Conventional Friends is a webcomic that I am and have been working on for several months now. It's the story of Jaden, his friends and family, the friends and family of those people, and holy crap, this series already has twenty-eight characters and I haven't even started it yet. *facepalm*
Originally, I hadn't meant to focus so much on Jaden, it just sort of happened that way. He became a very fascinating character, with several different layers and facets of his personality, who continues to surprise me. It's by no means ready for mass consumption, there's a lot of kinks in the characters that I need to work out, and in a series like this, where the characters are pretty much the only thing carrying the series, the characters absolutely have to be pretty damn well written. Personally, one of my biggest problems with the series at the moment is that I simply cannot seem to pull my attention away from Jaden. With TWENTY-SEVEN other characters, it would seem like he couldn't get a bunch of screentime, but he gets a lot of it.
My other problem with the series seems to be with tone. I keep flip-flopping between traditional comic strip humor and ultra-melodramatic and its making me crazy. I have problems with shows that do that (cough cough Black Butler) however, i see it a lot in webcomics, such as Questionable Content and Something Positive, so I'm wondering if the medium of comic strips is one that make that mood whiplash possible to do without looking utterly stupid
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