What would you not do in your comic?

I dont know. If I feel it is essential to my story then I'd probably do it. The whole thing for me is that people tend to misinterpret the media; a writer writes, an artist draws. Just because a writer writes some type of material doesnt mean that he is in favor of whatever it is(hense the disclaimer "the _________ is/are not the views of ________"). Sometimes art imitates life, life imitates art.

I dont have a "chosen one" per se, but I do have a "protectorate"- and I have every intention of making this character fit their title.

I would not do something that simply doesn't fit with the story just beause...!... Well, I probably wouldn't bring people from the dead too...

About the chosen one... What about the "chosen one" to have one hell of a life? :x

This topic actually caused me to do a lot of thinking on the subject, because there's the obvious ones like "won't talk down to my audience" or "won't be a RACIST" and then there's the ones that actually contribute to thoughtful discussion.

I would never put a prophecy in my comic, whatever the story. A lot of the tropes I dislike are in a whole separate realm from the sci-fi comedy comic I'm running, but even if I were to go into those other genres, the principle remains the same; if you've played Fallout 4 and met Mama Murphy, lemme tell you I instantly tried to remove her from the story. A prophecy is just the end of a script being recited by a character in the beginning of that script, only now it exists in the canon.

Secondly, and this is more personal preference: Being too open-ended. This is because I consider myself a dummy, and so I hate stories that require too much piecing together of cryptic character dialogue and having the story end with no real climax or resolution, simply being left "open to interpretation."
The exception I take to this is the horror genre, but even then I prefer more solid elements to dig into, rather than to toss a character into a museum of frights and at the end make the viewer go "Makes you think, huh."

No romance between my Male and Female leads for the current comic I have now. So often I see the two battle worn teens end up falling for each other, that I can't stand it. Especially when it becomes a love triangle (she can pick who she wants AFTER the battle is done not before not during, AFTER) While they certainly become close, they are not gonna be kissing or falling in love.

Also, I would never sexualize my characters, unless that is the point of whatever arc I have. Like if you have a succubus or incubus character, give us all the booty shots you want, but I ain't going to do what so many animes do with random panty shots or close up on the boobs when it makes no sense.

I don't really limit myself... Actually I've never thought about what I wouldn't have! Personally, I think when you limit yourself, you don't achieve what you really want out of your work. Maybe you do want the title to be the 'The Chosen', because the main character has been chosen to eat as many hotdogs to prevent the world from ending! If you look at a lot of media that's classed as 'insulting' you'll find that they are very successful.
There's nothing wrong with doing something 'wrong' as long as you, the artist, are comfortable with it. Plus, publicity, man! People love to complain! But also love to look at something wrong! I have a very saucy part right at the beginning of my story, watching peoples reactions or reading what they have to say has always been entertaining- And I've had negative! Because no ones seen the human body before, clearly! But of course, that's not compared to religion... I haven't got the that part yet! To me, there're no limits. The only limit is your ability. If you're comfortable doing it- Then do it!

No fanservice. If the character's personality dictates that they're sexy or flirtatious or whatever, okay. Not what I'm into, and probably not gonna come up a lot in my work. But it's really uncomfortable to me when there's needless fanservice like voyeuristic panty-shots.

I'd never put hentai in my comic, I'd rather imply two characters did it but never show it, cause it's not the point of the story. Though if it's to show these characters as a couple they develop their relationship, then again I'll just imply, like those two are in the same bed, what could possibly happen there? :'u
I'd play with fanservice if the character it's a flirting one and it's using his/her "attributes" to attract the other one, but like, that would be all, and always keeping those things for especific situations, and never make them become more important than the plot.

interesting topic. and it's a bit of a flip coin..

I have already said "anything can happen in swipe city" but saying that there are a few things I would not do. Religion is one thing i tread very carefully around so if i did a story line that covered this topic it would be done most lightly. the other thing I would not do is very strong sex content. While I am happy to hit few grey areas, i don't want to do anything that will get my comic pulled after all the work I have done.

On the other hand covering taboo topics can sometimes allow people to see things from a different POV but as the saying goes it's not what you do....

Rewrite the story to include scenes that would cater to someone foot fetish or hiccup fetish (or whatever else it was that I can't remember). This is something that I have been asked to do a number of times too, just a PM with "hey do you think to could redo the scene for chapter 3 and include some ____ in it? It's my kink so it would make my day to see it in your webcomic"

End the series with the sad excuse shit plot twist of 'it was all just a dream'

Wtf why do people think this is remotely ok? It seems to be really common behaviour on DeviantArt and I can't understand why people so rampantly push their fetishes onto others.

It's funny you bring up titles, @carloswebcomic - I have a firmly held resolve to NEVER name a story after the good old classic fantasy-trope-y "The [Thing] of [Thing]"-formula. No The Sword of Truth or The Throne of Shadows or The Queen of Light or whatever in MY stories.

It's not a terrible thing to do, but having grown up reading a metric ton of fantasy - and browsing through bookstore shelves filled with even MORE - I just find it so very, very boring.

What else would I not do....

Grassblades has a lot of swordfighting, but you're never going to find me drawing excessive gore of the kind that depicts internal organs. Partly because I want to keep below the NSFW-limit, and partly because that sort of thing makes me feel a bit sick while drawing. Also, it would lead to some CREEPY browser-history if I tried to find useful reference photos.

You're also unlikely to see graphic sex-scenes in my work. Not out of any sense of morality/religion - it's just that I don't find it very interesting to draw. I'm on the asexual end of the spectrum - sex just isn't that interesting to me. I have no problem drawing nudity when the situation calls for it, but there probably won't be obvious sex-scenes.

Also, no prophecies unless I can reverse the trope and make it a prophecy so vague that EVERYONE misinterprets it and starts fighting about it and I get to write a story about internal religious politics, and NO LOVE TRIANGLES.

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It's interesting that sex is the hot topic here. Censorship runs rampant but there's been amazing strides made to avoid such, especially in art. Self-censorship is another topic entirely but it's influenced by societal views. I wonder if this is tied to the (ill-conceived by my standards) notion that comics are not art? And particularly webcomics? When sex/sexual situations are depicted, it's often lewd or low-brow thus lending to this idea that it's simply an empty-minded indulgence.

But again, I totally understand that we MUST take our audience into consideration. The very community that builds our perspective will also be the community that we use to build our worlds. Integrity in one hand, viewer acceptance in another (catering aside).

When all's said and done, the thing I wouldn't do in my comic is break a character for an arc or a quick plot fix. The characters are so bloody important and it would be a travesty to change them against the grain of themselves.

I think the only serious thing I wouldn't do is anything involving minors shown in a sexual manner. Other than that I think risky topics are important and that risking offending a few people on the Internet is worth it if it means you're saying a message important to you. Not included in this would be that your message is hateful. But being able to talk about sex or bad religious experiences or bad drug trips or anything else that probably offends a few people is important and I wouldn't ever want to not pursue any morally ambiguous topics.

Things I wouldn't do out of principle: any sappy romance movie cliches, any offensive token type characters, anything preachy....

Stupid small thing I wouldn't do: put a reference to popular culture without checking the date for it 20000000000 times