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Hail and Well Met! Welcome to the ImaNewbie does Britannia, Collector's Edition.

Just by way of a little history, ImaNewbie was not my first foray into the world of online comics. It all started with the first multiplayer online game to gain a large following, i.e. Diablo, and a site I created called Tryon's Diablo Cartoon Page. I had been creating little weekly one frame cartoons about Diablo for a little over a year and then, one day I heard of this new Massively Multiplayer Online Game called Ultima Online that was sweeping the net. At first I was skeptical, I mean sheesh, PAYING a monthly fee to play a computer game? Surely this would never catch on. But then, as more and more of my old Diablo friends went over to UO and began sending glowing reports, I decided to take the plunge. The rest is history.

I never would have guessed when I sat down at the computer and created that first little two frame comic, that three years later I would still be chronicling the adventures of ImaNewbie. In that time ImaNewbie has become somewhat of a legendary character in Ultima Online, probably nearly as well known as Lord British himself. Over the last few years, thousands upon thousands of people (from over 95 countries that I have managed to identify), have stopped in at my web site to spend some time with Ima and his crew. This anthology is my way of saying thanks to all the loyal fans who have stayed with Ima through thick and thin, followed his adventures, emailed me with suggestions and compliments, spoken with me in-game, and generally given me the encouragement and drive to continue the series.

In addition to the 'toons, I have also included character bios of all the major characters who have appeared in the comics along with significant events in their lives. I have added notes and indexes on the major themes and controversies and where they appear in the various toons. I have also included the entire 18 Britannia Enquirer editions done to date. The Britannia Enquirer was an extra feature I launched when I discovered that there were some issues happening in-game that I thought would be better handled using the "tabloid" newspaper format rather than the standard 'toons. And lastly, I have included the Dictionary of UO/ICQ speak from my web site ... a quick guide to some of the strange and colorful language and abbreviations that have become a trademark of online communications, especially in online gaming.

So here without further ado, I humbly present the life and times of ImaNewbie…Enjoy!

later…Tryon

FactsAreUseless posted:

Why did you buy this?

NLJP posted:

poo poo, I remember hanging out at their house on the Atlantic? shard. After people worked out how to make aquariums from suspending fish in different coloured sets of cloth and poo poo. I was about 12 I think and did some crappy roleplay. Was one of those marble villas with a terrace etc. I think

Cuntellectual posted:

Was ImaNewbie a series? How did this get published?

Cuntellectual posted:

Was ImaNewbie a series? How did this get published?

Waldorf Sixpence posted:

This was recent enough that PayPal existed, but old enough that yellow Comic Sans on a black background was acceptable design?

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Guy Mann posted:

Adam Bowen posted:

UO was cool but it couldn't live up to the cover art



look at that crazy poo poo

Teikanmi posted:

I'm pretty sure it did live up to it though

Charles Mansion posted:

I liked B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd

Captain Rufus posted:

My first experience with Ultima Online was getting pked in town before I had even figured out how to move because near launch UO was Raph Koster's first clueless attempt to make an mmo where the players could engage in the magic of friendship/sandbox it. (Star Wars Galaxies was his second try. Dude is almost adorable in how he thinks people will be in mmos.)

This meant it was Grand Theft Sosaria with a realistic mob spawn system that failed miserably because it thought people would have like 2-300 people a server an hour or so. Yeah it had lots more. Even if you didn't want to be a virtual sociopath there weren't enough critters to fight, not even deer!

2nd Age tweaked poo poo a bit and actually had a goddamned manual to read. Still was open pvp. I mostly ran with a dude named Boba Fett because mmos. (Another PC we saw a lot was Jenna Jameson the Sausage Queen. It was still the 90s and thus time for Klax. And massive PC upgrades every year. Now you just swap gpus every 2-3 years for 250ish till your mobo won't accept the current gen.) Did some actual RP poo poo.

Renaissance fixed the GTA poo poo but by this point everyone moved over to Everquest because it was 3d and other players couldn't abuse you freely. The game itself did that! (Asheron's Call was the best of the big 3 of the time.)

Captain Rufus posted:

Everquest because it was 3d

Midnight Voyager posted:

I never knew anyone who used the Third Dawn client.

NLJP posted:

I remember when the UO2 trailer was the most baddest of rear end things I'd ever seen at the time. All that UO stuff in this matrixy steampunk future, all flipping round with swords etc. Didn't worry me that it didn't, well, show the game. Still the highlight of PC Gamer demo discs for me though.

Charles Mansion posted:

I liked B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd