Question of the Week - Favorite Genre in Storytelling and Why?

I find I tend to prefer dark fantasy on the whole, but I'm always down for a good cheesy romance, no matter the orientation or combination. So long as there are good stakes! 

I tend to stay away from mysteries though. Maybe I just haven't found the right one yet, but the only comic I can safely say I've enjoyed while also being a mystery was (and y'all can call me basic for this) Death Note. But I'm also just a sucker for Takeshi Obata's artwork lmao If it's a 'mystery', I tend to prefer it when it has some psychological thriller mixed in. 

No matter the genre though, if you throw in time travelling, you'll have my attention ;) 

Romance, comedy, sometimes action and lice of life

Sci-Fi and time travel -- the reason is because science :) It's so much fun to read stories that have really thought through a lot of the crazier aspects of multi-timeline theory!

I like to read and write horror. It's the main genre I've indulged since chidhood, and whenever I work with other genres, I almost always combine it with horror. 

Romance? Horror Romance (or at least paranormal romances). 
Comedy? Horror Comedy.
Slice of Life? Let's add some ghosts in there. 
Thrillers? Crime? -- Better add some monsters and demons in there. 

Right now, I'm currently writing for cosmic horror romance. It's not entirely niche (more of a subgenre within monster romance), but there's not much content out there for it. So I'm kinda doing my best to change that. 

Thanks! I just really like exploring with horror and seeing how much I can create with it. I've dived a little bit into Gothnic Horror, but never really got a chance to get more depth. 

Mystery and detective stories, no doubt.

I had a small interest in early high school with the Hardy Boys Casefiles books. Then I read the first volume of Case Closed in my college library and I haven't looked back since. I love the game-like nature of the genre, with who-dun-its being the most prominent subgenre. I wanted to write mystery comics, because I feel there's still potential for this genre to be used in comics like using artistic sleight-of-hand to hide clues in plain sight of the artwork.

I don't care where a story takes place; but add a detective and a good mystery, and I'm ALL over it!

Scifi scifi scifi scifi omg omg scifi ... and maybe timetravel becuz soooo good

I guess when put in general terms, Fantasy, but usually I think of its many subgenres too as well as a Post-Apocalypse story. What can really hook me in is the world-building that happens within the story. Good world-building always sets my imagination in motion. For example, Stand Still Stay Silent; it's mainly set in Scandinavia 90 years after the brunt of a horrific pandemic and you get bits and pieces of info of the creatures spawned from the pandemic and the various protocols. So of course I end up theorizing how other countries outside of the known world of Scandinavia are surviving.

Everyone is into scifi in here :D ! I love scifi too, my favorites are AKIRA by Otomo, L'Incal by Moebius and Blame! by Nihei.

But when I write I tend towards detective stuff. I think it is because I read so many detective story. I love the noir tropes

I gotta say my favorite genre is Urban Fantasy. Anything where a typical, bland setting is made a little more fantastical is right up my alley. Sci-Fi is a close second; although, I'd say the only difference between sci-fi and fantasy is the sound effects lol.