When did you start reading this comic?

[d'Bwobsling]

So this thread has undoubtedly been posted several times, but I havn't seen it recently, so instead of being guilty of thread necromancy I decided to start a new thread.

I tuned in just as they were leaving Sunken Valley

[Lira]

I think I started around strip #451.

[Morty]

The very first OoTS strip I've seen after clicking someone's signature was this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0222.html) one.

[tribble]

An introduction to comparative theology or Sort of like a reverse psion.I actually started several days before that, but it took those days to reach the current strip, so by the time I got to that point, the strip had changed.

[T-O-E]

The comic I saw when I started reading was when Elan made an illusion of a celestial lion near the ship.

[chiasaur11]

Started actually reading at Celia, Belkar and Haley. Gnome killing.

First read it at the resistance's battle against Tsukiko.

Yeah, I'm kinda new.

[Thant]

The first comic I saw was the one my friend was reading at the time (more than yr and half ago) - "colon tumor" - and loved OotS ever since:smallsmile: But I became an active reader around Feb 2008

[NerfTW]

I had read a few times before, mostly people linking to it, but I never felt like plowing through the first storyline to where the plot started. (Specifically, the linear guild)

At 327 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html), I was linked to it and laughed, so I tried again. No go. Then I stopped reading for a few weeks and when I came back I saw 336 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0336.html) and wondered why the Elan character had some freaky evil dream form. By the time the next comic was up where I would have seen that it was Nale, I had managed to read through the Linear Guild storyline and was hooked.

[Querzis]

I remember it was only a few strip after 200, when Miko appeared. It took a while before I joined the forum though.

But I really wanna know: is there anyone around here who was already reading the comic in the first 20 strip?

[Emanick]

I started reading in the 390s, and the last one I read before I had to wait was 397.
Which sort of ruined the next few ones until I got used to the harsh reality of waiting for the Giant. :smallfrown:

[Gamerlord]

I started at about strip #500

[Spiryt]

Around this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0228.html). I don't remember exact strip, but around thit.

The first one I've ever seen was unforgetable 20 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0020.html) :smallbiggrin:

[NerfTW]

I remember it was only a few strip after 200, when Miko appeared. It took a while before I joined the forum though.

But I really wanna know: is there anyone around here who was already reading the comic in the first 20 strip?

Extremely possible, especially given this link. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7333&highlight=order+stick)

[Lord_Drayakir]

I started reading on the strip where Miko "figures out" that the Order of the Stick is working together with Xzyieiokllllon.

[Veneficus]

I first started reading at the start of the bandits story :smallsmile: , i wonder how long ago that was...:smallsmile:

[dps]

I registered on March 19, so right around #541.

[Yoritomo Himeko]

I started reading right around the time when Elan and Nale were switched, just about there the Cliffport chief was killed and Elan was jailed in Nale's place. That was around October of 2006, I think.

I didn't start reading the boards until about June of 2007. By then I was totally hooked on the comic.

[Haleyintraining]

I started reading around here: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html but the first comic I ever read was 33.

[Warren Dew]

The first time I found the comic must have been pretty early, because I don't remember its having any story line. I read through the comics that were there, laughed at them, and didn't come back for a long time.

The second time was when an acquaintance mentioned #386. I read through the comics that were there, laughed at them, and didn't come back for a while.

The third time was maybe a month or two before I signed up for the forum, so whenever that was. Since then, I check the forum, and incidentally the comic, fairly frequently.

[TehSheen]

I started reading this comic when I bought the book "No Cure For The Paladin Blues". I never even realized when I bought it, that it was constantly updating on this website.

[WarriorTribble]

It was probably a few strips after they defeated Xykon. Before the Elan wants to be a mage part if memory serves.

[Firestar27]

I remember being here for the update when Elan kissed Haley, but not too much before. So just before that big moment. Unless my memory fails me. It was sometime around the beginning of 2007.

Edit: That was when I started reading from the beginning. I had already seen other comics (such as the alignment speech at the trial) referenced on the WoTC forums.

[Ghastly Epigram]

First started reading when it was up to #364, (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0364.html) mainly because my brother pestered me endlessly to. Read the first 20-30 or so comics, then stopped for a little while. Then gave it another go and started reading again when it was up to #391, (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0391.html) and caught up with it by #393 (Which let's face it, is a pretty awesome time to catch up :smallbiggrin:). And I have been following it devoutly ever since. :smallcool:

[Xallace]

I believe my first was shortly before Miko met the OotS.

[tenguro]

Well now, I started reading this when I began playing D&D which was *counts back the years* 4-5 years ago, so....I think it was up to comic 100ish around there I think.

[LuisDantas]

To the best of my recollection, it happened this way:

I was browsing through TV Tropes until I found the article about "Not So Harmless". http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotSoHarmless. Since it had no direct link to the strip in question, I was forced to look around.

One of the first strips I saw, probably the most recent one at the time, was 453 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0453.html) - which explains why I tend to see Hinjo as more of a OOtS member than Roy himself, I guess.

Eventually I found 448 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0448.html), but by then I was hooked already. So it was time to play catch-up from the start.

When I did, the current strip was somewhere between 474 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0474.html) and 520 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0520.html).

Or maybe the article HAD a link to 448 at the time and I needed context. I'm not sure, really.

[Deepkicker]

Still remember the first OotS strip I ever happened upon- 323 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0323.html)
Found a link on some site that lead me here. Read the strip and had no idea what was going on. Then I realized that it wasn't a joke-a-strip comic but an actual cohesive story. I had nothing to do, so I decided to give it a go. Never played D&D before, but I found myself finding some of it funny. By the time the Linear Guild came into it I was hooked. Finished them all in two sittings and 324 was up when I got to the end.

It's funny, I started reading it sometime in 2006, but I only joined the forum on May of this month.

[Grey Watcher]

I can't quite remember. I was already an active reader by the time of the Linear Guild Battle Royale.... And I'm fairly certain I was not yet a reader when the Chimera bought it.... Can't remember whether I started before or after the Linear Guild was first unveiled.....

[Kaytara]

Pretty recently, when Haley, Celia and Belkar set out from Azure City. :) I had tackled the comic in a three-day archive binge and the last few had felt like a bomb countdown... Just a hundred strips left... 50... 20... 10.... ....NOOOOOOOO! Now I must sit in line like the rest!

[Dumbledore lives]

I think I started reading around 200, probably a little after, though it might have been later. It's hard to remember. It was definitely before 300.

[Paragon Badger]

#420

I came in at an awesome part. :smallbiggrin:

[SlightlyEvil]

I started reading during late summer 2007, during the hiatus after 484 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0484.html). I emigrated over from TVTropes, after seeing the comic linked to time and again. I think the first one I read was 397 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0397.html), and I laughed pretty hard even though I didn't really know what was going on.

[bdh5533]

I started reading at strip #32

my buddy had introduced me i'm not sure how he found the site :)

[The Tygre]

I remember coming in around #468, but I most vividly remember the scenes with Haley, Belkar, and the MitD.

[Lissou]

I started reading it when it was on strip 370 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0370.html)
But for some reason I stopped before I reached the end of book 1, So I read strip 370 then strips 1-50 or something.
Then I odered the books, because I thought maybe I'd enjoy the story better on paper. I received them when Start of Darkness was published, and read them all, then finished the archives, which at the time were during the Azure City fight (that would be 1 and a half year ago, something like that.)

So, yeah, I started reading like 2 and a half years ago, but became a regular reader only a year and a few months ago.

[Setra]

A little before 100

It's been a while but I believe it was around here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0087.html)

[Azazel]

Somewhere around the trial for blowing up the dungeon and endangering reality. Of course, the very same day I went to strip #1 and kept reading until the circle completed itself and I could just wait a few days for the continuation of the story. Fanaticism. Love it intensely until it starts looking at you funny and eventually ends up poisoning your morning cereal to get out of everything or don't.

[Remirach]

522 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0522.html) was the newest strip when I was linked, by the time I finished going through the archive it was up to 524.

[RebelRogue]

Around strip 100, I think... I feel old now :smallbiggrin:

[Zolem]

When my cousin showed it too me. The first comic I ever saw was Belkar's test to get into the Barbarian Guild. Ilaughed so hard, when I got home from the party I started reading it. I also started reading 8-Bit Theater. Two great comics revealed to me on the same day. Whoo Haa!

[Deathwisher]

About halfway through the star-mertal quest.

[pendejochy]

I can't remember exactly when (I think they were still at Xykon's lair at the time though) I read my first strip.

I do remember it was around the time that guest comic Rich Berlew made for 8-bit-theater was posted though, because I read about Order of the stick on the forums immediately afterwards, went to this lovely site, and got hooked.

Did anybody else start reading or learn about OotS specifically because of that webcomic?

[Enlong]

The current strip when I joined was the one where the OotS reached Cliffport for the first time:
"If Ears had bothered to learn Teleport"
That one.

[Inhuman Bot]

I started somewhere around the end of the Linear guild arc, as I found a link on the site of Turn Signals on a land raider. http://tsoalr.com/view.php?date=2008-06-11

[AceOfFools]

Oh when did 8-bit theator link OotS in a news post?

I entered after Xykon was defeated but before Haley's item devision trick. Possibly "The Adventurers are Coming," strip. Like a week earlier and I would have ended on the end of the DCF.

Didn't start reading the forums until Haley's criptograms.

Didn't register for the forums until after 4e came out over a growing dissatisfaction with my old stomping grounds: WoTC forums. I had grown bored with the wizzo boards, grown bored enough go back, grown bored again, so decided to register for this board.

... Wood.

[Tricia]

That would be comic #175. I read that one, but it took me a couple weeks due to college classes and such to get back to reading the archives, though.

[Stabbify]

just after #100 I think.

[RTGoodman]

I started actually reading OotS regularly at #401 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0401.html), but I'd seen several older strips (like the one with the spiked-chain half-ogre) linked on other websites.

[The Extinguisher]

It was definitely after the inn sequence, and definitely before the Cliffport fight.

Other than that, I can't tell you. Maybe around the trial. I've got no clue.

[Fri]

Somewhere in 2005, it's been so long I can't remember. But I remember regularly reading OOTS starting sometime around the first meeting with linear guild.

Now, how the hell did I stumbled into OOTS? I can't remember it for my life.

[Linkavitch]

The comic #577. Amazing. I've been reading this since July, and he's only had 11 new comics.

[Texas Jedi]

I have been reading since about the bandits or so....maybe a little afterwards. I read it up to about the time when Miko first appeared and then my new job blocked the website so I didn't really get back into it until around the trial. I have been up to date since then.

I got into it because my Sister-In-Law mentioned OotS and now it is the only comic that she even reads anymore. I have only two I read.

I have been a frequent reader of the comics but just a recent member in the forums.

I have loved the comics and still reread them to keep up to date with what went on in the past.

[David Argall]

My guess is that I started with #29. I didn't become a "check for updates several times a day fan for quite a long time tho and lost track of the strip for awhile too. So I can't be sure. I was reading for sure before Roy tried trap detecting tho.

[Qwernt]

I wish I could remember. I know that it was a long time before I came to the forums (and I left the forums once before as I recall). I think it was somewhere around 15 or so. I certainly remember when the discussion was about Trigak's name and "Evan's Spiked Tentacles of Forced Intrusion".

Edit:
Going through the old filler, I can honestly say, I remember the first time each of those came up - and that puts me reading in Sept of 04 at least. I don't remember which strips were interupted by filler, but I do remember "pineapple chunks" - one of my favorite strips of all time.

[Kobold-Bard]

I remember it exactly. It was #529 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0529.html). I discovered it while looking for a comic to replace Megatokyo which had been dead for a while. I found this and never looked back.

Favourite arc has been the Attack on Azure City, especially Tsukiko, she kicked much ass. I implore The Giant to bring her back, possibly retconning her as a True Necromancer instead of a Mystic Thurge. Meh I'm rambling now, sorry.

:smallbiggrin:Rock On The OOTS.:smallbiggrin:

[shadowpriest]

Time is on my side (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0155.html)
i bless my friend Andrea who showed me this strip and "compelled" me to read all the previous :smallwink:

[Snow]

Long ago, enough to have seen to many post like this one.

As I stated in one of the previous post of this kind around number 2 or 3. I'm not sure today.

[ArtifexFelicis]

This one! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0119.html)

[Sir_Norbert]

This one (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0282.html).

To be precise, my friend Kimana had linked me to a few particular strips before, when they helped illustrate a point she was making, often one relevant to the D&D game we were both in, but it was when she showed me that one (it was the newest one at the time) that I had to go back and read from the beginning.

For those who don't want to click the link, it's the closing speeches at the trial. Not what many people would think of as the main selling-point of OOTS -- it's not exactly funny -- but to me it's very deep and thought-provoking, and it's still one of my favourite OOTS strips.

[DBear]

It was TV Tropes that brought me to this site. It was just before Haley, Celia and Belkar went back to the Oracle.

[Penquin47]

Cliffport. I read the entire archive that same night.

[Borris]

When I first checked the comic, they were still fighting goblins in Dorukan's dungeon, though I can't remember the exact strip. But it wasn't until the Monty Python-esque Polearm Emporium (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html) strip that I started checking the comic at least one a week.

[TigerHunter]

Just before the Order went to Cliffport.

At one point, I looked at the comic number and realized "Holy crap, I've been reading this for half its run."

[SPoD]

Fruit Pie the Sorcerer. Though, like many, I didn't join the forums for a long time.

[drengnikrafe]

I took a full weekend to read the entire thing. The first brand new strip I read was the one with the color coding of danger when Haley was rescuing the people in Azure City. Sometimes I get addicted to it, other times I kind of ignore it for awhile since I don't like who the story is following at the time.

Forums, though... I started after I wanted to get my theories in, so it hadn't been too long after I started reading.

[prongs43]

By the time I finished the archives, which was in a few days, it was on the buffalo strip. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0312.html)

[Half-blood]

# 154, 1 bird, 2 dozen arrows. found Here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0154.html)

[Haruki-kun]

The first time I read through the archives the lates strip was this one. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0365.html) 365, Caught in the act. I found it hilarious, but I wanted to die when I realized I had to wait until Monday to read one more strip.

[Aron Times]

I began reading no earlier than August 26, 2005 (the day that I arrived in the USA). I started with #1 and made it a little after Miko's face was revealed in a day. I'm not the type to read stuff out of order, unless intended by the author, i.e. the Haruhi series.

[paladin_carvin]

Where did I -really- find out about the comic?

In 2006-2007 I used to frequent the cesspool of the internet itself, 4chan. I never enjoyed /b/, but I really like /co/ and a couple others. Anyway, I noticed a comic was popping up a lot (since people often posted the newest comic of a webcomic to discuss it): Order of the Stick. I wouldn't read even a whole comic, since I could always tell it was plot exposition, and I try to never read/watch stuff like that just in case I do get into it. But then... then, I saw one that made me HAVE to read the comic.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html

When I read it, it was the newest comic.

After that, I started my way through the comic. I read slow (I savor, or so I claim) and about then I started going out with the girl who is now my fiance. I was very excited about the comic, and I also wanted to get her into D&D, so I showed that comic and a few others to her. I suggested we read it together, since it seemed a better idea than watching movies together, and she agreed (I'm so happy she 'made it' through the first 10 or so comics where she understood about 20% of what was going on). At that point, I stopped progressing on my own and only read with her. When we finally caught up with the updates, she not only was a huuuge fan but had started playing D&D herself. This would have been around comic... http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0439.html or so. I think that is the first one we both read together and I had not already read it. I know we were together for the shocking update of http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html - I remember because we both kept trying to figure out if he was really dead, or if he 'could have survived' etc.

So yea, ever since we've read almost every comic together, save only a few when one of us traveled or something (and even then, we'd talk about it on the phone later XD )