Grrl Power #800 – Give me sight beyond smells
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So Specs puts the Predator to shame with all her vision modes. She actually puts Batman’s Detective mode to shame as well. I’m sure she has some vision mode that looks like shitty movie monster vision or the Terminator, but she probably doesn’t use them all that much. It’s no wonder she’s in Arc-LIGHT.
Of course, if the first power she manifested when she was younger was the Zim Germ Vision one, she might have freaked out a little. Also walking around, being able to see into the UV spectrum and looking at everyone’s subdermal freckles might either make a person really fastidious about skin care, or make them just give up.
I’m not sure what exactly Specs is looking at there in her detective vision. I assume it’s a chemical, like the pheromones that Pixel is sniffing out. Pixel just lost the trail because she was too short to sniff out the trail going up the wall. She would have found it eventually.
Oh, and I should mention, for those of you who don’t recall from 371 pages ago, Specs is another Patreon funded cameo character.
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Oh, hey! I remembered Specs, but I had no idea before DaveB edited his Author’s Notes that she was a Patreon cameo. Now I’m wondering who else is one… aside from Tamatha and the unnamed demon hunter, the only other Patreon cameo I recall off the top of my head is Aurelius Shrapnel. There are probably others I know are Patreon-sourced but just don’t recall off the top of my head…
Three that spring to mind are ‘Halo Light’, the super speed knife fighter and Archon’s tailor with the ninja henchmen. Of which my problematic memory for names means the only one whose actual name I recall is the last, namely “Iron Cloth”.
You are forgetting that Aussie, Glow Bug (who thought it a good idea to dry off while still sitting in a puddle of water :P)
‘Budget Halo’ was called ‘Hex’, if the speedster was not called ‘Mac’, will be very disappointed in the lost opportunity (high flight speed is measured in ‘Mach’s’, and the classic song “Mack the Knife”)
Actually, Aurelius wasn’t a cameo.
Here’s a list so far:
Dr. Frost
Ashley – the fabri-kinetic
Hex – (Halo light, as mentioned, from the restaurant battle)
Lightning Bug (also from the battle)
Breakpoint – Sonic caster and strongarm from restaurant battle
Specs
Mach the Knife
Thomas – Crimson and Scarlett’s bloodbag
Tamatha
Deus’s Celtic Merc guy who now works as security at Halo’s comic store.
Something some thing said has me wondering: how much ‘control’ do you have over the cameos? Do you run ideas by the creator slash owner before you, say, feed them to rabid guinea pigs? The cameo character, not the creator, fairly sure feeding a real person to guinea pigs (rabid or otherwise) would be against the Jennifer Convention or something
I can say with complete confidence that I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen. To Tamatha, or anything else.
Basically I get the character info from the person and just run with it. So far I haven’t had any complaints – though admittedly Tamatha has gotten a bit more screen time than other cameos so I could see someone being a little grumpy about that, but once someone is in the Grrl-verse canon they’re likely to show up again.
Butt you won’t do something that the character can’t or won’t do, right?
Obviously, it’s too late for these words of wisdom but, when offering or asking for a character of your own design to have a cameo in another’s work you give up creative control. Anything else simply doesn’t work.
Honestly, Dave is playing with fire letting these cameos have any bering on the plot at all. I’ve seen projects completely derailed by fighting between creators in such situations. Creator A adds characters created by Creator B to C-A’s work and then C-B tries to exert creative control over how that character is used in the work leading to a great deal of strife.
The best policy I’ve seen is for those in Creator A’s position to make it completely explicit that any content shared for use in their work is theirs to do with as they please. That way, if any creators want to retain creative control know not to offer their creations for use to begin with. What I see most commonly, however, is for characters or references to get very small trivial one-shot appearances, rarely more than a single panel in a comic like this. That way only the most spiteful of individuals could become a problem for the creator.
I would hope that the process of creating the cameo character would include a bit about any alignments/preferences they hold, particularly any that should be given extra weight because they’re important to their portrayal elsewhere. Probably with separate consideration for out-of-character preferences; the sort of thing that the author wouldn’t subject their character to and would appreciate if no other author did either.
Reading that list, I’m actually impressed at how well these characters have been integrated – I wouldn’t have been able to pick them out from some of the other secondary characters, either by look or screen time.
i wonder if you can do a cameo from the Tabitha Trilogy, i.e, Tabitha Sky Queen
Woodwick candles.
I guess somebody decided to combine fireplace logs with scented candles.
I only just met her but I hopes that tiny succubus manages to get out of this mess, too cute to just be torn up by a psycopathic slayer.
I’m confident that Sydney will be instrumental in her rescue.
Specs in panel 3 reminds me of Chloe from Life Is Strange (which is rather awesome as I loved her).