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How clichéd/bad is your comic?

[] Your story takes place in high school
[x] Your story's main characters are teenagers
[] Your story has a love triangle
[x] Your characters have to save the world
[] Your female characters are all sassy
[] Your male characters are all rebellious
[] The main plot of your story involves who ends up with who
[x] Your characters use magic
[] You have more than five main characters
[] All of your characters end up with someone
[] Your comic is a BL/yuri/yaoi comic
[] You have a character who's straight, but gets confused and falls in love with a gay person
[] Your comic is about wolves
[] Your comic has a badguy who is bad with no explanation as to why he/she's bad
[] Your comic has an overly promiscuous character
[] You plug in fan-service wherever possible
[] You're making your comic just to draw people making out/having sex
[] Your characters are human but have animal appendages (i.e. cat ears and a tail) for no reason
[] Your're making a manga that reads right to left, even though you're not Japanese and it's in English
[] Your comic is a fan comic
[] All of your characters are good-looking
[] Your comic involves forbidden love
[x] All of your characters have special weapons which they always carry around
[] You main character has a rival who he'/she eventually becomes friends/lovers with
[x] Your comic has see-though speech balloons
[] Your character meets the person he/she will fall in love with in the first chapter
[] Your comic involves the four elements as a magical theme
[] Your comic has a good girl who falls for a bad boy
[] All your characters are goth/dress darkly
[] Your comic has a human who falls in love with someone who's not human
[x] Your comic has a main badguy, who your main character has to kill in the end
[] Most of your panels don't have backgrounds
[] You haven't considered a theme for your story
[] When you don't know what to do next, you just add filler that has nothing to do with anything
[] Your story is really confusing and people have told you so
[] Most of your characters are vulgar/swear all the time
[] Your first chapter is really confusing to draw people in
[] Within the first chapter, you've introduced ten or more characters
[] You forget to carry though ideas you introduced early on in the comic
[] you beat people over the head with your opinions/beliefs and don't give consideration to the other side of the argument, and people have told you so on several occasions by debating with you.


Total =6 /40

If 10 or less, you're doing well.
If 20 or more, you may want to consider changing things.
If in between 10 and 20, critique yourself and consider things for your next comic.


How good/unique/good is your comic?

[x] You have a beginning, middle and end planned out before you start
[x] Your comic has a theme/purpose
[] Your comic's main characters are adults or kids
[] Your comic starts with your main character already married
[x] Your character doesn't meet his/her love interest in the first chapter
[] One of your main characters has kids
[] Your characters don't use magic
[] Your characters don't have individualized weapons they carry around all day
[] Your story is fiction - it doesn't have fantasy elements like magic.
[] Your characters have real flaws and feel like real people (only check if your readers have told you so)
[] One of your characters has some sort of physical defect
[x] One of your characters has some sort of psychological defect
[] Your comic has a bad guy who your main character wants to save
[] Your comic is NOT a romance comic
[x] You're not making a comic just to draw people making out/love
[x] You don't have any filler in your comic
[] You have only a few main characters
[] Your story is simple as opposed to overly complex
[] Your main character does not have a love interest
[] Your comic has solid speech balloons
[x]Most of your panels have backgrounds
[] Your comic doesn't have a villain
[] You have at least one fat person in your comic
[x] Your female characters are strong based on their personalities and faults rather than how good they are at beating people with a weapon
[x] All of your characters dress differently
[] The world you've created is unique, and your readers have told you so
[] Your comic is sci-fi
[] Your comic does NOT have a love triangle
[] Your comic is about something you're passionate about/ you have a message
[x] Your comic does NOT involve forbidden love
[] If your comic has gay characters, the fact that they're gay doesn't have to do with the main plot
[] Your story has twists
[x] Your story has set-ups and pay-offs
[x] When your female characters talk to each other, they talk about things other than romance with boys
[x] Your comic has an old person
[x] If your main character is falling in love, he/she doesn't kiss the other person until far into the comic
[x] Your comic is NOT a fan comic
[x] Your main character is different at the end of the story than he/she is at the beginning
[] Your characters all have different facial structures/silhouettes; they're all unique from each other and your readers have told you so
[] You put your beliefs/opinions into your comic, but you also show the other side of the argument as having its own merits.

16/40

If 10 or less, rethink your story
If 10 or more, you're doing well
If 20 or more, you're doing fantastic!


_{Journal Coded by `SanguineEpitaph}