What do you wish to see more of in webcomics?

[rajillustration]

Honestly I just want more comics that focus on realistic dialogue between characters. Especially in romances, I can barely stomach a lot of the romance comics because it's too corny for real life. Also with dialogue concerning kids. A lot of kids in comics are like little adults but...real life kids are kind of a mess, you know? Let your teens act like teens, they don't need to have college degrees and be super great at life. Just let teens be silly teens.

[Lamina]

I would agree, I'd want to go for some more story based comedy in particular. Comedy that is not just observational.

And more absurdist comedy.

[Ich-San]

That advice is hard to follow, specially if you're going for realistic kids in 2019, they're too different from kids in the 2000s, let alone other decades, they play a lot less with toys, and grow out of it a lot sooner.

[VibrantFox]

I want to see a lot of stuff but the one that comes to mind is adventure stories that focus on exploring for the purpose of exploring rather than to defeat some big evil at the end. Like sure justice but a story that's just about connecting with the world and enjoying all it has to offer would be fun. A few might come to mind but I figure if I can't find something I'll make it so I am.

[Ich-San]

You want One Piece without its villains? that's boring to a lot of people, they want generic conflict, and maybe some real stakes after 10 arcs...

[VibrantFox]

I don't mind villains or conflicts that rise as the protagonist(s) explore but sometimes I feel stories with quests for the big treasure or the final boss at the end lack in the world building department or when they do have it it's in big expositions rather than shown through characters interacting with that world. Only an opinion but one I've wondered if other people happen to share

[Kura]

Series reaching their conclusions instead of the never ending hiatus.

Honestly though, anything I want would be to damn specific to really be reasonable as a demand. If I look hard enough I can find all kinds of stories and all kinds of rep that I would not be able to find in as many mainstream comics or media. It's pretty diverse if you look at content outside of tapas, or even just in the community comics of this site, which have FAR more selection of tropes and genres then tapas premium, which generally tend to get saturated with less indi / original content and are a lot of licenced translations from Korea (and other countries where webcomics are regarded more as business than an indi endevor)

I just hope to continue seeing creators tell the stories they want to tell instead of creators telling stories they don't really want to tell but know will sell. I went to indi publishing to see more freedom for creators and their stories and less focus testing and investor interference.

[rajillustration]

I have no idea what you mean, as I worked with kids and teens for the past several years. Toys still exist, it's just not the same type of toys. Kids are certainly no less and no more mature than what I was like when I was a kid.

[rmdooley]

The protagonist being a 40 something year old soccer mom with three kids, a husband, and mortgage who must save the world from some existential threat and make sure the kids get their juice boxes at half time

[joannekwan]

I want more monster x human romances where the human isn't a total pure/virgin beauty and the monster is more than just some human with red skin and horns (or a shifter with a completely human form, or a human top half and some other creature bottom half). Put the monster back into these things, man!
And have the relationship address issues different than normal things humans go through. I was a bit disappointed with the manga Monster and the Beast by Renji because the monster and the guy's relationship seems like it can just happen between two regular humans. And it was just like other romances where one party worries over their self-worth and jealousy triggered by their partner's blasé playboy ways. : /

All reasons why I started my own webnovel tackling these things.

Also I wouldn't mind seeing a happy or comedic take on apocalypses? And more characters working in positions other than office jobs or at freakin' cafés.

[JRHoch]

More sophisticated and diverse comics and the readers who appreciate them. I was going through the first 300 top comics on Webtoons and they're all very similar.

@IndigoShirtProd you mean humor comics that are actually funny.

[liann]

More interesting character designs. Especially in the shounen or whatever webcomics call this genre. I don't want some white polo uniform and black haired copy paste mc if I'm gonna follow a huge ass story. The personality may stick with me. But it still kinda bothers me that... well. the design is boring.

[AbelDraws]

Good endings I can learn from. There's few really satisfying endings out there (since many stories end up being discarded and unfinished, mainly, but even in the finished ones it's very hard to wrap up a story that leaves the reader with a good feeling), so I'd love to have more of them.

If you have any recommendations of finished webcomics with endings you felt happy with please send me a link, I'll take a look

[imiogri]

I really like stories who cares about a character having a family and also showing at least a bit of their dynamic. Most the time a persons personality is because of the way they grew up and the people around them during that time and I sometimes feel like comic's just forget someone came from somewhere and had a past that made them into the person they are now. Even more bonus points for me if a characters parents are fleshed out too and have their own pasts.

[DiegoPalacios]

I think......more experimentation when it comes to storytelling, characters, premises and art style.

something that makes me think "it looks like i haven`t seen everything yet"

Of course, well implemented conventional stories work on me too, but every once in a while i love to see something unique.

[sushy00]

I want to make some comics about suicide/suicidal thoughts but I find it really hard to cover the subject. I am afraid all reactions will be something like, you need to seek help or that I may give the wrong advice to people with serious problems.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Yea, exactly

[MK_Wizard]

Fair judgement instead of people only liking a webcomic because it is anime style or because it is LGBT. Don't get me wrong, there are BEAUTIFUL webcomics which have one or the other, or both, but it is because they were well written not simply because they have those things.

[silacinnamon]

Romance with humanoid robots that aren't just perfectly human-like androids but with like. White hair. It can be either a robot and a human or only robots, I just wanna see robots bein cute!!

...I guess I just really miss mtmte

[UrMom]

Weird, but I'd actually like to see more laid back sex related comedy comics? Like Oglaf. (NSFW) I feel like there's a lot of untapped potential for awkward situations relating to people trying to get laid. Also funny, consensual sex stuff is just very cute to me for some reason.

I wish there were more comics about the darker parts of life.

This would be nice too. I have a comic dealing with topics like suicide, abuse, and such, but it's definitely in the very unpopular/niche category. It would be nice for more people tackle darker, more sensitive topics. When done right they have a lot of potential to make great deeper works, and tap into a larger array of human emotion and character... depending on what kind of story you want to make.
(Great, now I really want to read JtHM again.)