Ever feel like spoiling the whole story of your comic?

[baasinsimple]

artist and writer! Yup!

[RiidDisBuk]

Oh nice. I'm more of a writer, but I'm also an artist to the extent of drawing good characters and items for modeling sheets. I've had a comic planned out and structured, but I need a good artist. I'm just taking my time to search.

[baasinsimple]

Well, bro I can't be an artist for you, got barely enough time to draw my own stuff. But hit me up if you ever need a critique on design or story. Good luck to you bro.

[RiidDisBuk]

No problem. Keep up the good work on your stuff

[AmysGames]

I don't necessarily feel inclined to spoil the whole story, but I definitely have to hold myself back from leaving a lot of overt hints, lol.

"BOY it sure is interesting that this character is acting this way. I bet it's not relevant to anything that will be revealed later. Ho hum."

[beta1042]

UGH I'm so bad about this. I have some twists and turns planned and I'm always worried... am I leaving too strong of hints that the surprise will be ruined? Or am I not leaving enough, will people think I just pulled all this out of thin air? XD

[rmdooley]

Pfffffffffffft, all the time!

[Kura]

It's hard not to spoil the story, and extremely frustrating when you want to talk about upcoming events in your story to people for feedback like 'does this make sense' or 'I feel like I'm missing something that should be leading up to this point' but you can't because they either don't have the time or don't want spoilers. Which are both very reasonable reasons but still frustrating.

There are small things I'll spoil for fans that don't have a big impact on the story. Though, they're not really spoilers since they're not part of the plot, but are because it's just small information that comes later, like "The bird his crush's house is named "Jojo" or something like that.

Another frustrating thing I run into, and I think this more so a problem with artists that write. Is when I draw a character that hasn't been revealed in the story yet, or a picture with a plot spoiler in it, and I have to sit on it and not release it until that character shows up in the comic... which for webcomics, can often be years.

[Shanny8]

Maybe more so in the beginning when I first started out, but I've gotten that under control nowdays...

[c0ldw1nter]

I think stories are best when they don't get ahead of themselves, this way readers can interpret them in their own way. I don't leave comments on pages, give no insight at all, so this can happen. So spoiling is a big no-no. And about feedback... Well, I've over 20 pages already and there's still pretty much no comments. It's probably more about advertising your comic, than volume.

[Rosso]

i had a comment suggesting a scenario they expect/wish to happen to the MC in the next update
and while that won't be the case, I WAS D Y I N G to tell them that something REAAALLY close to what they suggested will in fact happen but 1) not to that character 2)VERY LATE STORY STUFF.

I didn't reply at all as i feel saying anything to that person, approving or denying such idea, might be a spoiler in and of itself XD;;

Which also leads me to worry about when people do accurately predict major plot twists
Withholding spoilers until they are officially revealed might make it look like we were just taking ideas from the readers, and it wasn't something planned from the start. I know some webcomic artists that ran into this messy situation too : /

@Kura

when I draw a character that hasn't been revealed in the story yet, or a picture with a plot spoiler in it, and I have to sit on it and not release it until that character shows up in the comic... which for webcomics, can often be years.

also this. SO MUCH!! :")
in fact i had to delete a bunch of drawings from my twitter when i launched my comic due to spoilers.
i had left few really minor stuff cuz i thought they weren't thaaat big of a spoiler and it doesn't seem readers check my social media anyway....?

[A-weird-girler]

Yes, yes I do. Especially in the topics where you share your LGBT characters and I just feel like splurging the whole thing

[BobbyjoeX]

the character thing, i'll spoil something cause i dun care, i have been posting that one image of 3 of my characters on the forums, 2 havent had proper intro... well the one is just being introed now and the other guy doesnt come til chapter 4. there, spoils XD

personally im not too worried about spoiling characters, sometimes showing the characters can get ppl hyped to find out who they are XD

[vworksart]

Sadly yes. I have to bite my tongue a lot but I have a bad habit of getting super passionate and just start blabbing everything non stop lol

[LT1986]

Yes. I feel like spoiling the entire story of my web comic, because it gets better as the story progresses.

[RiidDisBuk]

I summarized my first chapter to my artist and editor. They were shocked in an amazing fashion.

[SheiDraws]

yeah, especially when there are people who are being nasty about your characters' behavior. I just want to explain sometimes why they are the way they are. There wouldn't be a story if they weren't like that, y'know

[Rhonder]

Totally! For the comic (or idea for a comic rather, it never made it past ch 2 in drawings and ~ch 8 or 9 in prose) I worked on from like middle school - college, I had a few friends I'd gush to about the far-future plot all the time and pester them for ideas and feedback and etc.

The current project I'm working on is a short one-shot comic, about 60 pages front to back. So before i started drawing the pages for it, I spent a few days busting out a story-board version of the whole story and had several of my friends read through it for feedback. So the whole story is spoiled for them, but I'm super grateful because the feedback I got was really helpful!

In short I do think it's useful to find some willing folks who are interested in helping you with the story and stuff :] I think it's still fun for those people to see the finished pages later on, and it's a cool experience to be "part of the making of the comic" rather than just a reader.

[joannekwan]

I don't spoil whole plot points but if people predict things I may answer "close!" if applicable, or if they complain about something in particular I'll be like "oh this will def be addressed later."
idgaf

[LittleMissDevil]

I often feel like spoiling my comic, when I want to share my thought process behind it. My comic is a pretty slow burn and things I am setting up now may pay off in a year from now, maybe later. I take a lot of pride in how I set up my themes and characters and such. So I kinda wanna explain what I am doing while a scene is going, but I can't, because it would spoil later events. I just want someone to chat about my ideas with, who does care enough about my comic to read it, but also doesn't care enough so I can spoil it.

This is especially hard when readers try to guess where something is going. I reaaaally wanna tell, but I shouldn't destroy the tension for them, hurgh xD