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So - I'm curious. What age are the majority of your characters?

This question has been bothering the Blackaby mind because everyone in the comics she reads is younger than her and is having infinitely more fun than SHE ever had at that age.

I never really thought about it.

ABOL and TESS are pretty damn old in human terms, but basically young adults in their species. So maybe, what... a half a billion years old?

Beth is Beth aged. I ain't saying her age here, even if folks do know it. Ditto the Artist (the pair of eyeballs).

Yuri is middle aged for a snail.

Q-CPU is very young, only a year or so old. But in computer age, he's a teenager.

22-26. clerise is 25, varie is 26, jeremy and ryan are 5 at first but advance to being 24ish each, but Cae is 28. i think she looks to young when i draw her though. BUT LOLZ NOBODY KNOWS THESE CHARACTERS YET.

anyway. right. i made my charas older because i was tired of 15 year old characters, and didn't want cutr 21 year olds and was not in the mood for smartass smart little kids.

19-21 This is about an average, rather than a real preference.

This goes for the stories I write, as well. Sometimes it's a 15-year-old, sometimes it's a 26-year-old. Although I have to say that that transition into full adulthood is a good spot, for me.

I blame my youth.

Actually I think I voted for the wrong thing - they're probably mainly in the 27-30 range. Uh. If you don't factor in the immortal thing.

Uh, and the 14 year old.

I've really got to find some way to get around that. RAAAA, help me get an 'out' for my jail bait!

blackaby wrote:Actually I think I voted for the wrong thing - they're probably mainly in the 27-30 range. Uh. If you don't factor in the immortal thing.

Uh, and the 14 year old.

I've really got to find some way to get around that. RAAAA, help me get an 'out' for my jail bait!

blackaby wrote:Actually I think I voted for the wrong thing - they're probably mainly in the 27-30 range. Uh. If you don't factor in the immortal thing.

Uh, and the 14 year old.

Wait... who in your comic is 14?


And my main characters are supposed to be around 16 - 17.

RA, you are awesome.

ManyWorlds wrote:Wait... who in your comic is 14?

Uh. According to history, my vampire. I really should have done my research first. And uh, the necessary maths. Presently I am planning to just let this fact sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide and hope no one else can do maths either.

my characters are just out of highschool and there is no fun to be had for any of them...SUFFER!!!! SUFFERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

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Grant and Phylo are both right around 23 or 24 as are most of their buddies (TW, Christian, and a few that have yet to appear). Phylo's sister, who has yet to appear, will be 26 or 27.

Really, I hesitate to pin things down even that much. I hadn't seriously thought about it until I saw this topic. There is a deliberate dodging of the issue going on in my comic, mostly because I want reader both older and younger to be able to identify with the characters.

Gengar003 wrote:Blackaby... what's with the age ranges?

0-8 9 years
9-13 5 years <-- *grumble* prepubescent white wannabe gangster on xbox live age -_-;
14-18 5 years
19-21 3 years
22-26 5 years
27-30 3 years
30+ ∞ years

These are groupings I've observed. I'm not putting them into normal balanced age groups but the age sections that comics actually fall into.

The first covers little kids to early preschool.
The second are primary school kids to first year high school - they're the "Malcolm in the Middle" age group.
The third covers the upper high-school age group - which is usually what the teen romance and the omfgI'mgay comics fall into - as well as some fantasy comics where they are just finding their way and having mad adventures.
19-21 is the I've just finished school M2 stage, college comics, etc. Fair amount of fantasy comics in there too.
22-26 is disaffected youth, first job, tech support comics, also some gamer comics. Also, the "harder" scifi style comics usually end up here or the one above.
27-30 is that fairly small bunch of comics with older protagonists working, living, older gamer comics, etc, etc.
30+ is what doesn't fit into the one below. And the married in a fantasy world comics.

Well, I voted for the 14-18 slot, although I don't really think it's correct.
I just chose it because two of the main characters fit the 18 year old quota.
If you had a 18-28 slot, that's what I would have selected.

blackaby wrote:Uh. According to history, my vampire. I really should have done my research first. And uh, the necessary maths. Presently I am planning to just let this fact sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide and hope no one else can do maths either.

Well, you're only 14 once, and only for 365/6 days. After that, regardless of how your body ages, you'll eventually be legal.

Didn't work for Gary Coleman, but...eh...you might be able to pull it off.

My version of age ranges:

0 to 20 <-- Young
20 to 30 <-- Middle aged
30+ <--- Old

I didn't realize my characters were so old. I'd set ages for the two main guys and figured the others were close. I hadn't realized they'd aged past the point I thought they were at.

They grow up so fast, don't they?

I can't really do this one. Angry is early 20s, Aphrodite is like 1000s of years old. Ton is early teens, Happy is somewhere between 6-10...

Hard one for me to answer, too. Let me look at my main characters: Mid-50s, mid-30s, late teens, early 20s, and 8 hours old. Lesser characters are aged 150 years, late 20s, and three months.

Maybe a better question is what the comic is *aimed* at? I'm going for the newly disillusioned psychopaths in their early 30s and late 20s.

Having a generic manga means that, by definition, all my characters are 16-year-old school girls.

Toxic wrote:My version of age ranges:

0 to 20 <-- Young
20 to 30 <-- Middle aged
30+ <--- Old

Haven't you heard? 30 is the new 20.

All of my characters are in their early to mid 20s.