Comic:Knock on Wood

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Knock on Wood

Artist:	Lucas Wagner
Writer:	Lucas Wagner
Characters:	The Yellow Pentagon The Green Triangle The Blue Trapezoid The Orange Square
Updates:	Daily
Began:	September 28, 2005
Ended:	January 2, 2006 at CG - now at new site
Art style:	computer generated polygons
Rating:	Web-14
Website	Website

Knock on Wood is a webcomic about wooden polygon tiles. It is drawn and written by Canadian Lucas Wagner, and updates 7 days a week.

The main action revolves around a group of four polygon tiles: The Yellow Pentagon, The Green Triangle, The Blue Trapezoid, and The Orange Square. The humour from the comic is often derived from the attempts of the polygons to emulate human culture, or from tensions between the characters and their personalities.

The comic left ComicGenesis on January 2, 2006 after moving to Porplemontage Studios.

1 Characters
2 Setting
3 Style and format
4 External links

Characters

The Yellow Pentagon

The Yellow Pentagon is the star of the comic, and takes the role of "president" of the polygon society. He is often egotistical and self-obsessed, and frequently ignores the consequences of his actions (often, due to his authority, there are none).

The Green Triangle

The Green Triangle serves as a foil to the pentagon, and they are often seen as opponents. He is a communist, and flaunts that fact every chance he gets to. (The Yellow Pentagon, in contrast, is a capitalist, and hates the triangle because "he's a commie".) The Green Triangle associates himself with fellow communists (the other triangles, red in colour, which he calls his "comrades"). He has an imaginary friend, The Red Circle, who appears to him when he feels alone or enraged.

The Blue Trapezoid

The Blue Trapezoid is the most down-to-earth of the polygons. He provides a voice of reason for both the triangle and the pentagon, and accepts the fact that he is a polygon and not a human being. In disputes between Green and Yellow, he usually takes a neutral position, and tries to make the two parties get along.

The Orange Square

The Orange Square is the female of the group. She is very independent, and thinks of the other three (or at least the pentagon and the trapezoid) as "pigs". She moderates in election debates, and has a superhero alter-ego called The Orange Diamond (whom she becomes by rotating 45 degrees). In the Plot Story series, she is revealed to be in love with Green; however, due to the fact that Plot Story was meant to be a parody of soap operas, this should be taken with a grain of salt.

Minor Characters

The Red Triangles are Green's communist comrades, who assist him (usually) in his schemes.

The Red Hexagon was a foreigner who arrived to check out the "communist government" of the area: he later ran for president (as a puppet candidate controlled by Green), moving back to his homeland the day before winning the election.

Setting

The setting of Knock on Wood is a classroom, but the fact that the polygons are in a classroom setting is rarely referenced to. In previous strips, a clock and an Apple II computer have been seen (the latter of which has been used not only for games but also for contact between Blue and Green). It is either an elementary or younger-age classroom, as evidenced by Blue getting chewed on by the children.

Style and format

Knock on Wood has a very minimalist art style; the polygons are presumably created by using a polygon tool in an image editor such as Photoshop or Illustrator. After November 27, the drawing style was changed so the borders on the polygons are thinner and cleaner. The comic is normally divided into three panels (one big one, then one small one, then one big one); this has been the subject of one strip's joke. The font used in the comic is 14-point American Typewriter Bold.