I've spent the last three days feverishly refreshing my browser desperate for an update. Not about anything vitally important, you understand. I'm not glued to the Pistorius bail hearing.
No my attention is caught by a web comic.
I've been reading Order of Stick since.... 2007? Which sounds along time ago until you realise that the comic has existed in its current on-line form since 2003- it will be 10 years old this year!
You might have heard about the comic because of it's record-setting kickstarter fundraiser in 2012, which raised over a million dollars to fund reprints of the print editions of the comic book. Despite it's wide spread fame and popularity I'm always amazed by how many people haven't heard of it.
The comic focuses on a role playing adventure party. It's very funny. More than that it's well written. This week the writer and creator, Rich Burlew shocked his audience by revealing something he had been foreshadowing for years without most people having an inkling of what was going to happen.
And now I'm even more invested in it than usual- instead of checking it out for an update twice a week or so I'm doing it a couple of times an hour. Sadly OOTS (as Order of the Stick is known to its fans) isn't updated on a regularly basis at the moment as Rich, known as "The Giant" to fans was in a serious accident last year and still recovering. So there's nothing I can do but keep hitting the refresh until the next installment appears.
OOTS isn't the only web comic I read devotedly- I've decided to run a series for a couple of months called weekly web comic to talk about my favourites!
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