Props

Obviously the plain figures are the first thing somebody sees when they read MC.  Since they're boring, the entire focus is on the text of the joke.  An exception to this is when I add art or modify the figures in some way. most often adding color to the figures in some way, but also adding images like the mustache in Reality. Originally the rule was I never do that. "The figures must never change!", I thought.  Well, comics where I add to the figures are generally better received than the average comic, plus as I find it harder and harder to think of strips, I can't afford to be picky about the ideas I use. Props, as I call then, are going to show up more and more.  Still fewer than half, but possibly as often as weekly.