Creative Decision Pet Peeves

[joannekwan]

Oh, also when characters in stories are unrealistically successful at a profession and they're younger than me. Makes me envious, even though I know it's fictional. XD

[Jabbage]

Doubly annoying if it's completely anachronistic for a corset to exist in the time period that the comic is set!

[monotone_ink]

"300 years ago, there were 4 crystal maidens, watching over the crystals that kept the world alive. It was then that a scourge spread, initiated by a fallen king. Demons spread across the world, terrorising the people and taking their eggs, consuming said eggs and shitting out boulder sized babies to roam the lands. It was then that a weeaboo warrior rose from the ashes and wiped the eos of the scourge with the power of his holy dong, renewing the life that was taken from the demons and putting said demons into their own eternal wet dreams. But it was only a matter of time until they awoke from their fantasies."

Fuck yourself. Please don't do this.

[joannekwan]

Ok but if there was a story like that verbatim, it actually sounds somewhat interesting, haha~

[AnnaLandin]

Doubly annoying if it's completely anachronistic for a corset to exist in the time period that the comic is set!

Pixar's Brave, I'm looking at you. Boned corsets were not in common use during the medieval era, and certainly not in Scotland. And the hourglass-pinch thing wasn't a thing until the 19th century.

[Jabbage]

Pixar's Brave, I'm looking at you. Boned corsets were not in common use during the medieval era, and certainly not in Scotland. And the hourglass-pinch thing wasn't a thing until the 19th century.

I was thinking of Brave as well!

[ConradComics]

Especially if the writers were that blunt about it. Wouldn't have to be porn, but if a porn studio did just that, I'd applaud them for it.

[miesmud]

Those comics where we never get to see the back of a character.
Or when they do nothing about body language, as if their characters are just some emoji faces.

This isn't a creative decision, but it's a big pet peeve of mine.
When a creator posts nothing but emo assays as description on their comic pages. I mean, talk to family, friends, therapists or at least a social media where you have personal interaction with others. As a reader do I not understand what I have to do with the sad selfloath of the creator. It distracts me from the comic, I usually unfollow, but I keep feeling bad for them and can't stop worrying about them.

[JKNNKL]

homie did u just admit to reading blade play

[mintycanoodles]

background art where the lineart's shifted just a little bit off the color drives me nuts. like 101 dalmatians, and even tho i love steven universe's bg art, sometimes it's like nails on a chalkboard

[gosunkgugi]

Unnecessary red noses bother me. They stick out like a sore nose.

[NickRowler]

You would hate Jackie Chan Adventures.

[joannekwan]

LOL @mintycanoodles and @NickRowler, for bg art where the lineart's shifted a little only bothers me in certain cases.
Jackie Chan Adventures was all right for me, since the lineart is about the same width for the bg as with the characters. And the background lines weren't shifted too drastically. I barely noticed it.
But for me the worst offender is the show Jacob Two Two. The background lineart was basically a sketch, and then it appears they just colored outside all the lines with a thick brush. xD

[monotone_ink]

I didn't know what blade play was until you replied that to me.

Thank you, it's a masterpiece.

[JKNNKL]

.. oh

fuck now i just admitted to reading blade play which i did not read btw

[purrlpankras]

When the creator introduces a character then kills them.

Over exaggerating emotions. (Like the ones in anime)

Un-researched history of setting.

Under-developed characters.

[smolrice]

Setting the comic in a different country and absolutely no effort is put into research. You end up with extremely stereotypical depictions of foreign countries that are... rather painful to read.
Also, characters inserting random Japanese words into their sentences when none of the characters are Japanese.
Dialogue in all lower case with no punctuation.

[60Six]

Oh, I finally got one.
I HATE when people don't color in the whites of eyes. You know, like the old Scooby Doo cartoons?

I don't know why, but I've always HATED how that looked and I couldn't stand sooo many cartoons from that era just because it bothered me so much. However, I kind of figured for a long time that they didn't color them in just because of restrictions of animation back in that day (and that the newer Scooby Doo episodes were just sticking to the style), however, I'll never understand why newer cartoons and anime do it? Especially when everyone else in the show has the whites colored in:

just AAAHGHGH They're so OFF PUTTING TO ME!! They'd look SO MUCH BETTER if the whites were colored in!
(I have no idea why this has always bothered me so much)

[Darth_Biomech]

My personal one is that I've noticed a trend in stories. Whenever a religious society with weird customs shows up in the story, it will be revealed to be controlled by an evil cult that uses fear, dogmas, and oppression to keep people ignorant and compliant.
Like if the religion has a rule that you shouldn't touch blue things because the blue color is sacred, you can safely bet that there will be severe punishment for touching or possessing something blue, and most likely it'll be execution, also similarly the laws about "having wrong ideas" will be similarly severe and unforgiving.

If same thing would be applied to fictional portrayal of Christianity, for example, you'd have scene when character loudly proclaims "the Earth revolves around the Sun!", and instead of people just going "TF are you saying, weirdo, everybody knows that's not true," a couple of guards will instantly appear to drag the guy away to prison for him later be executed for blasphemy.

Bonus points for having a character that will initially be a naive and true believer, and over the course of history they will be set free and realize how wrong and deceitful their culture really is.

Why can't we have a weird culture for a change that's just honestly weird and doesn't have any dark dystopian secrets behind it?

...and sorry for the thread necro.

[MeltingCORE]

It's hard to rub me the wrong way creatively but things that do weird me out is when people emulate something they like until it's basically insert-series-here but just recolored and with their ocs. There's nothing wrong with inspiration but if your series is literally just another series but with recolors/renames uh... (And not refering to fan fiction - talking about original creations.) Also, I love anime/manga but when the chest area is drawn to hentai proportions and it's not a hentai, it becomes distracting. I get wanting powerful women but there's other ways to show that. And you can do it even if they have large chests lol. I know several artists who are able to draw busty women without making it weird. (I'm talking about outfits where the chest is literally spilling out of the outfit or is impossibly skintight. Launch the torpedos!)