This one is for all the people who wish I would sometimes write less dialog. You know who you are. 
Just kidding. I have actually been playing around with ideas of doing an almost silent strip when this idea suddenly hit me. I don’t know if I can write less dialog than this but I’ll see what I can do in the future.
In the mean time, I want to thank everyone who has sent me a Twitter, Facebook and e-mail response about the sketch cards I recently posted. Remember, they are all available for $5 via my Paypal account. If you have a favorite character and would like to see my rendition of that character, send me an e-mail and I will add it to my Sketch Card list.
-Chris
I often strive for zero dialog, especially since my comic is bilingual, but mostly it just keeps it from getting wordy for wordiness sake. Reducing words is very difficult. One time, I limited the dialog and some people didn’t quite get the subtle visual cues, so I had to add an extra speech bubble later.
I need to channel Sergio Aragones one of these days. He’s got the art of pantomime down pat.
Seeing Roy on the “throne” still disturbs me…
LOL! But don;t forget… in the first year of the strip, Roy was also “sort of” on the throne when he and Marc went to Heroes Con…
-Chris
Pantomime strips are hard. My hats off to Mark Tatulli who can do it everyday. I only have two or three that i can think of that worked well. It would be a cool idea to try a whole week of wordless strips.
@Vince: Word up on Mark Tatulli’s work. How he does that stuff is beyond me. But then again, you’re also talking to a guy who found his love of writing by being heavily influenced by Chris Claremont too. So writing a “silent strip” goes 180 degrees against my nature – maybe that’s why I have dialog even in my pin-ups and Commission sketches…
LOL!
-Chris