Wow, Plok was going to start a Traveller RPG game but saw the dangers much quicker than most players. Also R4 has justreminded me of the R4 cards you could get for DS and such (which I used one to run old emulators on my ds, worked quite well) And hey looks like Ploks done some good reading while stuck on an alien world.

Comment by DemolisherBPB, added Fri, 24 Jun 2016 02:49:09 GMT

Weird rockyfella stairs. I didn't know he was a shapeshifter. Is that ship a new vehicle for the next plok game?

Comment by Guest Nick, added Fri, 24 Jun 2016 03:41:37 GMT

Wait, this is OUR fault? Blast! I knew I should have purchased a dozen copies of each Plok volume.

(Or, ya know... even ONE.)

Comment by Jo Li KMC, added Fri, 24 Jun 2016 04:43:00 GMT

Why doesn't Rockyfella simply morph himself to force the courthouse to get caved in underground?

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:10:47 GMT

Rocky's shape-shifting abilities could possibly be used for some interesting gameplay mechanics. I like that the stairs are drawn in perspective like they were in the game.

What is the extent of Rocky's powers anyway? Couldn't he just build a huge space bridge to Polyesta? If Rocky was able of getting to the Zob planet overcoming the space between both planets, shouldn't he theoretically have the capability of creating a underground tunnel to Polyesta to get Plok back?

Comment by NameThatNobodyTakes, added Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:16:17 GMT

What's with the very thick contour, especially in panel #5? Looks kindla like "Paper Plok".

Comment by Guest Guest, added Fri, 24 Jun 2016 23:21:17 GMT

The thick lines are there to separate the characters from the background.

Comment by Guest Joe, added Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:14:40 GMT

I'm still getting to grips with exactly how to draw the comic, since I switched to all digital inking about 8 episodes ago. I'm still not quite happy with the brush thickness choices. The art is evolving a little each episode, and hopefully improving, but I've not got it quite right yet.

Comment by Ste Pickford, added Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:07:31 GMT

Rocky can manifest anywhere there is solid rock. He can form that rock into any shape (himself). So he can appear on another planet without any need to 'travel' as such. He couldn't travel on a spaceship unless there was a massive hunk of rock.

He doesn't conjour matter out of nothing so a bridge between planets wouldn't be viable.

It would be interesting to play with his abilities in a game.

Comment by JPickford, added Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:14:06 GMT

So Rockyfella is the god of rock?

Comment by woot000, added Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:02:34 GMT

I wonder if Plok's flag book is just several pages with his flags in them.

Comment by Cheez, added Sun, 26 Jun 2016 08:15:13 GMT

R4(D-A)Li...

Arthur Daley the dodgy geezer from the Minder tv show?

Haha, you guys!

Comment by Guest Egg Shen, added Sun, 26 Jun 2016 09:51:14 GMT

Classy writing guaranteed.

Comment by JPickford, added Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:43:04 GMT

This sure is an exciting conversation we are having here

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Wed, 13 Jul 2016 01:37:51 GMT

Sorry Nathan we all appear to be waiting patiently (or maybe waiting longer) for the next strip so there's not odd conversations based on what we can port Plok to or some other odd but interesting topic.

Comment by DemolisherBPB, added Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:03:11 GMT

Oh Plok, I know it doesn't look safe but you are caught between a rock and a hard place. If you stay for the trial, you will lose (they already set the trial up for you to lose). If you decide to take the spaceship, you might escape...that's a big might (because I don't like the condition of the spaceship, looks like it will break down any minute now). If you are taking the spaceship then I wish you the best of luck (because you are going to need it).

Comment by Guest WJC, added Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:33:09 GMT

So I guess Plok will end up using a device that works like Pokémon GO to help him find something else to escape the planet, only to end up going somewhere he shouldn't, getting robbed, and seeing things he can't un-see.

Comment by Guest jco, added Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:04:56 GMT

Funny as always. Keep up the great work.

Comment by Guest Lucario, added Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:31:22 GMT

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Hey, spreadshirt ripped off plok!

Comment by Guest Trance, added Sun, 24 Jul 2016 08:24:58 GMT

Hah!

Comment by Ste Pickford, added Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:23:23 GMT

I'm afraid that the Plok comic project may be falling victim to its own (over?)ambition. Many (if not most, possibly) people following it probably preferred a weekly-ish four-panel strip (kept fairly simple, not over-engineered with detail and not too text-heavy) over the the "new format" six-panel strip being published only monthly-ish, and may have lost interest somewhere along the road. I don't mean this to sound harsh by any means, it's just my two cents/pennies/whatever on the matter.

Comment by Guest Guest, added Sun, 31 Jul 2016 23:38:17 GMT

Aye, it's certainly become a bit harder to find the time lately, although that's not just down to the format. And I appreciate that a regular schedule would be much more preferable - for everyone!

Comment by Ste Pickford, added Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:06:21 GMT

Isn't there a possibility of hiring someone who helps you out in drawing? Or would that be too expensive for you guys? It seems the scripts can be written pretty fast and that the drawing is the bottleneck here. But don't get me wrong I really like how much care goes into the drawing and I guess we need to live with it if we don't want any reduction in quality.

Or maybe another suggestion: Why not model all those figures as 3D meshes, then you would just need to apply cellshading over the scene and perhaps do some fine-tuning afterwards with drawing? Keep in mind though that I'm totally ignorant about art creation and have no idea if that would be any faster...

Comment by NameThatNobodyTakes, added Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:19:34 GMT

Haha, nope, there's no chance of hiring anyone! Next episode is drawn though, so should be out at the end of the week.

Comment by Ste Pickford, added Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:25:05 GMT

Plok doesn't like broken space capsules

Comment by Goyangi, added Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:11:05 GMT