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Anime-esque mermaid cats with weather magic fight and kill demons. And it's all Christmas themed.

To be fair I was like, 9 years old lol.

I think I've seen that premise in a couple romcoms before... and in some of the pay-to-read webcomics on here. Not that exact plot, but "Divorcing/Divorced couple who hate eachother work together on a thing, ends up falling in love Forreals!" has been a thing.

It's hard to pick, most of the stories in my head are weird, at least weirder than my current project. There was one project I tried to start years ago that was going to be like a plot with porn, sci-fi fantasy about Your Average Guy Going To College, But He's Not Your Average Guy Because He's Awkward And Quarky! He gets abducted by these plant cyborgs from some planet in another dimension, turns out he's a shape-shifting bird dog thing, and his species used to help keep this one type of tree alive via... certain acts, which produced these plant people who then went out to either distribute seeds of other plants, or become trees themselves. The trees producing a spore-like pollen that fertilized the dirt in the area, as well as flowers and fruits (Separate from the plant people pods.) that fed a lot of animals.

Anyways! Some group of humans found their way there years ago, turned the whole planet into a desert wasteland by killing everything, not understanding how the ecosystem worked. They all died off leaving one scientist, and a single tree they isolated in a greenhouse type of dome. The assumption is he wanted to try fixing everything by bringing back the only dog-thing left, turns out he just wants to study the dog, A.K.A the MC. One of the plant cyborgs also develops a thing for the bird/dog-thing man because they basically have brains similar to humans, and are capable of experiencing emotions.

There's more to the story and lore, but that's the quick gist of it. Very weird premise, just talking about it I can tell how weird it sounds. I wouldn't mind trying to pick it up again someday just because I want to see how people respond to the story as it unfolds, and who would actually read this, it would be a great social experiment.

There's also the story I've brought up on the forum a couple times. The one horror/fantasy/road trip story about a god who ends up being turned into a mortal (Kind of.), is imprisoned for a long time in the world it was "mortalized" in, and made out to be a cursed monster along with demi-gods that were imprisoned. (There's like a whole thing about the different gods, how they're created, what the can and can't do, etc.) It gets freed, learns what's been happening to it is bad actually and not normal for this world, so the god gets so pissed off that it becomes a new type of god designed to cause plague/disease and consumes souls. Although it can, and will if it feels like it, consume everything. Ambition is sparked within it brought on by pure anger, it sets off the devour the god that created it, which has no name but is later called "The Roots" as it resembles tree roots.
Long story short the god learns to chill out on it's journey, ends up being devours by The Roots, and is spat back out later as a new god.

It's also a sort of mini "love story" because the god is accompanied by a half god that used to be it's friend, betrays it, then is willingly enslaved out of guilt to make up for what he did. Later on he is no longer a slave, but ends up staying as a demi or follower of this god, because he becomes totally enamored by it as it grows emotionally and becomes less of a creature of horror. The guy has weird taste.

Like the previous story this one also has a lot more too it... like, I can make a novel about all the details going into the lore, but that's the gist of it. I actually would really like to pick this one up, it's been developing in my head since I was in high school, and is kind of my "baby project". The only issue is it's super long, and has a shit-ton of lore details that I would want to make a whole separate book for, so the project is massive. It'll take a lot, I'll have to figure out if I want to dedicate basically the rest of my life to it give how long my current comic is taking.

Ummm I'm in the comedy genre atm so be prepared. To be honest there are a billion strange concepts but this is just out of those I remember...we have an action comedy tale about some space raider who have to save the universe. Seems like a generic 12 ear old story idea right? WRONG!! The villans I had was called Slyvester a 30 yo scientist who thought the world was flat and made inventions such as radioactive catboys... also he has a reptoid clone who tries to correct his nonsense to no avail... yeah

I had several different weird ideas but most were for game stories and gameplay...

Though I had a few ideas for comics, none of them got TOO bad or weird in my opinion.. I will mention a unintentionally controversial comic though, along with others that waere supposed to be weird..

UBERNATURA was intentionally supposed to be weird; as it combined references from American adult comedy movies, and parodied anime. Some of it works, while most was a little awkward to work with.. The few who looked at it immediately noticed any and all Dragonball Z references though.. So I guess some of it turned out right?!

The weirdest parts came in at what is deemed "OK" , so many anime and manga scenes were heavily altered to fit the action-comedy tone and ease up on anything outside of those genres...

I had did another comic about a man turning into a monster whenever he was angry and/or in danger...for some reason it was banned from that site, so I have to assume it was weird in some way(?) It was properly rated for the violent scenes, so I don't know, the situation around it was actually weirder than the comic itself though

Last but not least; I did a comic on Miiverse that also parodied manga to a drastic extent. And what was supposed to be a comedy, turned out to be very serious romance comic at the end. Always thought it was weird how drastically that changed.... I remember planning ahead to a extent, but the darker arcs and dramatic ending chapters were not planned to be that way.. It was never supposed to be dramatic at any given point

I get you on how ideas change.

Originally, Cupcake War Machine was going to be much more serious and be much more dark and dramatic, but I decided to soften it because I had just become a mother for the first time and the birth of my inspired me to make it a comic about the healing power and support of family unity and dealing with abandonment as well as self-worth trauma.

I would totally read this! Did you have a larger set story for it?

I did...but honestly The Boys and Invincible really set the bar for deconstructing superheroes. My plan was that the story would start in like the silver age of superheroes and revisit them after the kids became adults in the 90s.

These drawings are old as hell, so sorry if they're kinda janky.

FYI Rictus grows up to tour with Insane Clown Posse :joy:

I really love provoking content and I always find it sad when artists have to restrict themselves.

In Germany we call it Kunstfreiheit, freedom of art. It has borders too, when it gets to insulting,
collides with other fundamental rights, violates human dignity, threatening physical integrity, or infringing on personal rights.

But beside that I think people try to restrict art too much

Yeah, my whole point of the story was not to be pro or anti Christianity. It was sort of more a story about censorship (ironically).

Like it was more of a “what if all this crazy stuff happened yet none of it was written down because it would make God and Eve look bad.” But with a scifi twist. Everyone had new names, like Cain was called Canis (thus why he dressed like a dog).

And I guess I would want to make it so over the top that no one would take it seriously.

Oh interesting my current comic is meant to be weird to the point where the reader is like "what is this" the story is a meme in itself haha. However the end is also quite a drastic change from the beginning like in your last comic. However, I feel like changes in tone can work if appropriately used. Mind you I planned my comic to start as a really bizarre romcom where there is this weird mystery involved and once we get the answer things get serious... It's a good way to invoke emotion in the readers ig...

Thanks, everyone.

Reading your weird yet beautiful ideas helped me refine my weird idea so that I think I can make it work. You remember what it was in the opening post? If not, go back and reread it before seeing the updated version.

The title is "Round Two! I Do!" and the premise is about a beloved celebrity couple that whose popularity skyrocketed after they married and officially became the world's most loved power couple. The pair consists of a heavyweight bodybuilder and wrestler and a supermodel who also doubles as an actress.

But once the honeymoon phase was over, the couple began to fight a LOT sometimes in public places and one time became a huge scandal which permanently tarnished their careers. That event was the last straw and the divorced which broke the world's heart especially because the supermodel wife just gave birth. Well, fast forward to two years later, and neither of are what they once despite their talents being unwavering. It turns out that after they became an item, 70% of their popularity came from them just being together romantically, so when they left each other a large majority of their fans left them. In a desperate attempt to get back in the spotlight, they agree to a very out there idea: reconcile, or rather, pretend they have reconciled and make it very convincing that they have. This is a lot harder than it looks because only the wife is good at acting while the (ex-) husband wears his heart on his sleeve. There's a lot of hilarity in their interactions while pretending to be lovey dovey again because underneath it is still a lot of resentment, aggression and spite. And I mean a LOT. Also their son is a toddler and and he is both curious and energetic which also adds to the tension. In other words, the kind of kid who sees being told "no" as a challenge to do the opposite, "come here" as run away, and such. There is also a lot of satire behind the rich lifestyle and exaggerated luxuries. Yet... at the same time, it does get them finally talking and while they both understand that this is just a sham marriage, they find it hard to cross certain lines you're not supposed to do in a marriage. They begin to question what was really missing in their marriage and maybe, it wasn't love after all, but if that's the case, does it make a difference?

What do you think of this premise? Weird yet it works?

I have an idea in my mind.

A human teen falls in love with living toy who is a recinarnated soul of dead person from the past. Sounds very weird since I'm weird. Not sure if anyone would read it and anyone here will call me insane and how does it sound?

My weird ideas include love story between a human and sentinent plant and a crime story about the cat mafia based on Christopher Walken.

Wasn't intended to be a comic, so idk if it counts, but a pretty weird story idea I had was about a guy discovering time travel and time-travelling to the past, except he doesn't move anywhere through space, while the earth has moved a lot since then so he effectively gets teleported to the middle of nowhere in space and dies from lack of oxygen.

The rest of the story is slice-of-afterlife shenanigans where he hangs out with dead cavemen, aliens etc, and watch historical figures die and join them over the next few millennia :stuck_out_tongue:

I probably won't go through with this idea any further; the itch has been satisfied after writing this one-shot :stuck_out_tongue: Anyone who wants to use this idea (or the characters I made for it) is VERY welcome to do so XD

A knight and a peasant having to live together because vikings killed all the knights and the lord and serfs

Enbrotherment is what it was called. In medieval times it was basically their version of being roommates

Think The Odd Couple mushed with Monty Python and The Holy Grail