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[smick]

The first one I read was just before the introduction of Showbiz.  I was linked from Cardhouse.com, a website I've been a long term reader of.

I was hooked from there.

[linnea]

(I ordered both sets of stickers and gave the rabbit ambulance one to an EMT friend of mine. 

That one has a special place in my heart. Tiny can. (I'm also a medic)

[Bimmicus]

The first webcomic I can recall reading regularly was PvP, for which I profusely apologize. It was funny once, right? Not that I'm about to go back and find out.

Achewood was the first – and to date is still one of the few – webcomics that struck me as having ambition beyond sucking out Charles Schulz's dingleberries.

[Dexter]

Aw, crap.  I accidentally deleted my post in this thread.  I can't believe the board doesn't confirm whether you want to delete a post.  Oh well...

[Nabubrush]

My first one was roughly in the first few weeks of the strip. I don't know where I got linked up to it, but I was hooked immediately.

[RMJ12345]

I think we might have discussed this before. I don't remember how I got linked, but I got hooked through the GOF.

[linnea]

My first one was roughly in the first few weeks of the strip. I don't know where I got linked up to it, but I was hooked immediately.

I cannot remember how I got linked to it, but it was within the first couple months of the strip. However, I have always read a lot of webcomics and I think I probably followed a link from dieselsweeties, when I grow up, bobbins, goats, penny arcade, or something else?

[colmore]

the bathroom party is a good start, i think.

[Nabubrush]

the bathroom party is a good start, i think.

Not sure what happened to your link but I think I fixed it. You are right - good call.

[Toaster]

I don't remember what my first Achewood was, but I remember the strip that I used to introduce it to my English teacher. This was in November, when I was in the 12th grade. My teacher, this guy is the quintissential English teacher: 53 years old, full beard, dresses like he's at a country club, says "an historian" instead of "a historian". I think, "Well, you know, Achewood is very literary, very artsy. I think he might like it. At least, I know he won't hate it." So I show him this. This gets a chuckle. Then I show him this. I probably shouldn't have done it at lunchtime.

[CortJstr]

I don't remember what my first Achewood was, but I remember the strip that I used to introduce it to my English teacher. This was in November, when I was in the 12th grade. My teacher, this guy is the quintissential English teacher: 53 years old, full beard, dresses like he's at a country club, says "an historian" instead of "a historian".

So was he a very, very bad English teacher or was this not American English?

Also, you accidentally posted the same link twice.

[IsoscelesLock]

Started here, and knew I found something special: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05132003

And by the time I got to prank calling marmaduke I was hooked.

That said, linking to assetbar?  That's a paddlin'

[jay-ell]

So was he a very, very bad English teacher or was this not American English?

Most of the historians I know (myself included) us "an historian" in written language, although I personally use "a historian" when speaking.  This is because the sole purpose of an historian is to train and teach younger historians, so very little about the practice and jargon of history ever changes. 

[littlefallsmets]

Now that I think of it, the prankcalling of other comic strips is probably the best way to hook people in straight from the beginning.

It's sort of the most "straight forward" funny little stretch of strips while still mostly getting the characters and the premise across.

"Kathy, have my retarded baby" is just a genius line.

[Nabubrush]

Two folks on the message board with Isoceles in their handle? The odds of that . . . well, let's just say this is the end-times.