What draws you or turns you away from a comic/story?

@kalmia Kalmia
Sat, 15 Jul 2023 09:52:05 +0000

@kalmia wrote:

When you open that novel/comic and start reading, what are the things that really get you interested make you think, “I really like this!” or “I want to know what happens next!?”. What things make you put the book down and decide it’s not for you? Maybe it’s certain tropes, maybe it’s a really good opening line, or perhaps it’s the art style.

Onee thing that really hooks me into a story is if the characters are good, and by this I mean they make me feel something and make me care about them. If i’m 3-4 chapters/episodes in and Im barely interested in the main character, then I usually have a hard time throughout the rest of the story. But If I can sympathize with the character and they have great personalities that make me care about them, then i’ll stick around for as long as possible!

Something that turns me away from a story is when the first episode or chapter, maybe even the prologue, is just one long info dump. Often times it goes along the lines of: “Once upon a time, our world was run by many gods, but then there was a war…” or something like that. The last thing I, as a reader, want to read in the very first chapter is all the background information about a world you haven’t even introduced me to yet. It’s a lazy writing trope and I can usually tell the writer/artist is pretty inexperienced with storytelling and inserting information throughout the story. It’s just not for me.

So what about you? What are things that make you like a story and what are things that turn you away?