A stick-figure Dungeons and Dragons party in a story that turned genuinely epic somewhere around strip four hundred.
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The Order of the Stick sits in Webcomics under Laugh, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Long-running strips with archives measured in thousands. Start at the beginning; you will not, but the option is there.
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Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Beautifully drawn strips that set up a sweet premise and then take it somewhere very dark in the final panel.
Four-panel strips whose punchline usually involves death, drawn by two Germans with impeccable comic timing.
Victorian engravings cut apart and given modern dialogue, producing jokes no other format could quite deliver.
Stick figures on romance, sarcasm, maths and language, with a second joke in the alt text of every single strip.
Australian satire in short sharp headlines, which is roughly the national attention span for domestic politics.
A team counted every squirrel in Central Park and published the data, the maps and a full illustrated report on the findings.
Cecil Adams' archive of exhaustively answered daft questions, invented decades before you could just ask the internet.
Flick the switch on. A small hand reaches out and turns it off again. That is the entire website and it is somehow enough.
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