Hello,
I subscribe to Jay042's Gwenna and through the various cross-overs already published, I discovered "Grinders", "Cryptida" and its spin-offs, as well as the various "Let it Ride" novels. Unfortunately, there are so many pages in these stories, I have been unable to follow the different characters' histories and how they interact. As an example, in Jay's latest page, we see Morag cloning Karen Schibel but I have no idea who she might be.
I understand that it would be a lot of work but for new readers especially, would it be possible to create a "cross-over" cast page similar to Grace Crawley's "Magellan" cast page => http://magellanverse.com/cast/ ?
Sounds like someone needs to make a "LIR-verse Wiki".
Add in "Autumn Bay" and your list of other comics nears completion. Then there's "Now Hiring" and others...
I’ll grant you that I’m overdue with updating my cast page, including links to others’ cast pages.
However, I won’t be including anyone who 1) doesn’t appear in this comic or 2) doesn’t have a significant role. And as far as my stuff showing up in others’ works, sometimes an Easter egg is an Easter egg. Nobody is under an obligation to show you the rabbit hole and you certainly aren’t required to dive down it.
@ sigpig:
I swear, if I had Hermione Granger's time-turner (or any other fictional device that allows you to stretch out your time available per day), that "someone" would be me...
@ lirvilas:
A cast page with links to other cast pages sounds indeed very useful!
@ Cor:
A Wiki as envisioned by sigpig may not exist (yet...?). However, there are projects that go at least a bit in that direction:
- Stilldown created a large crossover compendium in PDF format.
- An Jay042 recently pointed out the Kaza's Mate Gwenna section in the ComicFury wiki (where at least a few of the crossover connections cropped up already).
BTW, some years ago, I used to contribute a lot to a fan wiki of another (non-ComicFury) webcomic-verse, so I know first hand how time consuming that can be.
(At least if one does it like me and immediately jumps into a meticulous cross-comic hunt for reference links - I mean, you know how I just can't restrain myself from doing that!)
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I subscribe to Jay042's Gwenna and through the various cross-overs already published, I discovered "Grinders", "Cryptida" and its spin-offs, as well as the various "Let it Ride" novels. Unfortunately, there are so many pages in these stories, I have been unable to follow the different characters' histories and how they interact. As an example, in Jay's latest page, we see Morag cloning Karen Schibel but I have no idea who she might be.
I understand that it would be a lot of work but for new readers especially, would it be possible to create a "cross-over" cast page similar to Grace Crawley's "Magellan" cast page => http://magellanverse.com/cast/ ?
Add in "Autumn Bay" and your list of other comics nears completion. Then there's "Now Hiring" and others...
However, I won’t be including anyone who 1) doesn’t appear in this comic or 2) doesn’t have a significant role. And as far as my stuff showing up in others’ works, sometimes an Easter egg is an Easter egg. Nobody is under an obligation to show you the rabbit hole and you certainly aren’t required to dive down it.
I swear, if I had Hermione Granger's time-turner (or any other fictional device that allows you to stretch out your time available per day), that "someone" would be me...
@ lirvilas:
A cast page with links to other cast pages sounds indeed very useful!
@ Cor:
A Wiki as envisioned by sigpig may not exist (yet...?). However, there are projects that go at least a bit in that direction:
- Stilldown created a large crossover compendium in PDF format.
- An Jay042 recently pointed out the Kaza's Mate Gwenna section in the ComicFury wiki (where at least a few of the crossover connections cropped up already).
I will never make a Wiki. I'm a storyteller, not an archivist, and I get little satisfaction from such distractions.
EDIT: which is not to say I don't approve of such efforts, I just don't have the copious time or abundant energy required
(At least if one does it like me and immediately jumps into a meticulous cross-comic hunt for reference links - I mean, you know how I just can't restrain myself from doing that!)