The Brick Side | A Web Comic Built with LEGO

Wow. What can I say — other than I am excited to have made it to another round number divisible by 10?  I took up @bourbonboy’s suggestion from Episode #100 — try to get all the major themes together. I didn’t quite get them all in — the Bad Minifigs are noticeably missing — but they’re in the middle of a long over-arching storyline. They didn’t want to be interrupted.

I also spent a little extra time messing around with the layout. I hope you notice this one’s a bit different than “the usual.” While I originally tried to have one format (one panel) it was extremely difficult (for me) to come up with a new setting every single say. On the other hand of that is the fact that creating multiple panels in a webcomic means each panel has to be individually planned and laid out. So a long time ago I gave up on trying to be consistent, and just stuck with creative. The main point of the comic is, after all, to be a variety comic, so why not have a variety of lengths and formats? Whatever the humor requires — let that be what dictates the paneling. Still, there is something to be said for discipline. As a matter of fact, I’m also plotting out a completely new comic strip, separate from The Brick Side (yes, yes, I *am* crazy) that would be a defined panel (3 or 4 blocks) and that had one long continuing story line. I haven’t decided yet if I would run both strips at the same time, or if I would go to publishing The Brick Side on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday basis and the new strip on a Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday basis. The second strip would live on its own url. It’s actually already bought and paid for, it’s just a matter of me posting comics there and telling people it exists.

Well, none of those comics exist yet, but maybe soon. Why am I blathering on about this? Guess I’m looking for some input. Or maybe it’s the coffee working.