about 350 strips available... Took me a while to read all of those and I even bought the books to be independend from my computer and internet access.

[Kresalak]

I joined 3 years ago, and I'd been reading for at least a few months before that, so since sometime around the end of the Dungeon of Durukon arc.

[Porthos]

It was within a couple of weeks of this one (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0143.html), although I don't recall which one it was exactly. I remember that it was right around that time because my gaming group found the idea of retconning a surprise round (and forcing the monsters off the stage) because their horses should have gotten a Spot Check absolutely hilarious. They wouldn't stop talking about the strip in general, so I finally checked it out.

The rest, as they say, is history. :smallbiggrin:

[skywalker]

I started reading around late last spring, so about 150 or so comics ago? Somewhere in the 280-320 range?

I know the first comics I read were the spot check comic, the "Wooo, I'm invisible" comic, and the one with the Ogre with the spiked chain. Mainly because I'm a rules-lawyer and my DM pointed those out to me because I'd get a kick. I think I liked this comic more when it was about rules mix-ups and etc. and less about the drama, although I also love me some drama.

[TigerHunter]

#337. I immediately went back and re-read from the beginning, though.

[chpicker]

I actually remember exactly which strip was the latest when I first came to the site: the Magic Mouth (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0324.html). I don't remember how I found it; probably a link from another comic that I was reading at the time. As a long-time D&D player who started with the red-box Basic D&D set back in 6th grade, it didn't take long for me to be totally hooked on this comic.