Happy Halloween, everyone!
About this Episode:
You see that white area on the left of a couple of the shots? Do me a favor and just pretend that’s not there.
Zombie Cliché Lookout:
A missing friend is one thing, but when that friend leaves behind things that they should never leave behind (survival equipment, weapons, etc), then you know something’s wrong. Right off that bat, you know something’s wrong. Either they freaked out and ran off without thinking, got snatched up by god knows who, or where infected or killed. When a survivor leaves their stuff behind, you can bet that they’re in dire straits.
Two things. First ha second any f***ing red vs blue quotes?
I haven’t seen many Red v. Blue quotes called out here lately.
But… no LEGO zombie webcomic is complete without quotes from a highly popular series of web videos about a multiplayer sci-fi shooter!
???
I dunno, the mention of the crowbar inspires thoughts of Half-Life more than Halo or RvB.
Buuut, if you insist on a RvB quote, “Brian, I want Brian.” “Caboose, it’s brains you idiot!” “Oops, I must have read the script wrong. Moaning, mooooaaning!”
Well, that does seem at least somewhat related.
I was saving that for later.
So is that a fog rolling in?
*snicker*
Something like that, yeah.
Honestly man I’m not even sure i would have picked up on it had you not pointed it out 🙂
Really? It’s bugging the hell out of me. I’ve been thinking about re-shooting those two, but I just don’t have the time.
Well certainly not enough to leave a sarcastic comment!
I know, I didn’t even notice it, and I’m usually the observant one when it comes to webcomics!
hah…love your new avatar brickyman!
I didn’t notice it, Dave. It just goes to show, we zombie comic authors are our own worst critics!
When things like that happened in the flashback scene in ZO, I either extended my baseplate a few studs with Photoshop, cropped it out, or covered it over with “morning fog.” 😉
(There’s even a few shots where my keyboard was clearly visible in the background, and I just covered it with speech bubbles and fog!)
Eh, it’s there but it’s not offensive. What needs to be in focus and in effect is, and that’s the key thing. It’s not until a second or third read that I really take in a panel in full _if_ I’m paying attention, since I’m so logocentric that it’s practically a character flaw.
My Sunday strip had a few panels turn out too shiny and light, so I had to add in the bit about having a spotlight so that I could darken most of the panel to make it less apparent. Not sure if it worked or not.
Let’s assume that the white space… is the gathering of angels for poor Sam? Nah, he can’t have died off-screen.
Well I’m glad it didn’t leap out at everyone else. Maybe I’m making a bigger deal of it than I should.
Thanks everyone!
I have to agree if it wasn’t pointed out, I may not have noticed it.
That can probably end up on a making of BotD blooper reel and continuity errors.
What are they hanging around for? That’s just inviting zombie attacks right there. They now know that Sam’s situation is unknown, and probably unknowable, and they should collect anything of value, get in the car, and move on before they become targets themselves. Again.
You’d abandon people in your group that quickly? Damn.
Let’s say, for instance they had arrived at the very same scene and the only difference was that every dead zombie there hadn’t been killed and was therefore roaming around looking for tasty drive-by snacks. I’m fairly certain they wouldn’t have stuck around for long against such overwhelming numbers.
Besides, they are putting themselves at great risk for practically nothing of value. They haven’t even surveyed the scene to make sure there aren’t any zeds hiding around a corner to ambush them.
I’m quite certain Sam, if he has been kidnapped, would have at least tried to drop some sort of clue, they just don’t have the time to find it, so I sure hope he left it glaringly obvious.
Their time here is limited, very limited, and every minute they stick around means a dozen or more zeds could stumble across them.
Yeah, but that scene with a couple dozen zombies is an entirely different scenario. And yes, they are putting themselves at risk, but considering that just lost Shannon, they probably aren’t ready to give up on ol’ Sam just yet.
Ok…I guess botd is now on my insomnia reading list
Being a light sleeper with the extra fun twist of insomnia and living close to a fire station in a very large city is a really bad idea.
I live a tortured existence
Yikes. I hope you got some sleep man.
3 hours
Should be a fun day as I’ll basically be on a monster iv drip
Christ, that’s awful.
On a Monster IV drip? Were you in the 10th-grade English class I taught a few years ago? 😉
I’m too tired to smack you so be nice to me.
I swear if someone took my blood this stuff would show up in it…ohhhh and I have class tonight so I have another 8 hours to go.
BTW Lich…our build areas look the same right now…just containers of LEGO everywhere…
How I am not single is beyond me….
The trick is to get married so that it’s harder for them to leave you once they find out how weird you are.
hah….I assure you there are no more surprises possible on that front.
I think
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You could always get weirder.
I’ve not made much headway on the workspace, either. Sigh.
But yeah, my dark age coincided nicely with pre-marriage and some early stages of the marriage. The first break in the dark age was the first x-wing, and once I got out of grad school I’ve been consistently into bricks. Luckily, she sees it as far more wholesome and affordable than golfing, and I’m happy to make that trade.
“Luckily, she sees it as far more wholesome and affordable than golfing, and I’m happy to make that trade.”
exactly! Same with my better half as well. Plus she can watch all of her girly shows while I am hunched over fliddling with bricks without me complaining altho she does at times have to deal with a steady stream of mocking comments at the plot lines.
“steady stream of mocking comments at the plot lines”
That’s what I’m doing wrong! Me and my big mouth…
And as I left my apt when it was still dark outside…I was witness to my neighbor…my overly tattood 300 lb+ neighbor who I have yet to ever see wear anything other than skin tight elastic clothing walk past her upstairs window in the nude, with her lights on…the fat from her mid back oddly droops to her love handles…
my god this day needs to get better …hah
How’d you manage to drive with a massive erec– er, yeah maybe I should keep this PG13.
It seems Halloween finds the most unexpected of ways to horrify you, sometimes….
You need to put your eye stalks back in their sockets mate! 😉
Bricks of the Dead.com: you ain’t livin till you drivin on a tollway goin 80 using a fl
That’s how we roll
Do I even want to know what “fl” is short for?
Its the company that made an offer to Lohan…
trying to keep it pg : )
Hah, of course!
Didn’t notice the white until you pointed it out. I just thought it was an overturned fed ex van :/
I think you are being too hard on yourself!
By the way… despite the success of your comic I somehow had already guessed that BotD was not really paying your bills but man… if you needed a little extra you could have asked!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yatkuu/sets/72157628023521856/
Anyone else notice the zombies walking behind the fire truck?
So what you are saying here is that Shannon is dead, these three are unsure of what to do next, and Sam is getting his money for nothing and his chicks for free?
Did someone call for RvB? Well… Nothing’s related in this situation lol
Yeah, I really don’t think anyone noticed the white at the edge of the screen until you stated it! Still, I doesn’t look that bad. I’m sure there’s worse things that could be seen.