Well, some of you anyway. The Dicebox
Forum has opened at Talk
About Comics, all courtesy of Joey
Manley (no relation).

It was something I had to think about doing and—you might have
noticed—take a poll for. Why? Well, a post to another
comic’s forum speaks to half of my trepidation:

There’s no direct linkage between the quality of a strip and the
volume of its message board. Witness, for example, that Canadian strip,
which shall remain anonymous, where the geeks are always standing around
with folded arms. Its message board is a damn chat room.

At the other extreme, there’s Chris
Baldwin’s friend’s strip (Dicebox), which is incredibly
beautiful and richly strange and does not have a forum, and in fact seems
designed to thwart one.

I love this comment, found via the hits it directed to Dicebox.
But it made me disinclined to launch a forum.

However, between the time I received the email informing me that the forum had been opened and when I got around to actually checking it out, there was already one post, so I felt better (thanks AntiEntropy). But my response actually leads me to the other part of my hesitation. Where as I am happy to respond and answer questions, I don’t care to be overly explicit, especially if I feel it will be made clear later.

Not that I won’t indulge in elaborate debate or discussion about
certain non-spoiler aspects of Dicebox.
One of my favorite extended email exchanges was with a reader named Alex
over the various symbolism contained in the illustration for the official
Dicebox Homepage. Not only was it great fun, it helped convince
me to exchange two of the symbols between Molly and Griffen. (Anyone wanna
guess which two? The correct answer will get an original drawing from
yours truly.)

So there you have it. (And I sincerely hope those you voted for the forum will actually post.)