You can compare it to Erfworld, which somehow manages to update more often and yet take much longer to get anywhere storywise. OotS is much more tightly scripted.
I gave up on Erfworld altogether because of its terrible pacing. Rich takes forever to get anywhere but his individual comics are (generally) entertaining on their own merit.
Eight and a bit books,actually. Plus 2 short stories, several wallpapers, and a lot of single-panel scenes for T-shirts, calendars and ornaments.
I didn’t count Snips, Snails and Dragon Tales because I figured it’s more like a book-length collection of short works that are outside of the main story line.
Snips might not really fit in with the main story, but the bits within it do mostly fit with each other. I’d say it’s fair to call it a book.
Either way, it adds to my point that Burlew is not a slow writer. We’re just reading his work in an unusual format that makes it seem slow.
Maybe so, but when talking about Burlew’s rate of output it still counts.
By my count, including SS&DT we’ve had 1782 pages in 4482 days, or almost exactly 1 page every 2.5 days on average. Not a bad rate at all.
Particularly if you factor in injury time - without the accident, his output would have been higher over the same period.
Also - two short stories? Haven’t there been three? We’ve had the backer-chosen backstories for Therkla and Belkar, plus the “Haleo and Julelan” story. And that’s not counting the two Monster Minis outputs and assorted other Kickstarter rewards (sketches, crayon drawings, etc).
He’s churning out material at quite a high rate, considering.
He’s also resumed his one-page strip in Gygax magazine.
Correct.
That oracle prophecy sure the heck is coming true.
I believe that Roy meant for them to attack the two inside the anti-life shell.
I agree. The clerics see the horde of vampires attacking Roy and are defending him by attacking the vampires. But Roy is thinking strategically; Durkon may not be attacking anyone at the moment but he’s the real threat that needs to be eliminated. So the clerics should have let Roy defend himself and focused their attacks against Durkon.
That raises an issue I hadn’t thought of. If Hel succeeded and the world were to end, how would that count as a happy ending for Elan? Doesn’t the fact that we know Elan will get a happy ending mean Hel’s plan is doomed to fail?
I’d have to check the comic, but my initial response is that he would wind up in a good afterlife (chaotic, if I remember correctly–not that I think it’s really that well delineated in the comic). That’s the whole point for every other god but Hel. They save their followers.
Though that won’t happen, I’m sure. Even if the snarl turns out to be a good thing and does do something to the world, all of our heroes will survive (or die fighting, if you count Belkar).
Except Durkon, who might die at the end of this storyline, as a sweet release from the vampire thrall–though only if he can actually contribute in some way.
Also, Goblin Dan lives long enough to grow old and rich.
Technically, Elan’s prophecy may have already been fulfilled. His “happy ending” was the big illusion right before the last gate. We don’t know for sure that the Oracle was referring to this and not something else, but the Oracle is a sucker for technical predictions, and the strip in question was titled “Happy Ending.”
One of the vamps doesn’t look especially angry. I guess her worst day wasn’t too bad. She’s thirsty though. And now she’s in the power sphere with Durkevil and his thrall. I’m guessing she’s not just another minion.