How Would You DO a Reboot?

I did a reboot of my comic based on comments I had gotten from critiques of when I finished it the first time. Specifically, each of the four chapters was drawn in a different medium, which they felt was jarring to the reader. At that point, I hadn't given myself the chance to correct the things I didn't like, so I decided to reboot. Same story but new layout. 80 pages became 70 without really losing any contact, only being more creative within my panel structure, which is a pretty regular 2x3 grid. It was painful, but I couldn't be happier with my decision, the comic is much better for it! Check out the comic here: Arc291

The one that should care is you. I didn't see the original, so l would have no idea. How many people saw the original and why should they care what you do with your own Creation?

I did briefly considered about rebooting my comics The Satrians because it was created and done in a kinda rushed manner for my grad school's senior thesis project. I realized that its pacing is more ideal for graphic novel not for webcomic. In that situation, readers reading comics very quickly is serving me very well because they can breeze through beginning then enjoy my hopefully improved writing

But NOPE I don't want to do a rebooting. Rebooting takes SO much energy and time. Like others said above, I'd prefer to focus on learning from mistakes and go making new things. What I did instead was going back to some of pages and edit very small things.

I'd reboot Echo and make her having a bikini chainmail, high heels and magic of love.

Nah, it would only be for the pacing and drawings of the first chapters.

Reboot? Nah. Once it's online, it's done. Move forward not backwards, upwards, not forward, and forever twirling, twirling to freedom!

Maybe I'd try redoing some of the first pages to make them look better, but entirely starting from scratch? Man, I think it would take years to redo things over again.=_=; If I did try to reboot one of my comics I'd try to make it shorter so that it won't be as hard to work on, or at least thats my preference.

My current series is actually a reboot of a comic I had about 3-4 years ago, the reason I wanted to reboot it was because I kinda liked the character of that comic I just didn't represent them well enough in the story, I also made a ton of mistakes working on it which I'm learning from making the comic again this time around.
What I changed was the whole story and setting, from high school to university, I fleshed out the characters more before starting it and also made it more focused on the two main leads than have it be about everybody like in the older version.

I felt I changed a lot of the more technical stuff in the comic, like the comic making process itself was changed as well as the planning phase. I spent more time planning this comic, actually planned out how it's gonna end and the key points, also story boarded a lot before actually starting to draw it. Also changed from a more manga-like grey scale format to webtoon and color which worked better for me. I made a lot of buffer pages so that I could be relaxed when uploading weekly pages.

It'll be good to see what worked for you and what didn't and if there are things that stressed you out in the comic making process that you feel you could improve.

Basically depends on a type of reboot. If it's a minor reboot, I would only update pages, or add new ones. I wouldn't bother my readers much with it.

I despise reboots, so never

I have updated pencils for the first chapter of Vatican Assassins that I haven't inked yet, but they're all just updates to the art, no changes in story. Chapter 1's art is...horrendous, to say the least, and also unprintable in it's current form. At the time, I was determined to do it all in marker shading, but this was a horrible mistake. I changed to digital shading towards the end, but not it all just looks so bad, I'm afraid it deters new readers from continuing to the decent art a few chapters later. I'd like to complete the "remastered" chapter 1 at some point and post it up, and then maybe redo the shading in the early parts of chapter 2 (too many pattern tones).

But I wouldn't change the story. I'm actually quite pleased with how it started and how it's evolved.

Well, while not my entire comic (it's not really "one long story" so wouldn't be much of a point) I'm currently redoing an old storyline. I just looked at the old story, realized everything I neede to redo (which was... a LOT) and basically rewrote the whole script and layout (basic premise is still the same, but a bunch of storytelling changes happened)

I've recently strated Vast Blue http://tapastic.com/series/VastBlue1. Ironically it is a reboot. I had started a series called the The Vyken Legends and then had a real moment with myself. I knew it just wasn't good enough so I made a tough call. I rebooted it. I went back through and took notes of everything I needed to do differently. I felt it needed a catchier name so I changed it to Vast Blue. I changed a couple of character designs and back story. Ironically my main character mostly stayed in tact. It sucked at the time but I'm glad rebooted. Vast Blue is far superior to what I was doing before.

I'm not going to reboot but I am going to do a lot of "tweaks" and get everything looking more uniform once I'm done with book 1, which is coming up.. Mighty Glad

But I knew from the beginning, especially since this is my first comic, it was going to be a rough draft for me and that I would have to do quite a bit of editing.

I say reboot if you want to reboot, but either have a specific goal or plan in mind or have someone that can help you edit otherwise you'll just get lost, confused, frustrated..etc.

Well for one I would start afresh. So I would delete the old comic, and any of the pages stored in my computer. Then I would set fire to the house (including the computer and any sketch books). After that, I would make sure that any references to the old comic are erased from the internet, so I would set fire to all the servers that contain that information. Having done that, I would eliminate anyone who has read, or heard of the old comic (I recommend the Russian mafia for this). After serving my jail term, I would post the new pages on a new domain.
Simple!

I hope this helped.

I have a plan of redoing three first chapters of Fallacy1. Sure, looking at them makes me cringe and there are pacing issues I wanna fix but mostly it's because I want to turn it also in printed, physical version and that kinda requires pages to be at least done in same medium to look good. :'D Also, the lettering is honestly pretty bad in the beginning and while readers are willing to overlook art, hard to read comics get dumped without a second glance. Story-wise I'm actually pretty much where I want to be even if execution itself needs work still.

I'm going to slowly replace old pages with new ones but I won't take a hiatus to do it. First I'll create a buffer for new ones and then start tackling the old ones. That way regulars won't feel slighted while new readers can see it looking better than originally.

Technically Jonny Comic IS a reboot already from my 6-issue mini series from high school. I did that, as opposed to just uploading those high school pages, mostly because I really didn't like the art or the pacing. But seeing that I've never uploaded those pages to the internet, I didn't feel bad about rebooting. Now that I have people who read every new page I don't think I could justifiably reboot my comics. I think reboots just slow things down and are a general slap in the face to readers.

If I ever were to reboot Jonny Comic and Valve Comic1, it'd have to be 15 years from now and there'd have to be some crazy "Secret Wars" type crossover that destroys the universe or something stupid like that. Then I'd probably change one tiny thing about the first book that effects everything after that.

I am currently rebooting a 5/6 year old story of mine. I planned out about 20+ chapters at the time, but due to my lack of skill in both writing and drawing, the pages i did create were lacking.

I plan on not just rebooting, but reworking the story.

Personally I think a reboot should only be done if the creator has not already started creating the pages of the story or only has a few pages created.

Plan the story first and make sure it's solid before starting to draw your pages. It's always easier to rework the story if it has plot holes or redesign characters as you work on the story in the development stage, but once you start to publish your pages, that's it, you are stuck with what you've got. Make sure you feel comfortable with your story before you start creating.

If you are rebooting because you don't like your art, keep creating, your art will improve by working on pages of your comic.

But do make sure you practice drawing your characters/ world beforehand. Some little changes you might make as you start drawing the comic can be avoided by planning beforehand.

Better to avoid rebooting in the first place by properly planning out your story, lore, world and characters first.

I learned this the hard way.