Strip #251 Get in the game! Strip #250 Finally, some strategy stupid #farts New Years Eve 2008 Extra #22 Christmas 2008 Strip #249 I got a haircut today.

F.A.Q. frequently asked questions (or just questions I expect to be asked) Q. Who's this Dave Rapp guy I hear about? A. That would be me, the author. I'm the guy who plays with the LEGOs, takes the pictures, and posts them online. I'm also the guy who built the site you're looking at right now. Yeah, I'm just that talented. Q. What is this 'LQC Crew' thing I hear about all the time? Can I join it? A. The LQC Crew is a sort of general term I use to refer to anyone and everyone who helps me with making the comic or running the site. No, you cannot join. The letters LQC date back to when the comic was called LEGO Quest. LQC stood for LEGO Quest Comic. Now it doesn't offically stand for anything. Q. And what about 'LQC Productions?' A. LQC Productions is a semi-nonexistent group who make LEGO-related entertainment. LQC Productions consists of myself and sometimes the LQC Crew. Brickworld Saga is "our" primary product, but "we" also make some YouTube videos and other things. If you want to know what LQC stands for you should have read the previous answer. Q. So lq-comic.com is...? A. A domain name left over from the name LEGO Quest, which I decided to keep. Q. Can I use a part of your comic as an avatar, forum signature, etc? A. Sure! You can do basically anything you want with my comic as long as you're not making a profit or trying to claim it as your own. See: fair use. Q. The early comics suck. They're short, bad photography, have typos, and the LEGOs are old and beat up. I wasn't exactly working with premium materials at that time, and for a while I wasn't even writing out the scripts beforehand. That means no spell check. And usully my speling isn't specktacular. Q. Why did you decide to make a webcomic? And why out of LEGOs? A. Why make a webcomic? Well... I don't remember. I know it's something I'd wanted to do for a long time, but what motivated me to finally get off my lazy ass and do it is a mystery lost to history. Why make it out of LEGOs? That answer is simple; I can't draw to save my life. Q. When does your comic update? A. Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday. It says so at the very tippy top of the home page. I try to be consistent with my updating but sometimes I just miss one. Q. What's your favorite individual strip? A. As of 11/15/08, #148, #169, and #236 have a tie. Q. Where do you buy LEGOs from? A. Ebay. I buy actual sets from my local Walmart (which is located well within walking distance) but individual pieces and minifig parts I get from eBay stores. On the rare occasion that ebay fails me, I check BrickLink.com. Q. Isn't the LEGO group going to sue you for using their stuff? A. I am in compliance with LEGO's Fairplay Policy, so they'd have no reason to sue me. And if they wanted to, I'm pretty sure they can't. Past legal battles have shown that the LEGO Group's trademarks apply only to specific characters, names, et cetera, and not the general apperance and style of their pieces. And copyright law only applies to their various stories and things like that, to which my comic has no connection. Although my comic is made from pictures of their products (which, is basically free marketing for them, by the way) my comicery is all 100% original. Q. Why do you always capitalise the word 'LEGO?' A. See the above link. For some reason the LEGO Group insists that the word LEGO is supposed to always be written in all caps. I'm as confused as you are. Q. Will you add me to your links section? A. Short answer is no, long answer is maybe. You're welcome to send me a link to your comic, and I promise that I'll check it out if I can. But the comics in my links section are those that I, personally, read daily. I'm not going to put you under there unless you're good enough to keep me coming back. Q. I linked you. Now you have to link me. Q. No I don't. This isn't social networking. Q. Your strips are too big. A. The only resolution that my strips don't fit in is 800x600, and nobody uses that anymore. I know they're still a little big in 1024x768, but they're still readable, so it's not that big a deal, really. Q. I have a great idea for your comic! Can I send it to you? You should totally use it! A. Now, every other webcomic artist in the world answers 'no' to this question. But I have a different response. I am always open to ideas from my readers and fans. If I don't listen to you guys, how am I supposed to keep you happy? If you've got something to say, send it to ideas@lq-comic.com. Don't send me anything unless you're willing to give up the idea to me. ;-) Q. You stole the idea I sent you. I am now going to sue. A. I think I made it more than crystally clear that when you send me ideas, you're giving them away for free, and giving up any previous claim to the idea. In other words, it's my idea now. If you still haven't figured that out with all the warning and crap I put up, I'm sure at least the judge will. Q. You stole an idea I posted on a forum/had in a fanfiction/did somewhere else. A. I did not. I do not now, nor will I ever, get ideas for my comic from forum postings and fanfictions and the like. Any similarities that my story has to yours are purely coincidental. Q. Do you have any tips for us fledgling comic authors out there? A. Ask yourself this question: Why am I making my comic? Q. A character said or did something that contradicted something another character said or did. You messed up. A. There is a very low chance that this was an actual mistake on my part. Remember that nobody in this story is necessarily omnipotent (well, maybe someone. who knows?) Every character has a chance of being wrong, misinformed, or outright lying. Technically speaking you should never trust anything a character says or does. The only one who's always right and will never lie to you is the narration. Me. Q. What was Daniel doing before he was Shoom'd by Scribe? A. It's a secret. I'm not telling. Stop asking me this. Q. Similar to above, what was character X doing before they entered the story? A. If it has relevance to the story, it'll be explained eventually. If not, it probably won't. Q. If the comic is called Brickworld Saga, why is the planet it takes place on called Brick Earth? A. Originally it was called LEGO Earth. However, the term LEGO is trademarked, which could have caused problems. Right now I'm probably safe, but if I were to, say, publish a book containing a bunch of strips, and the word LEGO was used multiple times, I might be in trouble. The odds of getting sued are mega-low, but lawyers scare me and I'd rather not have years of work undone by a cease and desist order from a judge. So I changed it to Brick Earth. I could have made it Brickworld, but that sounded lame to me. Also, I later found out that Chris Doyle's planet is called Brick World.