The Order of the Stick has held several different update schedules through the years, beginning as a twice-weekly comic that debuted new strips on Mondays and Thursdays. The cover to Dragon #339 promotes the inclusion of The Order of the Stick by featuring Elan's head in the top left corner of the cover. The comic also features more frequent double- and even triple-page strips than in its early days, where longer strips were reserved for special occasions (such as reaching #200). Burlew also adjusted a number of the colors to reflect changes he had needed to make to the comics when they were first compiled for printing. These changes were humorously acknowledged by the characters themselves when they premiered. After he sprained his wrist in 2005, Burlew used some of the time he took off from the comic to improve the character designs of the main cast, straightening their lines and adding tiny details like the runes stitched along the edge of Vaarsuvius' cloak. In strip #101, the curved and crooked panel borders (which Burlew has since questioned how he could ever have thought were acceptable) are replaced with straight-though still slanted-black lines. The comic has had several upgrades to the art style over its life. The strip was originally produced simply to entertain those who arrived at the site for his articles, but it quickly became the most popular feature on the site (leading him to eventually abandon writing articles entirely).
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Initially, the strip was intended to feature no plot whatsoever-depicting an endless series of gags drawn from the D&D rules instead-but Burlew quickly changed his mind, laying down the earliest hints of a storyline as early as strip #13. The Order of the Stick began its run in September 2003 on what was (at the time) Rich Burlew's personal site for gaming articles.
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