Welcome to Series Three! Well, welcome to a ”test” of the Series Three style anyhow. Whether this represents the first actual Series Three story is another matter, one that will only become apparent in time. Be sure to tell me what you think of this new format. I’m always eager to hear from readers.

I decided to make this as a test of the Series Three style after reading about Burger King’s attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records by launching the most expensive burger in recorded history. It seemed like something Nob Mouse might be interested in, given that he owns a café.

I’m considering running Series Three alongside Series Two for a while, at least until the Series Two stories are completed (there’s at least one more for after Pie Noon), which would mean a long-form comic appearing on Mondays plus a three-panel comic appearing later in the week, probably on a Friday. I’ve yet to finalise this decision either way but if you like the idea, or even if you don’t, let me know. Either e-mail or visit our Facebook fan page and comment there.

This one came to me while I was in the car, feeling a little travel sick and wracking my brains for a joke for today’s comic, so if you don’t find it funny that’s the excuse I’m going to stick to.

I’m doing this more as an experiment than anything else. The idea is to see whether I can run two serials alongside one-another. Although this is a story I want to tell, I was a little wary of doing it now but I think it will work. Anthology comics run multiple stories alongside one another all the time and while the majority don’t have the same characters in them, some do and they seem to work. This should, therefore, work okay.

The idea is to explain a little of the background to The Life of Nob T. Mouse. I think it’s about time people knew a little more about the characters and where they came from. This little trip down Memory Lane, literally, should help with that. I hope you enjoy it.

I loved the idea of getting the design for the old version of Nob Mouse back into the series for potentially one last outing and this was just too good an opportunity to miss. Also, it’s your first chance to meet Herman Mouse, the founder of Blob City and the original mayor.

You may be wondering what happened to Herman to cause him to not be in the other stories. The answer to this question will come at some point, but that point is not this point. In other words, you’ll just have to wait and see.

I concerned that the jokes in this story just aren’t coming, which is unfortunate. It has been an experiment in telling a story in successive three-panel strips and I don’t think it’s working in this particular case. Perhaps this would have been better as a long-form comic on a Monday. In future, I’ll use the Monday comics for stories of this nature and stick to the joke-a-day format for the Friday comics. That’s not to say I’ll not do stories in the Friday comics, they just wont be this kind of story.

Next week will see the end of this storyline and I’m already building up the stories to follow it, which is useful. I’m trying to get ahead of myself so I have time to work on the jokes, refine them and hopefully make the strips something you’ll really look forward to. There’s also the start of a new story on Monday, which I hope you’ll all enjoy. I won’t give any details away at the moment because you’ll see it all for yourself in just a couple of days. So for the time being, stay tuned!