I have one character people seem to enjoy quite a bit, sadly the plans for said character might not work out the way people want. I mentioned this to my sister and she said "you bitch"
Story tellers are horrible lil sadists
A little. I'm more interested in how the readers will react. The bad and good is coming either way... bwahaha
I know where all the hidden mickeys in my comic are and sometimes it's very hard not to tell. I cave and give hints tho.
I don't think anyone's found my favorite one yet lol
not worry but i find it very hard to hold back my buffer and not show people everything i have already finished
I don't usually feel dread as such - possibly because my comic hasn't gotten very dark (yet; it still might!) - but I do feel a bit weird knowing more about the story than my readers do, yeah. Sometimes, it's gleeful - I know something yooou dooooon't! - and makes me giggle, and sometimes it makes me a bit frustrated. Like, sometimes readers ask questions, and I want to answer them, but the only answer is a spoiler.
I haven't had a reader get upset, but I have had people figure out what's coming. Sometimes it's because they're supposed to - I'm dropping hints - and sometimes they manage to freely speculate their way to the right answer.
... I don't think I've had any moments of people missing something completely, unless you count the people who blank out when reading pronouns and have spent 4 chapters thinking the semi-mute little girl in Grassblades is, in fact, a boy - even though she is referred to as she/her, and has a feminine name.
It's definitely a mix between glee an fear. Glee because I love to read reactions from readers. Last page I put out was supposed to give spooky wine and the readers picked on that right away. Then again sometimes I feel fustrated when I just want to spill the beans and talk about future events. Still, the joy of having a secret is greater.
I fear both bad reactions and just plain uninterest towards one big happening that's coming. However it's the story I want to tell so there's no helping it. I just hope it won't turn people off of the comic 
I recently just started to explain the main plot of Two Faced2 in chapter 15, now this is really late for most comics right? So I was expecting my readers to all like.. 'FINALLY' or something. But they was more like they love the twist of the plot I explained. One even said the comic has a good story if the readers are wondering what is going to happen next.
In previous chapters, there's one character who's reputation isn't that great so is often thought as the bad guy, but later on shown in a better light, Even now they're not quite sure if he really is the bad guy or not. I just love making my readers think about it.
I definitely feel excited for twist reveals. I love surprising readers. I dread the opposite, people predicting exactly what's gonna happen - and as our readers are pretty sharp, we definitely came close to it in the past >_>
I think the dread comes down to establishing character(s) that readers love, and knowing something terrible (and unforeseeable) is going to happen to them. It makes you feel like a shit. But, it also has the biggest impact, and if done well makes a fantastic plot twist.
I feel a little bit of dread about some things coming later on...but mostly frustration at not being able to share more than I can, or answer certain questions at this point. That frustration does at least drive me to work harder on more pages, so I can actually get there!
Long-form story-telling can be a lonely business, and having someone you trust to bounce ideas off and tell a few spoilers to can really lift some of the anxiety and pressure.
I'm surprised so many people here say they enjoy when this happens! Good for you guys XD Whenever that happens to me, I get really upset.
The first few times it happened I got frightened that when I would post the thing the readers hadn't anticipated, everyone would hate me, which is a weird thought, but yeah.. to the point I almost changed the way the story is going to go.
And with my story1 it's actually not so much a particular scene, usually, as much as it is a slow, more dramatic mood change, so that's even harder for me to deal with because every time I get a comment saying that someone likes it because it's funny, I worry they'll hate me when I get serious. Oddly enough, I had a nightmare where I posted a serious scene I've been wanting to upload for a long time, and someone commented 'remember when this comic used to be funny? :'('. I don't even know where I got that, but yeah, it was in the dream.
Then I woke up and realized that didn't even happen XO I just sorta trudge though it when that happens, and tell myself that even if everyone ends up hating me, I'm improving as an artist by working on this project, and that's what matters. 
I personally love plot twists, it keeps you on your toes, anticipating what's going to happen next. I like it even more when readers are taken back by it. It means they were involved in the comic enough to expect certain things to happen, but nope, plotwist.
We don't get very many comments on our comic, but when we do they're almost always predictions that somebody is going to get horribly mangled or die (and they're almost always wrong). So, nope, no dread here.
My big thing is that there's going to be a big romantic thing that happens in uh, the second book, and we're only on chapter 2 of the first book here on Tapastic, so I'm dying not being able to talk about it. C'est la vie.
I actually get excited when I drop my comic here on Taapstic to see how they will react. Although my comic In The Midst1 will have some dark points in its narrative.
I'm exactly the same way. I'm actually dealing with some guilt about future happenings in my story's plot that will not only change the comic's direction but also cause some pretty insane hardships for the main characters!
Hahaha, ah, I so know what you mean Kristin. :')
Yeah, a lot of the time the things you expected people to react to, no-one seems to batter an eyelid at- and the things you thought were distinctly average in your chapters blow peoples minds lol. It's never possible to predict the reactions of a fanbase completely, even if, like myself- you sew fake imagery and thing into the comic to try and manipulate reactions later. The reality is, we'll never know if our evil writer plans will work eh?? But the fun thing about webcomics has to be those random reactions as you say- and the feeling of mischief as everyone is happy for your character who is so, so doomed in 30 seconds haha.
One of the best things about webcomics isn't it?
Honestly I think that sounds something you should be excited over! Means some good character development is getting started and change of pace is a good thing usually, especially when it's a longer comic 
you know, I wonder how many fans of your guys' comics have read this and are now terrified about what's going to happen in the future.
It's funny, the page that went up on our main site today has a little bit of a sudden reveal and yesterday my co-creator was talking about how she was excited for this page to go up. I joked that there'd be no comments or reactions whatsoever and it turned out I was right! Whoops. Guess it just wasn't that big a surprise after all.
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