I thought it might be the MITD, following Alessan’s guess that it was tied to Zeus in some way. But we see Zeus in two strips during the prequels.
I thought of the Hellish Telephone scene involving Lee and Tiamat, but Tiamat shows up in a few strips too.
LOL, maybe it’s the Slaad from the Deva’s childbirth scene?
I agree with your logic on it being some deity or the equivalent.
EDIT: would one of the Vector Legion we didn’t see much of, make sense? I don’t see it, but then I don’t see how a deity popping into the story now would make sense either.
How about Haley’s Aunt Ivy? Or Haley’s mom? Pretty sure both have appeared in only one strip each. Too bad cousin Jiminy has appeared in two strips; he’d be a lot more fun, I think. Oh, I know, Jiminy’s cat.
Damn it! On the Dan cite. I really thought he was a one strip joke.
Origin counts? Does Start of Darkness, or Snips, Snails…? Or the Kickstarter stories?
I see what you mean with the Aunt Ivy crack. After a while, it gets silly. I mean, we might as well nominate Banjthulu… I’m so glad we have OOTS to discuss again.
Note that, if that list is based on the “Number of Character Appearances” thread (it probably is; I can’t imagine anyone else independently tracking such things), then speech bubbles by the characters also count as “appearances”, which might or might not be what Rich means.
Unfortunately, it’s not possible to refer directly to the Number of Character Appearances thread, as the GiantITP message boards have been down for a couple of weeks.
This is correct. Barry White is an example of a character who is listed as appearing in the strip even though it was just a playing of one of his records.
I believe Burlew has said that the OOTS strips that appeared in The Dragon are not canon (although Belkar once referenced something from them in the main strip).
Otherwise, I might have picked Psteve as my guess for one strip character who will appear in this arc.
Psteve is pdead though. And was a one-joke wonder.
On Julia - I did wonder if she was dead, although I assumed that this was more likely to just be some form of magic comms. However, just once I’d like to see Roy push back against his family’s abuse. I know it’s out of character (and comic style) but right now I could really use him saying “Fuck you, Julia - you got yourself kidnapped; I just stopped the gods from destroying the entire universe. So just say your slacker bullshit and piss off.”
My two copper pieces is that it will be someone who was in the background of an Important Group. Like we’re being introduced to a god or a ruler or the leader of a guild, and the focus is on one character, and then Mr./Ms. One-Strip Wonder is one of the people shown standing there.
As for the current strip: Julia might be a brat, but at least she’s better company than Eugene.
Not a deal breaker. Three of the seven current members of the group have been dead at some point. As far as formerly dead members are concerned, the Order of the Stick is right up there with the Justice League of America.
Roy and Durkon have been dead. To my knowledge Belkar, V, Hayley and Elan haven’t been. Unless you count Belkar being dead in phantasm space, which I don’t. What am I missing? And where do you get seven? If you count “pets” it’s nine. If you don’t, it’s six.