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Bekka wrote:"the strip needs more pirates".
you could say that for any comic though
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LibertyCabbage wrote:
Bekka wrote:"the strip needs more pirates".
you could say that for any comic though
Not really. The rapture could come and take every monkey, ninja, and pirate off the planet and I doubt I'd even notice.
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The Snoo wrote:I don't have enough characters to randomly kill them off. <sigh>

And the alien space beams are preventing me from coming up with more.
Make more anyway! Introduce a new one, kill off an old one. It's genius, and it'll piss off the readers!
This is going in my notebook titled "Things I Didn't Know about Surface Dwellers."
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How about this. What about if you made a random character appear for no reason. And kill him in the next pannel. Like. Hi my names...... Bam. Random death.
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i usually write through writer's block and then go back and try to make better the parts that didn't come out so well, though i don't really have that issue with my comic, i just kinda start writing and it more or less works itself out, though it might not alway be the best stuff I've written.
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I hire a writer. It's amazing what can be bought for a packet of pickled onion monster much.

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DaveAgainstTheMachine wrote:How about this. What about if you made a random character appear for no reason. And kill him in the next pannel. Like. Hi my names...... Bam. Random death.
:twisted:
http://hownottorunacomic.comicgenesis.c ... 50102.html
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Who does that guy think he is. Trying to tell me how not to run MY comic. I will do it how I want. FIGHT THE POWER!!!!!!
Plus. I was just kidding. That would be soooo lame. :D

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Rickford wrote:I hire a writer. It's amazing what can be bought for a packet of pickled onion monster much.
So is that the odd noise coming from the basement?
This is going in my notebook titled "Things I Didn't Know about Surface Dwellers."
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Well, it accounts for one of the odd noises, at least.
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Black Sparrow wrote:
Rickford wrote:I hire a writer. It's amazing what can be bought for a packet of pickled onion monster much.
So is that the odd noise coming from the basement?
They don't eat much. And you don't have to respect them at all, just scratch them behind the ears now and then.
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Escushion wrote:
Black Sparrow wrote:
Rickford wrote:I hire a writer. It's amazing what can be bought for a packet of pickled onion monster much.
So is that the odd noise coming from the basement?
They don't eat much. And you don't have to respect them at all, just scratch them behind the ears now and then.
It's like having a pet, huh?
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Kat North wrote:
Escushion wrote:
Black Sparrow wrote: So is that the odd noise coming from the basement?
They don't eat much. And you don't have to respect them at all, just scratch them behind the ears now and then.
It's like having a pet, huh?
Yeah, except without the love.
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Escushion wrote:
Kat North wrote:
Escushion wrote: They don't eat much. And you don't have to respect them at all, just scratch them behind the ears now and then.
It's like having a pet, huh?
Yeah, except without the love.
so it's like having a mutated monster then?
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legostargalactica wrote:
Escushion wrote:
Kat North wrote: It's like having a pet, huh?
Yeah, except without the love.
so it's like having a mutated monster then?
Mutated monsters are EXTREMELY loveable though!

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PF27 wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
Escushion wrote: Yeah, except without the love.
so it's like having a mutated monster then?
Mutated monsters are EXTREMELY loveable though!
it depends on the monster.
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I had a pet mutated monster once. But thats what happened to my 6th toe on my left foot. D:

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legostargalactica wrote:
Escushion wrote:
Kat North wrote: It's like having a pet, huh?
Yeah, except without the love.
so it's like having a mutated monster then?
Yes, but smellier.
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living is definately the best cure for writers block. Reminds me of a quote I once heard about creative writing schools.

"Sure the kids will learn all the tools they need to tell a story, problem is many of them spend so much time learning they have no story to tell."
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I call Chris or talk to my wife, if she's awake. I guess I feed off the creative energies of others.

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