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Need Opinion on Webcomic pilot plot

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>So, I'm trying to write a decent first chapter to set up the whole premise...

It's about Three guys who like to hang out but always get themselves dragged into irrelevant and insane misadventures, somehow making everything worse as they go on, until the problem simply gets directed elsewhere or disappears rather than being solved...


>This is just one of the many adventures they'll get into.

This is just a summary of my concept.

Tell me what you think and i could try to flesh it out more.

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>The Three guys, Fredd (yes it's spelled that way), Theo, and Mike,

go to an amusement park called "Fun land".

A park with a medieval kingdom aesthetic but with candy themes. ("Willy Wonka type park")

They hang out for the first few pages, kinda like how a slice of life would go, so that I can introduce the setting and characters without needing too much exposition.

>Then they get themselves into an entirely different thing, because Fredd goes into a bathroom and overhears a ransom plot to hold the ceo hostage, The "King of Fun" which is at the very top of the tower over at the Fortress of Fun,

which is a large castle with fun activities and a suspiciously elaborate design choice for puzzles and games...

>While eavesdropping, Fredd accidentally flushes. Alerting the two bad guys...

Now there's no point in hiding so he acts oblivious, washing his hands for an awkward period of time then doing small talk, before casually strutting away, then running towards his friends to tell them about the whole thing.

>Cut back to the bad guys, they argue about what disguises they will use to infiltrate the godforsakingly large castle, with the one guy "who we will call Xavier" already having knocked out a random janitor, so Xavier tells his friend (I'll call big for now as he is "big") to choose a disguise as big as him.

>The big guy steals "Mochi the bear" costume and pretends to be the mascot for a while...

Then one of their members, the hacker, checks the cameras to see if it's all clear.

The plan is to cause some trouble far away so that security will be too preoccupied to come to them and get in their way.

Xavier tells Big to cause a distraction without elaborating further on it.

To which Big reluctantly complies with.

>He improvises by doing the sickest dance you've ever seen while inside the boiling hot and awkward mascot.

Slowly passing out...

>After that, it cuts back to the three main friends who are still having fun. Then the protagonist gets a dumb idea to mess with the puzzles at the fun kingdom just for fun, so it has a montage of them doing weird things to the contraptions.

>Then back to the bad group, the hacker then tells Xavier to disable the cameras and electricity, so that the puzzles won't get in their way...

The bad group goes on with their plan.

Xavier tries to get into the security system by disguising as the janitor.

Unbeknownst to him, the janitor is actually the one and only employee of the year "Jeff",

who is a very well-known and beloved guy throughout the park staff, making his entire disguise worthless.

In an attempt to save his ass, Xavier says a half assed lie and it somehow works.

>As he gets in the security room, he tries to choke the guard person guy to death but the guard suddenly turned around and begins talking small talk.

The sheer awkwardness of it causes Xavier to just knock him out.

Xavier then disables the security systems.

>However, the three friends accidentally get stuck into one of the puzzles and has to get out by breaking the entire system, which will eventually alert the staff, causing them to indirectly squander the bad guys plan.

>The security tries to subdue the three guys, so they try to escape security by just simply running away and constantly running into various objects, causing them to lead security into the location of the bad guys.

>As they finally meet up with the bad guys, The Bad guys mistake them for spies and tries to kill them out of frustration for ruining their decently thought out plan. A fight breaks out, with the Three guys narrowly escaping it.

>As the three friends try to hide from the killers, they accidentally discover that there are some cryptic magical shit happening in the kingdom that has something to do with why there's so much candy...

then the whole thing went from bad, to worse...

--End Episode 1 part 1--


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Response to Need Opinion on Webcomic pilot plot 2023-10-13 14:09:22


That sounds like an interesting concept and your story sounds fun. It reminds me of some cartoons I used to watch as a kid. I'll be sure to check it out when you publish it.


That said...


It seems like you started with 2 plot lines that converge, in which case, it would be more interesting if the protagonist trio was 100% oblivious to the bad guys' plan and then keep the rest of the story as it is. Because in your current script, they accidentally stopped the bad guys in ways that make their initial interaction irrelevant:

>However, the three friends accidentally get stuck into one of the puzzles and has to get out by breaking the entire system, which will eventually alert the staff, causing them to indirectly squander the bad guys plan.
>The security tries to subdue the three guys, so they try to escape security by just simply running away and constantly running into various objects, causing them to lead security into the location of the bad guys.
>As they finally meet up with the bad guys, The Bad guys mistake them for spies and tries to kill them out of frustration for ruining their decently thought out plan. A fight breaks out, with the Three guys narrowly escaping it.

The highlit points above suggest that the main trio and the bad guys never had an initial interaction. So simply getting rid of the initial interaction should make the story work without the need to change anything else, so instead of Fredd accidentally hearing the evil plan, use the scene of him leaving the toilet to introduce the evil guys' plan to the readers.


Example: Fredd ALMOST hears the plan, startling the bad guys with the flushing, leaves the toilet, then the bad guys introduce the plan to the readers and business goes on.

Maybe have the bad guy's plan narration being interrupted a few times by the main trio going to the toilet one by one, frustrating the bad guys and then having them pause for a short while to see if anybody else will show up... And then the moment they start talking again somebody shows up (did number 2, now want to do number 1 or forgot to wash hands, checking hair, etc.).


good luck there!


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