Incidentally, for those who were looking for discussion threads about old comics and couldn't find them... I would like to point you at this thread:
The Discussion Thread Index II, started and maintained by Lira. It can be found in any of the first three pages of "The Order of the Stick" sub-forum (it moves around those, depending on forum traffic and frequence of updates).
She keeps there links to ALL discussion threads for ALL of the previous comics in OotS (except for a few that were accidentally lost during the great forum purge of some time ago).
I think that this resource deserves to be better known.