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openSelf-Pimping Webcomic
Very new account goliberalart
has only been making edits pertaining to the webcomic of the same name. Unsure if this is a problem, but it's certainly noticeable.
openAdd the Misadventures of Sonic the Hedgehog? Webcomic
Are we able to make suggestions for new works? If so, do you think add the fan webcomic, The Misadventures of Sonic the Hedgehog by Fallen Angel Cam 7? Fallen Angel Cam 7 himself said that No Context Sonic does the Sonic related stuff.
Edited by AutisticPhantomOtaku620
Migrated to Chloe Jessica!
openis this a violation of ROCEJ? Webcomic
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.OvershadowedByControversy
Scifimaster 92 deleted the following entry from Overshadowed by Controversy:
- Sinfest, a webcomic initially known for its raunchy, dark comedy and its lighthearted parodies of religious tropes, garnered a much more negative reputation after the onset of the Sisterhood arc in 2011, which radically shifted the comic's focus into a story-driven one with heavy, radical feminist overtones. What made this so controversial was a combination of its misandrist attitudes towards men, the author's constant deflection of criticism as "dudebro misogyny," attempts at using female characters to speak for women despite being a middle-aged man (as well as insulting women who disagree with his views), and more recently the use of the Sisterhood as a mouthpiece for transphobia, depicting gender non-conforming individuals as liars and literal zombies. Consequently, the comic's fanbase has been hemorrhaging out over the years, the author's Patreon is seeing a steady decline in support, and Sinfest is now more well-known for its trans-exclusionary radical feminist overtones than for anything else about it.
now, some of this probably does need to be cut, the bits about misandry and the like are likely to attract MRAs. however, TV Tropes explicitly takes a pro-trans, anti-transphobia stance. i dont think it runs afoul of ROCEJ to condemn TERFs.
im trans myself, so i may be too close to this issue to view it objectively. id like some input on whether it's kosher to include or not.
Edited by razorrozar7openTo report or not to report, that is the question Webcomic
I heard that the page on Shredded Moose had been cut under the content policy, but there seems to be a page on it now. While I'm not quite familiar with the webcomic, and the page itself looks pretty clean, if the P5 decided it was inappropriate, I feel a little weird about the article being here. Should I report it?
open Locked Page Glitch Webcomic
Webcomic.A Softer World locked itself when I tried to edit it, I think due to a glitch. Could someone please unlock it?
openAn Artical Possibly in a Wrong Namespace Webcomic
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Victory Fire
I recently had come across this comic on the internet, but since I'm a new reader, I have no idea if this webcomic has any history pre-2012 (like if it started as a Fan Fic and then became a webcomic). So my question is this: Is this article possibly in the wrong namespace? If it is, then this article belongs the Webcomics namespace. Also I'm a novice, so I'm not comfortable trying to move pages by myself currently.
openThe Bird Feeder (Webcomic) page - safe to recreate? Webcomic
I'm the creator of The Bird Feeder webcomic, and there used to be a page here for it, though it's since been removed (see https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheBirdFeeder
). I understand completely why that was, as it had several Zero Content Example and Weblinks Are Not Examples violations, and I've since moved to a new CMS and changed the structure of the links anyway, so most of the page would be pretty useless.
I was wondering, though, if it would be seen as bad form if I recreated the page myself, using an archived version of it as a template, and added some better descriptions for the examples. The page wasn't originally made by me, and I'm prepared to receive any abuse given to me for even asking to do this, but it was just a thought I had.
Edited by arkholtopen"Bad" Comics for Inspiration? Webcomic
Here's the sitch - I've got me this fantasy story. The main character is your typical determined hero who is optimistic, a bit on the uncouth side, and not necessarily the brightest academic wise (but very knowledgeable in the emotional departments). It takes place in a grand fantasy world and follows this character and her troupe of friends in a slice-of-life/comedy/adventure story thats main priorities are character and situation interactions. How will ——- and ——- deal with ——-? What does ——- really think of ——-? How will ——- react when they find out ——-'s secret? Things like that.
While making this, I was inspired by comics like One Piece and Fairy Tail, two series that I enjoyed because of how much the characters and the world entertained me. The richness of the fictional worlds, the character's personalities and emotions, the relationships and their effects on others, and the problem-solving skills used when facing a formidable foe are all very interesting to me and things I really want to focus on. However, I've recently discovered that these comics, the ones that led me to identify all that I wanted in my own, are being criticized for lacking depth, being too generic, and overall just being bad. I'm not a critic myself, and I'm fairly new to storytelling. I just want to make a good, well-written story that lets people feel good while reading it, something fun for people to read. But if I were to adhere to a similar formula as these, if I were to take inspiration from these stories and make what I'd like...Would that be bad? Would nobody like it? Would it be shallow of me as a writer?
What elements from stories like these would I want to avoid? What are these weak points I hear about? Should I even be looking at these for inspiration? I just want to make a story that entertains people, and I can't do that if it's filled to the brim with flaws and writing cliches. Nobody would like it, and I can't stand producing things of poor quality. It wouldn't be any fun to do.
Edited by JambeeBeauxopenSelfDemonstrating.Pilot still shows up on top bar? Webcomic
If you go to any pages for the webcomic Pilot, it stills shows a link to the long-deleted Self Demonstrating page. Is this supposed to happen? Is there a way to get rid of it?
open No Title Webcomic
Any links to Paranatural formatted as Webcomic/Paranatural don't work, it has to be Para Natural instead, even though the page itself shows that's incorrect. Can anything be done about it?
openNo Title Webcomic
Hello,
I've been working on the work page of Zebra Girl for a while now. Recently I decided to create a "characters" page for it (here
).
Since this is the first time I'm doing this, I met two problems, and I seek your wisdom and input in order to improve the pages:
- I moved several tropes to the "characters" page. However, I'm not exactly sure what is the actual policy when it comes to tropes which can be listed both on the main page and on the characters page (for YMMV or Trivia tropes, it's easy, the website itself warns the editor if some of those aren't in the right section). Should I do my best to keep those tropes listed on both pages if possible and writing more detailled examples on the characters page? Should I not bother with listing a trope in the main page if it can be listed on a characters page, or is it the other way around?
- Spoilers. The comic is over 15 years old, and some events of the story affected the plot greatly (namely, Sandra going nuts, becoming an evil and cruel demon and hurting everyone for her own pleasure, including her former friends; it takes a rather long story arc for her to realize what she has done and become The Atoner... kinda. On a side note, the cast page of the webcomic doesn't hide this fact). It is not exactly a Foregone Conclusion, but everything prior to this led to this specific turn of events, and a good part of the tropes refer to this. So I'm beginning to wonder if I should just remove any spoiler tags related to this, in order to make the articles easier to read.
Thank you in advance for your time and advices.
Edited by NonoRobotopenNo Title Webcomic
Can a webcomic have Getting Crap Past the Radar as an example? obviously there is no overt radar here (well, its sponsored on hiveworks so presumably does need to stay pg-13, but i digress) in this case (Paranatural) the author chooses to make the comic family-friendly, no one even swears and the main characters are 12, so it is very suprising when he throws in a reference to flipping someone off. However, is it really GCPTR? does a self-imposed radar count?
openNo Title Webcomic
bluesaber has cutlisted Webcomic.Cats N Cameras with the reason "This is a NSFW comic that violates this site's family friendly policy with blatant sex in it." even though "blatant sex" is not in and of itself a violation of the Content Policy and it's up to the 5P to decide on anything's standing under the Content Policy, not random cutlisting.
Plus, it's not the first time they've unilaterally cutlisted stuff (and the 5P ruled it "Not Porn" in that instance) - see here
.
openNo Title Webcomic
Now that Webcomic.Chugworth Academy if out of P5's hands, I would like to raise a question of whether it's a stub or not. Most of the page consists of references to deleted content, author's other (pornographic) productions and general hate, but pretty much nothing about the comic itself. Without them, all that's left of the page would be this or even less.
You can read a review by The Webcomic Authority here.
This comic provides examples of:
- Animesque: Sure does show its influences.
- Fanservice: To the point where some strips are simply drawings of girls without any words being said.
- Off-Model: Most of the time, the characters don't have noses. Only when drawn in different angles do they then have noses.
openNo Title Webcomic
What's the point of Doc Scratch ? I'm pretty sure that page used to be in Self-Demonstrating and it was just as terrible then as it is now. Why should some random character get their own page in the Main namespace that doesn't even bother demonstrating their verbal quirk?
Doc Scratch is known for typing in unreadable white font and being very polite, bordering on condescending. That page is just a bunch of character tropes poorly written in first person.
Just doesn't seem to me like a page that should exist, but I don't think "I think this page is dumb" is a valid reason to cutlist something.
Edited by SpitefulFoxopenNo Title Webcomic
Not sure what to do about the page Tara And John. It's full of zero-context examples that, if disposed of, would make the page pretty much completely empty. It could be argued that one could just read through the comic itself and add context...but I looked it up and I'm not quite sure I really want to read beyond the couple I glanced at to do that.
openNo Title Webcomic
Is Logic Bomb specifically for when logical paradoxes are used on computers, or can it apply to any logical paradox? Such as, in the case of Faulty Logic, building a time machine to go back in time to prevent yourself from building a time machine because you know you'll build a time machine and misuse it. It's a (hilarious) logical paradox (sort of? it's technically correct... I think?), but no computers are involved.
openNo Title Webcomic
Awhile ago I tried to make the character page for Wayward Sons by myself. Naturally, I gave up less than halfway through, and it hasn't changed since. I'm considering trying again, but I want to know if there's some kind of guideline to this kind of thing. Last time, I just copied the character profiles from the comic itself, which was a mistake.
Also, anyone care to help out? Many hands make light work and all that...

PrincessPandaTrope and I are the only two people who frequently edit the page for the Sonic the Hedgehog fan comic Ghosts of the Future. I'm starting to understand why nobody else wants to edit the page. She keeps sending me PMs after I edit, saying that she's "very disappointed with" me for not phrasing things exactly the way she wanted.
One example would be my latest edit, where I removed the word "very" from a lot of edits, since it's a word that usually doesn't do any good. Saying "the house is very big" doesn't actually give you any more exact info about how big the house is than if you just say "The house is big."
She PMed me and said that I should have replaced it with a more descriptive adjective instead, without explaining why she couldn't do that herself.
She also said that I was giving the middle finger to the comic's creator, Evan Stanley, by replacing "very [adjective]" with a plain "[adjective]". She said that I was misleading people about the content of the comic this way—as if I had changed an exact measurement to one less exact or accurate.
And then there's the time when she asked people to cut down the wall of text
in one entry, and then when I did that, she asked me to explain why I deleted things
. I tried to be polite, but I wondered why she even asked for help if she expected people to follow rules she never bothered mentioning.
(Then, in an act of Edit Warring, she put back things I'd taken away.)
It feels like she's decided that my only task is to fix the grammar and spelling mistakes she keeps making again and again. It also feels like she's got this idea of how the page must be written that she assumes everybody else knows and she therefore chooses never to tell people about.
To be frank, she's acting like she's Knuckles the Echidna and the GotF page is a Chaos Emerald. ('Cause she's acting like its guardian, geddit?)
Short version: This troper is rude, keeps edit warring and has page ownership issues, and it's getting very tiring.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro