OoTS #531 is up!

[Fenes]

That's in the regular strip, not sure where exactly. After they split the loot from the black dragon, I think, Durgan comes back and interrupts Haley reading a letter from a duke holding her father captive and demanding ransom.

 

[DaveMage]

He clearly isn't, so we can surmise that there are still plenty of readers enjoying the strip as much as ever...maybe even more such readers than ever before.

No, you can't surmise that readers are enjoying it, but you are correct that people appear to be visiting. I read it, but it's been disappointing to me. (Though I hold out hope it will get better.)

The chart you showed seemed to indicate it has topped out, though. No great rise in readership within the last year or so - pretty flat overall.

 

[Gez]

My guess is that he just introduced the place in that scene so that he could use it now.

The place was actually introduced here.

 

[Greylock]

Thanks, folks.

 

[Jdvn1]

I vaguely recall reading somewhere (the Origin of the PCs?) that Haley's father is being held hostage by a Thieves' Guild and she needs a huge amount of money to free him.

Maybe that was in Greysky.

Although that was Haley, the listed place was Tyrinar.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0131.html
Admittedly, Tyrinar is a nation, not a city.

 

[Jdvn1]

The place was actually introduced here.

Y'know, I read that, and re-read that, and I kept missing it. Good catch!