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Thanks! It's good to know!
You also have a different approach on comics, and I'm impatient to see more of it :smile:

Well for one, the setting. That's a given. There's lots of fantasy comics that take place in another world, but none of them that I've found are quite like Kehuegonea (Kiwigonia). The races and species are especially weird. They are a parallel universe to our own, and they have all the same species as us, but their versions look and behave differently (with the sole exception being the kiwi bird).

For example, Earth stoats are fuzzy little adorable weasel babies. Kiwigonian stoats are horrendous two legged raptor/kangaroo-like monsters with serrated teeth and the instinct to kill most anything on sight. In addition to that, many animal species are actual talking, functioning, bipedal races there. Ontop of that, the majority of them can hybridize. So you might encounter things such as fox-raccoon hybrids or dog-ferret hybrids. :rabbit::blue_heart::bear:

Other than that, the relationships my comic focuses on are a bit different than your typical flowery romances. The two main relationships that flourish in the comic are a friend/friend relationship, and a father/daughter relationship. That's not to say there's no romantic or sexual relationships, because their definitely are. But those relationships are troubled and realistic, they're not sweet and sappy soulmate type stories.

I really want to believe my comic is unique at least when it comes to the plot, but I'm also afraid that someday someone is going to say something like "oh, this is the same idea/plot as in [some popular comic, movie or show I've never watched]" :cry_02:

That's when you turn around and tell them the same thing about their face

You have your moments. Don't worry about it. That's what is good about your story. It is familiar but have its own way of telling the story.

I've asked myself this several times, and I try to tread lightly on the subject. But I can tell what I do well. I think I've created decent characters with the heart to flesh their own personalities, with the ability to make the right or wrong decisions based on their growth through the course of the story, to allow them to stand and be as is and not control them for the sake of plot. Simply put, to become a chronicler of the story than a writer, to believe that it was once the truth and not fantasy. I've enjoyed every moment making a story like this.

Perhaps the best result from such a train of thought is the idea of how perspectives work. While the story is focused on a protagonist, the side he's on is more accidental than good. Different groups and races, all trying to attack and solve the same problem with a different approach; who's right? Who's wrong? It's really perspective. I imagine people siding with or perceiving a group as good, while others perceive it as bad. I think that's what makes it unique. This is how I imagine it.

Do take the time to explore and verify it! :smile:

Oh, you'll get people saying that no matter how #Unique your comic is. A reader once said my comic reminded them of a movie called 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'. In their own way all stories are kind of unique, even if they follow a popular trend creators still put their own thumbprints on them.

Although to play devil's advocate, if you want a reader base you don't want your comic to be toooo unique, or hardly anyone would get into it.

thanks for the updated guidelines! They are very easy to understand and good job to all of the moderators makeing it so plessent to be here :sparkling_heart:

To answer the question: Wayfinders: Off Course is baed on our own dungeouns and dragons campaign, and thats what makes it unique.
If just one of us players was a different person the story would not have went as it did. The plot is driven by the characters and what they do,and how they interact.
For art we try to get inspiration from our own culture. The county the cast come from we took visual inspiration from the viking age because we are all danes in the group.

Can read it here: https://tapas.io/series/WayfindersOffCourse

Dunno, tbh. It has BL in it, so it probably doesn't really stand out much. XD

What sets my story apart?

As far as I know I'm the only "reimagined public domain superheroes plus The Outer Limits" webcomic on the planet.

YES

For my romances, I've always liked to boast that they're unromantic romances.

I am not big into fluff so of course my stories won't contain much cutesy stuff. you know, stuff you can find in 90% of the romance stories out there. stuff that I come across every day in recommended and popular comics, in stories I stumble upon and sample.

I would say my characters. I try to made them as "real" as possible. They all have a backstory. For the rest I don't really know, I'm just trying to entertain people as best I can ^^

A good question. Not because I don't see anything special about my comic, quite the opposite. I think it has many unusual aspects. First of all, it combines the manga and western comic style, and also halftone reminds it more of manga.
Also it has quite complex world which has own rules. There are only 4 episodes though and they mainly focus on the events and characters rather than the environment itself.

I've been told our story has a unique take on sci fi and end of world stories.

Hue Are You is a comic about robots. The humans are all dead because fo the war, robots are all that is left. They continue the war due to orders and have decided to shut down production of construction types. 100 years after this order... for some reason... Build-a the build bot is made in a old forgotten factory. No orders. No supervisor. All want to know... is she red or blue... which hue?

Our unofficial tag line is "we will make you feel things about robots"

I think my protagonist and theme are quite unconventional, it's why I publish it on Tapas in the first place! My story is about a post-apocalypse ice age and an old retired actress who is surviving within it. The protagonist and the fact that post-apocalpse went out of fashion years ago make it essentially unpublishable by conventional and traditional publishing houses. I'm not sure if a lot of the readerbase on this site will really relate and mesh with the characters, but that's why it's here, I want to see what sort of audience it can garner.

Here's the story, for anyone interested!

For my main one, it is an adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, but what sets it apart is that Hyde is actually a good guy. A hero even.


For my secondary one, it is a pet comic featuring a bird instead of your standard cat or dog. Specifically, a kakapo parrot.

I don't think anyone has done a Frankenstein Lovecraft crossover before or included them with obscure historical characters like John Spear and his God Machine. I've also been told that my writing style is really unique which makes my work a bit polarizing: you love it or you don't. That and I feel like horror is under-represented on Tapas so this is for the horror-hounds!

Uh...
The chibi pixel art and the bad humor? Yeah, that sounds about right.