Both the origin books are totally worth reading. They’re just so short. 
I won’t leave it up past the end of the day (so’s to not step on Rich’s toes), but here ya go.
You, sir, are a prince among men. I shall drink a toast in your honor this evening!
shantih, OTOH, has been put on a list. 
So I went to a comic book store during lunch today and asked the guy about OOTS. He’d never heard of it.
NEVER HEARD OF IT? I thought. I mean, yeah, I’d never heard of it before about two months ago, but, you know, I’m not the comic book guy and he is.
He asked what it was and I said it was a webcomic in print form and he asked if it was published by Dark Horse. I didn’t think so, but it gave me the idea to look through some old Angel comics for my wife.
I bought one, and was literally halfway out the door when out of the corner of my eye I spied something. I turned towards the rack and there it was, bottom shelf. Start of Darkness.
Comic book guy sold it to me for half off. Score.
Now to resist the temptation to read it before I get my hands on Orgins of the PC.
Don’t worry about that - nothing in Start of Darkness is a spoiler for anything in Origin of the PCs. The only parts where the plots in the two books touch at all is when Xykon kills Roy’s dad’s master, and I don’t think anything is revealed about that event that you wouldn’t already know from reading the regular comic.
What Miller said. Get reading.
Really, there’s not much to spoil about Origins of the PCs. It’s more joke than storyline, and what parts of it are relevant have pretty much already come up in the main comic.
I had the opposite experience - my comic book guy didn’t have them in stock, but he seemed very impressed that I had heard of OotS. He started telling me how it was a terrific comic and how it was impossible to get hold of them; I made sympathetic noises, went home and ordered the prequels from Rich’s website.
Man, Haley’s a smooth liar. Guess you’d have to be, if you were her class. And she’s smart enough to realize that arguing with Elan about Tarquin is, at this point, a waste of time, and that he’ll need to figure things out for himself.
Though I’m not sure - will Elan be upset with the inevitable discovery of his father’s evilness, or at least somewhat pleased at how dramatic the revelation will doubtlessly be?
Man the artistic style got me again. I spend ten minutes trying to figure out what the symbolic ramifications of the post-coital future former Mrs. Tarquin carrying an egg were.
Then I realized it’s just the doorknob. :smack:
Ha, I wondered that for a bit too. And what is Tarquin doing with his egg, juggling it?..oh!
Word. I came where to say exactly that.
Oh, and Little Nemo? Haley cleavage is never gratuitous. And I’m patiently waiting for her hair to grow back.
I still can’t figure out just why she looks so nekkid in that first panel. I mean, we’re not really seeing anything more than we did in the evening gown she was wearing a few strips ago.
Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
It’s a psychological thing. We’ve sen her cleavage lots of times before, to say nothing of midriff but here she’s in bed and she’s showing shoulders and cleavage. Ergo, she’s at least topless or even . . . naked.
'Scuse me a minute.
I’ll be in my bunk.
It’s good Elan had fun with his dad.
The skeletons in the ball pit were a nice touch.
And the giant statue of Elan’s dad beheading the peasant.
I took me a minute to figure out I’m supposed to read the entire page from left to right. But I still feel I’m missing some of the subtleties of the panel placements. Is there a pattern I’m missing?