Perhaps this is the first world in which the mortals have found out about the Snarl and have created gates to prevent it from escaping and destroying the world?
I don’t know what sort of lead time Burlew has in making these but sometimes he has a strip that feels like he’s addressing everyone’s questions from the previous one. This feels like one of those. I could be wrong though and he started making this strip a week before we saw the previous for all I know.
Your math and your reference is off. Wrong brick. Try strip #7 to #1140 for OOTS. 8-bit still wins with #7 to #1221. Interesting that both refer back to the same strip number.
I wonder if a variation on the Dark One’s plan could be used by the rest of the gods to move the snarl to a new prison. I guess it would come back to whether or not there was enough threads of existence for a separate prison without using the ones that currently make up the prime world.
Yeah, Peter Morris mentioned #301 and I didn’t think that the tumor one was earlier so never checked against it.
He doesn’t do strips in advance. If he did, they wouldn’t come out at such irregular intervals. It takes him about 3 days to draw a single strip, and most of the recent ones have been about that far apart. This one was about a week since the last, though.
It does seem eerie that he answered my point about numbering the monuments, since I only made it here and not over at the GitP forum. I didn’t see anyone else make that point, although I only read about half the 1139 thread (it was extra long, 31 pages!) I doubt if he reads even that much of most discussion threads, though.
The snail is also a callback.
The only snail I remember is the crazy munchkin snail from SSaDT. And lasers were just about the only thing he was missing.
Wasn’t there a flail snail at some point reflecting beams?
Alas, poor Milk Dudes. No one remains to remember his chewy goodness.
There wasThe Snail in some out-of-continuity strips, as well.
But at least he’s been avenged. Looks like Soda has taken a level in Dashing Swords-snack, since he makes a pun while attacking. I wonder if he’s using a Pizza-cutter of Legacy.
These are the same guy.
aah, I’m should have recognised the acronym.
I think that’s wrong. Almost in both cases means, “it is not the case that.”
Durkon: Ye did almost (but 'tis no tha case that ye actually) give me friend Elan a colon tumor.
Thor: And you “almost” (but it’s not the case that you) didn’t bring that up.
Thor’s using a double negative to indicate that Durkon DID bring it up. Durkon doesn’t have the double negative: Thor DIDN’T give Elan cancer.
I’m not sure about that, but I’m reasonably certain that Pizza’s weapon is a vorpal blade.
At least, based on the possibility of a cool sound effect.
I thought it was only certain candy bars that could make that sound effect.
I would have gone with “Have the last slice.”
I zoomed in on Soda to see if his headband characters had any decent resolution, and noticed that he had a five-o’clock shadow. 
Over at Kickstarter, Rich’s Workometer is finally mostly filled in; actually he breached the 50% mark years ago. All 10 wallpapers are complete as of today. Lots of work is still ahead though, three of the goals have yet to be started on.
If Rich was a creator in Japan, he would have been working with a staff of at least 3 by now. Thinking it over, there are a lot of RPG based anime coming out right now; it’s a genre. In fact it probably has peaked, though it still has legs. There very well might be Japanese production companies with interest in his strip. Not definitely, but possibly.
I’m guessing that a smart Japanese executive would publish a translation of the strip in manga format, to test audience response. The tricky part would be figuring out how to handle the changes in scope and ambition of Rich’s strip. But Japanese anime creators deal with challenges all the time, often adapting the source material and even improving on it.
The Japanese manga market is pretty deep. Meaning, print runs range from very low to very high and most places in between.