Oh no I found something awful (share your comic + tell us its origin)

thecrystalrook 2021-06-13 18:19:37 UTC #1

Today I came across something truly awful. If you've read the first episode of Space Pirate (and if you haven't yet, get on that!), you know that it was originally an RPG Maker game I made circa 2002. Well today...I found the save file for that game. I fired up a PS1 emulator, dug up my copy of RPG Maker, and fired it up! Lone and behold, the origin of Space Pirate, nearly 20 years later!

Guy it's bad...and I mean REALLY bad. I don't even know what my 13 year old self was thinking, but I'm so glad that the rewrite is going a lot better Anyway, here's the manga, so share away your stuff and tell us how it came to be!

Legendofgenii 2021-06-13 18:25:00 UTC #2

This is brilliant.

Fuzzyman818 2021-06-13 18:32:40 UTC #3

There's just some stuff you never want to go back too.

So the idea for Capture the flag came from years of watching and reading Spy Vs. Spy from the complete case book to the small clips from Mad TV. (The sketch show, not the animated series.) Its really a tribute to the original creator of the strip, Antonio Prohías.

DualDragons 2021-06-13 18:40:45 UTC #4

Amusingly enough, my comic was also a game at some point in its very early life. It was a purely text-based rpg where you had to go on a adventure and combat enemies using spells. There were also potions you could consume, weapons and armor to equip and I was also introducing status effects.

Too bad it didn't really go anywhere. But I picked up the story which changed a lot until it finally looks like the comic today

DNoble 2021-06-13 19:27:13 UTC #5

Nova Ranger when I first tried to draw it back in 2016:

Same story moment from the redo, made last month:

I originally came up with this idea back in 2013-2014, when I had the epiphany that I was allowed to love Power Rangers unironically. I went through that 'too cool for kid's stuff' phase starting in my mid-teens to early 20s, causing me to think it wasn't 'right' to enjoy something made for children.
After having this epiphany, though, I did start to take note of how simple and straightforward the Power Rangers storylines were, which is perfectly fine, given that they are, in fact, for kids, but I wanted to see if I could make one with a little more nuance and intrigue by making the villains more sympathetic, the characters more flawed, and throwing in a little interplanetary politics into the mix.

Eventually this turned into Nova Ranger, which I tried to make in 2016, but then fell off due to having too many other obligations. I still have too many other obligations, but I'm trying it again anyways, focusing on producing pages quickly and efficiently in order to tell more of the story, rather than agonizing over making each panel a beautiful masterwork. Luckily, I feel like I'm experienced enough now that doing faster pages doesn't mean flubbed anatomy and screwy perspective like it used to: now it just means simpler or sketchier linework and less complicated page layouts.

Kaenisei 2021-06-13 20:21:11 UTC #6

Your comics have some interesting origins...
Mine is just a story that came randomly while daydreaming (I hate my job ahahah)

I wanted to create strange characters in a romance story, with some sort of political background.
Especially the "Dark Mage", who constantly hides his face. He is feared by everyone because he is known to have overthrown countries in the past. But when people think he is plotting to kill some King, he is just sitting in the forest playing with a bird.

And then the bird... He's a clever bird who can turn into a human. And then he can date that Dark Mage.

In the end, the whole thing resolves around 3 themes I wanted to picture:
- A romance between very different characters
- Finding the guy's identity
- Political background (kings trying to invade other countries etc)

TunaPrincess 2021-06-13 21:20:52 UTC #7

Oh my gosh that's awesome though!! Making games still takes a lot of work! I'm glad you're happy with the rewrite and turning it into a comic.

Lady and Her Hound really just came about because I really wanted to create something that had the feel of Bloodborne but had a bit more of an overt story. I also just really wanted to write a story that was gothic horror that followed a female protagonist. Hound joined the story because I really wanted to get better at drawing dogs, and also I just loved the idea of the two main characters just being a girl and her dog!

I guess another thing that inspired The Lady and Her Hound was the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is an old sci-fi novel about humans living in a post nuclear wasteland. I loved how the story of the world and what came to be was really told through the characters' experiences.

Kittyfox 2021-06-13 21:31:41 UTC #8

Dreamcatcher also started out as a video game concept made by me and one of my friends before it was a comic! I even made some of the sprites, music and a battle layout for it, but I don't know where I put those ^^" I was mainly inspired by Undertale when coming up with the concept for it.

Bokyongyo 2021-06-13 22:14:19 UTC #9

Way back Rewrite was a straight fairy tale hopping adventure, than a straight science fiction gritty adventure, lmfao (Teen angst am I right). And soon it got so big that it wasn’t even a story anymore, it felt more like a word document with a whole lot of ideas. Just a mess overall looking back, but a mess that needed to happen nonetheless.

Art wise think I grew more into my own style that I wanted for Rewrite in specific, so that’s always a bonus too

Here was one of the early covers I made featuring my two characters Era and Cawdigon:

And the current one featuring them:

renaissancebadger 2021-06-13 22:14:47 UTC #10

I have so much old art of my comic characters. I created one of them 15 or so years ago, and he was just floating around until ten years ago when I started this project. Incidentally he's the only one not in the second pic.

Edited to say: This has always been a superhero thing, but the characters have changed drastically. I also never wanted to draw it myself, but c'est la vie, I guess? Quom (the tiny alien) I originally designed to be just a little space creature who ends up meeting a cute earth guy, but that project disappeared with a friendship and he just works so well as an excitable space superhero. (his race has no gender but he likes he/him because that's what malka (the red haired one) uses)

thecrystalrook 2021-06-13 22:48:40 UTC #11

Lol I really feel you on this. I was huge into power rangers back when Mighty Morphin' first came out. By the time we got to Zeo, I was about 7 years old and everyone my age hit me with the "you're too old for power rangers" crap. But I kept watching until Turbo anyway

samiluu 2021-06-13 22:55:00 UTC #12

your videogame looks adorable for me it's impressive because I don't think I ever learn how to make videogames lol

my comic idea literally came from a tattoo I wanted to draw for an oc of another comic
So here's Judas, the bass teacher in my comedy series Bohemian

and I wanted to design a tattoo for him, and I wanted it to be Lucifer, because for personal reasons he's a fanboy of the fallen angel. Then my pairig (who invented practically most of the plot of Black Wings) and I said: it has to be a pin-up Lucifer! And this way i made the first drawing of Lucifer:

I think this really wouldn't work as a tattoo and I still haven't had the opportunity to draw it on Judas.
So from this tattoo sketch, my oc Lucifer was born, now he looks like this

and has his own comic, together with other demons, angels and the human main character Amèlia

and here's Bohemian, where Judas belongs, take a look too, it's funny

rachurch95 2021-06-13 23:11:22 UTC #13

Kerren was originally a dangan ronpa oc with SHSL Silvertongue.

quite a few of the characters come from when i was in that oc community.

the rest of them come from the comic universe
well

Except for Shadow

~~he started out as an alternate universe for Shadow the hedgehog~~

Ok time for the promo ahahahhaha

IamKeeks 2021-06-14 08:32:41 UTC #14

This comic is actually the most recently developed story in a series that I've got in mind. Mora originally developed in a story that takes place 5 or 6 years in the future. As I was developing her character and learning who she was, I realized that I really wanted to make this story as well.

I'm excited for you all to get to know her.

peillustrator 2021-06-14 16:59:35 UTC #15

The idea for my comic came around half a year ago. I wanted to try something new and I saw that a comic/manga company was accepting pitches. I jumped on the opportunity and I created a pitch. The Original title of Teach Me, Ami was Through The Stars. It wasn't the best pitch, but it was my first time. I had over 100 pages of script planned, in-depth series, and at least 8 volumes planned lol. The pitch took me around a month to do and I sent it... And I heard nothing back.

My pitch wasn't accepted and I felt pretty disappointed. Instead of giving up, I went back and redid a bunch of the stories, characters and overall created a series that I liked more. Instead of mature serious series. It turned into a comedy with some mature themes. That's the one thing, I never gave up and I'm happy where my comic is now. I get control over it and It turned from a central theme of the unknown to one of found family. Basing the character off more of my own real-life experiences and family. And that's why I later changed the title to Teach Me, Ami.

And that's what the story is. It's about two siblings that even though they aren't biologically related they still have that love for each other and want to help and grow together. And going through the typical ups and downs of a family, disagreements, arguments, ect. But somehow you get through it in the end. They're teaching eachother.

DanielRKM 2021-06-14 18:19:32 UTC #16

@thecrystalrook
That is AMAZING! I always wanted that game and I would be right there with you if I had actually gotten it (although my RPG would have been a bad Kevin Smith/Clerks-style adventure that my 14-year-old self would have thought was SO funny ).
If you ever livestream a walkthrough of Space Pirates, though, I would love to see it (or play it).

Anyhoo-
My comic has DEEP roots in its love for Sonic the Hedgehog (both games and comics). I started writing spec scripts several years ago for Archie's series- doing 10-page action/adventure stories to develop my comic script-writing muscles. In the second script I wrote, I had reintroduced Posey the Opossum (a WAY deep cut character from Sonic In Your Face #1) and made them transmasc (that character would later become the basis for "Cayden" in Monkey Bunny). By the time I wrote the third script, I had introduced Penny and I fell in love with that character- so much so that I stopped writing spec scripts and charted a new course making Penny the center an original series (also, yes, Taylor and Vashti were originally written as warped proxies for Sonic and Sally before I fleshed them out a bit further).

Rocksteady_Comics 2021-06-15 05:35:06 UTC #17

Oddly enough my comic started out as a doodle, and it wasn’t of the main character! Another character, Carolina, was originally the lead, and she and Enkal (the lead in the current version of the comic) were a pair of traveling bounty hunters. They soon changed to asteroid miners (who were also bounty hunters) and two more members of the cast, Joseph and Sybil-3, were added shortly after.

The last major change was the final addition to the main squad, Andy, who actually originated in another comic concept I’d been working on before. That one never got off the ground, but I liked him too much to scrap him. When I realized I needed a fifth member of the team, I knew exactly what character to use.

meap 2021-06-17 02:19:37 UTC #18

I had an idea of a character that represents negative emotions so I was thinking of putting it in a gag strip or something but I also had some ideas for supervillains but no idea for a hero so I decided to combine these ideas

yasune 2021-06-17 14:27:35 UTC #19

When i was younger I was playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 and I wanted to do something like that, so I started to think of an entire story. With the years, a lot of things changed, but the general idea is still there.

And that's how I started Bogovi! Finally I decided to do a comic, and for now you can only see a little teaser of it.

https://tapas.io/series/Bogovi

Kirieslawa 2021-06-18 06:49:41 UTC #20

Idea for The Hawk's Song came from my other comic Herbal Healer which I did last year for webtoons' short story contest. But the only thing they've in common are a few characters (including MCs), romance plot and the reason why main character met another main character (I don't want to spoiler )