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

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

Can I make one?

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

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.

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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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.

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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.

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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.

^-^ *blushes*

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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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 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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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.

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.

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.

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.

How about a nice hell background with screaming tortured souls? The current one is a little dull. It doesn't even have a karaoke machine!

A bar would be good too. Angled so there's a drawn-in bartender and the left character is sitting at the bar.

Or no bartender so we can add a floating head as the right character.

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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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nice new backgrounds.

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

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Kaddar's characters are gonna go up eventually. That background's good except that characters on the left look like they're standing on the side of that videogame machine.

Somebody tell Kaddar! Sweet, Kad's been advocating those other characters since I got here.

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

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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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Background I made at Choad's request.

oooh, the asian girls could talk gossip.

I just made this one tonight of an old western bar entrance. Hopefully Brad will see fit to use it, though it's no where near as kool looking at nooniepuu's

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Background I made at Choad's request.

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For those who have their obscenity filter on and can't see the graphic I posted up above (my server's domain name is devilfuck.com, heh), you can see the background pic I did here (url all nice n obscenity free)

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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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Well, the novelty of being on the internet in a public library is wearing off, as is my pre-booked time. So, briefly:

1. Thanks Noonie, and Brad!
2. I might have a go at a bar background as well, if it's good enough I'll submit it.
3. Kajun you MagBas.

Those were good comics.

I am in favor of as many different characters and backgrounds as possible. A limited amount of them may stimulate your creativity in some ways, but most of the time it simply forces you to settle for something that doesn't really fit what you're trying to do.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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You didn't like Suikoden? Aw.

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With Chrono Cross, they did give you a lot of characters that you would never use. But with the Suikoden games (at least the third anyway, I never played the first two) you were still more or less forced to use at least half of the characters. Since the game had three main characters, which each having their own stories up until a point. Plus you'd always end up using them in the larger battle sequences.

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You didn't like Suikoden? Aw.

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Nope. In fact, it's probably one of the most dissapointing games I played on the PSX, next to Chrono Cross, and Vagrant Story. It got a lot of hype, and I found it totally unable to live up to its press. I was far more enamored of Persona, which was released at the same time as Suikoden.

I especially thought it was cheesy in Suikoden how you could, by game's end, undo the dramatic death scene halfway in... you know the one I'm talking about. Brrrr. Totally cheapened the whole moment. See, this is the thing I pointed to when all those whiny FF7 fanboys cried because of the death in that game, and wanted Square to include some kind of ressurection option for her.

Does nobody understand the beauty of a tragic scene?

At the same time though, the death scene in FF7 was completely non-believeable. I'm sorry, any game with such easy access to items and magic that allow someone to get up from 0HP quickly and easily cannot realistically portray a death-by-attack where the party is standing *right there* to do something about it.

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A cop killed me in DopeWars.

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No, but the presence of the "River City Ransom" machine is of questionable legality.

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A classroom background would be kind of cool, and I think it would fit the need of many of the "Conversation with person at school" strips that many people make.

it seems to fit some characters, though I'm sure the wider ones won't fit, which was pretty much impossible and have the arcade systems resemble an arcade at all whatsoever.

I removed the names of all the games to allow people to say that the games are any arcade game they want.

(note this image was made after I fixed the left arcade, it was slightly intersecting with some heads.

Oh, man, I LOVED Suikoden! I spent hours and hours and hours on that game. It's one of the perfect examples to me of a game where a great variety of characters enhanced the experience. I guess I just like recruiting people.

Made up a few new ones:

First a classrom as requested, and a farm.

And then just some random rooms, one original and the rest are just copies of the "disel" background.

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