Yes, this is for real. I don’t have the time to do a real “Choose your own adventure” type concept right now, but I thought this would still be an interesting way to involve the reader in the story. (Or at least see who is the most creative in stuffing the ballot boxes.)
In other news, it’s been revealed that there will be a Star Wars themed Advent Calendar this year. I’m almost looking forward to this year’s advent madness. (Almost.)
T_T very creative…I think…
Well, my vote’s going for the only one which seems even close to worthy of Donuts; Old!Donut. time to send that email.
also using Old!Donut, we could create a weird time loop back to the beginning of the comic which must be corrected again somehow.
For the first guy, the Canadian accent would be interesting, and the face can be swapped out a lot for different expressions for more character expression (For example, strip #885 just wouldn’t be the same without Donut’s expression in the last panel, a little detail makes things much more entertaining). For afro dude there, no. Too much of a switch from the Donut’s we’ve known before. Third guy reminds me of Whiskey too much with the head, so no. Last guy, classic Donut, is nostalgic and funny, it’d be great to have him, or at least somebody a lot like him, back in action. So I’m torn between the first and second… I’ll vote tomorrow.
The only winning move is not to play!
I want to see how Doyle would take the character in a new direction, so I’m choosing the first one. Jamesster summed up my reasons for not choosing the second and third guys perfectly.
Although.. this is a moot point as everyone is probably going to choose the old Donut anyway =/
When I only saw the colors, I wanted him to choose silver; now that we see what each does, I … still want him to choose silver.
No Francophonic “eclair” option? Too bad…
Cool hat Doyle! But are you still going to post things (maybe about Whiskey and friends..?) during voting time?
And a Star Wars advent?!?!?! I MUST GET THE LEGO ADVENT CALENDAR THIS YEAR…
@Dave: I thought about that; but I already have a “French Chef” character out there.
@Pollinette: No worries – Brick House isn’t going on hiatus or anything. Whiskey-n-company will be taking the spotlight back for a while.
All pathetic character designs…
And Doyle, I hope the new one is wearing his predecessors clothes or the Doctor Who nerd that I am, will never forgive you.
All these choices are a bit stale… But I don’t write the comic, so I’ll just roll with the punches. How about a write-in vote?
Thats Terrible!
i dont want any of them as donut!
Definitely white or silver. Not to get my E-Mail working so I can enter my Timbits vote.
I voted for sexual chocolate!
do we get comics this week then?
Hey! Doyle, I completely already did the anti-racist black guy character. He comes up very soon in my buffer too!
http://blocktales.thecomicseries.com/comics/194/
I would really hate it if he became the next Donut, because then if my comic ever does gain your popularity, everyone would associate that archetype of character with this strip. Please Doyle, I am appealing to your sense of decency that you don’t use Chocolate Donut.
@RJ: I doubt even if Chocolate!Donut does get voted in I’d have any sort of impact of claim on the trope.
Besides, I wasn’t even planning on going the anti-racist black guy route. I’m lampshading the idea that his character would have to be all about his skin tone in this strip. I do try and have an ethnically diverse cast, as difficult as LEGO makes it.
Country Rhodes didn’t fit in as well as I thought he might, so there’s still a vacuum to be filled. Maybe C!D will fill it, maybe he won’t. We’ll just have to see how the vote goes.
Couldn’t you have made a stereotypical British one called “Jam”?
:<
@Brickyman: the current Donut was already meant to be at least slightly British. (Although I didn’t really focus on that.)
^^No one wants a stereotype. Seriously, that stereotype annoys me. Sure, there’s a bucketload of possbilites but still….
@Replica: I wouldn’t worry about it. I have some very non-stereotypical ideas for all of the Potentials.
And, yes, I know a lot of you hate all of the choices. That was sort of the point.
Can you give us a rough idea of the voting balance for today, Chris?
*hopes stale leads*
I’m listening to the 1970s Doctor who theme whilst I was reading these comments. 1970s = Jon Pertwee = Third Doctor, this will be the Third Donut.
TIMBITS!!!
Old! Donut!! His old style was sooooo much cooler then his new style…
Fo’ shizzle
i hope he ate the black pepper power to the people say loud i really am black and proud
omg vote silver for the origanal dount
A Canadian Donut would make the comic even more hilarious
Hello Doyle.
I am Colonel Bracket, (AKA [:]) perhaps you may have heard of me.
I was banned from the BCN for being under the age of 13. Today is my birthday.
I sent an e-mail to Dave Rapp regarding this subject, he hasn’t replied and hasn’t unbanned me yet, and I’m an impatient fellow. XD
Thanks,
-[:]
story altering power, i think it’s too much pressure
I just realized something: If Thyme-Lords have food-related names, does that make Pepper Roni (from the LEGO Island theme) a Thyme-Lord??
On-topic now: I got the Canadian pun/quote… SCTV’s “Great White North.” WIN.
Even if I hate the stuff, I have to tip my hat to the “Timbits” vote line as a Canadian. (And my hat is a fedora, not an Elmer Fudd-type winter cap.) You’ll get my vote tout suite.
STRANGE BREW!
I voted Timbits.
okay…the scale is tipping timbits…oh no! Please let stale win! please let stale win…!!!
@Violinja
!!! Yeah!
It would have been cool (If somewhat impracticable) to enable a bit of each pepper (say 10% white, 20%black and 70% silver) not to total over 100% and not to include more then three peppers… Good luck with this though!
stale
Wait, what?!
where’s the new comic? I read one yesterday where Whiskey was talking to Scotch about where to look for Donut first…
Did you change your mind?
@Brickyman: No idea what you’re talking about. I haven’t even loaded next week’s strips yet.
@Brickyman: I think you may have been reading a comic from a while ago. Just look for it in the archive.
Sorry, yeah I was re-reading the comics where Donut was stabbed.
I got confused lol.
Loving the comic by the way.
If you put the Black donut in the comic, please make a Pulp Fiction joke. Or ten. Idon’t care, but I think it would be funny to have him say “Say that again. I DARE you.”
I’d vote for the Infomaniac Donut, but I suspect it’s all just a game and the third
doctorDonut will be something random. If it really is the third Donut.Heh, is this the first time commenting on the comic Lair? Good to see you’re reading more of the comic.
For the record, I voted “STALE.”
sorry for asking doyle, but what set and theme did you get classic donuts head
@Rozz1998, Classic Donut uses the head of a limited edition Infomaniac minifigure that was included in some copies of the LEGO Island PC game.
fo’ shizzle
@ jamesster: As well as a couple of ISLAND XTREME STUNTS theme sets from the early 2000s.