A change in perspective.. POV of you comic?

[MissMagicGirl]

I did something quite different for the new episode of my series: https://tapastic.com/series/magicadvisor
I had the villain narrate the story instead of my usual narrator, the hero. ^^
I really hoped it worked out trying something different for that chapter... ^^;;

What are your thoughts on pov in your stories? Do you always tell the story from one characters point of view or does it change between many characters? Or is there no special pov at all?

I always love to hear about how other people think and makes their stories. It inspires me a lot

[scullpanda]

Well I adore Prim so its fabulous --as for POV I'm a bit wonky playing around with them @MissMagicGirl

[WakaXO]

My story is in Dakotas POV. For the first bit anyways, latter after the 2nd story arc it will probaby start flip-flopping between characters, but thats forever way 😉

[MissMagicGirl]

@scullpanda Thank you! I am so happy you like her! ^___^
I think it is cool that you play around with it. I think one should have fun with different points of view

@WakaXO I see, I like your plans. ^_^

[StrangeVision]

My story's going to change pov many times, i'm a bit concerned about how it will go over with readers. Stories told from one perspective are cool, i've just never really written one outside of short stories. I have a pseudo-detective noir story i'd like to work on in the future from one perspective, I feel like that's an appropriate genre for one pov.

[shazzbaa]

My comic has a lot of POV shifts between the main characters, but since I don't have a narrator or captions or anything, it's a kinda subtle shift that has more to do with information -- when we know things that a character knows, or we're shown the emotional reaction of one character instead of others, we tend to be on the same page with them and have a better idea of their perspective.

So like, as an example, a lot of Chapter 3 is from Xira's point of view because of the information we have -- he's a telepath, and we the audience know he's a telepath, but he's hiding it from everyone else. Which means that when he and Tareth have a Definitely Very Hypothetical Conversation about whether or not mindreaders can be good people...

...we kinda side with him at first. I got a lot of comments from people scolding Tareth for being so insensitive... because from Xira's point of view, that comment was a kick in the heart.

I think we could've seen that from Tareth's point of view, but it'd have to focus more on her feelings than his. If Xira turned away from the camera (instead of away from Tareth and TOWARDS us), and the focus was on Tareth wondering why Xira was so abruptly unhappy, we would feel Tareth's confusion/concern and not be sure of Xira's feelings on being unintentionally dissed --- it'd be from Tareth's POV even though we know the answer that she doesn't have.

There's also more obvious shifts (when we see other people's thoughts, we're seeing from Xira's POV; when we can't hear dialogue and the word balloons go blank we're seeing Tareth's POV, etc.) but the subtle implications of POV in a story that doesn't explicitly have one is really really interesting to me!!

[ypirouz]

So far, in Torus Link, the point of view is from Hazel on one side, and Azalea on the other. The main cast consists of eight people overall who all interlink, however, so I intend to shift POV between them as is needed in each chapter, while keeping Azalea and Hazel as my anchors.

I think Tom Siddell does a great job of this kind of occasional shift between chapters in Gunnerkrigg Court.

[spadesart]

my comic SPIRE is a narrative that switches spotlights from different characters a lot! even though my dude Blaise is the "mascot character" for it it spends equal time on almost everyone. It'll have full fledged chapters on side characters and all my characters will get their own spotlight eventually (theres even one chapter that has 4 mini chapters that go into 4 characters' backstories and I'm really excited for that one!!) and since the setup of the story allows me to keep filling in stuff until my characters reach their "goal" there's probably going to be even more exploration than currently planned.

[indagold]

Welcome Back starts off in it's first part as from one character's point of view and only that character. Maybe twice you get see other characters but it's mostly from the view point of the main. The second part is many characters all with interweaving plots. I think mostly I wanted to use that to get a sense of the world and the characters in it. Also to show how much of a bigger comic it was compared to the first part. There is really no definitive main character and I use that to develop them further.

[Inspector_Spinda]

I personally love comics which have changing perspectives. I'm in the process of doing it for Souldew right now, so there will be a new temporary main character for most of the rest of chapter 2. I think it is good to get all your characters developed and be able to see things from their point of view

[AnnaLandin]

Do you always tell the story from one characters point of view or does it change between many characters?

I rarely use narrative text in my comic, so my POV is not as clearly obvious as if I'd used narration boxes, but it's still there. Also, I don't use thoughtbubbles. I either communicate what someone feels by expression and body language, or give them someone to speak out loud to.

I shift between a few POVs, so that I'm able to tell a more coherent story for my readers; currently, my POV-holders are geographically quite far apart, so if I stuck only to the POV of the main protagonists, a lot of what happened would feel random and senseless to the readers, and having important characters just show up out of the blue later in the story would feel too sudden. So I'm shifting around a bit, to show what's going on in other locations.

I do stick with a single POV within a scene, though, and shift between only when the characters separate from one another or when we're shown a brand new location, etc.

[Aspie_Gamer]

Life of an Aspie is mostly the Susan Show, but on occasion has briefly switched to someone else and their POV. That will change next chapter.

[MidZM]

In my story the character POV will switch often between various characters, especially if there is a flashback that a certain character is telling. This is mostly due to the fact that there are/will be 4/5 protagonists with the original character being the main protagonist.

[Emma]

In my comic, the POV is generally centered around my two main characters, but does go to other people if the scene needs it (it hasn't done that yet, but it's going to be like that later).