Template:PldFancomics

The green puzzle piece to the left represents an infobox: a small table containing the most important information about the comic you're writing about. Hover over the symbol, then click on "edit" in the form that pops open, and fill in the fields. Only the fields relevant to the comic in question should be filled (e.g. no "based on" if the comic is not based on anything in particular). If the comic has a title page or logo, that logo can be added as an image.

This is where the lead section goes. It should only contain the comic's title, creator(s), and a very short summary of what the story is about (no more than two or three sentences). Other important information, like the publication date, should be left to the infobox.

Style
This section is optional. It is intended for observations about the comic's presentation and structure, like its narrative perspective, typographical pecularities, and drawing style.

Summary
This section is mandatory. It must contain a summary of the primary events that happen over the course of the comic's story. It should be detailed enough to give a reader with no prior knowledge of the story an idea of what happens in it, without getting bogged down by too many details that would overwhelm a reader.

For completed comics, please summarize at least the premise, major developments, and the ending of the story if you can't fill in the details until later. It is not necessary to write one paragraph (or more) per page, particularly if the pages have very few panels; sometimes a single sentence is sufficient to summarize all the important events that happen on a page, or even on several pages.

Note that the summary should be written in the historic present tense; for instance: "While Pony X is investigating the sounds coming from the basement, a butterfly lands on the windowsill". The plot should be described from the perspective of a reader, not the perspective of the characters.

For unfinished works, the summary should also only reflect pages that have already been published. Please avoid "book blurb"-like phrases like rhetorical questions whose only purpose is to get readers interested in the comic. Please use your own words as much as possible and do not copy the story description from another website.

You can add excerpts from the comic to complement the summary, but no more than one image per every two or three paragraphs.

Characters
If the story features original characters who do not appear in the show, they can be written about here. Any description of such a character should be brief, to-the-point, and focus on how the character is relevant to the story's plot. This also applies to characters from the show whose personalities are very different from what a reader might expect.

This section should not contain just a list of characters who feature in the story and nothing else. Instead, it ought to complement the previous section: where the summary contains a broad-strokes overview over the comic's plot, the character section should track the development arcs of individual characters. Comics with few characters or little to no character development generally don't need a separate "Character" section.

Reception
Comics that are very popular often garner derivative works of their own, like sequels, other stories using the same characters, fan art, music, translations, fanfic adaptations. Specific examples can be listed and linked to here.