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.
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.
*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.
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
I was shown the comic by a friend.
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
My story is a bit more complex than what I'm willing to share :P.
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.
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.
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. :boogie
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.
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.
I discovered DMFA through Ulmat House 2. I think there was a link here on a page, and well... yeah.
...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...)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ho, goodness...memories...
I discovered DMFA through a friend I made through Furcadia. "Check out this neat comic," they said.
This page (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_217.php) 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. :B 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.
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*
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. :C
Quote from: Amber Williams on September 30, 2010, 01:48:37 AM
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. :C
Stop spraying with chocolate.
the URL was tied to a brick that was subsequently thrown through my window.
Dang...I still can't remember the song she was looking for :( *feels old now*
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.
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...
...there's a comic called DMFA?
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.
Quote from: Aisha deCabre on September 30, 2010, 12:34:02 AM
... I joined the forum back when it was the old unorganized Nice forum.
I remember those... Crap. Now I feel old.
That was only one section of the current forum...
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. :B I've been around a while.
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.
I can't remember how I stumbled into DMFA, but my join date is October 2006. I think it was in a link section of someone else's webcomic :/
Lesse, back in grade 9 early grade 10. So it was 1999-2000.
I was friends with the guy Amber did some of the Human comics for. By the name of Slinkoboy.
Both him and Amber were in the Tim Dawson Community of "Dragon-Tails". I was also on Furcadia in the lost lake area, but only ran into Mab a few times. Was pretty good friends with Merlitz and one or two other people though. :b
I basically started reading it when she uploaded them.
Oh man, I miss those days.
I had been watching Amber's Mab's Land website for a while back in 2004-2005, and always loved her stuff. :) I found her website through a 'Not a Bishounen' award sitting on the old Mousekaroos webcomic page (or DrowTales), loved it, and then browsed DMFA when the 'Just Winging It' arc launched and was interested by what I saw.
I was on the Nice forums for a short time, but didn't really get into the community until you guys moved from there onto the new server here.
I'm not sure how long ago it was, but there was a wallpaper war between DMFA and one of Syke's strips (Alien Dice or Cyantian I think). I followed the links, wondered what the hell a "Mow" was and have been addicted ever since. :mowdizzy
Quote from: hartree on September 30, 2010, 08:30:26 PM
I'm not sure how long ago it was, but there was a wallpaper war between DMFA and one of Syke's strips (Alien Dice or Cyantian I think). I followed the links, wondered what the hell a "Mow" was and have been addicted ever since. :mowdizzy
Alien Dice. I wasn't there for the event, but I saw it in the archives.
I discovered the sprite comic Bob and George by noticing my brother reading it. That was my first experience with web comics. I noticed a link on Bob and George that lead me to another sprite comic Pebble Version which I really only read long enough to go into the comic's links page. Amongst the links I noticed one of the "I'm the King of the Sporks" banners. That lead me to start reading DMFA at This Comic (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_481.php).
It was about the fourth web comic I really started reading and first non-sprite comic. When I started reading I originally thought furry simply meant "the characters have fur."
Quote from: Drathorin on September 30, 2010, 02:03:53 PM
...and Amber were in the Tim Dawson Community of "Dragon-Tails".
They linked to each other sometime in 2001, I believe. End of story.
I started reading about a year and a half ago.
And the way I found out about it is a funny story. I was reading interactive vore :mowcookie stories on writing.com when I came across a part of a story that hadn't been added to it for DMFA characters to vore eachother and it had a link to the comic. After reading through the archives I was hooked.
I frankly cannot remember, but it has been a while.
I think somewhere around the Twink adventures when dan was crossdressing?
I didn't join the adventures until fairly recently though.
Quote from: Amber Williams on September 30, 2010, 01:48:37 AM
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. :C
Wait what ?
Dan is sprayed ?
I found it around (2005?) 2006 ( NICE join date ) while surfing the internet collecting whatever webcomics I could find. :B
Of course my memory is lacking and I cannot say for sure that it wasn't earlier, I only have my former nice account to makes estimates on.
I think I used the nickname. "stranger" first then moved on to, Manu Thi-hunter, Kimaro and Tajaka....
Hmm, I joined the NICE in Oct 2003, soo... I started somewhere in the early three-hundrets. :rolleyes
Found it through a link from another (since vanished :< ) webcomic.
It was one of the first webcomics I found.
Quote from: Anker Steadfast on October 01, 2010, 02:23:55 AM
Quote from: Amber Williams on September 30, 2010, 01:48:37 AM
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. :C
Wait what ?
Dan is sprayed ?
Yes, with Bug Spray :)
I myself discovered DMFA by looking through a furry fandom site, where they had a list of furry comics, I decided to check it out and liked it, I believe the first comic I saw was somewhere in the 700's.
I was looking at Tim Dawson's art earlier this year (not sure exactly when) and, followed a link to Mab's Land. Seeing something familiar-the word "DMFA," which I remembered from the April Fools Comic Swap in the Dragon Tails archives-I clicked that link and saw Abel flying in gryphon form.
Oh god, I still hate it how I missed this comic for so long. First of all, I'm webcomic addict. I have literally read hundreds...perhaps over thousand of them. I found links to DMFA all the way since the first comic I read, but when I checked it and looked at the first pages (I don't know how I missed the current pages), it looked bad and skippe it for a year or two. I constantly kept bumping into it, but I always remembered "this was the bad comic...skip".
Then at some point I got bored at constantly finding it and kept wondering why the hell people have links to DMFA on their comic sites. I think I tried over five times read DMFA from the start. Then I finally simply skipped the oldest pages and went straight into the pages that started make sense.
I remember I didn't sleep that night, because I had to read trough the comic nonstop...the newest page at that moment was http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_929.php (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_929.php). But I must have first found it long before that...i just didn't read it...
To this day DMFA is in my top comic list category and those I check every day even, if I know they have not updated...
Hmm, I can't really remember when I first found DMFA. I know it was years ago. I think it was back during the first forray into the twink territories, when Lorenda was first introduced. I didn't join the forums though until just a couple years ago.
I've read so many online comics I can't remember when or how.
How? furfire.org, Silverfox's comic ! Maybe it was some time that Amber did a guest something for her, or vice versa or maybe I just clicked a link from furfire.
When? Um. 2002? 2003? One of those two dates. I was living with my mum and finishing college. THAT WAS LONG AGO NOW.
^^
First post on this forum... which is wierd. I've been reading DMFA since 2001 I think, around strip 90ish??? ... when it went to In Full Technicolor from black'n'white. Strip #170 cemented the website in my Bookmarks of Eternity.
1) Its been amazing watching the art improve over the years -- the Esteemed Artist does some amazingly delightful work these days.
2) the sense of humor has really gotten sharp. putting humor into 3 or 4 panel strips and having excellent "gag timing" is really difficult.
3) watching the Esteemed Artist hone her integration of humor and pathos has also been quite interesting.
I really wish she had t-shirts, mugs, or archive collection CDs to sell or something. I started reading Megatokyo back in 2001 also and have quite a pile of Fred's merchandise now. Unfortunately, page hits and "fan" posts like this seem to be the only skritching we can give for the work she puts out.
(those who read animesuki forums probably recognize me... yes, its me)
Actually she started selling t-shirts at conventions this year and there's been talk of an online store. Keep on eye on this forum for more on that. There's a sticky in here with a bit of info on it as well. You can also donate to her by clicking the 'Feed the Mows' button on the main comic page, if you're so inclined.
Also: Welcome to the forums. Read and follow the rules (as you agreed to do when you signed up) and enjoy your stay.
I found it trough Youtube, more specifically trough Tapewoolfs channel.
I was just looking for some funny videos about morrowind when I found his "Documentary about floaty people". I checked his channel and the featured video was one of the DMFA radio plays so I watched it and was immediately hooked.
When I came the comic was on page 987, but I went back to page immediately went back to page 1 to read trough the entire thing.