How did you find O&M?

[GhostWay]

I was wondering how some of the other members here came to find O&M, and perhaps also this forum. No need to divulge as much detail as I have, for I only found the comic but a week ago.<br><br><br>The story of how I found it is rather odd and involves a fair amount of hyperlinkage. Around, oh, 13:00 (EST) on Thursday (Nov 11), I was reading through the comments on the article <a href='http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 44&tid=134' target='_blank'><i>How Journalists Distort Science with Balance</i></a> on <a href='http://slashdot.org' target='_blank'>Slashdot.</a> About halfway down the page, I noticed a <a href='http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl ... d=10789102' target='_blank'>particular post</a> with a link to one of DCS' political comics, namely the one from August 2004 entitled <a href='http://www.idrewthis.org/2004/bothsides.gif' target='_blank'>"Both Sides"</a>. I decided I liked his work, and went to read the rest of his commentaries. I was browsing around the rest of the site (in particular, his "past thoughts" section) when I properly noticed the "Oz & Millie" link on the sidebar/navigation frame. I thought to myself, "Self, this is interesting. Apparently, this author/artist, has not one, but <i>two</i> webcomics. Logic would dictate that this second one is either updated less frequently or has a completely different focus than this one." I then replied, addressing myself from the opposite direction, "Well, it you're so interested, then click on it, you clod. No need to theorize about it when it's <i>right there</i>." Realizing that I had a good point, I followed the link, and saw that it was indeed different. I read through the archives, which took up maybe 7 hours spread over the next 2-3 days. Somewhere in that timeframe I realized that I hadn't found a comic, online or off, that I had enjoyed since Calvin & Hobbes, and to a lesser extent <a href='http://www.userfriendly.org' target='_blank'>User Friendly</a>. I then noticed the link at the bottom of the O&M main page pointing here. I follwed it, lurked for a while, joined, lurked a bit more, and then posted.<br><br>Ah well, 'twas a bit more long-winded than I planned, but such things have been known to happen.

[MidnightRealism]

I was doing this thing where I click randomly through links on people's "Links" pages. Lo and behold, I ended up at an intriguing webcomic.

[Dr. Dos]

a long long time ago<br>on a message board far far away...<br><br>Somebody made a post saying WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE WEBCOMICS and linked to about 10 including Ozy and Millie. So I checked them out and read all of those comics still to this day.

[Miles E Traysandor]

I didn't hear about it until the beginning this year, when a friend of mine (who goes by the name of Redtail, not a member here) gave me a link to the site. I started reading it, got hooked, downloaded the entire strip archives and browsed through it over the next couple of days.<br><br>Then I noticed the forum link on the main page (it was in the news at that time), and decided "what the heck, I'll try it out." I initially registered under a different name, but I had 5h change it to this a couple months back.<br><br>At any rate, here I am, 819 forum posts later, currently one of the most active members around. Also, I'm an active member of our <a href='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/chat.html' target='_blank'>Chatroom</a> as well.<br><br>To think that for a while here I was actually inactive. Shame on me! <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Tavis]

Mine was a dive into randomness last year August when a friend had posted a link to a webcomic. Yup, it was not O&M. Actually, I don't remember what comic it was, but anyway, since it wouldn't load, I just started clicking link after link and eventually came upon one with an extreme close-up of Millie. Kinda nice, reminded me of another red fox character of mine, so I thought I'd take a look. After scrolling through the ones mentioned in the site's News section and a quick visit to <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2003/om20030630.html' target='_blank'>Compressed speech</a>, I was hooked.

[Zylo]

A member on a completely unrelated forum I frequented had an O&M banner in his signature. I was bored one Saturday and decided to check it out. By that Sunday afternoon, I had read the entire archive o.O

[VisibilityMissing]

Of all places, I started from a little web comic called "Two Lumps", and found Ozy and Millie on the link page of a now defunct startup web comic. I ended up in the archives while I was trying to catch up on where the story, and actually ended up reading them in reverse order (as is often my approach to life. Cia la vie?)<br><br>As far as forums are concerned, I'm not a member of very many. I started out in computers in the days of Gopher, 2400 K modems and BB services, and had some experience sorting through them (search engines have come a long way!). This ended up being the first web forum I joined (I can't remember why I decided to, but that's what happened).<br><br>Anyway, let the insanity continue unabated.<br>

[Phauxe Kitsune]

I used to have the O&M banner in my sig at other forums some time ago.<br><br>Anyways, I found O&M when a friend of mine sent me a link to a few of the strips in early 2002. I've been a fan ever since.

[Steve the Pocket]

My story is as interesting and in-depth as GhostWay's. The date: February 20, 2004. The place: My old school. I was laid-over on a trip home from somewhere with my dad, who works there. The Internet there is set up to only allow sites that are on a whitelist or that have "official" G ratings through RSACi (which basically means maybe 20 websites out of the eleventy billion out there), but the filter was refusing to work. So I thought, <i>Aw heck, I've got nothing better to do (except homework); I don't get online often enough anyway.</i><br><br>One of the sites I went to was a now-defunct "Calvin and Hobbes" website called the Calvin and Hobbes Resurrection. (apparently you can <a href='http://web.archive.org/web/200308120103 ... .net/cahr/' target='_blank'>still get there</a> through Archive.org though) Anyway, they had a page with a collection of C&H tributes, and one of them was <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2000/om20000713.html' target='_blank'>House Rules Parcheesi</a>. If you can imagine for a moment what it must have been like to see that particular strip after having never seen O&M before! The URL was right there, so I thought I'd check it out. And I've been hooked ever since.<br><br>(The funny thing is, I also vaguely seem to remember seeing the covers of the books before that date, probably when I went to the Plan Nine site to look at the "Buckles" or "Mudpie" books.)

[Zaaphod]

June last year, I was reading messages on a Dungeons & Dragons board. One of the threads was about D&D references in the media. Someone put up a link to <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/1999/om19990119.html' target='_blank'>this strip</a>. Curious, I clicked the link. Finding the strip highly amusing, I sat down and spent a weekend reading through the archives. And here I am, a fan ever since.<br>

[likeafox]

About 5 years ago a friend from school directed me to a comic called Sinfest. Sinfest was on keenspot, so naturally I checked out some other comics that looked interesting. Ozy and Millie was also on keenspot back then. I liked it from beginning to end and I still read it today.

[ShadOtterdan]

A friend of mine showed me the Yerf Art archive, I was looking at artists at random and found Scotty Arsenault. This was before his webcomic, but he had a link to the webcomic Gene Catlow. That webcomic in turn had a link to another webcomic called "The Class Menagerie", that webcomic in turn had a link to Ozy and Milie. And I've been reading it ever since.

[Arloest]

<a href='http://board.c8world.com/uploads/photo-108.jpg' target='_blank'>This guy</a> (wave to Ian!) pointed Ozy and Millie out to me, as well as the rest of the board. I was hooked. On something OTHER than phonics!

[Softpaw]

I discovered it about three years ago on a discussion board where someone had a Timulty avatar. I kept up with it pretty religiously, and managed to force my entire school division to view at least one strip (more about that in another thread if you're cool and can search).<br><br>I discovered this forum through a post on the O&M Yahoo list, and the day after it opened I thought "This is pretty cool" and joined <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br>EDIT: Actually, I think it was the day it opened, it started up pretty quick

[The J.A.M.]

[...unWARP!!!]<br><br>Good evening.<br><br><br>As best as I can recall, I was at the phone company (they have free internet stations there, but you can't print or save) sometime around 1999. I was looking at some pics of Yerf, and I found a few of "Mynarski Forest". I followed the artist link to his site, and on his site I found the link to O&M. I didn't read the archive until we bought a computer later that year.<br><br><br>Zacatepngolas!<br><br>Until next time, remember:<br><br>I<br><br>AM<br><br>THE<br><br>J.A.M.<br><br>Good evening.<br><br>[WARP!!!]