What sets your story apart from others?

UrMom 2020-03-04 18:59:29 UTC #21

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.

snackbagstudios 2020-03-04 19:44:26 UTC #22

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

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

Kann 2020-03-04 19:46:18 UTC #23

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

OttoGruenwald 2020-03-04 19:46:26 UTC #24

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.

joannekwan 2020-03-04 19:50:12 UTC #25

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.

vfinnigan 2020-03-04 20:05:15 UTC #26

Military nonfiction! You don't get much of that here.

AilyneGouveia 2020-03-04 20:14:09 UTC #27

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 ^^

sodathecoda 2020-03-04 20:21:16 UTC #28

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.

Rodimus13 2020-03-05 00:50:09 UTC #29

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"

Possum 2020-03-05 01:01:20 UTC #30

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!

MK_Wizard 2020-03-05 01:32:37 UTC #31

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.

sarahmassey998 2020-03-05 02:23:28 UTC #32

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!

Random_Guy 2020-03-05 02:27:12 UTC #33

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

spadedigsbutts 2020-03-05 04:03:03 UTC #34

On tapas it is apparently that it’s a mystery because there don’t seem to be that many when compared to the sheer wealth of fantasy titles?? But in all serious I guess I would sum up mine as... Call of Cthulhu but with inconsistent art, lots of character interactions and like 85% gay panic?

jmhenry 2020-03-05 17:55:05 UTC #35

I'm proud to say that the thing that sets LOSTLAND apart from other similar stories is it's unique take on the post-apoc world. The setting is much less a gloom and doom, destroyed landscape, and more a world that's slowly coming back from the brink, but changing into something entirely different from the old. The end result is a world filled with very beautiful, strange, and almost fantastical landscapes and locations, with bizarre and scary creatures to match!

All and all, the world of LOSTLAND is something I've been really proud to recreate from the ground up, and I hope others enjoy it too!

And of course, a few shots from that world XD

sc101 2020-03-05 18:03:32 UTC #36

nothing. except i have a bridge jumping fetishist.

pilot-obvious 2020-03-05 18:22:55 UTC #37

I include a lot of documents along with the comic itself. There are cyber briefs, letters, unclassified documents, interviews, letters from the author (aka me) and articles that all assist with world building. I'm also trying to break the fourth wall and pretend as if I'm making the webcomic as part of the Future Agent's "marketing initiatives" and sometimes have conversations on Twitter with the director of the program. It's a little silly to be honest, but I really have a good time acting. I kind of want to make people go, "Wait, what?" and stop to see if they can find any other little easter eggs.

https://www.futureagents.net/

unknown_user 2020-03-05 20:40:38 UTC #38

Hmmm... It's (more-or-less hard) sci-fi comics with cyberpunk elements, made by actual programmer.

I hope my knowledge helps me to make it's "theoretical" part and world building more solid, than the average sci-fi. I particularly aim to investigate possible vulnerabilities of not-yet-existing-but-believable tech to describe a believable ways to hack it or to use it in surprising ways.
Needless to say, how much do I like to depict people, who use high tech in low ways, for ridiculously stupid and/or malicious purposes. This kind of satire is really my thing.
Of course, my comics is strongly influenced by classic cyberpunk from 1950s-1970s years, several post-apocalyptic settings and "transgressive fiction". Yet, I didn't see a particular combination of characteristics, described in this post, in any other comics or book (if you did, please, tell me! It may be very interesting read for me ).

AbelDraws 2020-03-05 20:42:53 UTC #39

I think there's some parts of the story, especiaIIy one last story arcs, are pretty unique but of course I can't talk much about them without spoiling anything x'D

A, sadly, less important but unique factor in FIVE is this fella

That shadowy, feral, "inmortal" being is a character I'd love to do a separate mini comic or something about. They've been on Earth since almost the beginning of humanity and have been tied to one human and then other, and other and other. They're responsible for many of the differences between our Earth and FIVE's (for example there's monuments dedicated to them in several ruins and thanks to them Esperanto is spoken in most countries as an official second language).

Shia (the girl) and them go on trips to just spend some time away from civilization and survive just with what they can get from nature or, in other ocassions, go visit some ruins in places Sokar (the shadow) used to live c:

If there's something I'm confident to say my story is unique for it's the characters tbh x'D I could write a book about any of them.

AmazementComics 2020-03-06 05:05:19 UTC #40

My comics are similar to yours: Superhero stories. If I had to say one thing about my comics that stand out from the rest, it's as cartoonish as it is realistic at the same time.