Ultimately I'm limited in my scope of this project, since I wouldn't be able to travel to any large cities to get a bigger sample of opinions. However, any direction would help me in my future monster designing endeavors.
By figuring out what traits make a monster scarier than others to a large group of people, I can design more terrifying monsters and hopefully enhance the feeling of danger in my webcomic. Once I've established which set of traits rank among the top most terrifying, I can pick and choose which traits I'll incorporate into which design. I'm not going to limit myself to solely these traits when drawing monsters. Each monster may have one or two of the scariest traits, but for the sake of variety I'd switch it up and keep things fresh for my readers. The monsters they should feel more threatened by might have more of these traits than less important monsters.
