Poll: My Idea For a Graphic Novel. Is it Shit or Pretty Good?

[Funkiest Monkey]

I'm just gonna do an overview. Okay, the idea goes like this:

The story is set in England, and the main protagonist is a guy in his early twenties. He works in a dead end retail job, where he's constantly harassed by customers. He is quite lazy and un-motivated, he's not that smart either. He hangs out with his best friend reguarly, and is into gaming and rock music.

One day, he decides to get a cat. Everything goes smoothly until a few strange occurrences happen around the apartment, and eventually, he starts to hear voices in his head. It turns out the cat is talking to him telepathically, because he is psychic (for reasons either of them don't know). The cat has gained a knowledge, but not an understanding, of human culture by reading every page on Wikipedia.

But as a dangerous threat looms, an unlikely hero and his kitten are thrust into an epic adventure. I have no idea who/what the threat is yet.

All the characters are based loosely on people I know, have met or know of. And I've done some concept art, but my scanner is broken (so I can't show you. but it is devoid of colour on the pages, much like a manga, but is read left-to-right. I'm a fairly decent artist, not amazing though). The genre is like, a blend of comedy, adventure and action. The shitty working title is: Psycat.

TL;DR: English nerdy, rocker dude gets cat that turns out to be psychic. Shit gets real as they go on a dangerous adventure. The crap as-of-now title of it is Psycat. It is an action/adventure/comedy graphic novel.

Anyway, I want to get to work on this as soon as possible! But first, I would like some opinions from you, Escapist. Good idea? Bad idea? Would you read this based on the concept?

EDIT: This is a very early concept, and lots of things are likely to change. Especially the generic protagonist.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

It depends on how you pull it off

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

It depends on how you pull it off

So it's a good concept then? If I pulled it off well?

 

[zehydra]

Lol, to be honest, I don't mean to be harsh, but, it sounds pretty cheesy.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

It depends on how you pull it off

So it's a good concept then? If I pulled it off well?

Don't count on it.

I'll do it anyway.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

Lol, to be honest, I don't mean to be harsh, but, it sounds pretty cheesy.

It really does. But I've got it figured out in my head, and how I will do it, but I can't fully explain it this way.

 

[gl1koz3]

The weirdest part is that the cat acts pretty weird. If that's the point of it, sounds alright.

 

[Jackhorse]

I'm just gonna do an overview. Okay, the idea goes like this:

All the characters are based loosely on people I know, have met or know of."

(not sure if i got the qoute thing right) you know a psychic cat? Screw a graphic novel sell the cat to channel four... or just sellotape some tin foil to a cat and tell them its psychic... either way would probably work and make you money. Wait this is pure genius where the hells my cat gone?

OT: it would depend a lot on the likeability of the main character if you can make a loveable geek might be fine

 

[Deacon Cole]

It's not a horrible idea, but it's not a blindingly original one. It's about a slacker with a retail job? My goodness! And he gets a cat whom he, for unknown reasons shares a telepathic bond? Wow! And they're thrust into strange adventures! Stand back!

Seriously, though. This sort of idea has been done for, at least, the last twenty years if not longer. This doesn't mean it's bad, mind. Just not very original or fresh. Kind of derivative, in fact.

But then, this is a very rough sketch of the idea. I assume a good deal of the humor will come from the cat not quite understanding human culture. I would recommend you give him the intelligence of a regular cat, if that's at all possible or makes any sense.

You haven't really explained of what the grand adventures would consist. You don't know yet, but this would be a very important part of the story, don't you think? If they're sent to a parallel dimension where everything is lame steampunk, then the retail slacker job and the cat's lack of understanding of human culture would be moot, now wouldn't it?

If this was a board game, your write-up would be just about the start space, possible telling us to collect $200 when we land of pass that space. you have the whole rest of the board and the basic action of how the game is played yet to work out.

So far, all you've got is two main characters and a vague idea of what they will be doing that would make their lives interesting enough to read, but you don't actually have that vague idea. So far, they don't do anything.

But, it could still work. And it's probably a better idea than hermaphroditic furries.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

I'm just gonna do an overview. Okay, the idea goes like this:

All the characters are based loosely on people I know, have met or know of."

you know a psychic cat? Screw a graphic novel sell the cat to channel four... or just sellotape some tin foil to a cat and tell them its psychic... either way would probably work and make you money. Wait this is pure genius where the hells my cat gone?

Well, the personalities are based off people I know, have met or know of.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Sounds like fun. Try not to make everything else about it too silly. I think it would work best if the cat being a cat as a sort of elephant in the room thing, so the protagonist isn't always saying "dude, it's a cat!".

And make the cat really sarcastic.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

It's not a horrible idea, but it's not a blindingly original one. It's about a slacker with a retail job? My goodness! And he gets a cat whom he, for unknown reasons shares a telepathic bond? Wow! And they're thrust into strange adventures! Stand back!

Seriously, though. This sort of idea has been done for, at least, the last twenty years if not longer. This doesn't mean it's bad, mind. Just not very original or fresh. Kind of derivative, in fact.

But then, this is a very rough sketch of the idea. I assume a good deal of the humor will come from the cat not quite understanding human culture. I would recommend you give him the intelligence of a regular cat, if that's at all possible or makes any sense.

You haven't really explained of what the grand adventures would consist. You don't know yet, but this would be a very important part of the story, don't you think? If they're sent to a parallel dimension where everything is lame steampunk, then the retail slacker job and the cat's lack of understanding of human culture would be moot, now wouldn't it?

If this was a board game, your write-up would be just about the start space, possible telling us to collect $200 when we land of pass that space. you have the whole rest of the board and the basic action of how the game is played yet to work out.

So far, all you've got is two main characters and a vague idea of what they will be doing that would make their lives interesting enough to read, but you don't actually have that vague idea. So far, they don't do anything.

But, it could still work. And it's probably a better idea than hermaphroditic furries.

Yes, I agree with how unoriginal the dude sounds. I'm not happy with that.

But they don't really have a telepathic bond, that's just the cat's way of communicating with humans, although he doesn't just do it all the time with everyone.

And yeah, this is very early doors, just a jumping off point. Thanks for the constructive criticism.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Sounds cliche.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

Sounds cliche.

Well, shit.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Sounds clever, wierd and sophisticated.


If you can match the art with the dialouge and plot, you could have a seller!

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

Sounds clever, wierd and sophisticated.


If you can match the art with the dialouge and plot, you could have a seller!

Are you being sarcastic or serious?

Because I seriously doubt the second and fifth words of that description.

 

[bicepfetishist1]

Sounds potentially interesting.

What is this slacker guy's main problem in life? What does he need? And how does the Cat's psychic ablities fullfil it?

Maybe he wants a different job and a specific hot girlfriend and then the cat helps him achive these things but then what...Maybe the cat starts to hold the guy to randsom... Maybe as it goes it turns out the Cat is gonna black mail him for further and further psychic predictions which the guy relies on... eventually the guy will have to stop relying on the cat...maybe the cat is secretly evil? Maybe there is a price to pay for the predictions?

Either way like people have said it's a starting point. where you go with it will determine if it's any good.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Sounds clever, wierd and sophisticated.


If you can match the art with the dialouge and plot, you could have a seller!

Are you being sarcastic or serious?

Because I seriously doubt the second and fifth words of that description.

Serious. If you lay out subtle hints for the cat in the narrative you can have a good suspense left in the mind of the reader..

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

Sounds clever, wierd and sophisticated.


If you can match the art with the dialouge and plot, you could have a seller!

Are you being sarcastic or serious?

Because I seriously doubt the second and fifth words of that description.

Serious. If you lay out subtle hints for the cat in the narrative you can have a good suspense left in the mind of the reader..

Subtle hints of his psychic-ness?