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It had only the most trite sort of dungeon crawling story about delving into a stereotypical dungeon to defeat a stereotypical villain. It had no apparent depth, and no obvious ambition beyond landing a punch line at the end of the day's strip. The Order of the Stick began as a very silly very simple fourth wall breaking comic sending up various tropes familiar to anyone that has long experience with Dungeons and Dragons.
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The whole series is free online over at, though you can certainly buy the paper books if you like.more If you also c) said "uhm, that's not how that would work in D&D", then this is 100% the series for you, assuming you can get the stick out of your butt and enjoy a comic.Īlso, this particular entry in the series has perhaps my favorite line in all of comicdom.
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The whole series Does the idea of someone drawing a sign of insanity onto one of those super bouncy balls and throwing it into a room full of paladins both a) make sense to you, and b) make you laugh? If so, then this is the book for you.
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Also, this particular entry in the series has perhaps my favorite line in all of comicdom. If you also c) said "uhm, that's not how that would work in D&D", then this is 100% the series for you, assuming you can get the stick out of your butt and enjoy a comic. The result is something delightfully fresh, fun, satirical, and a joy to read."ĭoes the idea of someone drawing a sign of insanity onto one of those super bouncy balls and throwing it into a room full of paladins both a) make sense to you, and b) make you laugh? If so, then this is the book for you. He avoids them deftly, or is careful to twist them just enough to make them strange and wonderful again. He's obviously aware of the corny villains, stereotypical heroes, and tired plots that plague the fantasy genre. When these forces run amok, they can turn an otherwise pleasant story into a painful, tedious experience roughly akin to eating a bowlful of someone else's cold puke.īut Rich Burlew knows what he's doing.
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He knows the common pitfalls of fantasy literature: lazy characterization, sloppy continuity, and rampant cliche. "Rich Burlew obviously knows the fantasy genre inside and out. So rather than re-blurb here, I'll just pull a quote out of that that I'm particularly proud of: When these forces run amok, they can turn an otherwise pleasant story into a painful, tedious experience roughly akin to eating a bowlful of someone else's cold puk I actually wrote the intro for this book. So rather than re-blurb here, I'll just pull a quote out of that that I'm particularly proud of: "Rich Burlew obviously knows the fantasy genre inside and out. I actually wrote the intro for this book. * A brief recap of the first two books by Vaarsuvius! * Foreward by Pat Rothfuss, New York Times-bestselling author of The Name of the Wind! * A two-page tourist's guide to Azure City!
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* Extensive author commentary, providing insight that he will likely regret revealing almost immediately! * More than 15 bonus comics that expand the story as it unfolds! Only slightly briefer than its namesake, War and XPs is a mammoth 288-page comic book that weighs in at over 2 pounds of comedy and covers all of the OOTS comics between #302 and #484-but we didn't stop until we crammed more than 30 pages of never-before-seen bonus material into this book, too! Check it out: Continuing directly from the story in the award-winning No Cure for the Paladin Blues, this book is a must-have for those who have been collecting the entire The Order of the Stick story in print format. Read in white-knuckled edge-of-your-seat anticipation as the Order leads the charge in a massive siege that makes the Battle of Thermopylae look like a sorority car wash. Follow the continuing adventures of Roy, Haley, Elan, Durkon, Vaarsuvius, and Belkar as they persevere prophecies, revenge, true love, heroic battles, villainous treacheries, tragic falls, and one swingin' party. Read in white-k The epic battle between good and evil becomes more epic-y than ever in the long-awaited third volume in The Order of the Stick story, War and XPs. The epic battle between good and evil becomes more epic-y than ever in the long-awaited third volume in The Order of the Stick story, War and XPs.