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how far I'd push it?

hehe

here's whats already in the comic:

- eviscerated and dismembered pregant women

- people being called bob

- several instances of applied Mighty Morphing Mega Cock

- hot dickings

- spooge

- really bloody violence and the people who like it

- fanservice with hardcore-ish pr0n


of course, thats nothing compared to what I intend to include alter on...

mcDuffies wrote: I wanted to comment on this earlier, actually. I always felt that portray of sexual relationships in comics is unrealistic in that characters are always grown-up virgins to whom sexual relationship is the ultimate end of single life, like, find the true love of your life, and only then have sex. Specially female characters are too prude for a realistic portrait of average today's woman.

Yes. And I wouldn't narrow it to just comics.

My struggle with this sorta thing more involves my wanting to deprive my characters of happiness rather then to desexualize them. But I think I made a few wrong turns so a lot of my audience thinks this is about whether Charles and Mary get together when I'm not really interested in that. SEems about as likely as Charles and Jason'll hook up.

That tears it. Ugly Girl's going to have sex with every male character now. Even the gay one. And her brother. And the cat...

Nanda wrote:That tears it. Ugly Girl's going to have sex with every male character now. Even the gay one. And her brother. And the cat...

But why?

Seriously. Why not the females she's not related to as well?

Nanda wrote:That tears it. Ugly Girl's going to have sex with every male character now. Even the gay one. And her brother. And the cat...

A stickman's penis... hmm...

(Tries not to think of a stickgirl gina.)

Eww, cat.

theSuburbanLetdown wrote:Eww, cat.

dude - its pussy...


oh ya and i forgot to mention that there are images of tail-sex and vore in my comic to - all on the same page too actually...


I guess I should mention that my opinion regarding these things - which is reflected in my comic - is that if shit happens, it happens, and it is not going to be politely hidden... but it will be shown, it will be shown in a graphical maner and it can be shown in a variety of ways, be it serious, silly, pornographic (oh gawd that gushing chestwound is SO hot...) and so on...

besides, its a great excuse to 'research' new and creative 'poses' to draw in your comic - and by that I mean watch porn...

For as low as my purity score is, you would think that I'd be all over sex stuff in a comic, but I'm really not; I'm actually very prudish when it comes to writing and find it very difficult to write good sex. I'm pretty sure if I -could- draw sex, I probably would not feel comfortable doing so.

yeahduff wrote:Seriously. Why not the females she's not related to as well?

I'll leave that up to her sister.

Nanda wrote:

yeahduff wrote:Seriously. Why not the females she's not related to as well?

I'll leave that up to her sister.

ok....

*ads ugly girl to bookmark list*

webkilla wrote:

Nanda wrote:

yeahduff wrote:Seriously. Why not the females she's not related to as well?

I'll leave that up to her sister.

ok....

*ads ugly girl to bookmark list*

You're going to be very disappointed...

I always felt that portray of sexual relationships in comics is unrealistic in that characters are always grown-up virgins to whom sexual relationship is the ultimate end of single life, like, find the true love of your life, and only then have sex. Specially female characters are too prude for a realistic portrait of average today's woman. I guess it's partly a plot device because authors want to have this long, lingering romantic story arc through the comic, but in part it must be that, in average, webcomic artists themselves have under average sexual experience (including me).

Hmm, well, it's weird in my comic...Ardra's pretty much a total nerd, and rather socially inept. The girls were conceived by artificial insemination, and it's been implied more than once (particularly in the "Who's Your Daddy?" storyline that introduced Gordie, who's Eileen and Lenore's biological father) that Ardra is, shall we say, "unspoiled". I do plan to have her get married eventually, though. It'll be a sort of "nerdy people in love" type of thing. So I suppose it does go back to a variation on the theme you mentioned. No comment on the "under average sexual experience" line, though..

I think this really goes into my main character's weird dichotomy...She's a brilliant scientist, but a bit of a Luddite when it comes to certain technologies. Her politics could best be described at Libertarian, with a healthy dose of liberalism on social issues, but she can also be a bit prudish at times. She's got a sky-high I.Q., but no self-confidence (which may explain why she simply hypnotized Gordie into donating a sample of his "paternal materials", rather than attempting to sleep with him). I really plan to develop her character more in upcoming storylines, since I've been focusing on the girls more up to this point.

But since there are kids involved, there are limits to where I can go humor-wise, obviously. Other than occasional references here and there, it's pretty G-rated. This guest comic which parodied the Bratz dolls is about as risque as it ever gets. But I think we walk the fine line between being all-ages friendly and being accessible to an older audience pretty well.

Nanda wrote:

webkilla wrote:

Nanda wrote: I'll leave that up to her sister.

ok....

*ads ugly girl to bookmark list*

You're going to be very disappointed...

then i'll just submit some totaly inapropriate fanart to your comic... trust me - i've done it before, I can do it again!

webkilla wrote:

Nanda wrote:

webkilla wrote: ok....

*ads ugly girl to bookmark list*

You're going to be very disappointed...

then i'll just submit some totaly inapropriate fanart to your comic... trust me - i've done it before, I can do it again!

I've never seen anyone refuse fanart before but I might just now.

The only boundaries I have are for things I know I couldn't draw well enough for effect. Which is why I never draw backgrounds even >_>

I had full frontal female in jR would have had male but frankly I never had a scripted chance for it. The one sex scene I want to be viewed from behind the couch. So..

As for gore I'd draw it if I could pull it off....But I can't. The car scene would have been so much better if I could have drawn it right

In Avernyght I'm trying to keep it at most PG but as I work on it more I keep wanting to slip into Mature (strictly cursing on the current one I'm not sure what all I could do sexually or violently that would offed) Since right now my characters aren't human or animals I wager I could get away with more and keep a lower rating. They're full of fluff afterall.

Vorticus wrote: I've never seen anyone refuse fanart before but I might just now.

hey - come on - keep an open mind... and in case of the fanart an open bucket, some towels, three donkeys and a well-lubed midget with a trumpet

:p


but... things I'd refrain from putting into my comic? political propaganda? I rarely like any of the political parties, nor any of the politicians, so thats problably the last thing you'll see in my comic

of course - there will in time be some nice and hard anti-politico, anti-lobbyist and anti-religious content in my comic...

webkilla wrote:

Vorticus wrote: I've never seen anyone refuse fanart before but I might just now.

hey - come on - keep an open mind... and in case of the fanart an open bucket, some towels, three donkeys and a well-lubed midget with a trumpet

O_o abuh?

Thus far, my comic has no explicit nudity, no swearing, and no violence.

There will be violence later, but I am unsure how graphic it will be (hint: probably not very).

There will be some sexual situations later, but they will be mostly implied. I don't really have any desire to post drawings of naked people on the internet.


I have quite a few of the storylines outlined already, despite Chapter 1 being mostly introductory and not really in the same tone as most of the comic. I can think of at least one situation where a major character will have a severe injury and at least one situation where a villain gets his/her butt whupped pretty badly by one of the good guys. I also know of at least one situation where sex will be implied but not really shown.


I have to be especially careful because I have a fairly large main cast (six characters), and I do not want the comic to turn into a soap opera. The focus needs to be on something other than who likes whom. One of my characters, Alice, is almost certain *not* to have a boyfriend at any point in the story, though it's possible Percy, Beatrice, and Arthur might find love at some point. Amelia... well, the less said about her, the better![/i]

I think the only thing my comic doesn't really have a need for at one point or another is swearing. Which is strange as I swear like a sailor myself. Otherwise, so far I've had:

Kittens made into coffee
Implied devouring of children (twice! )
The Fantanas dismembered and eaten alive, complete with happy blood fountains!
Self-cannibalism
Dismemberment (and consumption of a hydralisk if that counts for something)

So.. violence and gore is kind of a big thing in mine. Of course, when your story focuses on the zombie legal system, you're pretty well guaranteed to touch on those things.

Within a couple of strips things will get a bit more "sexualized" and there'll be brief nudity.. though nowhere near in the conventional sense and purely for comedic purposes.

I just do what's needed or funny for the comic and that sets any resulting boundaries.