How Not to End a Comic

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:30 pm

I don't know if anyone here still remembers <a href="http://hownottorunacomic.comicgenesis.com">How Not to Run a Comic</a>, but it was a community-based effort about coming up purposely bad comics to illustrate certain themes (IE how not to start a comic, how not to do a love scene) that was started on this forum a few years ago and I ended up being in charge of.

It has since gone unupdated for a really long time (for a number of reasons) and I've made the decision that it's time to end it, so I thought I'd do it in the same way that it started: by starting a forum thread and asking people to contribute, and then I'll put the submissions up on the site with a link back to your comic.

This last topic is pretty self-explanatory: "How Not to End a Comic". I'd like to see the worst examples possible for the last page of a comic. (Please don't submit pages from your actual comic, though, these are supposed to be parodies). You can see some of the other examples on the site for an example of the style of submissions, but we're pretty flexible.

The comics don't have to be particularly well-drawn or anything, but I'd really appreciate it if some of the people who did a comic at the very beginning would consider reprising their roles for the finale.

This announcement will be up on the site in a couple of days, but I'd like to have some comics to put up first with the annoucement. Thanks in advance to everyone who helps out.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:07 am

Ooooo...How Not to Run a comic was the first Comicgen (then Keenspace) comic I read when I first signed up and it actually provided me with a few decent tips.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:04 am

I'm definately in for this.

Laemkral · Post by **Laemkral** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:18 am

Okay, even *I* can come up with something for this.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:49 am

I think I might have to contribute, it was one of those comics I always wanted to do something for and never did.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:03 am

I'll work on a better entry, but for some reason this popped into my head as the worst ending possible for a comic

I'll have a better one up in say... a week? I'm bogged down with work lately.

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:18 am

I'll see what I can do for this. ^^ Can it be an original type of strip or should it be something from our own comics?

Cat42 · Post by **Cat42** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:42 am

Link the adventurer! wrote:...Can it be an original type of strip or should it be something from our own comics?

Terotrous wrote:...(Please don't submit pages from your actual comic, though, these are supposed to be parodies)...

Can I contribute?

The difference between this comic and my work, I put more effort into this, I made this in paint, my comics are ussually only one panel, and are smaller.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:10 am

I went for the easy.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:34 am

Drat, I was gonna do that one.

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:03 am

This is funny because I'm guilty of this.

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=(

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:29 am

Heh heh! Maybe someone should make templates for when someone ends their comic....that'd be a great one. Just re enter the year, and you're set!

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:35 am

there are so many wonderful examples of how not to end a webcomic littered all over CG...

Legendary · Post by **Legendary** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:54 am

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:55 am

Will do!

EDIT:

Haha... just kidding...

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:00 pm

Terotrous wrote:(Please don't submit pages from your actual comic, though, these are supposed to be parodies).

Not sure if this counts or not...I put it up on RotD, but it was on April Fools, right around the time the characters were going on a trip...so it's not technically part of the comic, right?

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:30 pm

April fools is probably okay, though it might help if you added a caption or something explaining the background information (people are going away on a trip) to the first panel so it'd make sense independant of the previous comics.

The reason for the "don't submit your own comic" rule is so people don't just habitually submit things they've done out of artistic self-loathing for their previous works (despite the fact that they were probably done to the best of their ability at the time). Comics initially designed as parodies are more acceptable for what HNTRAC is.

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:47 pm

Freaking awsome idea! I have a good one!

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:30 pm

I actually did one of these as parody not long ago... a parody ending for my own comic just because I felt like it. Cheap ending and cheap graphics.

(Never actually posted on the comic website)

Legendary · Post by **Legendary** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:30 pm

Here's another way to not end a comic: with a cliffhanger.

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