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Are there meta moments in your comic? What's your personal feelings on being meta?

For me, I try NOT to be meta, but there's little moments in Season 1 where I can't help myself a bit? I think the biggest one was here where Burd and I needed to meet a deadline, so we went with the stick figure artstyle and we had to come-up with an excuse and we were like "Ehhh... St. Peter's in Heaven.... he would know that he's in a comic since absolute truth and all that... let's do that".


I think I shot myself in the foot with Naota and his arc. Like out of all the iseakiers, his storyline plays around with cliches from his genre. As for the other characters... not at all? In fact, I think at this point they're just vehicles to help develop characters.

My biggest fear of the comic is being self-reliant on references and the comic not standing on its own. I don't want it to end up like Rick & Morty or somethin'.

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Hey hey that episode of Rick and Morty was like that on purpose and Rick actually said he dislikes it. And I actually find that episode really funny

Lol, sorry

i honestly love meta humor but it's al about time and place for me. like...there's maybe one among the three main projects i'm focusing on that would have little meta references coz it wouldn't hurt the overall tone and it suits the character personality

like deadpool does the fourth wall thing and it's funny and then the amazing world of gumball exists and even tho it got a . . . wide variety of opinions sonic boom making inside jokes and using meta humor didn't wreck the show and in some cases kind of added to it (i mean yeah some of the self jabs were painful to watch but otherwise it was good overall)

I guess I don't like meta humour when the only meta thing in the story is humor. I want meta drama, meta horror, meta romance ... you get the picture :stuck_out_tongue: Having the meta aspect be more central to the story makes meta humour feel less cheap/tacked on, imo :]

The only kind of 'meta humour' I'd use in non-meta stories is referencing in-universe media tropes/tendencies, like for example if the story is set in modern day real world, I might have a character with a fancy outfit joke about being 'hard to draw', but I make it clear they're just joking in-universe (maybe the character themself is an artist) and not actually medium-aware or think they're a character in a webcomic or anything like that :stuck_out_tongue: Basically, no 4th wall breaks for the sake of humour unless there are 4th wall breaks for the sake of plot :]

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