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These comics are brilliant! I think I love the corporate shenanigans aspect the most, though.

...so when is Meyres coming down from the ceiling?

Tune in next weekmaybe to find out! Until then, here's Chapter 5!

Annnnnnnnd here's Chapter 4! Much shorter than other chapters, due to time constraints surrounding Thanksgiving break, but I wanted to leave you guys with something to enjoy!

I was thinking of taking it that direction, but I've got something much more absurd in the works. I think my "official" explanation for the other masks talking is something along the lines of being near Matoro and the Ignika causes them to become sentient. What actually happened was about halfway through writing the dialogue for each panel, I decided it would be hilarious if every mask Matoro grabs also talks. As for Chapter 4, I think I'll have that done sometime tomorrow or next week, depending on Thanksgiving and all that. There'll be a new comic to read before too long, though!

Annnnnnd now I present Chapter 3! Still figuring out when the best day of the week is for a new comic, but until then enjoy the comic-every-other-day-or-so trend!

Photoshop! The "stroke" layer style really helps out with making text more readable. Still working on figuring out how to make it look prettier. But death is so impermanent, though. Takiris has died at least three times before the events of this series. It's kind of like in Dragonball Z, where all you have to do is make a wish bringing everybody back to life at the end of the quest. I'm using my phone's camera, so it gets tricky to maintain a consistent sharpness sometimes, but I'm definitely working on improving my photography skills! Also - do you think you could change the title of this topic to "Search For the Kraahkan Comics!"? I made a typo when I created it and only just recently noticed the mistake. Thanks to everybody for reading! And now I have a special treat: Chapter Two!

Welcome to Search For the Kraahkan comics! Let's get right into the comedy, shall we? SEASON ONE 01 An Unexpected Party 02 The Macguffin 03 A Matter of Time 04 Payback 05 To Pacify a Bohrok 06 But Seriously, Though 07 Team Building Exercise 08 Um... Okay... 09 Limited Power 10 It Really Is That Easy 11 West Side Story 12 That Just Happened NEW! 13 Oh Well NEW! Guest Star Application! As of 12/2/2013, I am now accepting guest stars! Since this is a mostly plot-driven comic, your character may stick around for multiple comics - depending on the needs of that particular story arc - and then might not be seen again; or for potential "permanent" guest stars (who will most likely be given main character status for "season two"), while you may not be in every comic, your character will be a consistent presence in the overall narrative. The only issue is part availability; since I'm a college student with a somewhat well-paying job, I can easily buy necessary masks and parts from BrickLink as needed, but your character may have to wait until the parts are acquired for an appearance. Just fill out this application with all the necessary information and I'll get to work on the MOC-ing! Name*: Primary color*: Secondary color (can be same as Primary color)*: Tertiary color, etc.: Body Type*: Titan / Rahi / Toa / Matoran Mask (if Titan, Toa, or Matoran)*: Personality: Combine types?: Yes / No If yes, which types?: * = Required Guest Star List! PGS: 1. ~The 1st Shadow~! 2. Aurora the cat! 3. Master of all Kopekes! 4. Tahukan The TaVo-Matoran! 5. Empty! GS: 1. Empty! 2. Empty! 3. Empty! 4. Empty! 5. Empty!

This series is by far one of the most entertaining things I've stumbled upon in quite some time. Really reinvigorated my own desire to work on a MOC comic series, too. Keep it coming! I have to know what happens next!

I'm really impressed with the clever hip/shoulder designs. It's usually pretty hard to make Toa Mata bodies useful these days, but I like the way you made it work, here. I don't have them with me for reference, but I think the Toa Metru legs are a bit shorter than Rahkshi legs; if that's the case, I think the MOC would look a teeny bit better if those parts were reversed, with the Metru legs as arms and the Rahkshi legs as legs, but that's just my own personal preference. Very clever stereotype MOC, though, and I gotta say I love the random silver Avohkii hanging out on top of the head.

If it's impressive at all, I think it's solely because of how difficult LDD can be, sometimes, especially using the hinge tool. As much as I love it, it's just so unresponsive when I need it to go in a single direction. Posing the arms was pretty time-consuming, but I definitely think it was worth it. I'm a sucker for little details like that. I wish there was a way to add things of that nature, like the "POLICE" on the white parts on the arms, but I do what I can. Thanks for all the feedback, everybody! I'm planning on doing some more of these in the future, so stay tuned!

I think a lot of how I build with LDD is rooted in the time I spent building with real bricks. I was always limited by the parts I owned or didn't own, so I had to get creative with how I built and what I built with; since I have unlimited numbers of most pieces imaginable through LDD, it dramatically expanded what I can do. LDD comes with some frustrating limits, though, which make it difficult to build like I would IRL, but having so many parts is too big of a draw not to build with LDD. As for Shockwave, I may get around to more LDD transformers depending on part selection, time, interest, etc. I'm getting my legos from my parents' house soon, so I might be too busy with those to build with LDD, but we'll see.

After putting in some serious effort to finally finish it, here he is! Barricade Full Arm Detail Torso Gallery, when public Comments and criticism appreciated!

The best part about pre-existing structures is that a clever MOCer can adapt them to their own needs. Honestly, though, I wouldn't have noticed what set the structure came from if you hadn't pointed it out, but I do appreciate how it was used. It's a very solid, reliable structure you can add various bits and pieces to to make your own. But the next step I encourage you to take is taking that existing structure and doing something different with it, improving it, reworking it, etc. For this particular MOC, I would highly suggest flipping the shoulder supports horizontally to give the back more of a flow. They kind of jut out from the sides and call attention to themselves, rather than seamlessly (and subtly) supporting the shoulders. Other things I noticed included the holes in the thighs and arms, but I do understand how difficult it can be to fill those without resorting to clutter. Overall, though, I'd say this is a pretty solid effort, and I do like it.

Oh, absolutely. I didn't realize that until just now, honestly, but by the time I was getting to the chest and the arms I had kind of gone through a change in building style, if that makes sense. I started off very single-minded and mostly sticking to certain colors, but as I moved upward I was more comfortable with using the standard black. Stahp, you're making me blush! To be honest, though, there are a few things I feel I could have done a bit differently, but once I was "finished" I stopped there, since I have a tendency to overdo things sometimes. That was a lot of my inspiration in making this. I searched around for a wide variety of Bumblebee MOCs and when I found none that looked the way I wanted it to - more specifically, none that looked quite movie-accurate - I decided to do another one. I had done a series of Bumblebee MOCs that were posted on the old BZP forums a few years back, but this one just blows them all out of the water. And as for Barricade? I'm hoping to have that one done in maybe a week or two, just depending on stuff like work and school. Cookies are great, and I'm glad you liked it!

Thanks! I've tried to outdo every previous incarnation of this particular MOC, and this one takes the cake, in my opinion. The best part about LDD is that I'm not limited by my lack of money or particular parts, which was always an issue IRL. Megatron has been on the to-do-list for many years, now. Barricade is next in my queue, however. Thanks a bunch! I think I spent a total of 8-10 hours, maybe, just touching up and adding/subtracting parts, redesigning things from scratch, etc. I had a design for the chest that I completely scrapped and redid because it wasn't accurate, it looked too big, and I couldn't live with either of those. The curse of being a perfectionist, I guess.

Yeah, those technic pieces made me a bit upset. They were absolutely perfect, but not bent at the right angle. And I only wish I had the patience to figure out the transformation mechanics. I once had a 2'x2'x2' fully-transformable MOC of Demolishor that I foolishly never took pictures of and subsequently sacrificed to my ill-fated, barely-finished Devastator MOC. I would attempt it again in LDD, but I had a hard enough time with just the arm and leg joints. Adding fifty more necessarily-moving parts would have made me crazy.