Boosting our subscriber counts with crossover events

[SynergyEclipse]

This sounds like a great way to introduce readers to more comics, and the coaching from others in the swarm could be a learning opportunity! I'd like to get involved in it if this happens, and if time would allow me to.

[joe_galindez]

Who else would like to participate? I'd like to start talking about time frames.

[joe_galindez]

How do we want to do this?

• Do we swarm together at Unu.ai
• Or do we make decisions on the Tapas forum using polls like this one?

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[joe_galindez]

So it looks like we're doing Tapas polls. That could totally work. We won't be able to swarm in real time but we also won't have to worry about coordinating across time zones.

Smallest possible group is probably three people. That's not a true swarm, but it prevents any single artist from dominating the conversation. I definitely want to be a part of this, so we need at least two more people.

[Toon]

This seems like a really cool idea, and I'm willing to participate.

[sandpaperdaisy]

Yeah, this is fascinating. I have no idea if I'd fit in with whatever genre gets picked (most likely not) but I definitely want to follow along and see what happens with it.

[joe_galindez]

I'm just a writer, so if I'm going to be part of the first group then the others will have to serve in that capacity only. Larger swarms may be able to contain both writers and illustrators but it doesn't seem fair for a small group.

[joe_galindez]

We still need one other person on board. To be clear, this first story is going to be super short. Three artists means just three chapters, and they can be short chapters at that.

I'm not expecting anyone to put in an extraordinary effort. The point is to make content creation easier by taking advantage of additional manpower, new technologies, and the fact that improving something is less demanding work than creating it from scratch.

[silvereyedlily]

Im interested to participate! Sounds fun

[Puppisama]

This really sounds interesting, Im in.

[joe_galindez]

It looks like we're doing this already. Great! Can we get confirmation on who's participating? How about it, @Toon, @sandpaperdaisy, @silvereyedlily, and @Puppisama? Is now a good time for you, @punkarsenic and @Kattlanna?

While we're sorting out the lineup, we can also start figuring out what kind of story we want to tell. The group has the last word, but everybody reading this threat can mention a genre or specific story idea or both.

[Puppisama]

Now is quite late for me (9pm on a rough day) but tomorrow or the next day Im going to be more free.

[joe_galindez]

Sure, I meant starting today. But we're all in different time zones so there's no need to do this in real time. We did choose to use the forum for this.

[Toon]

Now is good for me as well.

[SynergyEclipse]

What genre of comics does everyone participating write? Will this question help us work towards figuring out the genre or story idea? It's night time for me, but I may have some time tonight.

[joe_galindez]

We're brainstorming, but slowly. No need to lose any sleep over this.

I write fantasy, horror, and science fiction. If I have to work on a romance it has to be a romantic comedy.

[Toon]

For me it's fantasy, mystery, or science fiction.

[Puppisama]

Oh, I work on Action, Sci Fi

[charliepeppersoap]

wanna marry this post

sociological research?? in a visual media interwebs?? WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATION THAT CAN BENEFIT REAL HUMAN BEANS????

gooooooaaaaaaaaalllllsssss

[charliepeppersoap]

(o i am not participates, i have crew waiting and can approach similarly genre'd artists for the mutual support cameos and in-universe reference swapping ehe. just wanted to thumbsup this whole thing because yaaaas psychology and anthropology and human cooperation i want to see u all get famous as heck)