so what comic here on DD would you like to take over for a day *if you could* and tell the story your way?

None.

My dream webcomic is sitting in a form of roughly 1mb of text files (and I mean txt & rtf, not word).

Also, I wouldn't want to mess up the webcomics I like or touch the ones that I don't like. And the ones that I'm indifferent to... well, I'm indifferent to them, why would I want to do anything with them? :)

None.

I read the comics I love because of how their creators tell the story. Oh sure, sometimes I think about how I would do it, but I would never want to. It would turn the comic into something of mine when I'd rather read something of theirs. :)

No one on DD, but I'd take over some of those off-site webcomicsthat have go on for 3000 pages with nothing happening. I'd throw in actual character development and watch as the author crys because he doesn't know how to deal with a character that's not based on his own stale, lifeless personality.

Steely Gaze
None.

I read the comics I love because of how their creators tell the story. Oh sure, sometimes I think about how I would do it, but I would never want to. It would turn the comic into something of mine when I'd rather read something of theirs. :)

thats what i mean though. im not trying to insult anyone by saying i think i could do a better job, I just have always enjoyed playing with other peoples toys. I read acrobat by literacysuks1 and i think "oh man i could take that side character and write a wicked awesome backstory on him" or ill read plastic and think "if i was writing this id make these characters do this or that" etc.

This is why I love being a part of Off Hours. I do get to play with other people's characters and do all kinds of fun and occasionally less than fun things...but it's all NON-CANON. Nothing in Off Hours can actually affect the actual television show...er, I mean, webcomic.

So you see, when those actors get done with their adventures, they go back to being their characters on their shows and noone's the wiser (except the folks who read Off Hours )!

NickGuy

Steely Gaze
None.

I read the comics I love because of how their creators tell the story. Oh sure, sometimes I think about how I would do it, but I would never want to. It would turn the comic into something of mine when I'd rather read something of theirs. :)

thats what i mean though. im not trying to insult anyone by saying i think i could do a better job, I just have always enjoyed playing with other peoples toys. I read acrobat by literacysuks1 and i think "oh man i could take that side character and write a wicked awesome backstory on him" or ill read plastic and think "if i was writing this id make these characters do this or that" etc.

I actually had complete control of Charby The Vampirate for about five minutes. It showed up on my account and I could update it, delete pages, anything. I also owned a few other popular comics, but then I was logged out.

I just have always enjoyed playing with other peoples toys. I read acrobat by literacysuks1 and i think "oh man i could take that side character and write a wicked awesome backstory on him" or ill read plastic and think "if i was writing this id make these characters do this or that" etc.

Oh jeez lol, if that's what you meant, then my own 2 webcomics are my dream webcomics because that's what I do every single page.

@ Walrus:

HAXXXX!!!1111111111!

No touching Charby you dirty walrus! I assist on that still.
When I read comics here I often think of taking control and turning the story in a direction I'd like- this needs more sex and nudity, that needs more humour and action etc. -not naming names...
Funny thing is I get emails from people wanting to do exactly that to My comic lol!

Walrus
I actually had complete control of Charby The Vampirate for about five minutes. It showed up on my account and I could update it, delete pages, anything. I also owned a few other popular comics, but then I was logged out.

The same thing happened to me, only I got control of an "Adult" sprite comic. I think I officially lost the "DD Bug Lottery."

I like mine, personally. I would rather not take over someone elses comic.

patrickdevine

Walrus
I actually had complete control of Charby The Vampirate for about five minutes. It showed up on my account and I could update it, delete pages, anything. I also owned a few other popular comics, but then I was logged out.

The same thing happened to me, only I got control of an "Adult" sprite comic. I think I officially lost the "DD Bug Lottery."

or you won it...

NickGuy

Steely Gaze

thats what i mean though. im not trying to insult anyone by saying i think i could do a better job, I just have always enjoyed playing with other peoples toys. I read acrobat by literacysuks1 and i think "oh man i could take that side character and write a wicked awesome backstory on him" or ill read plastic and think "if i was writing this id make these characters do this or that" etc.

But the creators might not be totally against you doin a sidestory if you ask.

Warpedwenger

NickGuy
thats what i mean though. im not trying to insult anyone by saying i think i could do a better job, I just have always enjoyed playing with other peoples toys. I read acrobat by literacysuks1 and i think "oh man i could take that side character and write a wicked awesome backstory on him" or ill read plastic and think "if i was writing this id make these characters do this or that" etc.

But the creators might not be totally against you doin a sidestory if you ask.

Actually, I think the vast majority of people would see it as a great compliment/homage for a fan to draw a sidestory, alternate story, or even a parody of their comic. After all how many people get to have "fan fiction" of their stories? ;)

I find it amusing to see predictions or "I sorta hoped that ___" or "I thought they would _____" in the comments of my comic. People do it all the time, actually, and it's really cool, imo. For example, I had one reader comment that they had hoped two characters in my comic (Tristan and Yuki) would have developed a relationship. (The cool thing was that that had been my original intention, but I changed my plans/plotline.)

ozoneocean
No touching Charby you dirty walrus!

Hey, I'm not dirty, I washed two weeks ag-

Never mind... :(

not on DD, but I would so take Megatokyo and turn it into the parody of otaku culture that it was meant to be.

it has the potential to be hilarious, but the author just takes it waaaaayyy to seriously. he seems to be moving away from that lately, though...

usedbooks
Actually, I think the vast majority of people would see it as a great compliment/homage for a fan to draw a sidestory, alternate story, or even a parody of their comic. After all how many people get to have "fan fiction" of their stories? ;)

I find it amusing to see predictions or "I sorta hoped that ___" or "I thought they would _____" in the comments of my comic. People do it all the time, actually, and it's really cool, imo. For example, I had one reader comment that they had hoped two characters in my comic (Tristan and Yuki) would have developed a relationship. (The cool thing was that that had been my original intention, but I changed my plans/plotline.)

Woo, fanfic, yeah, I think I'd like it if a fan took over my comic and drew a sideplot. I like when people speculate. In fact, my comic is partly thanks to speculation, or more particularly I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WHY DID I DO THIS at a friend and someone told me what to do for as scene as a joke (the dragon turns into a little girl with a lollypop!) and I took it and rolled with it and made it into an arc. So in a way, one of my fans did take over my comic for a story arc, even though it completely suits what I was planning. Basically, I know how my story will end, I don't care how it gets there.

I don't really have any DD comics I'd like to take over and smack sense into. Actually, no, that's not true... there are a few I want to take over and fix the art on. But telling the story MY way...?

Okay, to be honest here. There are SEVERAL comics which I will not name to be nice to the creator that I've read, or read some of, and literally gone and messaged a friend over chat to say something like 'I read this comic. The art is awesome, the characters are well developed and everything and I WANT TO GAG MYSELF WITH A SPOON BECAUSE OF HOW THEY BEGAN THE STORY AND THE STORY THEY'RE TELLING.' and I've linked them and shown them why both I like it and see so much potential in it and hate it at the same time. Some are on DD, yes. The most frequent comics like this are the following plotline. I'm sorry if you see your own comic in it... "EVERYONE HATES ME BECAUSE I AM A LESBIAN SOB SOB SOB RUNS AROUND AND IS EMO ABOUT IT"

I've read too many comics that begin with that feeling.

They have tons of fans.

I HATE them and want to hijack them because often these comics have decent art, decent storytelling skills and they simply elect to present their characters in a way that bores me to tears to read. Yes, some people's lives suck. Not all of their lives suck that much. No, your character doesn't have to be in a strick Catholic/boarding/otherwise horrible school with no friends, whose parents hate her, who can't be a lesbian because everyone would hate her morenotthattheydon'talready to be intereseting. In fact, it's boring. In fact, I've read a lot of comics, some on DD and some not, that begin their stories with approximately that storyline. Some get better. Some don't. However, giving your character with her horrible everyone hates her life a girlfriend is not a genius plot twist. And believe me, I'm thinking of a lot of comics here. It's like 90% of lesbian comics have some varient on this highschool life sucks everyone is harrassing her to get a boyfriend but SHE LIKES GOIYLS plot. Gggfghghlllthhkkkgah. That's what I want to take over. I want to take over these otherwise interesting, well written, decently artistic comics and smack them and tell them to begin their story in a more interesting way and give their characters less cliche lives.

I'm not going to identify the comics I'm thinking of. I otherwise like them. There are a lot of comics with this kind of plotline, too. In fact, I've mushed them all together in my mind, I'm not sure what came from where and what where huh wha, they're all so similar, with the protagnists with their similarly sucky lives in highschool. That's all I really want to change... that one cliche. "My life sucks!" lesbian comics. I think it's really another way of making a Mary Sue.

Other than that... I want to see comics go their own way. I'm making my own comic to tell my dream story. It's different people's ideas that make unique comics. I even like some of the comics I've read that begin with that kind of cliche life for the character. I don't find an absolutely sucky/harrassed to have a boyfriend/whatever life makes the character anymore believable or interesting to me. That's all I'd change. So if I could magically change a comic, I'd pick one of those ones that I like and make it have a more original beginning to better suit the interesting story that follows.

And I think if someone were to hijack mine, they'd do what I'm now doing--fix the crappy beginning. >.>

I would like to be able to write order of the stick, because the guy who writes that is a genius!
He can somehow manage to put in forth wall breaking jokes during a scene that is genuinely emotionally upsetting while some how not ruining the mood.
I know of no one else who is capable of this.
Hmmm, so I suppose I want to write as well as that guy, rather then write his comic....

There is an element though where this question falls down, since everyone on here has their own comic, which I assume is the one the most want to write.
If talking cats in armour were not my thing, I would have to be a hell of a masochist to keep making this stuff!

Well, I sorta did that when I did a guest strip for Rule Of Three. :)

The only DD comic that I'd take over for a storyline is Antcomics... basically I'd have some crazy behind-the-scenes plot going on while they're shooting one of their classic videos, like Stand & Deliver, Strip, Desperate But Not Serious, Goody Two Shoes or Friend Or Foe. They were on quite a roll there between 1981 and 1984.

Definitely I'd like to take over "Spitfire".

Koshou
not on DD, but I would so take Megatokyo and turn it into the parody of otaku culture that it was meant to be.

it has the potential to be hilarious, but the author just takes it waaaaayyy to seriously. he seems to be moving away from that lately, though...

dear gawd...i agree 100%.....i stopped reading that travesty 2 years ago. he was trying to make it into some overly pretentious, serious, romance book or something. i was half intrigued until i figured out that he was just making it all up as he goes along. it started out making fun of gamer culture and uber-obsessed anime fans, but he got all wrapped up in making it into a teenage romance novel.

and he bitches WAY too much about having to draw 3 F**KING PAGES a week......only in PENCIL......and photoshop copies at least 2 panels a page.......and has far too many "lazy piro days/weeks" for the simple fact that this is the guy's F**KING JOB....to make a half assed webcomic!! he's getting paid to do what we do for free, and all he seems to do is bitch about how long it takes him to draw one freaking page.....and the plot probably hasn't even advanced since i stopped reading 2 years ago. snore.

i want one week at this book....just one week. seven pages. make some shit happen.

Megatokyo is way overrated. lol

Even people who arent normally into webcomics know about Penny Arcade and Megatokyo for some reason.

There are a couple of my faves I think it'd be neat to take over for a day. I think mostly I'd want to hijack some immaculately photoshop-colored comic and remake it as a B&W, in scratchy pen and ink; preferably with splatters, smudges, and irregular borders. Conversely, it'd be kinda cool to see my scratchy B&W comic all clean and colorful.

There are certain comics here on DrunkDuck, none that I'm willing to name specifically, that have amazing artwork, but interesting dialogue and character development both seem foreign to them. Given the opportunity, I would love to write in some scenes that would help the characters in question become more then one-note creations, and allow the conflict between these characters to drive the story onward.

MailOrderClone
There are certain comics here on DrunkDuck, none that I'm willing to name specifically, that have amazing artwork, but interesting dialogue and character development both seem foreign to them. Given the opportunity, I would love to write in some scenes that would help the characters in question become more then one-note creations, and allow the conflict between these characters to drive the story onward.

thats what im talking about! Like my comic KFK, the main storyline doesnt really have room for fleshing characters out, but I would be totally down if another writer or artist wanted to come in and flesh out someone like curtis or chen or whoever! Id totally let them do that...of course they wouldnt have TOTAL creative freedom, I would edit the story if i saw shit i didnt like, but i would definately love for stuff like that to happen. it allows your characters' world to open up, and it also furthers your own personal legend. not to mention it would be a HUGE ego stroker for me.

Several of my readers have left me ideas...and I like running with them if I can. In fact a current thread was actually started by Dragonrider...anyway...I'd have liked a shot a Bloodbound a while back. For a while there it was getting stale. Seems to have gotten its plot together these past few posts so I'm currently liking where its headed and I'm willing to hang on for the ride now. Mostly, if I can't get into a comic for whatever reason...it fades away in my admittedly alzhemerish brain...

I think that would be cool...like have an exchange between someone who's read your comic and you've read their comic and you tell them how you would personally have made their story. There'd be no wrong or mean answers just how you would have plotted it out in your own way xP Maybe go farther than the pages they already have and give them some ideas. :stache:

I like the idea of fan-written backstories for minor characters (ones that were never planned to have any backstory or be fleshed out). -- Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

usedbooks
I like the idea of fan-written backstories for minor characters (ones that were never planned to have any backstory or be fleshed out). -- Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Or the Ewok Movies!

Hahah that's a cool idea. There's probably a lot of untapped potential in minor characters. What could be fun and challenging is getting them to interact with the main story's canon/continuity.