cameotracker (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cameotracker) wrote,@ 2008-08-23 11:31:00 |
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The cameo that disappeared
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...
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...
