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How Not To Kill Off A Character #6

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Contributed by Charles Smith of

Charles says:

Aside from the obvious fact that the character is killed by a giant
floating disembodied head as a plot device, there is handwritten internet
lingo which I didn't think existed until I saw it for myself.


mcDuffies says:

Killing a main character just to replace it for a hot babe – I think a new bottom is reached in department of poor plot devices.
It’s an opportunity to think about motives of happenings in a comic. When something is too obviously motivated by artist’s need, it spoils a comic a whole lot, adds on a feeling of fakeness. Here, artist isn’t even hiding the fact that the character is killed just so he could be replaced with a character that is more likely to attract audience (and, after all, gives artist a more pleasure in drawing).
Imagine a scene of two characters rushing in bed to have sex, just so artist would have an opportunity to draw sex. Meanwhile, readers don’t feel that characters really want or need to have sex, that is, they act like soulless dolls in hands of artist. Artist should put more effort in motivating character’s actions by their own needs, and everything should be fine.