Ryuko wrote:
I kind of wanted you to clarify what you meant by not caring if one of my characters died. I feel it's kind of moot because it's not really that kind of story, but what exactly did you mean by that? You're not personally invested into the characters at all? Since I feel it's sort of a character-driven comic, I'm wondering what kept you reading the comic aside from the obligation to do the review? I mean, I agree, a character death wouldn't really fit with the theme of my story, but I'm not sure that's what you were getting at. Do you have any ideas of how to engage the reader more with my characters?
Thanks for the compliments and the constructive criticism.
Okay me not caring if your character lives of dies, means that in a lot of tv shows, movies, and books the writer/director/whoever could probably get the person to cry if they killed a character. They make the character seem real enough that when they die you feel like a real person died or at least feel sad because of how the characters are reacting. So yeah not personally invested.
What kept me reader was it's a fun comic. It's light and enjoy enjoy. It's hard to explain. But it's best comparison I can think of is the Hellboy movie verse the Spiderman movie. The Hellboy movie is basically: See Hellboy. See Hellboy says a whitty line. See Hellboy fight nazis. For the most part everyone I talked agrees that the Hellboy movie is fun and enjoyable and it's down part where the part that didn't focus on being fun/badass like the romance between Hellboy and Liz (but even there was approched in a fun way so while the down part of the movie it lead to some good parts). Now the Spiderman movie has much much more to it than the Hellboy movie. And you watch it for different reasons. He has all this inner conflict and emotional stuff going on while he's fighting the goblin.
As for getting people to care about your characters much, it's a hard thing to do without completely changing the theme of the comic. But maybe putting in some inner conflict or drama. That doesn't nessacary mean angst it up. To do that and keep with the feel of the comic I'd maybe recommend renting 3rd season on of Buffy and watching the romance scenes between Xander and Anya. They are scene that manage to show a lot character depth but the dialog and character actions can't help but make you laugh. If you've never scene Buffy one of the first scene with these two alone involves Anya randomly presenting herself naked to Xander and saying all the factual reasons the two of them should have sex. It takes a bit of practice and but you can still be funny and show character depth at the same time.
Edit: It also might be that's I'm an unfeeling emotionally retarded ice bitch so it's extra to get me to care about characters.
Plus, why use your mom's when google, irc pervos or mv can give you good material?
Makes me all happy inside. Also, just something to keep in mind might not be misused, might just because my ......... interesting way for spelling things.
