Robot the Pirate

[robotthepirate]

Hey there all! So its finally happened: I've finished Chapter 1 of Robot the Pirate!

"Robot the Pirate is a lighthearted adventure that follows the efforts of a robot built with just one purpose; to be a pirate."

[Hmm, randomly cropped for some reason, oh well its not missing anything off 'cept my name]

It all begins right here: http://robotthepirate.comicgenesis.com/d/20091008.html and dispite having taken me a year and a half to make will probably only take about 5-10 minutes to read.

Give it a read and tell me what you think.

[Mastermind]

I'll be following this one. I like how the epic verbose dialogue clashes with all the cuteness and simplicity. Also: a robot pirate. Hell yeah!
It's pretty fast paced so far, but I'm guessing that now that he's become a pirate the story will slow down to introduce the characters.
Keep up the good work!

[robotthepirate]

Thanks for the encouragement!

Do you think its too fast paced then? I do have a history of telling stories at too fast a pace.

Because I'm so restricted with work (and because I'm still very new at this and rather slow) as to how often I can update (every week and a half), I'm prone to wanting to move the story along quickly so that the regular readers have something to pull them along. This probably quickens the pace a fare bit.

My plans for Chapter 2 are pretty action based. I want to challenge myself not to have so many shots of people standing around talking. So hopefully I can explore their characters through extreme circumstances first before we hear the story of how they all came to be on the ship.

[Mastermind]

Well, it's not rushed from the reader's point of view but I'm planning to be careful with pace in my new comic, that's why I noticed this in yours. We don't want to reach the "ok, now what" point too soon, do we

[robotthepirate]

What do you mean? Like when I run out of storyline?

[Mastermind]

Yeah, although now that I think of it, the pace is not a huge problem if you set your characters some ultimate goal they will never reach. Sort of like Mario, speeding from one castle to another.

[robotthepirate]

Yeah, although now that I think of it, the pace is not a huge problem if you set your characters some ultimate goal they will never reach. Sort of like Mario, speeding from one castle to another.

Yeah. Don't forget I can throw my characters to one of up to 210 different locations in the world for a convenient plot twist whenever I want to write it in. I'm not going to, but I could.

Storylines aren't something I'm worried about for now, certainly not at the speed I'm updating. I already have rough scripts penned for chapter 3 & 4 so hopefully by the time those are done I will have plenty more for the future.

I should point out that when the original concept for Robot The Pirate came up I'd just finished uni and was unemployed. I was watching far too much Star Trek! The whole thing lends itself to visiting strange places and meeting strange people whilst slowly developing the characters' pasts, motives and relationships.

[jorjastandish]

I like it. More please.