Well, I'm a noob, but I thought I'd share some of my comics anyway. Mine are political in nature, so I hope the topic hasn't been beat to death.

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I'm not going to put it before each and every comic this appears in, so in general, narration is often not necessary in a comic. And in all the comics here, it was only semi necessary once. Try to avoid the big yellow boxes from now on, k?

Comic # 1: Okay, the first two panels have to be setting up to something good, but what? Once we reach the last panel, you lose and confuse your reader. What's up with Tommy and the pool? And why are they holding on for a week? And what does that have to do with feeding tubes?

Comic # 2: Again, my problem is in the last panel. Skippy's comment was funny, however, Clown's "'Seperate but equal'...hey that has a nice ring to it." should either appear before Skippy's statement somehow, or should be cut. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices of your work to get the humor quality you're looking for.

Comic # 3: Good. Best of the four. (By the way, this is the one where I said the narration was semi-necessary, otherwise we wouldn't understand why the donkey chooses to go to Starbuck's)

Comic # 4: Set up was boring, and, though Skippy's line was funny, it wasn't funnny enough to cover the long, boring, factual set-up. Again, hippie's line can be cut and Skippy's line could stand alone.

In conclusion, you don't have to fill all the boxes on the make a comic page. And you've got potential, kid! I give you 4 stars for now, don't ruin it.

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I'm not going to put it before each and every comic this appears in, so in general, narration is often not necessary in a comic. And in all the comics here, it was only semi necessary once. Try to avoid the big yellow boxes from now on, k?

Comic # 1: Okay, the first two panels have to be setting up to something good, but what? Once we reach the last panel, you lose and confuse your reader. What's up with Tommy and the pool? And why are they holding on for a week? And what does that have to do with feeding tubes?

Comic # 2: Again, my problem is in the last panel. Skippy's comment was funny, however, Clown's "'Seperate but equal'...hey that has a nice ring to it." should either appear before Skippy's statement somehow, or should be cut. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices of your work to get the humor quality you're looking for.

Comic # 3: Good. Best of the four. (By the way, this is the one where I said the narration was semi-necessary, otherwise we wouldn't understand why the donkey chooses to go to Starbuck's)

Comic # 4: Set up was boring, and, though Skippy's line was funny, it wasn't funnny enough to cover the long, boring, factual set-up. Again, hippie's line can be cut and Skippy's line could stand alone.

In conclusion, you don't have to fill all the boxes on the make a comic page. And you've got potential, kid! I give you 4 stars for now, don't ruin it.

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It's not a swimming pool, it's a betting pool. The kids are betting on when Terri and the Pope are going to die, and the boy in my comic is lamenting the fact that he had placed a bet on a day sometime in the future.

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I think the gym class/pool proximity was too close, and that's what caused the confusion.

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The pool reference seemed pretty obvious to me. But maybe that's because I spend more time at rotten.com than I do sleeping.

I got the pool reference immediately, too. But that's because I used to listen to Howard Stern when I was younger and he had a death pool.

They're all interesting, but I suggest a backround!

I liked these. A couple punchlines had too much exposition (you need less "lines" and more "punch"), but all in all pretty good. I agree you should take the time to add a background, though. It would make your strips more aesthetically pleasing.

I'll jump on the bandwagon. You show great promise--you know how to set up a punchline, which puts you way ahead of most noobs.

Some of the jokes have been done before, but I'll just consider them separate-but-equal as well.

Welcome to Stripcreator.

Pretty much everything that could be said has been said already. Though superfluous as it may be, the line "Try stuffing ME in your cheeks, Rodent Boy!" just struck me as hi-larious.

Thanks for the comments guys! I appreciate it.

I'll take your ideas into consideration when writing.

I didn't like these, but I don't like dogma in my comics. I prefer more universal truths that don't require the reader to agree with your personal beliefs. I did, however, like "Sorry, it's this trick knee...", though I didn't understand the title. I must disagree with chicka's statement that

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...the narration was semi-necessary, otherwise we wouldn't understand why the donkey chooses to go to Starbuck's

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