I've been told these are original... I think a lot of stuff has both original and non-original aspects. Although finding "original" stories isn't all that hard.
Assassin hired to take out one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Not your typical fantasy
Mhm, interesting question. I think my world building concepts of Heaven and Hell as well as their system and ranks are very original. I haven't seen a fictional story/book combine the different religions and mythologies like I do in my world so I do would say it's pretty original.
I think everything we consume is derivative to an extent, but it's the combination of our inspirations and twists we give it that makes the new story unique.
I include a lot of documents/paperwork/website related content to supplement my comic, which I think makes it unique as far as webcomics.
What kind of originality? Idea?
If so, no, our story is not original and will never be.
None of our ideas are unique to ourselves, it is not a reach that someone out of 7 billions and counting human in this earth has a similar idea.
Probably those ideas have been present in the mind of your dead ancestors too.
That does not matter.
Because we as humanity can move forward by developing ideas from the preexisting ones, copying from what we observe, and be inspired.
If that means the story in general as it is, maybe yes.
I only think in this context originality is defined by making it by yourself, not blatantly copying and modifying other people's creation, recreating a work, making a series as a derivative or extension of other people's work (a.k.a fan-work), or not obeying conventional storytelling tools like common trope or cliché (this one is a bit difficult).
In a narrow context, my series is original because I make it myself without it being a recreation/copy/derivative of existing work. In a wider context, the idea is far from original.
In my opinion there's no such thing as being original. We just borrow many ideas from many mediums, places and experiences and combine them together and personalize it to our own views to make our own stories and art.
I try to be more mainstream, but I keep finding niche angles, by using protagonists with unusual backgrounds or digging up historic stuff like the Yamnaya culture in this story to build the centaurs origin story in this BL book.
While it's probably not original (if we really think about it nothing ever truly is original) I do believe that it is a new take on the story of a usually isolated and alone main character adopting an innocent young child. Just starting off with the main characters separated at first and showing how their lives will change is pretty "original" to me at least.
I don't really see the value in originality or uniqueness, though I understand why people strive for it. I favor appeal over either of those two qualities. Especially in my present comic which is wholly unoriginal. It's not as though I deliberately stole from any previous work, but I haven't put much effort into defying conventions with it. I don't mind if some one calls my comic cliche but it's as intended. I rather care about making a story that works and resonates and leaves you feeling like it was worth the read, for my present project, The Black Belt Society, and any future ones. Comparison comes, even when trying to original.
Oh thanks a lot, now I have Everybody by BSB stuck in my head again. Not sarcasm, its an absolute banger.
Maybe not a character, but there are several pokemon that can do that. And though it's not exactly the same, I think there are a few character that can copy magic used on them in Fairy Tail.
My comic is a vampire satire and the main character is an alcoholic. I know there's at least one other vampire satire and it's by Mel Brooks. But that was specifically satirizing Dracula.
I'm not fully sure if what I create is original, but I haven't really seen many other comics simulator to mine.
I'm pretty confident my work is "original" I haven't gotten far enough into the series to show off my unique worldbuilding but its ramping up as time goes on. Anyways in my series our gang of monsters travel across a modern-fantasy world & go on cartoony adventures where they encounter all the messed up things about modern America.
hmm i wonder who would mix the gundam franchise with power rangers and other 90s cartoons and toss in furries
-points ot self-
https://tapas.io/episode/1979693
PFFT NO
Lmao, I wear my influences so blatantly on my sleeve that they're basically impossible to miss.
Also, here, I guess. Just published today. It's very short.
I like to think my comic is original! It's a surreal horror comic, with elements of dreams vs reality and emotional manipulation. I think one some of it's uniqueness comes from the fact that it's traditionally drawn and watercolour painted! Which is unusual these days.
The most original thing is that it revolves around a character with Narcolepsy and Cataplexy, which doesn't get represented much in media, at least not represented seriously and realistically as I strive to do in my comic.
