Opinions on 'what if' episodes

ambermdo 2025-01-19 04:40:56 UTC #1

I'm thinking about adding some episodes with 'what if' scenarios to my comic series. Or would that just make things too confusing?

kyupol 2025-01-19 09:30:11 UTC #2

As long as you say it's a what if episode it should be fine lol

Lensing 2025-01-19 09:33:16 UTC #3

I can imagine liking what if scenes in comics but as you suspected it can lead to confusion.
I wouldn´t make it the main focus

ambermdo 2025-01-19 09:44:37 UTC #4

Oh, it's not the main focus. There will only be a few.

KevinReijnders 2025-01-19 10:00:17 UTC #5

Make it a seperate series so it doesn't clutter in between the main series' updates. Easily solves the confusion problem.

igneriss 2025-01-19 10:02:24 UTC #6

If you're worried about your readers being confused, you can always create a separate series for extras for your comic, and puy 'what if' scenarios there I had one for my '6,75' webcomic, and added there more lore, Q&As, minicomics with characters' past, and also minicomics with alternative dialogues and scenarios (though all alternative versions were just to make a joke, no 'real' alterbative scenarios )

Ordinaryaverageguy 2025-01-19 22:58:15 UTC #7

I'm lost... what is a "what if" scenario, then? How does one use it inside a story?

silverraven0 2025-01-20 02:34:57 UTC #8

It's simply an extra where it didn't affect the main storyline. For example one of your character get killed off in the main story, but in the 'what if' extra, your character is still alive and kicking. Then it's just how thing works differently than the main storyline when that characters is still living.

Or another example if the main love interest in the main story is A and B, but in the 'IF' scenario, the love interest is A and C.

As an extra, they can be short, but sometimes long 'IF' scenario can even be 30 chapters long (I knew because I read some where the 'IF' is long and a very enjoyable read).

Some writer will put the 'IF' scenario intermittently between mainline chapters and continue just like that. Some wrote the 'IF' scenario after the main story is over, and then they can go crazy with how many 'IF' chapters they want to make.

(This is supposed to be an answer for ordinary guy but for some reason I can't reply directly with my browser)