User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-4867780-20141127015300/@comment-5265497-20141129102527

Well, wouldn't you say that the concept of god and the associated divinity and supernatural is the first official fiction? Anybody would feel at ease with the comfortable thought of an omnipotent being coddling you through your life dispatching his angelic agents for your supernatural support with death being the entrance into a heavenly kingdom.

And the first official fiction that was genuinely publicly recognized as fiction were didactic parallels from the experiences of the writer written in the form of poetry; philosophical representations ingeniously embedded within the rhetoric of a narrative inscribed in ancient text; enlightening truths discovered by the writer told through the exaggerated yet analogous experiences of a character that the author vicariously lives through as visually demonstrated in the plays.

To be honest, fiction generally became progressively more avant-garde and fantastic through the generations capitalized by a need for supernatural abilities to be catalogued in the present day. :)

But I agree that Minus as a rarity is an awesome conception, but if there were just a few more types of fiction with that motif, the whole genre would stale fairly quickly. Let's be honest here, most readers expect a bit of mystery, suspense, action, unpredictability, development, and sensical plot progression throughout the story as a whole to leave with feelings of discovery, enlightenment, and satisfaction. Not just the snap of a finger solving the entire plot in 2.5 seconds or a story that doesn't have a plot. That's also why Minus as a comic series usually has less than 10 panels.