39 for my protagonist, or 42 if I can consider him to be a sort of double secret agent man, both of which qualify him as: Mary-Sue. Your character needs some work in order to be believable. But despair not; you should still be able to salvage her with a little effort. Don't give up. All his carefully repressed angst must be what put him over the top.Redtech wrote:Did someone say "well hung?"
Apparently my lead is a 31 on a Mary-Sue test. Or a borderliner. Kinda odd when I prefer drawing other chars!
That's what I get when I create a char who's smarter than I am.
That's what I get when I create a character who is more inclined to kill people with his bare hands than I am
Seriously, though? Some things that make a Mary Sue awful can be added, sparingly, to a perfectly fine character to make them more interesting, especially in adventure stories, thrillers, heroic epics, etc. Or Mary-Sueism can be added with a nice big side order of irony and a tongue in a cheek.
If the comic is about the artist, as with a journal comic, then the key is simply to be honest about yourself and the world around you, even when it's embarrassing and painful. That makes for the best of that type of comic, imo.
