No, no, this isn't stupid at all.
If you're planning to use the villain's POV only for the first issue then I would admit it would be considerably jarring to follow another character's POV for the rest of the story. So if I may make a suggestion it'd be a better idea to keep switching between the hero's and the villain's POVs.
Look, if your villain is sympathetic, it doesn't matter if readers will think of him as the main character or not — they will care about him, and the only way to make them care as much about the hero is to afford the hero the same kind of writing that characterized your villain. Or make him more likeable, or more sympathetic. Whatever goes, really.
I'll tell you now that, at least, for issue one, and issue one alone, the villain will probably be the main character in the minds of most of your readers. You just have to compensate for that in issue 2, 3 and so on.
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What do you mean by "hero's real name"? Their super-identity? Isn't that traditionally (I Am Not Shazam excluded) given away by the title?
Anyway, I don't see any problem with having it from the heroine's perspective. People rarely think about themselves in the third person, so she wouldn't reveal their identity to the reader. And the issue can start with her entrance in costume. Or wind back a bit and have the villain terrorise the populous for a bit first. Effectively make the POV for the first few pages the "average civilain".
I agree with Filler Dude that a once off villain POV for the first issue would be jarring. And sympathy's definitely easy to produce if you hear his side of the story, anyway.
I do like the idea of not starting with the origin story. Always good to have something different.
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Unless you make the Villain's POV a feature - not a highly regular one, but often enough to provide colour. That way, not-so jarring. Particularly if you provide a hook at the end of the first that suggests it's not the last.
I've decided to write my comic in an issue format (Minus the actually being printed part, it'd be posted online most likely), but I wouldn't make issue 1 be about the hero getting her powers and introducing her civilian life. I don't think origin comics really let you get a feel of what the comic is about.
Instead, issue one would have the archnemesis arrive at the city, and the hero would make her grand entrance (in costume) and beat him. My problem is, I don't want to reveal the hero's real name or civilian identity until the origin story. To do that, I would have to write the issue from the villain's perspective, which wouldn't be to much of a problem, since he is a sympathetic character. However, I don't want readers identifying him as the main character and not caring as much about the hero.
I was wondering what you thought about my plan (If not having the origin story first is stupid), and how you would let readers know that the hero is the main character without "getting to know them" first.
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