Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12736261-20140708222412/@comment-24635628-20140709202257

Bo Bo Joe wrote: Par, I still have no idea what comics you're referring to. I've read a couple realistic fiction graphic novels before, and they were pretty good (don't ask the titles, because I forget them). If we were to do a realistic fiction idea, though, we would have to focus more on humour. If our comic isn't humourous (even if it is fantasy) the art style we've mainly decided on wouldn't work, because it's too bright and funny for that setting. We would have to go with something much more complicated to give it the effect that we need, and I don't think that most of the artists would be capable of doing that.

On another note, if we were to do the idea with the drawings coming to life, I would highly suggest a main character. One person having the ability instead of multiple would make more sense, since it's clearly something that wouldn't be common. In any fantasy or sci-fi story, there need to be a whole lot of regular characters to balance out the power that some have. Even in something like Harry Potter where everyone are wizards, there are still wizards who are more important and powerful than others.

Also, I'll warn you that writing fantasy is much more difficult than writing realistic fiction. There are about a thousand plot holes that you need to fill in, backstories that you need to write, etc. J.R.R. Tolkein (who is well known for his fantasy novels) wrote books worth of backstories so that his novels would make sense. If this kind of patience isn't put in, some things may not connect together and the plotline could hit huge problems along the way. If we want to create something entirely new, we need to do a lot of planning to work it out.

And yes, I know that Hussie didn't do much planning, but he was one of the people who got lucky. He had an idea that NO ONE had ever thought of doing before, and since it was new people were interested. The beginning of Homestuck was boring, but there were people who were still interested in it. There's no guarentee that the same thing will happen for us, so I suggest that we plan this out thoroughly just to stay on the safe side. It should be humourous. I obviously wouldn't read it if it wasn't lol.