And that’s a wrap for the No Dice Christmas special. It ran a little longer than I had initially intended, but it means that Book 5, which starts on Monday, will start on my 300th strip.
300 pages of No Dice. Wow. Never thought I’d get to that point.
With Book 5, I get back to doing my art digitally so there won’t be any original art to own. However, All of the Christmas Special pages ARE still for sale and each one will remain for sale until someone purchases it. There’s only ONE of each page in existence and once they’re gone, they’re gone. So grab em while you can!
I hope you enjoyed the No Dice Christmas special and I’ll see you on Monday with the first page of Book 5!
As a little teaser I’ll tell you all that it features two very familiar faces.
As the ponies attempted to storm Shao Kahn’s temple, the floor dropped out from under them and they tumbled down into a dark room. There were dim lights coming from the few torches in the corners of the room, and the glowing green pit in the room behind them.
They heard a clopping of hooves in the darkness. They thought for sure it was another pony that had been captured. They approached the sound in an attempt to see who it was, perhaps they could work together to get free of this horrible place.
However, when they found the source of the sound, it was not another pony, but rather Motaro, centurion minion of Shao Kahn. And they were trapped in his lair.
Following up to the post I made yesterday about the Mortal Kombat/My Little Pony crossover tabletop RPG that my weird little mind cooked up.
As the Ponies get closer to Shao Kahn, his underling Quan Chi decides the best way to keep them out of the way is to transport them to another plane of existence all together and teleports them to the Netherrealm. Once down there, Quan Chi tells Scorpion of the threat that the Ponies pose to him finding the killers of his family.
As Scorpion attacks, Pinkie Pie’s unshakable good spirit thinks that all Scorpion needs to wipe off that sour puss is a PARTY!
Sometimes as I’m drifting to sleep I get some weird things that pass through my brain.
During the day, I was trying to think of different things that I could possibly turn into a table top roleplaying game. I’ve been wanting to do Power Rangers forever, but I can’t figure out the mechanics of a Megazord, how do five of six players act as one to fight a giant monster? I’ve also thought of Mortal Kombat, and a Super Smash Bros type story.
There are a few things on the docket that need addressing.
Firstly, I’ve grown bored with the style in which I produce the strip and have been exploring new styles. The one I enjoy the most is similar to the pictures I’ve posted below.
Now, these are not the final product. I’m still experimenting with the look, and these are not my best drawings of Claudette or Hildy but I like the overall look of this style. I’m looking for your thoughts.
Something else I’d like your thoughts on are the overall comic in general.
I enjoy the little driveby comments that the individual pages have gotten, but they don’t really give me a feel of what you guys think of the overall product. Obviously some like it because they keep coming back. But what about the comic brings you back? And if you enjoy it, or if you don’t, why do/don’t you? What do you think I need to work on? What do you think I could do to make reading No Dice more enjoyable for existing readers and new readers?
Please leave thoughts and criticisms in the comment thread of this post.
The Beginnings Anthology is a book being put together by the Canberra Comic Meet in ACT, Australia. A few of my friends, some people I have yet to meet, and myself have all thrown our collective talents into this book and would love to see it come to life!
They’ve set up an indiegogo site where people can donate to making that a reality with a few incentives for donators just to sweeten the already pretty sweet pot.
Please check out the indiegogo page and help this project come to life!
