Dragonaur at 10:41PM, March 3, 2017

"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war".

bravo1102 at 2:41PM, March 3, 2017

Guidelines, not rules. There are times when you need to bend the rules and remember their spirit if not their letter. Improvise, overcome, adapt just like we did in the Sandbox. The US military has a tendency to put training centers and then fight wars in sand filled places. Some of us are a little too familiar with sandboxes you civilian types may know it as the South West Theater of Operations e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan...

PaulEberhardt at 2:16PM, March 3, 2017

You need some kind of rules for everything to work. It's as simple as that. Else, you'll end up with some random collection of scribbles that make no sense whatsoever - perhaps not even that. In society it's slightly different: if you've got no rules and more than three people, one of them - the most charismatic or violent one or just the one who shouts loudest - will quickly bully the others into submission. That's how despotism and fascism and what have you get started in the first place. It may be a hard pill to swallow, but you do need a firm set of rules just to prevent that from happening. People are as weird as that, I'm afraid.

thunderdavid at 1:26PM, March 3, 2017

Yea, stories gotta have rules. That sucks. Because sometime you just wanna let your imagination run loose like you did with your GI Joe toys while in the sandbox your dad built. Wait. Do kids know what a sandbox is? Nevermind...

Tantz_Aerine at 11:24AM, March 3, 2017

Looking forward to all the rules.

Banes at 9:07AM, March 3, 2017

Good stuff! Agreed on some kind of structure being necessary. I've slipped off the track actually, not making comics. Tryin' to get back on course!

KimLuster at 8:11AM, March 3, 2017

I recall a quote by Hugo Weaving in the Wolfman, when asked why he didn't do some questionable things in his investigations... He said "Rules, Mrs Kirk. They're all that keep us from a dog-eat-dog world, you know..." It stuck with me!! But that's real life! Why can't we 'break the rules' in our fantasy worlds? Well we can to an extent, but too far and our story becomes, to varying degree, a mish-mash. Incoherent! I enjoy reading stream-of-conscious musing but they're not stories - stories gotta have dem rules!!

Ozoneocean at 2:39AM, March 3, 2017

That was well written, I was totally caught up in the "no rules" society thing XD Yes indeed rules are important for making comics! When I first started I knew very little about them... I sort of fought my way to them as I went. Just simple stuff like speech bubble order, the type of fonts to use, panel order when you have a weird layout, PAGE SIZE, how much detail to use in a page, how many panels to use... It's complicated.