What is the weirdest idea you ever had for a comic?

[julias_art_universe]

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

[Innocynce]

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

[MK_Wizard]

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.

[Vikthetoonaddict]

I had the idea for a remedial school for supervillain kids.

[PoquitoBird]

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

[Vikthetoonaddict]

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

[PoquitoBird]

I absolutely love this!

[Lensing]

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

[NickRowler]

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.

[julias_art_universe]

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...

[MK_Wizard]

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?

[toonben]

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.

[abigaillmartin]

I actually quite am intrigued by these ideas.

[TheLemmaLlama]

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

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

[CarltonIsaac]

To have a thousand active characters in one story. And I did it.

[abigaillmartin]

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

[nachoguillotowriter]

That could be a cool story if well executed (^^) it has good potential

I would give it a try and writing (maybe revisiting some concepts with your current worldview) as MK_Wizard said, if it has a tasteful execution there shouldn't be any is issue for anyone

[NickRowler]

I might come back to it at one point in the future. I would maybe want to learn more about writing novels because I do have some scifi ideas that would be interesting but I don't really want to draw them.

[julias_art_universe]

sound like a funny comic

[ArtGremlin]

Well I had the idea to make a comic about this guy with black goo super powers, no conscience, and crazy hair. The whole idea was that he’s super powerful and people want him to help defeat supervillains n stuff, but he just doesn’t care until it starts to affect him. The comic would have started with some kind of evil creature thing getting hurled through his apartment wall in the “classic dramatic super fight” style, and he (Victor) just doesn’t care, or is only slightly annoyed. He probably has good insurance.

The craziest part about this is that I somehow took this idea and changed it into “August” my current comic.

To be more clear I really didn’t keep anything from the original idea, but that’s where it started.