A Roll of the Dice

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If You Build It: A Timely Intervention.

Steely Gaze

on Aug. 10, 2008

Whew, looks like Henry just got the help he desperately wanted!

This strip, though not particularly funny, reintroduces Ben to the main cast. He's a character who I've wanted to include from the beginning but never had a chance to add to the gang. Now he's back, and I'm going to make sure he stays.

Oh, and in case you don't remember, the incident Ben refers to is back in strip #11, when Jared helped him deal with his rambunctious nephew, Evan.

Also, I have something I want to ask you, my gentle readers. You see, when I began writing AROTD as a four-panel strip, I did it partly to challenge my writing abilities, but as I've grown more and more fond of the characters and their lives, I've found it increasingly hard to contain my pages to only four set panels. Now, I've got a major storyline planned that will require the use of full comic pages, and I was wondering if any of you would be willing to continue with the comic should I decide to try and introduce full pages earlier than planned.

I have the rest of this storyline scripted in four-panels, and all of the next, but after that I'm open and would like to see how I can handle myself with a page with a variable number of panels.

So, what do you say? Share some thoughts with me! :)