| Dropping the anvil |
[Jan. 2nd, 2010|12:54 pm] |
Happy New Year Everybody!
I would love to say that one of my New Year resolutions would be a more frequent updating of this blog with news from the world of crossovers and cameos... unforttunately it ain's so, almost the opposite in fact... :(
But, there WILL be updated in 2010, as many as I can manage to get in, just can't say anything about how and when... Bear with me...
Now, one thing I can start with is a tricky little April's Fool joke from about a decade ago and brought to my attention by friendly submitter Corruption.
It took place in a College News Paper where 4 strips, of which 3 hit the net later on, played an April's Joke involving a falling anvil which went from the top strip to hit the character in the bottom... passing through two other strips on its way.
The whole story about the making of the original crossover is actually told here, and on the net the anvil's fall can be followed from Tonja Steele, through Jackie's Fridge to finally strike JoBeth.
The whole page as it originally showed up can be seen here |
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| Warning! |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|10:24 am] |
Fair warning too all visitors of the Webcomic Crossover & Cameo Archive, the Hub-pages for the Crossover Wars as well as the Halloween Cameo Caper Hubs, as well as all sites and subsites of www.dragoneers.com.
A adware script has found its way into each and every file of the sites, jumping to attention when visited.
The files should be easy to replace with offline-copies, but before the security breach has been found and closed, this is not doable since the script seems to be auto-updating.
I will be out of the house and country for the next couple of days, leaving when this window closes, so I don't have the time to do anything about the problem... for now.
So... stay away from all of the sites the time being, just in case.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
- L.P.Hogan |
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| Time Like Tiki Coladas |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|10:57 pm] |
After what seemed a very long crossover hiatus in the world webcomic, it now more or less seems like the draught has ended!
First we had the, still ongoing, Girls With Slingshots vs. Something Positive crossover, as mentioned in the previous blog, and now we have another one on the line... Times Like This at Tiki Coladas!
The two comics have been in contact before, like when Cassie and friends earlier for a couple of strips visited Tiki Coladas for a night of fun or when Nelson and Kat later showed up at Cassie's Halloween Party, effectively concreting the fact that Tiki Coladas, as far as seen from Times Like This's point of view, is an integrated part of the same webcomic "hub".
The fact that those two now joins up in a crossover leans credence to the fact! :)
Maybe the showing up of talking animals in TLT seems a little our of place in the normally "normal world"-orientated comic (not counting a previous Alien shopping trip), but the way this crossover is put together, it just seems... normal for the storyline... which makes it even the merrier to read.
Times Like This starts the crossover here and Tiki Coladas can be said to join in here with the landing of the flying beaver (no pun intended!) last seen passing by here!
So, grab a drink of your choice (it's on the house!) and prepare to follow a night through Time and Tiki Coladas! |
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| It started out... |
[Sep. 9th, 2009|10:19 pm] |
.. as a nod and grin to each others' storyline, and ended up with a crossover.
That's perhaps what you could say about the recent involvements of the webcomic of Something Positive and Girls with Slingshots.
It started out when Danielle Corsetto set two of her characters, Maureen and Jameson, to be married, and even set up an actual blog (as an extension of the blog set up incomic of the blogging characters) to celebrate it.
Now, something things are just too good to not follow up on, and soon Randy of S*P had Davan look up the blog, causing a little mischief, which was soon responded to by Danielle in a later strip, acknowledging the nod.
This is nothing new, artist have done these before, following up on each others storylines, having it evolve into a short mine-crossover even, like when Mulholland let Faye be present at Howards Robert E. Howards suicide. The appearance was acknowlegded by J. Jacques a few days later in this strip where Davan and Nancy stops by for coffee, and look! They still have the coffee cup!
Then there's not forgetting the time Hawk got rid of his crazy robot by sending it to Ethan at Ctrl+Alt+Del. Tim Buckley quickly caught the ball and answered with this strip.
Planned events or just something that was spawned in a fit of mischief, artists who independently grab the balls aired in one comic and carry on the torch, to send it back with renewed mirth? You decide... unless you know better already ;)
As for the GWS and S*P event then, no matter what the original cause, it spawned something more, bringing the two comics together at the wedding in a more or less true crossover, becoming evident by this strip, going up at the same time as this one, both following up on this one... and from then on, the mayhem of a webcomic wedding under a crossover sky, just keeps on rolling...
Did the initial "ball-play" spawn the idea of making an actual crossover, or was it planned already back then? I don't know, but enquiering minds would like to :)
The result however, speaks for itself... so go follow up on it while its taking place! |
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| Comic Gone, Cameos Lost |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|09:09 pm] |
It's been mentioned before, and its always a sad story... to see a comic disappear from the web, fall from sight, soon to fade from people's memories, all links to it going dead... including links to individual strips, very likely links put by artists towards cameos of their characters in said strips, showing their appreciation... no longer can they proudly show off..
When a comic disappears like that and its in the Archive, all links off course go dead with its appearance. In this case we try to close the link, still keeping the mentioning of the cameo/reference etc. intact...
However, in some cases we happen to get the original strips so we can upload them to the Archive's external "Orphanage" so the links can be redirected and the cameos be contained for posterity. Sometimes the strips happen to just be around, other times they have been contributed to the Archive by the artist himself after they'd been taking the comic off the net, but sometimes.... we have a strip on our hands which were not linked in the Archive prior to the comic's deletion, mostly not knowing where it came from!
One of such strips is from the long gone (as far as we know) webcomic of the Justinian Empire, and the strip is this one:
This leaves us with the problem... where to confirm the cameos appearing in the strip?
Off course, the same can happen with an online strip without any written reference on the site, but at least there's normally a way to contact the artist and ask for the confirmation... with lost comics like the Justinian Empire, there's not much contact information left to follow up on...
This leaves the option of asking the public for help, friends and forumgoers, webcomicreaders galore, most often those from the Dragonboard Forums, but also whereevner we find them, and sometimes it gets resuls we can add to the Archive :)
With the above shown strip in speaking, the following have so far been confirmed... anyone who can recognize the rest and help us out there? :)
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E’los’ from http://goodshipchronicles.com/swindex.php
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Rayne Summers from http://leasticoulddo.com/
Jin wicked from http://asylum.jinwicked.com/
Sasha and the Scrunchy http://www.altermeta.net/ |
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| Wanting cameos |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|07:58 pm] |
The fun of asking people to submit characters (and sometimes artists) for cameoing in one's comic is a game that can be played by everyone and all kinds of comics. Lately it was done by Ron of Magical Misfits who, as rumours go, were quite baffled by the responses and had to extend his Baby Shower storyline for weeks in order to properly include all who signed up.
The last I've heard of doing this is the more adult orientatetd comic of M. Organ Art (NSFW off course) who's running a storyline in which he asks for volunteers to appear and fill out the background of his beach settings... and swimsuits is an option!
If you would like to see your characters (or yourself for that matter) to appear in or without said swimsuits, contact M. Organ himself through Drunk Duck Quack or mail.
A row of previous submissions have already appeared here.
If there are others doing stunts like this these days I would like to hear about them.
Asking for cameos the reverse way is at the moment done by Xade, author of Insanity of Xade who kindly asks for appearances of characters Alexis and Jeff who's trip home from the Halloween Cameo Caper of 2008 is supposed to take them through several different worlds, or webcomics if you like :)
Apparently its a common occurence when Alexis uses her world travelling spells, something similar happened back in 2007 when they ended up in both Magical Misfits and Public Humiliation, which just proves the dangerous points of magical travel...
People who would like to give the two of them a brief appearance can contact Xade through her site or this thread. |
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| Blue Lotus Crossover |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|07:56 pm] |
It's been a while since I've made a post to this... not because of lack of material, but because real life decided to become a bitch and take me down with it... however, now I hope to be back to doing some spelunking into the world of cameos and crossovers!
First to look at is the Blue Lotus Crossover which I've only gotten to get to know for real lately... which is totally unfair since I got a note about it months ago when they were still looking for people to sign up for the crossover... Real Life strikes again (and don't blaim Greg Dean!)
Actually, I don't know if you can call the Blue Lotus storyline for an actual if not true crossover (as I refer to them in the Archive)... its more link a continually expanding storyline that sends its tendrils in many different directions at the same time, connecting several different webcomics to create the full story of the ways of Blue Lotus... but thats a mere details that shall not derive anyone from delve further into this multi-comic story and explore the strangeness and cooperation across webcomics for themselves!
It all begins in the comic of The Mighty Tubularman, and according to the Hub page, thats where its going to end soon after having included, among others, the webcomics of Maskerman, Failed Objective and The Apple of Discord.
So if you want to catch up and be there at the end, better get to the Hub and catch up on the travels and adventures of the Blue Lotus and associated!
When talking about multi-comic projects, another note has to be made to the now epic tale of the Crossoverlord. It's been going on for more than a year now, 50+ strips from the various artist taking part, and not so long ago a new player was added to the project for good... The Green Avenger as well as her artist Abby! Now 6 heroes have to face the machniations of the Smiling Man!
Green Avenger's appearance also heralded a return to her own webcomic which has started updating again after a year old hiatus... go Abby! :D |
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| Least I Can Do vs. Crossovers |
[Mar. 28th, 2009|10:45 pm] |
I guess, by now, most people in regular contact with webcomics will probably already seen or heard about this strip from the comic of Least I Could Do. As soon as it was out it created quite a ruckus, especially in the associated communities and forums with the lines glowing and the speculating and discussions raging... was LICD and the in the strip depicted comics, some of the most wellknown and established comics in the community, going to enter a mega-crossover in the near future?
Now, a couple of days and strips later, it seems to be clear that there's no crossover imminent, and indeed it would also have been one majestic undertaking if that would have been the case, dwarfing every previous known projects, especially in terms of readership!
Off course, Ryan Sohmer and Lar Desouza could have been planning to use the characters as extended cameos for a planned plotline, but idea now looks to be more in the direction of playing a parody on crossovers in general, "taking a piss" on them so to speak if you shall go by the initial front page and the following strips, especially this one, and though I personally don't agree with Rayne's statement with regard to crossovers, I think the coming strips will be worth reading, especially since Sohmer isn't exactly one to hold his mouth on a given subject, so it could be interesting to see his take on this as well as what kind of discussions it will spark... |
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| Sign up your characters for cameos! |
[Mar. 27th, 2009|08:51 pm] |
At some point during his or hers comic, the artists sometimes decides to bring a host of cameos into a storlyine for some reason or another, to be used as background chracters, temporary castmembers etc.
Usually the artist in speaking decides on showing off a group of characters from comics they want to pay homage to, but... other decide to send out an official call of "Hey! Sign up your characters and I'll include them in a upcoming storyline!" which opens up for a whole line of interesting opportunities... and challenges!
As compared to a cameoparty where the artist makes all the decisions regarding the cast, inviting people to submitting their own characters usually helps to generate even more focus on the webcomic and evnet in speaking as the words will spread out, and artists might end up showing up from afar to sign up their characters and keep an eye on the comic as long as the storyline runs, sometimes staying and keeping up even after the event has run its course...
However, this method also challenges the artists' skills to a greater degree as he/she cannot choose what characters to present, as fitting to their style, and are forces to honor their promise and show who signs up, no matter who sign up!
... off course, that can also be half the fun for the artist! :)
These days at least two comics are examples of the latter approach to cameo-appearances...
Artist Ron of Magical Misfits is these days holding a Shower Party for his character Dark Eyes who got pregnant with Brian from the comic of Drunken Scribblings during one of the many crossover events the two of them have taken part in during the last couple of years.
With such a history, what would be more natural than inviting a host of women from other comics, both those he wanted to show homage to, but also everyone else who wanted to show up? :D
From good sources I know enough to tell that the amount of feedback on the invitation totally surprised Ron, and he will, gratefully, have to work overtime on getting all featured in the Shower Party Storyline! Nonetheless, the invitation is still up, and in this moment of writing its still possible to sign up your chracters in MM's forum if you would like to see them featured.
The storyline starts here, and the cameos are arriving, bearing presents, as we speak :)
The other comic in speaking is David A. Davis' Cosmic Dash where David has hinted of an upcoming event of the Cosmic Dash Continuous Crossover Continuum in which he plans of showing off submitted characters in various roles of cameos, depending on how they fit in.... all characters will off course be adapted in art to the style of Cosmic Dash!
Not having started up yet, there's still time to sign up on this page if you want to take this unique opportunity to see your characters in another comic and another style! :)
Remember... you are not whoring out your comic of characters if you sign them up for something like this. If people ask its because they want them, and is there a better way than giving them what they ask for? |
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| Back in business again |
[Feb. 18th, 2009|09:38 pm] |
After a month of turmoil, it finally seems like the Archive, Forum and everything based on the original domain, has been put back together and functions again, the last part, the Report a Cameo/Reference/Crossover form coming together again this evening.
Thanks to everybody who has offered support as well as voiced concern, going as far as mailing and asking for my wellbeing because of the sudden lack of connection, be it forum or site-wise :)
The original hack forced me to get everything moved to another server, which again caused a lot of trouble and lacks in the various sites and codings, of which the most notable and sad was the loss of 9 months of posts on the Dragonboard Forums, on which both the Archive, the Crossover Wars and the various Halloween Capers are represented. The loss made the planning forum of the Halloween Cameo Caper 2008 look almost complete empty, a sorry show for all those who worked hard on planning and drawing their parts... fortunately their work are stored in the Caper's Hub, and though the plans for show are lost for posterity, they still have enough to work towards the ending of the Caper's plotline... which is still ongoing.
Also, despite the loss of forum-data, all cameos/references etc. submitted through there were also copied and stored externally and was therefore saved, and of the information that wasn't, faithful forumgoers helped dig it out from catches etc...
But, despite it all, the Archive and associated projects are back in business and, to all appearances, still going strong. The Archive itself can actually celebrate its 4 year anniversary this month of February.
4 years of tracking characters, and we are far from over... lost of new things are going to, hopefully, happen in the year to come, so thanks to everybody for your continuous help and support!
- Hogan |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 18th, 2009|09:24 pm] |
This was the only place to post this...
At the moment the Webcomic Crossover & Cameo Archive suffer from technical difficulties.
The site itself works and can be accessed without problems, but the Dragonboard forums associated with it are down, no access possible.
Furthemore, its not possible either to access and upload to any dragoneers-associated site, hence no updates are possible before this has been fixed...
We have yet to hear back form support on this as we cannot get any further from where we stand at the moment
We apologize for this inconveience.
- Hogan |
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| Webcomic Beacon: Cameos |
[Dec. 23rd, 2008|09:09 pm] |
10 episodes ago the subject was. among others, the Crossover Wars. One of the latest podcast-episodes of the WebcomicBeacon now goes more into depth about the topic of cameos as a whole.
Guest-staring were yours sincerely as well as noted Cameowhore #1, KAM from The KAMics.
Again it was interesting participating, though I personally fell out due to hardware/software failure for a good deal of it, then it became REALLY interesting...
Various topics cameowise where discussed briefly, some more in depth. Definations like "Crossovers" and "Extended Cameos" were brought up, and we hear what The KAMics is all about, as well as why KAM does what he does.
One can say that the Podcast was not as through as it could have been, the problem being lack of subjects or too many to actually get a broad coverage, but do give it a listen and hear for yourself. |
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| Back with more crossovers |
[Dec. 21st, 2008|01:13 pm] |
It's been a while since the last post in this blog, and I'm glad we never promised any regulary updates on it... still, there's a lot of subjects to cover, so here's to hoping for more updates in the year to come.
Now, bringing to attention an ungoing crossover which already from the start has been set to a limit of 6 updates for each comic. We are off course talking about the Fans/Penny & Aggie crossover, apparently set in what one would call an "alternate world story", meaning that it will for sure have no influence on the regular P&A storyline... what it will mean for Fans one can never know, but most likely very little since this looks to be the brainchild of T. Campbell, writer of both strips, mainly with the purpose of trying out a story with both of his comics at the same time. And as all the strips are drawn by Gisele Lagace , that seems most likely.
This is were it all starts at Penny & Aggie, and here at Fans, but all the strips are posted on both sites, so you only have to read one comic to follow up.
Another crossover worth mentioning, is the still ongoing Blade of Toshubi / P.S.I. crossover, the remaining part of the Halloween Cameo Caper 2008. Actually, you should call it a triple-crossover, since The KAMics earlier on crossed over with both P.S.I. and Blade of Toshubi, creating a longer centered story throughout the Caper and its zombiehaunted Mall.
All strips can be seen at the Caper's Hub site, but each comic has taken to post the other posting the other comics strips on their site, so you will not miss out on anything if you only read one comic.
The story can be said to mainly focus on Toshubi and Advisor Toh and their encounters with the other characters in the Mall besieged by zombies (and a lot of other action takes place in the other comics participating in the Caper). The story has so far shown a lot of great scenes and gimmicks thats a true Zombie-horror movie worthy, sometimes even better since I cannot remember having seen the rake-trick being used anywhere else! :) |
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| When crossovers break up |
[Sep. 20th, 2008|01:11 pm] |
One of the great things about two webcomics doing a crossover is that you, when reading the crossing over storyline, comes into contact with two different comics as well as their respectice artistic angles on the various character, as the artist joins forces to pull this stunt through.
One of the worst things about webcomic crossovers though, is what happens when one of the involved comics suddenly drop off the net or removes its archives, then the other comic suddenly stands with a broken storyline which probably doesn't make any sense, or only make half the sense it was supposed to make during the crossover.
One of these cases could have been about the comic of Bobbins. Years ago Bobbins participated in a series of crossovers, notably with the comic of Goats which participated in two (rumored to be three but I haven't been able to confirm this so far) crossovers back in 99 and 02, but also with Superosity and Waiting For Bob.
Now, as I was adding some of those crossvers to the Archive, I quickly noticed that the original referred site during the crossovers of Bobbins.org, didn't hold the strips any more! There was no sign here of the original Bobbins webcomic. That meant the the 4 recorded crossovers was suddenly left orpaned as the significant other Bobbins-parts were missing.
Fortunately I discovered that the default Bobbins-site of Keenspot was still working, so with a little work I can now keep the references on the Archive up to date.
However, this still leaves the references from 3 other comics which participated in the crossovers, dead, and what if Bobbins had gone for real?
This is unfortunately what happens once in a while on the internet, and there are ways to get around it, or at least gather up the broken pieces.
One of the easy ways requires the artist of a comic which have participated in crossover to keep a frequent eye on the other part of crossovers as the years go by. If the other part changes site and/or linking method, he has to step in and change the links in his comic that corresponds with the crossover-strips in the other comic, keeping the flow of the crossover intact. This off course requires some effort on the artists side, and if he stops concentrating on and updating the comic at one point, the crossover will be left broken.
This off course only works if the comic stays on the net, but what if it suddenly drops completely off the net, archives are removed and the artist is impossible to get a hold on?
One of the things one should do if participating in crossovers with other comics, is to always save a copy of your partner-in-crimes corresponding strips for safe keeping, just in case. Do remember to notify him that you are doing so, although this should probably be no problem for him.
Doing this you can now, if his comic one day dissappear, upload his strips to your own site, add them to the pages they correspond with, and remove the now dead links to the defunct site, like Zortic did back when the Melonpool archives were removed due to the characters resetting the history (they were later restored), or like College Roomies From Hell did back during the crossover with Fans (though it had, at that time, more to do with Fans being a pay-per-view site, baring a lot of CRFH-readers access).
In both cases the crossovers were served for the readers and posterity.
Off course, it all requires some work and effort on the involved authors side, but personally I think its worth it to keep a storyline intact.
At a later turn I plan on taking up the different ways to run a crossover... |
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| Podcasting crossovers |
[Sep. 19th, 2008|09:12 pm] |
If you are into podcasts, I would like you draw your attention to this weeks WebcomicBeacon, just gotten online. The topic of the day is crossovers, but ended up being mostly about the Crossover Wars of 2007 and had guestings of former favorite CW participants Aggie, Reinder, Fesworks, of course, as well as yours sincerely... the latter highly accented and close to being uncomprehendable...
It was interesting participating, and we did get around to cover some of the issues around the Crossover Wars. What went wrong, what did we learn and gain, who had the most fun and off course... how did it all got started...
When I think back I feel that the talkings should perhaps taken another direction. We hardly got to cover the broad spectrum of the dynamics behind crossovers and most of the movements of the Crossover Wars. A little more structure could perhaps have given more insight into the mechanics at work. There's still much to exploit in this subject, but still I think we got around to cover a couple of the possible subjects.
Rumors are that there will come another episode in the future concerning the use of cameos and their like, and personally I would like to see something about crossovers in general come up again as the Wars took the spotlight in this session.
If anyone still have unanswered questions about the Crossover Wars, then there's always the Forum of the Wars. |
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| Cross-dimensional cameo & crossovers |
[Sep. 6th, 2008|10:27 pm] |
One of the ways one can use to show off cameos and in comics that usually would not have the chance, probably due to world-design, campaign, setup and artists integrity, is to take the characters on a dimensional travel, visiting several comics along the way, meeting characters they would not be able to at home... its quite legal, everyone knows that whatever lives in other dimensions has no influence on the rules of the comics homeworld! :)
Off course, if the characters are WCA (WebComicAware), they don't visit worlds, but actual comics... its all just in the way you see it...
One of the artists who's undertaken such a trip is Al Schroeder's Mindmistress who used her catwalk to visti and walk by a multitude of other worlds while going from place to place back in the Horrible Thoughts storyline.
Off course, none can compete with the multi-comic-jumping spree that the 4 escaping characters from Damonk's Framed!!! took back in 2001 during the Great Escape... its legendary, and though the Archive HAS started the tracking, there's still a lot of work to do... hopefully more on that later.
What brought up this subject is my recent ending of the tracking of a world-jump trip the crew of Insanity of Xade took almost a year ago, but due to some delay and the Archive of one othe involved comics just recently having been brought in order, I didn't get around to do it before now...
Having been stranded in another world (the comic of Attach This after a recent crossover), Alex and Invisicat get help from Alexis to travel the dimensions home... which brings them first to Magical Misfits, and from there to Public Humiliation before returning home.
A little trip that turned out to become two crossovers and could have become even longer if not Xade (the artist), for various reason, had to cut it short, so therefore the crew's appearences in Drunken Scribblings and The KAMics (which ran a crossover of their own) had to be counted as cameos. |
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| The cameo that disappeared |
[Aug. 23rd, 2008|11:31 am] |
When I recently worked on updating the links to cameos in the recently restarted comic of Fans (when comic change hosting, strips usually change adress and filename too which gives me a lot of work reestating the links in the Archive), I suddenly came about an interesting little detail...
Under Fan's entry in the Archive, this strip was until note noted as having a cameo of Graveyeard Greg from the comic of Gaming Guardians, and when I was just about to update with the new link to the strip, I suddenly noticed... just where IS Graveyard Greg?
Though it has been years, aprox., since this cameo was added to the Archive, we are not in the habit of noting cameos where none should have been, so what had happened to Greg?
Fortunately I was in possession of an offline Archive of some of the Fans strips, and by sheer luck the strip in question was among them, and look... Greg, along with another unrecognized and possible cameo, WERE originally present, but both have obviously been removed later on!?
What can have caused this retcon of a strip? It's tricky to say, and personally I have not encountered anything similar... yet. There has been lots of cases of cameo-lined strips being completely removed, usually because they were fanart, guest-strips, fillers etc. and messed up with the continuity of reading a strip, but cameos being removed from a strip?
My guess is that T. Campell and Jason Waltrip decided that the cameos present in this strip, probably added in a whimsy moment of fun in the first case, messed up the introduction of what was supposed to be the major future cast, and was therefore removed as an afterthough, perhaps around the time the site itself was moved, revampend and the strip started up again?
Only two people probably know the real reason, but we may deal with the one of the first case of Cameo Afterthought where somebody realizes that the placing of a cameo was perhaps not the good idea it sounded like at the moment of crime?
How will this affect the Archive? Well, as the strip is up and legal, though now lacking the recorded cameo, the link may or may not be removed from the Archive. If the strip has been completely removed, and since we had the original strip at hand, the link would have been changed to an Internal Link and the strip uploaded in the Archive as has been done before with other strips. Perhaps the latter will be done, with the original strip uploaded as an alternative strip & link?
This requires a little thinking as its the first case of this happening, but will set the mark for the future... |
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| Parallel Dementia vs. Emergency Exit, take #2 |
[Aug. 1st, 2008|08:55 pm] |
This is your friendly neighbourhood Cameotracker reporting straight from his vacation hide-out with this news-flash... Parallel Dementia and Emergency Exit are at it again!
Just about a year ago those two comics ended what turned out to be the so far longest and most strip-spanning crossover ever in webcomic history, and as of this week they are both doing it again, bringing their worlds together in a new, though perhaps, shorter crossover.
Due to a fit of boredom, everyone's favorite oddball of EE, Eddie, travels the worlds by cupboard portal to visit Templar Fall of Parallel Dementia, a comrade in arms from the first crossover, much to her surprise. What will happen between those two in the weeks and months to come? Nobody can say, but last time NJ and Bean skillfully merged their worlds to affect each other for the future, and I have no doubt this minor (?) unannounced (except for a certain limited print offer...) crossover will leave its mark on at least one of the comics, so stay tuned!!
On other happenings on the crossover front, there's an ongoing one between the comics of Life/Death and Deadpill, making use of the latest trend of single out the crossovers from the continuity of both comics and host it seperately. The crossover is title LIFEpill and it deserved a checking out...
On the not of the seperately hosted crossovers, what promises to be the hithero largest of its kind, The Crossoverlord, is still going strong and will all the characters now gathered, so if you haven't checked it out yet, this will be an excellent time to do so. |
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| The Justice League of Extraordinary Me! |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|10:36 pm] |
When facing off against one who has managed to capture Lucifer, take over Hell and wants to get rid of God, you know you need more than just luck and good wishes... EVEN if you are the new messiah around.
So, when main character Claude of Reckless Youth arrives to the faceoff, he has off course brought reinforcement, and here we are not talking about the regular inhabitants of his own comic... but instead of Claude bringing, as done many times before in other webcomics, just a League of Extraordinary Characters from other comics (something he could actually not do since he alone was the one who could enter hell the way he did)... artist Claude takes it one step further and brings, in his character Claude's own words, a League of Extraordinary Me!
What Claude brings is a bunch of himself, a bunch of artist TC Claudes (since character Claude is based on the artist himself) AS HE HAS APPEARED IN CAMEOS IN OTHER COMICS!
Yep, thats right, for what I think is the first time in webcomic history, we deal with a bunch of cameos of cameos of an artist from other comics!
... now we only have to add timetravelling, and this will be REALLY confusing...
So... to help RY Claude along we got (with thanks to Bean of Parallel Dementia), Elf Claude of Elvenbaath, Captain Claude of Parallel Dementia, Minister Claude of Angry D. Monkey, Soldier Claude of Darken, Pirate Claude of Emergency Exit and Hockey Manager Claude of Burgundy Comics, INC !
It's far from a complete list of Artist Claude's cameos, but we know where we can see that list, right?
What can I say? Its and extraordinary bunch of cameos and an extraordinary breaking idea... I just hope it won't start a new trend, because I can see I will have an upcoming headache with trying to figure out how to add these to the Archive!
Hat is off to Claude for this breath of fresh air in the business :-) |
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| Doing a Crossover as a new comic |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|08:59 pm] |
Listening to the talk around the corners of the Webcomic Areas, there's no doubt about the fact that many artists, despite the trouble and hard work it will bring, would like to try a crossover between their comic and another webcomic...
However, the problems one face when hoping to do a crossover, when we look away from the trouble of finding a fitting comic to do the crossover with, are usually the following:
1) How to fit the crossover into the continuity of both comics
2) How not to alienate readers who don't like crossovers
3) Maintaining the update schedule for both comics during the crossover
Lately some people have tried finding a way out of this, by simply not including the original comics in the crossover, but establishing a whole new comic, solely for the purpose of showing the crossover between the characters of the various participating comics.
The gain is like this:
1) You don't mess with continuity as the crossover take place alongside the usual updates of the comic. How, when and if the crossover shall be fitted into the continuity can be solved later.... many will probably opt to keep, the crossover as none-canon, not bringing it into the mainstream comic in any way.
2) Readers who does not like crossovers, can simply keep away from reading the seperate comic and concentrate on the crossover-free mainstream comic.
3) Unless the artists have, for some reason, a set date the comic has to be ended, it should not be a problem when one strip is delayed, the whole comic is just postponed the needed amount of time until the strips are shown in the proper continuity... however, not taking into account the effect a delay will have on the readership.
The latest Crossovers making use of this new method is the Energize/Dasien (ongoing) and the Lessons a Crossover for ACTD and Xolta (NSFW) (ended), and just having started last week is the major multicomic crossover between some of the greatest superhero webcomics of the internet, namely The Crossoverlord!
With the possibilities of this new method getting clearer and clearer, I think we will see a lot more of this off-site crossovers in the near future. |
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