OOTS #274- Discussion Thread (Tuesday comic! Woo!)

[The Giant]

Special Tuesday OOTS is up. The crayon saga continues.

[Deuce]

Well that narrows the pantheons a bit, and explains why V's not making toys. :)

Great strip Giant!

[Flux]

One word - WOW

[thatwolfguy]

i love the crayon

ninjas were created by the monkey - hee hee

great work giant

(wow, first time i ever made the first page)

[SteveMB]

Well, I guess now we know how ninjas got into a pseudomedieval fantasy world....

[Max_Sinister]

Now that explains why noone ever heard of the eastern pantheon. D*mn... that snarl really must've been powerful...

[The Giant]

The Voice of Mod: For the record, any post that says nothing but "First page!" or "First post!" and contributes nothing to the topic will be deleted as spam.

[Flux]

How do the people in the East worship that pantheon if those gods have all been killed off?

[xrestassuredx]

Yay for daily comics! I guess that's why poor Zeus and the gang haven't been around ..

[The Giant]

How do the people in the East worship that pantheon if those gods have all been killed off?

There are no people of the East any more. That was referring to the first world, which was destroyed. This is why in yesterday's strip, no one had ever heard of Gods of the East, because there isn't a land called "The East" in the current world.

[rosebud]

I t lo ok s l i k e you 're ov er l y p o p u l a r a g a in . Sit e sl o w ri g h t n ow .

O r th e sn a r l of th e un i v er s e d o es n 't w a n t it s s to r y to ld.

[Omellette]

Beauty, Rich!

It's so nice to see the namby-pamby gods from the Greek pantheon given their come-uppance for once!

:-)

And of course, LOVE the crayon.

[SITB]

The best part was:"Twenty seven minutes later the univearse was undone"

Lousy gods doing subpar job...

[jogom]

Then, Olimpus Mount Resort has vacancies!

[Midnight Son]

Ninja Monkeys? That would be cool!

I love how The Giant continually pokes fun at ninjas in a medieval European setting.

[sednanalien]

Man! I really love crayon sagas! Keep it up Rich.

Anyway, 27 minutes to destroy nearly everything...OWWWW!

I wonder why reality is Purple?

[slowly_insane]

Yay (claps hands in glee like a little girl)!!!! Tuesday comic! And I'm so happy that I get to read it the day it came out-Giant, you rock, and crayon stick figures rock too!

[Loghren the Barbarian]

I say: NINJAS! ;D

Good stuff. Still diggin' the crayons for story telling.

[Quixote]

Oh my god... that is... BRILLIANT.

[Kanashimi]

I love the crayon Tangle Monster. Sooooo awesome, and destroys EVERYTHING in 270 rounds. With enough time left over to move 30 feet!

That's not too bad for killing a pantheon and the universe

[dylosaur]

Great comic. Extra long and on a tuesday?
Also, kudos on the crayons. Even better than yesterday.

[Ilaun_Undil]

It is good to know that at once Thor and Loki worked together, in quasi peace at least.
kinda ruins all the Knot of Doom ideas though.

[Amalthea]

1) The Snarl is the best D&D All-Powerful Evil Force ever.
2) Poor Eastern Gods.
3) Did anyone else notice that each of the Eastern Gods was identifiable with the Greek god they parodied? Down to Aphrodite clad only in her hair.
4) MONKEYS! NINJAS! Where are the PIRATES?
5) Was that Freya arguing with the Monkey?

Finally...
as one who was born in the Year of the Monkey, I take full responsibility for inclusions of ninjas in medieval settings. ;D

[Alfryd]

Rich is posting additional, consistently humorous comics in a timely fashion this week! Black is white and up is down! My world is crashing down around me!

"The Story is continued- tomorrow!"
GAAAAAAAAH!
And yet, I feel oddly comforted.
(Seriously, good work.)

I am enlightened! I see now the hidden plan behind the gaping anachronisms and incongruous geographical juxtapositions that plague the D&D continua!
No, wait, it's still nuts. But now we can blame someone specific.

[Greebo]

What ninja?

[Istielthia]

Oh, the poor Greeks, they never had a chance.

Its a wonder that the new world was even able to get new gods to join (ie V's elven god of knowledge)
Personally, I'd be scared to rule a world that had "The Evil Snarl of Doom" anywhere near it.

Great comic, thanks Giant!

[petermarcus]

In real life, it takes cultures many generations and many people, usually starting with oral myths, to come up with the story of the creation of the universe.

Only Rich could handle crayon cosmogony for his own.

(that's a compliment. ;) )

[rosebud]

Okay, it finally loaded.

Favorite line, the obvious one: "OK, my turn. Ninjas."

Favorite character: Hmm, tough call. I really like the doomed man who looks like he just ran into a glass wall and the mouth of the snarl is most excellent. I think I'll have to go for the monkey, though. On second though, monkey wins best line, man in the yellow shirt wins for best expression.

Hey, are those shadows I see? The old world seems 3-D with perspective and the planet seems to have volume and shading with black crayon. Oh, cool, you can also see the pencil marks laying out the scene (especially in what looks like Apollo). I guess this world really is made of threads!

I'm a little curious how close the scan looks like the original.

[SimonMoon5]

Hmmm.

Some unanswerable ponderables:

When an entire pantheon dies, does the afterlife they set up go away too? In other words, what happens to the souls of their (now dead) worshippers? Do the gods get to go to an afterlife? And if so, if their afterlife is gone, do they get to go to another pantheon's afterlife?

:)

[RawBearNYC]

OK, Rich.

I've been able to quietly ignore other references to Ninjas as coincidence, but now you're doing this on purpose just to keep me from breathing!!!!