Designated Survey 01: What are your priorities for art, character and costume in comics?
There’s a lot of assumptions in comic book fandom about what’s important, what other people like, who reads what and what priorities people put on different factors.
Me? I like a little bit of numbers with my speculation. So with that in mind, I’d like to introduce to you all…
This debut issue of the Designated Survey is asking you to put some preferences down on what you want in a comic book, what’s important in comic book characters, and what makes a superhero outfit more than just a fancy dress costume?
Plus a couple of questions of what really matters when it comes to parting with money for four colour stories.
Links for spreading the survey around the place after the cut.
For those of you who wish to pass the survey around, copy and paste the link
<a href=”http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KCIFMtLdVxiG8wEWShFTCw_3d_3d”>
<img src=”http://www.girl-wonder.org/designatedsidekick/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/designatedsurvey.jpg” alt=”Designated Survey” /></a>
or
<a href=”http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KCIFMtLdVxiG8wEWShFTCw_3d_3d”>Click Here to take the Designated Sidekick Designated Survey</a>
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Pingback by Designated Survey 01: What are your priorities for art, character … — September 8, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Took the survey. It is awesome blossom
Comment by Benel — September 9, 2007 @ 5:26 am
Hi DS,
I wanted to let you know that I tried to take this survey but couldn’t get the first question to work. I clicked the box but nothing happened. Was I doing something wrong or is there a mistake in the formatting or something?
Comment by Lia — September 9, 2007 @ 5:47 am
UNDERPANTS ON THE OUTSIDE, STEVEN. THIS IS CRUCIAL.
Comment by Betty — September 9, 2007 @ 8:59 am
Awesome survey!
Also, I would totally buy a comic in which you can see a male characters’ penis through his costume, simply because, dude! How often does that happen?
Comment by Jessica — September 9, 2007 @ 10:11 am
Please, no more hyper-sensitive female characters with insecurity issues.
Comment by Nikkie — September 9, 2007 @ 10:44 am
I’m a little confused by how to answer the “important vs. non-important” questions on page three. Mainly, the definition of important in this context. Does non-important mean it’s something I DON’T want? Or does it mean I just don’t care one way or the other?
EG, existence of non-realistic, magic based superpowers: I will neither seek out nor reject a comic based on their presence. It simply doesn’t matter that much to me. So should I put “not important?”
Warrior characters in stupid useless armour? That bugs me. At worst, it can throw me out of the reading experience. So to me, this is an important issue. It’s important that it NOT be included. Do I answer this as “Not important,” as in, “this is not something that I value and seek out,” or “important,” as in “This is something that I will think a lot about and possible contribute to my decision not to purchase your product?”
If you’d clear that up for me, it would help. Thanks!
Dani
Comment by Dani Atkinson — September 10, 2007 @ 2:42 am
@Dani
In the context of the questions, where you’d agree with the statement and want to see more of the same, you’d say it was “Important” and where you’d be disagreeing with the statement or not wanting to see more, it’s “Not important”.
Same for not-important. If the physics or the magic don’t matter, it don’t matter, and it’s not important.
Comment by Designated Sidekick — September 10, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
@Lia - Either i was messing with the backend of the survey, or you were missing inputs on a couple of the compulsory questions. Want to try it again?
@Betty: Votes are for underwear, and underwear on the inside.
@Jessica: Everytime Alex Ross gets past the censors?
Comment by Designated Sidekick — September 10, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
Interesting survey–I, too, was initially confused about the important/not important. More accurate information could be gained if I had the option to say that it was important that it not be there vs. didn’t impact me at all. Also, some of the questions read as ‘are you a jerk, or do you agree with me?’ esp. at the end with the good story/nudity, etc questions. I fell on the side of agreement, but I don’t feel like I, personally, would get much out of the results of this survey because it is so black and white in many places.
Still, interesting exercise, and I enjoy the blog. Keep it coming and all that.
Comment by Kay — September 11, 2007 @ 4:52 am
@Kay
It’s one of the interesting challenges of market research - the force choice where you can only have one - (processor speed or memory capacity) (sugar or sweetner). The reason the question is framed as such, is that I’ve seen and heard so many people declare it a binary, that I thought, well, let’s test that binary.
Comment by Stephen Dann — September 11, 2007 @ 11:23 am