it was more of me trying to see if people like that stuff. i kinda don't read many webcomics that often (usually am caught reading months worth at once) so i don't know what is really out there that works and what doesn't. i was just curious if that was a common thing, where they would put funny in a serious plot-driven comic. it's just that my old stuff was just one-bit jokes every week. there was no character development, no storyline. just the same characters each week but i never told anything about them. i'm trying something different and i don't know if it would work or not. but seeing the general confusion discussion of me asking, i guess i'll try it.
and i have started. i got 6 pages of the comic already written. my gf is gonna go through and edit them for me so they sound better but i'm hoping to have a bunch written before i start drawing. it should be good.
I don't know what kind of comics you read, but if you catch up by reading big chunks of archive at a time then that hints at more plot-driven stuff and you're waiting for 'chapters' to accumulate.
From my own experience, I go mostly for comedy with a kind of gentle meandering story more-or-less in the background, and that works for me. I recently outed one (well, two) of my feline characters as gay (Keno and Murphy are the names), and played it for laughs. I had hinted at it years ago when they were stuck up a tree and I put in some shy flirting, then last year when I wasn't doing much with the plot I did a strip which was basically a love poem from one character to the other. Recently Murphy accidentally outed Keno to his father (Neko). Neko thinks it's the best scam ever (as no kittens=no neutering in his mind). Murphy took offence at the idea that being gay is a scam, and then it devolved into a conversation about buttsex. I actually got a few e-mails from gay readers who loved that little arc, but it wouldn't have worked if I hadn't set up the Keno-Murphy relationship in advance before revealing what readers had suspected for years (making the readers want it to be the case), and if Neko hadn't been established as a narcissistic jerk so his bemused reaction would be authentic.
You don't have to draw such clear lines between comedy, plot, and character development. People say funny things in conversation all the time, sometimes especially during tense situations, and a conversation doesn't have to be taken equally as seriously by all parties involved.
Time-honoured advice: Try and write a comic that you yourself would want to read. You seem happy (excited, even) with the scripts you have written, and that's a good place to be. Try reading Gibson's writing tutorials for advice on planning if you're worried about where you're going with this thing. Other than that just trust your instincts.
