The dread of knowing something your readers don't

[Stinahhh]

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.

[sincerely]

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.

[kazukitakamura126]

I actually get excited when I drop my comic here on Taapstic to see how they will react. Although my comic In The Midst will have some dark points in its narrative.

[kambreapratt]

I'm the same way. I don't dread things, I am excited to see how people react to them.

[demthorshie]

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!

[endlessuprising]

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?

[niinasalmelin]

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

[kkitty]

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.

[sincerely]

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 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.

[demthorshie]

Good point! I just hate watching my own creations go through any sort of pain, even if it's written in the script xD!