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[diaglo]

Summon Boot...amazing.

Das Boot.

 

[evildmguy]

While I understand the sentiment (move the A plot forward), I always feel weird reading these threads. I feel like I'm severely in the minority for enjoying the B, C, and D plots and the character moments in the "builder strips" and "filler strips" and so on.

Tangents are our friends, people!

I am with you. I love it all!

edg

 

[Simm]

I MUST LEARN THIS SPELL!

I wonder if it's bigby. Bigby's Punting Foot or somthing.

 

[Drowbane]

"Eugene's Boot to the Head"?

Bigby was all about the various types of B-slap.

edit: I don't get the "meh, filler strip!" crowd either. All OoTS updates are precious to me... some are just more so.

 

[Rechan]

"Eugene's Boot to the Head"?

I was hoping someone would make that reference.

/Quan Leap Adept

 

[Presto2112]

I think the fanbase has changed.

Many humor webcomics move towards plot and away from humor over time, often slowly losing old fans who liked the humor and slowly gaining new fans who like the plot.

Oots has still held on to some of the humor, for good and for ill.

What ill? I haven't seen any ill since the depths of the Miko story arc.

If the plot doesn't go forward, but there's funny, GREAT! If it's not particularly funny, but something about the arc is revealed, super! I haven't seen a strip in months where at least one of those two did not occur.

 

[dmccoy1693]

Note to self: create a Summon Boot spell and talk my DM into letting me use it in game.

 

[Presto2112]

Will it be a boot composed of force (Evocation) or an actual super-sized boot (conjuration [creation])?

Note to self: create a Summon Boot spell and talk my DM into letting me use it in game.

 

[Asmor]

Will it be a boot composed of force (Evocation) or an actual super-sized boot (conjuration [creation])?

The latter, obviously. That way there's no SR!

 

[Deset Gled]

While I understand the sentiment (move the A plot forward), I always feel weird reading these threads. I feel like I'm severely in the minority for enjoying the B, C, and D plots and the character moments in the "builder strips" and "filler strips" and so on.

Tangents are our friends, people!

It's kinda like the hard jump puzzle in a video game. At the time, it annoys the crap out of you and takes forever to learn, but in the end you realize that it was the learning that made it fun, and that the game would be a cheap, unfullfilling win without it.

Builder strips are critical to flushing out the plot, rounding out characters, and making the comic great as a whole. But they don't satisfy the desire for fulfillment of the story, and can be disapointing at their release when you only get an update every couple of days. They're much more enjoyable at a second read-through when the whole story arc is complete.