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Samuraiflame
Apr '17
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I'm sure most of us must have had stories we've abandoned before we even started them, or have left to sit in the concept phase.

For the sake of keeping things strictly on topic, only share webcomics that you have not yet started (and likely won't be starting anytime soon).
There are other topics for webcomics that are newly starting off. What I want to see are your ideas that have been gathering dust!

As for myself, I've always wanted to illustrate a spin-off story from my main series called the Porcelain Princess1.

Due to other projects taking priority, and the amount of time I would have to dedicate to drawing pages for this, I haven't attempted going through with the comic. Here's the old cover and sample page I did draw a few years ago, in collaboration with a friend.


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miesmud
Apr '17

Some weird sci-fi story I wrote in 2013 about some generation of people that grew up in mines. Two kids got out and ended up in some distopion sci-fi world.
I still like my story, but it's too big a project and I know too little about scifi to make it work. I do hope I can do something with it sometime though

I have tried to comic it back then, but it looked like some cheesy shoujo manga??? For some reason it reads right to left too? I was such a weeaboo haha.

I did redesign of the characters last year, and have been thinking about the plot a bit. But I still think I'm never gonna comic-ify it.

ahhvecadoes
Apr '17

They aren't abandoned per say, but they need a lot of work.

The first is a story about a surfer who finds a sea nymph. The nymph ends up falling in love with him and ends up drowning the guy. The second is a horror anthology that centers around the feeling of isolation and centipedes.

Aspie_Gamer
Apr '17

Before I decided on Life of an Aspie, (which I'm taking a break from for personal reasons) I had a couple of ideas for stories that just never came to be.

  1. Tall muscular delinquent guy goes to a high school that's run like a video game. Think Baka to Test or one of those video game centric light novels like No Game No Life or Sword Art Online (but MUCH better). Never got off the ground.

  2. An adult centric "harem" story about a yogi guy who was raised in a temple and was taught to ahem hold his baby gravy in i.e tantra. Anyway, since he's withholding from purposely ejaculating, he naturally attracts women without saying much at all to the vexation of his male peers who are all too busy beating off to porn or what have you and because he's got all that energy stored up inside him, that naturally makes him a beast in the bedroom causing the women he has sex with to never get enough of him. Basically, the "harem" part of the story would've come from the women wondering why the yogi has so much stamina and why he never comes for any of them and from there, comedic hijinks would've ensued.

This also never got off the ground, but if I were to ever collaborate with a hentai artist, this is probably the kind of story I would want to tell because of the aforementioned comedic potential and because of the unique male lead.

Heck
Apr '17

O man, there are so many lost ideas

I think my favorites are one about a doofy dog exploring space and just doing dog stuff... but in space, and he's looking for other dogs to play with and people to lick, but he's in space, so.
I had another one about a chick who got a cat to help cheer her up but the cat turned out to be Satan... but a cat, and he's kinda down too so they kinda just cheer each other up, but also he's Satan, so.

wat is even this stories supposed to be :/

heterodont
Apr '17

a story being told by the perspective of this guy:

it was supposed to be romance-y since he falls in love with a guy that his parents don't approve of bc they think he's of a lesser race (whole world was a society split between were-creatures and Actual born-as-that creatures, the guy he falls in love with is the former.) i had a title idea and inklings of where the story could go but I never could figure out everything in between so It's been on the backburner for 3 years now.

indagold
Apr '17

I had an adventure story I abandoned when I was 13. I had a whole universe and plot planned out, although I never bothered to write it down so I only have a memory of how it went and the 30 pages I did accomplish making in my ugly weeaboo style.

I always look back at it because it had potential to be a good story, it just needed a more mature me to rewrite it out of the dribble I cobbled together as a kid. It would take years to make as a comic but right now I want to write down what I can and save it so I don't forget it. I've also made concept art for a reimagining a year back as well.


shiftingverses
Apr '17
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There's two - one of which I full intend to start one day (maybe as just a writer though) and the second which I really want to do but can never find the time to make a start.

NEO VICTORIA
Set in the near-ish future. Society is divided between a benevolent ruling class of super-powered people - able to resist the intense radiation of the sun and therefore live above ground, and the normal people, who live in vast tunnel networks underground, only coming up for brief labour windows. I wanted to use superheroes to look at class divisions and how poverty can be inescapable, even in a society that looks after the disadvantaged. I was only interested in writing it, so I have no art to show! Though there's a few doodles in my sketchbooks.

GOLF GIRL
In a rubbish little seaside town in England the locals rely on tourism to make a living. Becky works at the golf course (despite hating golf) and spends her days in the hire shop wishing - evenly - that her co-worker would shut up, the visitors would stop referring to everything as "quaint" and that something interesting would happen.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) for her, two insane scientists at the dangerously unregulated Hawnsmouth Lab are about to put the town right in the centre of a reality-bending event.

Houndstooth
Apr '17

The precursor to Laid in Lavender was going to be a collection of stories about individual centaurs all struggling in a homeland very prejudiced against them, and how their stories interwove. Unfortunately it was too big for a first comic, requires a lot of thought and planning in a style I'm not familiar with (Lavender is scripted more as a feature film, since that's my education) and I felt too young and inexperienced to attempt writing a comic about racism etc. Instead, some characters made it into Lavender as cameos, but I can do little more than touch on centaur-centric racism in this story. I've been toying with a notion of making a side story about it, but that would be far in the future when Lavender is at its end.

Another which I chewed on for a while before the centaurs was a piece about a group of feral children living in the deep woods. Ultimately I couldn't settle on a path for the story and I've since set it aside until the necessary spark comes into it.

Mari
Apr '17

For me it's the shadow wolf epic, but I do intend to create something out of it someday.
It's about a non-specific tribe where every few decades a child is born marked with ouroboros on their neck, and they're destined to fight The Shadow Wolf, that's a malevolent spirit of death that comes to wreck havoc upon the tribe every few decades. Kinda the basic sacrifical lamb thing. I won't go into detail but it's like a multiverse and features chronos and time travel and betrayal left and right and lesbians so 10/10.

there's like a gazillion concepts but here's a few




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solhawthorne
Apr '17

Oh man I have so many! Most of them begin as concepts for video games since I program for my day job. I have a folder on my computer containing all my abandoned projects. Most of them are created when my sister came to visit and was bored, so we had some fun making up characters and stories.

I can't upload pictures for some reason, but I had one major comic that I did start but stopped after 11 pages. I probably won't work on it again for another year or two because it is supposed to be a 500 page epic and I'm not done perfecting it. It starred a young boy who wandered too far into the woods behind the house he and his mother just moved into. He runs into a chatty dragonfly fairy and get involved in all sorts of hectic adventures. The comic culminates in preventing a kingdom-wide war between the fairies and the neighboring rats. I first came up with the idea many years ago with my sister and have several chapters written out. One day...