What Makes Your Comic Unique?

Perk_daddy · Post by **Perk_daddy** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:29 pm

I don't have much to show yet, but mine is based on a couple of premises:

1) G rated does not have to equal dumbing stuff down. Everything I see for kids today insults their intelligence. The attitude seems to be "Don't let them actually have to think about anything; just throw in some fart jokes and folks getting hit in the groin." The only exception I've seen lately is The Incredibles, which is part of the inspiration for what I'm going to be doing.

2) I refuse to stick to a single genre. This will probably cost me a few readers, but honestly, who only watches superhero movies, or only watches romantic comedies? Variety is the spice of life. Cooties will be starting with a good 'ol alien invasion story, then I'll have a fun 24-style parody, some superheroing, a fantasy epic, all intertwined with soap-opera, Saved by the Bell tomfoolery.

If I can ever update fast enough. Oy.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:30 pm

I'd say 'nothing much', but that always sounds like a cry for attention and praise.

I suppose that, since things like fantasy and steampunk and (hopefully) Short Stories With Character Development have all been done to death, my art style is what makes my comic unique. At the very least, my effort to include backgrounds in some panels distinguishes it from the bulk of pseudo-manga webcomics ... right?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:48 pm

Backgrounds for the win.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:54 pm

Keffria wrote:I'd say 'nothing much', but that always sounds like a cry for attention and praise.

You're just jealous because I beat you to it!

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:59 pm

cjburgandy wrote:my comic is a direct rip off of Angry D. Monkey, only with humans and Tongry has yet to be born.

Now for my comic which is Angry D. Monkey, it's unique for the fact there aren't much if any comics about a boxing monkey who wears booty shorts. Or is drawn in a "cute" style but seems more adult in nature.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:59 pm

"seems"?

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:13 pm

because it's based off my life and no one has lived my life but me

and my universal answer:

Boobs

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:14 pm

Cope wrote:
Keffria wrote:I'd say 'nothing much', but that always sounds like a cry for attention and praise.
You're just jealous because I beat you to it!

You're right -- I'm no good at anything!

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:14 pm

sincerely wrote:"seems"?

shut your pretty mouth!

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:34 pm

RemusShepherd wrote:I've yet to see another comic out there that's similar to mine at all. That probably means I'm doing something horribly wrong...

Unless you're doing something horribly right.

I was going to say "I make my comic unique" but I see that's been done.

My comic is about an Elf living on Earth. . . . Wait, that's been done too?
Um, she's a princess who ran away because she was being forced to marry a foreign prince. . . . You say you've read that somewhere before?
Other people in the apartment building mistakenly think the main character is gay. . . . Three's what? Never heard of it.
It's also about a normal person with a crazy roommate who drinks lots of bee--oh come on! You didn't even let me finish that one!

Okay okay, the crazy-beer-swilling-roommate-Elf-princess is pretending to be Polish and working as a maid in a crazy mansion with a timid goth girl and a girl who speaks with a fake French accent who all wear fetishistic maid uniforms and the neighbors who think she's gay have a daughter whose hair magically turns pink when they sneeze. Is THAT unique enough for you?

No?

Well bugger.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:24 pm

Cope wrote:Nothing.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:29 pm

My character I guess. Reading someone's comic is in a lot of ways like hanging out with that person. If you like that person and would like to hang out with him, reading his comic is a pleasurable experience, because everyone builds himself into what he creates.

If you want something specific, there are a few things I do that I haven't seen a lot in webcomics. Looking at Little White Knight, I don't know many webcomics that are based on real hystorical setting, specially not without any element of fantasy or anachronisms. I know a few, but no more than that. On the other hand, there are many hystorical comics in print, most of them better documented than LWK.
As for my things on Square Root comics, they are short comics and one-shots, which isn't often in webcomics where 99% of people do series, and where lots of people complain that they don't have ideas for short stories.

C.w. · Post by **C.w.** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:55 pm

Mine is rather unique in the fact that it has been questioned (by myself and others) if it was even a comic at all. The closest cousin it has is the single panel comic. If you define a "comic" as sequential art, then maybe it is (it's sequential, but you can view it in any order.)

Also: it uses a serif font.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:43 pm

M2 wrote:Boobs

Nanda wrote:Crap, that was my answer.

Starline · Post by **Starline** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:48 pm

I honestly have no idea.

Rosediamond · Post by **Rosediamond** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:22 pm

"Unique" is tricky, because you can have a totally innovative storyline with great characters, and one person can do something that SOME OTHER CHARACTER SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE would do, and it's no longer unique.

Okay, so my comic's not like that, but the people in it are based on real people, and the worlds I created are mine, and the care I put into bringing that world to life is mine. If that doesn't make at least a microscopic part of it unique, I don't know what does.

Sandusky · Post by **Sandusky** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:18 pm

How about a full color comic from somebody who is extremely color blind?

Whether or not it's unique, I don't know. But it sure can make things interesting on my end.

Surya · Post by **Surya** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:33 pm

My secret agent covert government spies have bright pink uniforms.

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:34 pm

Well it has angsty bunnies, does that count?

Actually I'd say the rabbit characters are sort of unique. They wear clothes, talk, and walk upright but if you look at their proportions you'll see they aren't antropromorphic, they're just rabbits who learned how to talk and stand upright to live in a human society. Notice I never draw them with thumbs.

I guess it's artisticly unique at least, even if the story just draws from some of my favorite fiction. (Nyhm and Sin City most frequently)

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:49 pm

Hard to say. On the one hand, I'm the first to admit that much of my comic is not 100% original material. On the other hand, my goal is to take these outside influences and put my own spin on them, thereby creating something unique.

Plus, my characters are an extension of myself, so there's a sense of "me" throughout the whole work.

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