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Mine is pretty straight forward - the story starts to get interesting when the protagonist falls in love with an angel of death. It's meant to be an ironic nod to his reckless attitude as he constantly risks his life without thinking.

This is an interesting topic. I've always liked novels and comics that have deceptively simple, straightforward names, only to end up having a double-meaning. "Pilgrim" by Timothy Findley- "Not Simple" by Natsume Ono- series titles like "Low", "Trees" and "Shutter" (I highly recommend all of these by the way, if you haven't tried them yet- they're great reads)

I chose "Kingdom of Sunlight" as a title for a few reasons. But mostly I just like the irony of an underground colony that worships a sun god (the setting of the comic). There's a kind of baffling, nightmarishly illogical quality there that's reflected in the frustrating, often deadly political and social landscape the story's characters are doomed to navigating.

Well, for Furusato House, the title is the same with where the story is placed. Furusato is the family name of the lord of the House, and it's meaning is "home". The heroine (Mayu) has to deal with the problem, that maybe she will never be able to get back to her home, so Furusato House will be her new home.

I think for Dreamcatchers it's pretty obvious why I gave this title. We follow the story of Sohiru and Iko, who are about to catch Sohiru's nightmares instead of the broken Dreamcatcher.

I love giving titles and names, I think this is one of the best part of writing a story. :smile:

My WIP debut is entitled Colors of Sin because hmm... Firstly because I thought it sounds pretty cool. The other reason is something I like the audience to interpret themselves. :smile:

My title means a lot...symbolically and literally, "The Watchman." It follows four main protagonists and two interesting villains. The Watchman is a title that was stolen by the oppressor race and thus this involves folks on planet Shatazar and reaches out to Earth. Also The Watchman is taken from a scripture the oppressed race believes.

It's titled the way it is because it's both an action (people actually jump universes in it) but also its a nickname of a major important character in the comic.

It was going to by 'Wit's end' because that's my standard state of being and my comic is nothing more than a muffled scream and a few pie crumbs taped together. It became 'Westend' eventually - that's the city where the characters live.

Mine's called Protective Layer. It takes place in a world where art is illegal and people put on literal and metaphorical masks to get along in love. The main character is a prostitute who loves art as a hobby which is where the title comes in. He puts on a protective layer of paint so he doesn't fall apart~!

Demon House: self-explanatory
Heavy Horns: the protagonist has a pair of horns and they weigh heavily on him metaphorically. They define who he is but it's a struggle between liking them and wishing they were gone—your not so usual body image issues.
Sarota Springs: named it after the fictitious town the story takes place in.
Erie Waters: set at lake Erie, it's a play on words since ghosts are involved, Erie, eerie, you get the picture.
At Ease: military lingo, one of the characters is a soldier, but also he puts the other main character at ease with his presence.

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Of the three series I've made, my favorite title is Alien Fiction: The Queen in Yellow. The first part, Alien Fiction, merely identifies the story as a spin-off of the uber-series which is Alien Fiction (novellas, art, roleplaying game, flamethrower, et cetera). That title is a story for another time.

The Queen in Yellow requires more explanation. Around the time that I started this story, I was listening to The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers in 1895. The YouTube channel Horror Babble has an outstanding audio book version. I borrow a lot from public domain materials through the Alien Fiction projects, so I decided to make a sort of tie-in to Chamber's book here. Actually explaining The King in Yellow would take too much space here, but basically it's a collection of unrelated short stories in different genres which may or may not be taking place in the same world with some cosmic horror hijinks happening in the background. Remember that this is published a generation before Lovecraft, so cosmic horror is not a familiar concept to just about anybody. It's a very fun book to analyze, and I like layered stories.

I changed King to Queen because my protagonist is a female. She's also a fashion icon who has previously appeared in white and in pink at different times. It was a natural transition to change her fur color and make her yellow in this story. She is also my imaginary friend, and she approved of the change, so that basically sealed the deal.

There is a secondary meaning though. The king in yellow is an actual character in my story. Some of the same metaphysical hijinks as in Chamber's anthology are happening in the background of my story, but none of that has come to the surface yet as of the end of this novella. My protagonist is visiting different planets which have already been touched by the king's influence. I honestly have not dropped enough clues yet that anyone reading could have reasonably deduced this yet.

My webcomic is called "Aimatos" wich is the greek root to "blood" or "Hema" in "hematology".
The blood has a principal rol in it, because there's characters with strange blood effects and some laboratory behind it.
And maybe you don't noticed in the beginning because it seems a boys love story, but slowly I'm introducing the blood theme and I hope soon all puzzle pieces fit correctly :>

Such an interesting topic!
My comic is called The Secret of Death1
And it has more than three meanings:
1) It's about the protagonist who can control who lives and who dies.
2)Most characters in the story fear death more than life
3)It's the name of the flower of funerals
and some more :stuck_out_tongue:

Great question!

I can't remember if I came up with the title The Changeling's Sister or my friend whom at that point was still a part of the project.
It just felt like a natural title, since it's a story about twin sisters, where one of them is swapped with a fake by a faerie, and we follow the other one on her journey to get her real sister back.

When reading the story it also gets a double meaning, is to who is actually the real sister, and who is the changeling.

I titled my comic "Those Called Wolf" because my story centers around the lives of these wolves and the prejudice they face from humans. I felt like this title helped create the idea that they are not us.

The story of the name of my series hasn't too original, I'm bad at naming things... Bite because the main characters are 90% raccoons, and as I know, they bite, and they're basically bytes because they're digital raccoons :slight_smile:

Oh mai x3 Such a meaningful topic! The one novel I currently have that I know related to a lot of depth was What is the Price of Freedom.

It was a question I had asked myself constantly when I was battling with "being who I am" and "what I wanted to be." Years prior I absolutely hated being myself so I tried to be someone else. Someone who was better than who I previously was. However, the more I tried and actually did become a "better me". However, my friends who knew who I truly was, would always tear me down and bring up the terrible things I did (I wasnt exactly a...nice person when I was younger.) In the end, I would always ask myself; what is the price of freedom? How long will it be until I can be free from who I am?

Anyway, here's the story! x3

Skyline Racers. It's about people who race across the skyline.

I was brainstorming a comic but I didn't have a name...so one day when I was driving, I saw a sign that said "Sugarland Run" and I said "YES, that will be my title!" Sugar Land is also the name of one of the major characters.

I have an older series with a title I greatly dislike now. I just wanted to make the weirdest sounding title. It is also the main character's full name.

Tho my favorite title is for Crow's Worth. The main character's name is Crow Worth but it also has the double meaning.