How did you discover DMFA and when?

[MT Hazard]

Forgive me if this has already been done.


How did you find DMFA and when?

I found it though a random internet image search, which lead to supermegatopia, which lead to the nice, which lead to DMFA.

I found it at the during  "Chapter 17: 'Cause Every Comic Needs a Non-Cannon Spy Spoof" so decided to read the archive to make sense of things.

[Tapewolf]

When I started reading it was on this page:
http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_503.php

...I then went backwards through the archive to see if I'd find it interesting and also to try and establish what 'Cubi meant - and before I knew quite what had happened I'd read the entire comic in reverse order.

I think it was an old banner ad of Abel that originally piqued my interest ("What is that... and is it male or female...?"), but it was Dan's kidnap that really made me sit up and pay attention.  It reminded me strongly of recurring nightmares where I find myself back at university or school.  Also I was researching medieval beliefs for a pet project of mine and the fact that it had incubi and succubi was also of interest.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

*points to the above poster.*

I was trolling through his site. www.it-he.org. He had these funny Ultima antiwalkthroughs, (huge ultima fan), and I branched out to Morrowind, which I had just picked up. (still never got around to finishing the game). Well, there were a number of DMFA references, so I checked out the comic to get the jokes....... and here I am.

[VAE]

It is an amusing (at least for myself) history.

I first noticed DMFA sometime in 2005 or 2006, when reading the IT-HE pages of Tape about SystemShock, which i am a fan of and following explanation how the hacker is in fact a cubi.
I laughed at it... then failed an several Int checks, and didn't read the comic linked, besides the single frame.

Fast forward to early 2010 , i was talking with Saphroneth, and he linked me to the above place again...
I went on "Hey.. i have seen this already ages ago" ... but this time i was bored enough to click through (the comic in both cases was the one with Dan subsisting on ale entirely for years)
I went on, started reading the archives from the beginning... and scared people in the computer room the next day from laughing so hard... i got up to date in about three or so days, and then, about a week later, i created a forum account....
The rest is well enough known

[techmaster-glitch]

I was shown the comic by a friend.

[Aurawyn]

I registered with the forums on February 17, 2007.. So I must have been reading for longer than that..

I know I was reading the strip long before Abel's Story started..  I may have even had another posting account, But I don't remember, and I can't for the life of me remeber what was going on in the strip when I started

[Jasonrevall]

My story is a bit more complex than what I'm willing to share .

Basically I was surfing the web for a reason and wound up at this site. I had previously found another web comic I really enjoyed and had just started gaining interest in them. It was colorful and at the time, TV and other forms of entertainment weren't interesting me at the time. So I took the time to read from the archives, I went back to the beginning and read to where it was then. I don't remember how I stumbled onto this site, but it was some time ago, nearly around when Abel first appeared maybe, or near when Tapewolf did.

I didn't start posting here on the forums till much later after I got out of my social cripple state.

[Alondro]

I don't even remember, it was so long ago.

It was sometime when the comics were in the early 100's.  Hmm, sometime around the first encounter with DP.  It was one of my random searches of comics listed in the Belfry comics index.  When I had my old job, I used to have time to search everything that had a 'favorite' mark by it.  And DMFA was one of those that hooked me.

I was one of the early forum members.

Then I convinced Amber to come to Anthrocon, I think AC 2003.  

[joshofspam]

Don't know the exact date But I'm Pretty sure I was just looking up comic books which I never could afford.

Then came from one of those sad searches Belfry comic listing and "boom" I had a bunch of comics listed. Don't know why the Name of the comic caught my eye, (After all I didn't know what a Furry was until maybe a year or two after) but I've been reading comics now ever since. Didn't even use the Internet until after High school.

All said and done there have been plenty of comics that have come and gone. I'm just glad a few of them are still around especially Amber's comic.

Wish you luck Amber.

[Baal Hadad]

I saw a picture of Abel in the signature of someone on the forums for another webcomic.  It took me three times to get far enough into the comic to get interested (yeah, I'm one of those weirdos who has to start right from the beginning).  By the time I got involved it was in Dan's flashback to Fi, where he and the amazons had just encountered the Dark Pegasus.  Hannah hadn't gotten blasted yet.

[Attic Rat]

I never kept track of just when, but it's been a few years. I started following web comics right about the time I stumbled across the Squeaky Clean Furry Archives, more or less, and DMFA is one I've been following longer than most.

[That_wolf]

I discovered DMFA through Ulmat House 2. I think there was a link here on a page, and well... yeah.

[D'ymkarra]

...has been on Furcadia since Jan. 1998...I recall DMFA when it was nothing more than the answer to a question ( I don't recall the song Mab was looking for...)

[Damaris]

I started reading in Spring, 2002, when my then-boyfriend introduced me to the comic.  I started by looking for his cameos, and got hooked.

[Naldru]

Dates are a little nebulous in my mind.  However, I believe that the process was as follows.

I used an Amiga as my main home computer.  Through the Amiga, I learned of Eric Schwartz, author of Sabrina Online and generator of many goodies in Amiga programs.

Reading about Eric Schwartz, I learned more about furry fandom.

I found out that Anthrocon was going to be held less than two miles from my house and decided to attend.  I warned my father and told him that most of the strange reputation was totally unwarranted.  He replied that it was okay so long as it wasn't a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention.  He knew what went on at those.

At Anthrocon, I learned about a number of furry comics and belfry.com.

I think that I learned of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures from Kevin and Kell.  It was at least several months before the start of Abel's story.

[RobbieThe1st]

Back in March of '07(Thanks to my Firefox favorites: "DMFA: 03/02/07: Danger danger! High voltage!"), I was bored and looking for comics. I had recently been introduced to TwoKinds, and was looking around on Topwebcomics.com for more interesting stuff. I passed DMFA by several times because of the word Furry(After finding TwoKinds, I saw references to furry and started looking around, and found... more than I had bargained for).
I finally went "oh, what the heck", clicked, started reading... And loved it. And have been keeping up with it ever since.

DMFA's one comic that's still funny and interesting after a couple of reads of the archives.

[Inumo]

I got hooked when Chalo did his guest comic about this. I had been confused about what the jokes were, so I came here to get them... The rest is forgettable history.

[Aisha deCabre]

Ho, goodness...memories...

I discovered DMFA through a friend I made through Furcadia.  "Check out this neat comic," they said.

This page was the current update when I arrived and started through the archives, falling in love with it.  Some time later, about the time Dan got his headwings, I joined the forum back when it was the old unorganized Nice forum.  I still shudder at the newbishness that radiated off me back then.     But still am proud to have been greeted by Amber herself in my intro thread. x3

Ages later I'm still an avid reader and through this comic I've been introduced to many others.  I daresay if one doesn't count the first time I tried going through Jack and found it too much for me at the time, DMFA is what introduced me to webcomics.

[lilpuppy23]

When I started actively reading here, the "Friend with a Benefit" filler was up.

I actually found DMFA through a random wiki much earlier, but the archives were so HORRIBLE. That turned me away for awhile and I probably would not have come back if it wasn't for the fact that I'm a very forgiving person.

For New readers, I recommend starting at arc number 11 and filling in any random character traits and details with the cast pages.
*shudders*

[Amber Williams]

Sometime back in 1997 I started sketching some random misadventures for a friend.  In 1999 the lil buggers amassed enough to form into an archive and crawl onto the internet. Next thing I knew the whole thing infested a corner of the internet and I haven't been able to get rid of it despite the amount of times I sprayed.

[Kenji]

Sometime back in 1997 I started sketching some random misadventures for a friend.  In 1999 the lil buggers amassed enough to form into an archive and crawl onto the internet. Next thing I knew the whole thing infested a corner of the internet and I haven't been able to get rid of it despite the amount of times I sprayed.

Stop spraying with chocolate.

[Turnsky]

the URL was tied to a brick that was subsequently thrown through my window.

[D'ymkarra]

Dang...I still can't remember the song she was looking for *feels old now*

[Mao]

Would have been just before the hiatus (or during, I wasn't sure).  Probably would have been September 2000, as I believe I found this after finding Furcadia.  I was going into my first year of computer science and, being full of ideas about working in the gaming industry, I wanted to search for how to build 3D avatars and such.  Unfortunately my google-fu was weak back then and I found Furcadia.  I wandered around it for a bit, but didn't see what I was looking for, so I did a search on Furcadia.  The comic turned up and, where I was frustrated and didn't feel like searching for the stupid 3D stuff I was looking for, started reading it.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Heh. I started reading the strip before the one about wings making coffee. Darned if I can find which strip it is now - my usual methods involve being at home, with grep and my archive of the text.


Speaking of, I really should get around to updating that...

[Darkmoon]

...there's a comic called DMFA?

[Shachza]

It's a long an complicated story, this one.

I used to hang out at a game shop called The Fountain Of Youth.
There I saw a guy playing Dark Age of Camelot, so I started doing that too.
DAoC's main website occasionally had links to related comics, and so I started reading GU Comics.
One day while reading GU I noticed a link to WTF Comics.
One day while reading WTF I noticed a link to DMFA; which was probably right around late 2001 or early 2002.

Now I'm strapped to a chair here with my eyelids held open while a guy repeatedly cycles through slides of the DMFA archives.

...  I joined the forum back when it was the old unorganized Nice forum.

I remember those...  Crap.  Now I feel old.

[Darkmoon]

That was only one section of the current forum...

[Lore]

I found DMFA sometime around the spring of 2003. I don't for the life of me remember how I stumbled across it, though. Didn't start lurking the forum until a few years later though. I've been around a while.

[bradypodidae]

Sometime at the at the end of 2008 or beginning of 2009. I was googling web comics as I was just getting into them. "Furry" comics kept popping up so I added that as a query criteria, a listing came up, and stumbled on DMFA... "porn" may have been in the query, also... not sure.

After several months of lurking, I finally joined the forum. This was first forum not tied to something like the Marines or schools i joined.