There are three new backgrounds online: church, hauntedhouse and happyplace. Thanks to SC user NooniePuuBunny!

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www.bradsucks.net

The church is awesome. Haunted house is cool and Happy place is just plain crazy.

Can I make one?

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GOVT. Warning: Do not smoke around children they will badger you for fags.

Hey! What does it take to get some new characters?

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Those are great!

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I'm not that interested in new characters unless they're particularly good or unique. I think good backgrounds open up more comic possibilities than some more people characters would.

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www.bradsucks.net

Brad! I love you!

Noonie! I like you a lot, but I think we should just be friends.

But what about characters like a General? A Roman General? An African Warrior? A Gerbil? Come on, DEFINITELY a gerbil would open up some possibilities. A lion? A tiger? A beaver? Definitely a beaver. You playing video games, Brad? The front & back of a car? A dude with a guitar? Frankenstein? A vampire? A giant, freakish-looking floating face? Wait, we've got that one. A Rockette's dancer?

SOME of those characters have to open up more comic ideas. The beaver itself is enough to inspire a slew of comics.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

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But what about characters like a General? A Roman General? An African Warrior? A Gerbil? Come on, DEFINITELY a gerbil would open up some possibilities. A lion? A tiger? A beaver? Definitely a beaver. You playing video games, Brad? The front & back of a car? A dude with a guitar? Frankenstein? A vampire? A giant, freakish-looking floating face? Wait, we've got that one. A Rockette's dancer?

SOME of those characters have to open up more comic ideas. The beaver itself is enough to inspire a slew of comics.

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Part of the fun of SC is using the limited resources to create amusing comics. A lot of humour depends on being creative with the characters available. I'm not saying we should never have new characters, but I think Brad is right that unless said characters are unique or would really extend comic possibilities, there's no need to have more at the moment.

Good work on the backgrounds, though, Noonie.

And part of the fun of reading this site is when someone comes up with an ingenious new depiction of a character in their comic. Clango as Al Gore. Scientist as Dr. Ruth. Wirthling as The Sun. Kid1 as The Beaver.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

I agree with kaufman, definitely. Clango as Al Gore is particularly comedic. BUT, why not a beaver? I like the idea of a beaver. It in itself could be a punchline.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

^-^ *blushes*

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I think a beaver would just be too easy...

If only they were all that easy in real life.

*rimshot*

I've said at least a dozen times in the past what I think about limited resources here on the site, but since I probably haven't said anything about it in a year or more:

I think they spur cereativity like nothing else. When I was in high school, and forced to write formula poetry, I hated it. I couldn't understand why I was being forced to write something I didn't really want to write. As a result, I hated formula work and refused to follow any for a long time. I thought I was too creative for it.

When I came here to stripcreator though, I discovered just how quickly my creative well would run dry. Humbling experience. The sad fact of the matter was that I didn't have nearly as much creativity at the time as I thought I did. It was several weeks later that I discovered the forums, and stumbled onto the comic contests. The contests were a venue where I was not forced to write anything... it was all of my own free will. I also didn't have the restrictions on my free speech that I did in high school. My only formula requrements were the few pegs on which to pin ridiculous situations, running gags, and inside jokes.

You'll find that a majority of my early strips are in fact comic contest entries. This is because for a long time my only creative outlet was in the form of structured formula. I don't think I've entered a contest in almost a year or two, though. While this also means that I don't write as many strips as I did when I was in my contest days, the fact that the majority of my new strips are not based on the rules of a contest means that I have found new creative voices inside that have a developed mode of expression, more articulated than the early efforts. Some of them are inspired by other people's work, but just as many are based on situations I've seen, experienced, or heard from others.

I don't know what this was all worth to anyone. But yeah, I don't think we *need* a vast ammount of new characters. Honestly, we have so many that it's getting to be a pain to keep up with them all.

Hrm. I guess I'm just of a different school of thought than most. I'm the kind of person that loves a buffet. The more stuff to choose from, the better. I love hundreds of characters to unlock in RPGs, and I love having tons of fighters in a fighting game. Anyone else subscribe to this kind of thinking?

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

choice is good. But on stripcreator, the limitedness is kind of funny (but of course, there's like 4 other people that use the avatar that I use...). ^-^ oh well. If I think of anything spectacular that seems to be missing I'll try sending it in...otherwise, I'll just stick to Photoshopping anime characters...

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In an RPG, that depends. If it's like Chrono Cross, then you can take your 40 characters and shove them. I want characters with real character and an actual story behind them. But then when you do have 40 characters with actual story, you have a game that takes for-freakin-ever to play. When I was a teenager, that would have been gamer heaven for me, but nowadays I really prefer a quicker game with a more concise plot that gets straigt to the point. Sidequests are great, and if the game designers want to pad out the game with assloads of side-questery, more power to them. But I don't have the time for a full-on 60hour game, where the 60 hours are requirements and not side-quests anymore.

unless it's a tactics-kind of game... one with epesodic action and the like. Those can be done, but others are just harder to justify for me. Especially the kinds where you just wander around and waste hours getting into random battles to level up.

Fighting games of course benifit from more characters. The more the merrier.

But that has absolutely nothing to do with the matter of creativity, which is what I was talking about in my last post.

I think creativity isn't really limited by more or less characters. It's probably enhanced by very few characters, seeing as how the fewer characters you have to work with, the more you have to work around it, etc. BUT, I think that there's also a chance that because you are forced to use YOUR imagination when creating the character, there is a chance that what you want to bring across could get lost in the translation to others.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

That's a danger no matter how explicit the art, or what variety you have. It doesn't matter if you can represent everything perfectly if your audience doesn't have a clue what you're talking about to begin with.

Perhaps. As I said, I must just subscribe to a different school of thought. I like a wide variety that gets wider all the time.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

The new backgrounds are good -- almost as good as slightly better ones would have been, and better than they would have been if they weren't as good.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

I'm just pushing one new character. Me. How can you not add this? It has golf clubs!

I don't think he wants to add the Ivy character cause it's an altered version of an already copyrighted character.

Might wanna try to invent something completely new.

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I don't think he wants to add the Ivy character cause it's an altered version of an already copyrighted character.

Might wanna try to invent something completely new.

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nice new backgrounds.

Also, brad, this isn't a new character..

I'm all in for new backgrounds. Maybe a kitchen, a living-room, a bathroom and a reverse version of the fastfood restaurant.

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