He is the only child of a wealthy family and has access to incredible resources, including his own personal helicopter, private zoo, and even his own roller coaster. Then I have the main bad guy, and also the princesses maid who is barley in it but has a name at least and thats the only people in it except for crowds of unnamed people with no lines.Richie Rich is a young boy who is incredibly wealthy and leads an extravagant lifestyle. In my other comic which is yet to be actually made, I have the Main protagonists yes protagonists most things have lots of main characters but only one main protagonists well this comic has two. I then have about three scientists but they aren't in it too often.
There is one Character who turned (well technically everyone else turned good and he stayed bad but whatever) bad and one character who is missing. In Subject SB-24 I have the main protagonist Seb (who is a girl just to confuse you ha ha.) and then 4 other main characters at the beginning. I think its most commonly an odd number like 3, 5 or 7. It honestly just depends on if your story has space for that many characters.Īs multiple people has said it depends on the situation. But because you don't need to know who all 7 of them are for every story, it works out okay. Like, even for a comic strip-style story that could get by with 3 characters total, there's also something like Archie comics, which easily has 6 or 7 major characters, with even more background folks, and anyone out of 4 or 5 of those characters could be the actual star of a strip at any given time. But if you introduce 2 main characters at first, and then a few others are in the background, and the next arc focuses on one of those main characters and introduces somebody else in the story that they're close to, and then a few arcs later you focus on a couple of those background characters that have been popping up from time to time and giving them some time to shine, etc.then you could eventually have a cast of seven or more. If you try to introduce 7 characters in the first arc, that's gonna be too many to really absorb, and we'll get lost. Start with 3 mains and see how it goes, introducing new characters as the comic goes on and the plot calls for it.Īgree with Kayke! And it's not only gonna depend on your particular genre, but also on how they're handled. In my experience that's been what long form webcomics are like.Īnyway, I'd say don't try to develop too many characters at the beginning. Like the Flash started out with 4 main characters working together and now there are like 9 or 10 people on the team at any given time fluctuating as some characters become more important or less important. Characters that start out as minor characters might work their way into the main cast. but as the plot moves forward and progresses it'll need to add more characters for the world to feel realistic and engaging. An action/drama show (the Flash, Buffy, Riverdale, etc) might start out with a core cast of three or so. That's something that can easily be done with a comic strip. A show like this can focus on just a few characters but run for 100s of episodes because there doesn't need a plot that keeps progressing and heightening.
A sitcom usually has limited sets (like an apartment, a restaurant, an office) and limited characters, like one group of friends or coworkers. Like if the location was somewhere isolated or there was a population depleting disaster or something. unless there was a plot reason for there not to be many characters.
Think of how many comic strips just have two characters talking to each other with an occasional third character there if the joke calls for it.įor a narrative comic, you'd need more characters for the world to feel convincing. in which case sometimes you only really need 2 or 3 characters for the whole strip. The fact that you say "strip" makes me think you're doing like a 4 panel thing.
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