Idea For a Webcomic

[lwm3398]

This new contest has gotten me thinking about comic ideas, but first, paragraph long backstory!

A long time ago, when I was a kid, comics became a huge part of my childhood. It started with a stupid inside joke we all did in elementary school, a piece of paper full of tiny stick figures fighting, doing skateboard tricks, whatever the hell we wanted to do. When it dropped among friends, I kept doing it, but not a jumbled paper-full. I decided to make a comic. I divided the paper, gave a stick figure a gun, and I created the best thing in 3rd grade. No one took up the comic thing, but I made crap-tons. I once got a huge pad of paper with which I did nothing. Then I made it into a stick figure comic. I had loads of ideas, zombie apocalypse, private eyes, whatever I wanted, and I rolled it into one huge comic with main characters. I've sometimes thought it would be cool to fix it up and make a webcomic, but I never will.

Alright, reminiscing over. I ask you now: What idea have you ever had for a webcomic? Is it one with different jokes each comic, or one with a story?

 

[delet]

I did that too, more or less. Started with a long 5 or so page story about 2 guys named Bob and Steve, and they eventually killed God's Foot or something. If I could actually draw it'd be the most epic comic based on insanity ever...

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

story about 2 guys named Bob and Steve.

You mean like those splinter cell guys?

 

[Daveman]

Remake of Calvin and Hobbes, even if it was shit I'd win.

But seriously, I have a fairly shit imagination. I have to leave it to others. I just really want Calvin and Hobbes back though.... :'-(

 

[delet]

story about 2 guys named Bob and Steve.

You mean like those splinter cell guys?

I swear I came up with their names before that. Bob was just an idiot, and Steve was the 'intellectual type', except his head was bandaged and covered up his eyes so that there's no way he could've seen anything, and yet he saw things just fine. Comic logic doesn't have to make sense.

 

[Gxas]

I did that. It was a 4 panel comic of a stick figure named Danger Bob. In each strip, he was killed by a different animal.

My tribute to Steve Irwin I suppose...

 

[lwm3398]

I did that too, more or less. Started with a long 5 or so page story about 2 guys named Bob and Steve, and they eventually killed God's Foot or something. If I could actually draw it'd be the most epic comic based on insanity ever...

Kay was just a stick-figure, the funny one, the stupid one, made puns about murders when they were P.I's. The other one had spiky blonde hair (Not colored, but white=blonde in my eyes) and glasses, he was the smarter guy. I forget his name... I really loved that comic, and I never cared what anyone said. I did it for myself as a creative outlet, I guess.

 

[Trivun]

I would say, but I'm planning on using it for the competition if I can find a decent artist to complement my writing skills. Suffice to say that it's something I came up with about a year and a half ago, and it's based somewhat on my series of short stories entitled 'Digs' that I posted on Deviant Art and this site. I ended up thinking it would look better in a visual style rather than as a written story, but my art skills are somewhat lacking when compared to my writing talent...

 

[Timotei]

I've had an idea for an Escpaist-themed Webcomic based upon the forums. This has been sloshing around in my head for a long time. "How long?" you ask? How about this: MaxTheReaper was still using his Lelouch avatar.

The Escapist is a multi-story (signifying the multiple boards) cafe where people just go to hang out and talk, maybe grab a few drinks at the Search Bar. The comic would be based around some of the more well known members represented in the comic as their avatars or whatever representation they prefer. Most of the time a strip would be based around a particular thread topic or maybe a funny situation in the news. Sometimes a certain strip would only focus on one particular person (ex. a strip based around Ultrajoe and her empty can of soup).

The strip would also make references to several other things on the internet such as Moot's house (4Chan), the art gallery (DeviantArt), and several other famous websites.

I think the comic itself has some good potential, but because of a fucked up right hand I can't really draw, so I'm in desperate need of an artist.

 

[delet]

I did that too, more or less. Started with a long 5 or so page story about 2 guys named Bob and Steve, and they eventually killed God's Foot or something. If I could actually draw it'd be the most epic comic based on insanity ever...

Kay was just a stick-figure, the funny one, the stupid one, made puns about murders when they were P.I's. The other one had spiky blonde hair (Not colored, but white=blonde in my eyes) and glasses, he was the smarter guy. I forget his name... I really loved that comic, and I never cared what anyone said. I did it for myself as a creative outlet, I guess.

People actually always bugged me to show them my comics. My friends enjoyed their morbidity. I'm sure I have them around still and I'm sure that my utter lack of artistic ability will simply disgust me now, but it was fun to create the stories.

I've had an idea for an Escpaist-themed Webcomic based upon the forums. This has been sloshing around in my head for a long time. "How long?" you ask? How about this: MaxTheReaper was still using his Lelouch avatar.

The Escapist is a multi-story (signifying the multiple boards) cafe where people just go to hang out and talk, maybe grab a few drinks at the Search Bar. The comic would be based around some of the more well known members represented in the comic as their avatars or whatever representation they prefer. Most of the time a strip would be based around a particular thread topic or maybe a funny situation in the news. Sometimes a certain strip would only focus on one particular person (ex. a strip based around Ultrajoe and her empty can of soup).

The strip would also make references to several other things on the internet such as Moot's house (4Chan), the art gallery (DeviantArt), and several other famous websites.

I think the comic itself has some good potential, but because of a fucked up right hand I can't really draw, so I'm in desperate need of an artist.

So like Hubilub's 10k post story but yours came first and in comic form? I'd enjoy reading that.

 

[Mushroomfreak111]

I told myself that if I'm gona make a comic, it's not gona be on the internet. I'm gona get payed for my work, and to do that it's gota be unique enough for someone to want to buy it. So, scratch the idea about two guys in a couch playing video games...

Also, why always one smart and one dumb guy? Why not two smart guys like in Frasier (which I think is great XD), or two stupid guys like in Dumb and Dumber...

 

[j0z]

I have an interesting idea, but I don't know if I will be able to draw it.
And no, I will not tell you guys because you will steal it and win!
So, tomorrow I am going to try to make some (probably bad) sketches and see what happens.

 

[SturmDolch]

Damn I actually have an idea for a web comic... I don't really want to explain in case my idea gets stolen...

So we'd be required to do atleast 2 a week? Hm... This does sound enticing... Aish. I don't know if I can make good material that much, though. Or even if anything I made were to be considered good material.

 

[lwm3398]

People actually always bugged me to show them my comics.

Haha, really? I never got asked, and I also only showed my friends. Early ones had Stickman Stan (Later called Stan Snerris in the comic, this I only know because I just found my old folder full of my comics) who was some kind of soldier-of-fortune who was getting attacked by the mob before he was picked up by some agency. He was also connected to the mob somehow, his father had been kidnapped, I don't even know.

It was fun to create the stories.

Yeah. That I always loved with the Kay, Kate (Female lead I forgot) and Max (I only know his name because I also found the pad) comic, because I would always link one plot to the other. Work for the army, get nuked, super-power plot. Long after I finished all the plots I wanted, I made this long part where they "Made good on their promises". They finished off Satan who they fought, they got two detectives their jobs back, they helped form a real super-hero team that didn't fall apart when they left it, whatever had made a segment before was tied up into a neat knot with no loose ends. I loved making that one.

 

[Captain Schpack]

Make a large story first then it though twice a week web comics. I'd probably pick some sort of dystopian story.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I would make a three panel comic strip about hang gliding snails. Snails are easy to draw and so are hang gliders. Combined they would be both stately and dynamic. The snails would represent decadent middle class westerners who feel entitled to a crass consumer existence centered around satisfying their every desire. In every strip they would have to face some trivial inconvenience in their lives that drives them into a rage by the third panel. Over time the strip would give a feeling that the snails are completely failing to deal with the decline of the capitalist system and that the only rational way forward is a new form of communism.

 

[Sam G]

I had an idea for a webcomic not long ago, and what's more my sister (an aspiring manga artist) agreed to have a go at sketching it out for me; unfortunately it never really got off the ground, though...
Anyway, it was about this boy named Lawrence (an aspiring detective and inventor of the revolutionary "gun-chucks") and his sister Alice (a spirit medium) who accidentally sold their souls to their landlady Kaya (A female demon, later revealed to be an anthropomorphic incarnation of Greed) who forced them to hunt down other demons for a living. There would have been all sorts of zany misadventures...