Normally I would call out Annora’s player on this; you can’t claim that a movement is about freedom and allowing a person to do what they want and then demand that that same movement requires them to conform to your exact behavioral constraints.
But the situation is a bit different when it’s a guy who’s just pretending to be a girl for some fun. (Which is what his excuse needs to be.)
We have shown them a couple of times in the past. My question to you is this, is that something you feel is missing from the comic? Should we show the players more often?
I think you’ve done a great job without any need of showing the players. You’ve established that the comic is about the game and the world they play in.
In Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson never gave Calvin’s parents names. This is because the comic wasn’t about the parents, it was about Calvin.
If you want to change what your comic is about, you are free to do so, it’s your comic. But nothing is missing by keeping the players behind the curtain. You watch a puppet show for the puppets, not the puppeteers.
I debated this very much for that very reason. When we began I told myself we would never show the players for that very reason. The next page will address something that female gamers sometimes experience in the real world and I wanted to show how it affects Anna, not just Anorra. I don’t plan to show the players often, but when we do it’s important.
I’m just about finished with the archives, and to weigh in on this: It was very disconcerting when the players were first shown, but now that they have been, it makes sense to do so when appropriate. And this seems like an appropriate time.
Thank you. I was very torn between doing this in-character or out-of-character. I will probably only show the players when I try to address serious real-world topics, and those moments will be few and far between.
Normally I would call out Annora’s player on this; you can’t claim that a movement is about freedom and allowing a person to do what they want and then demand that that same movement requires them to conform to your exact behavioral constraints.
But the situation is a bit different when it’s a guy who’s just pretending to be a girl for some fun. (Which is what his excuse needs to be.)
You are (once again) correct, but there’s more to Anna’s behavior than is being said here.
Holy crap! We get to see the actual players?! It’s like a dream come true!
We have shown them a couple of times in the past. My question to you is this, is that something you feel is missing from the comic? Should we show the players more often?
I think you’ve done a great job without any need of showing the players. You’ve established that the comic is about the game and the world they play in.
In Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson never gave Calvin’s parents names. This is because the comic wasn’t about the parents, it was about Calvin.
If you want to change what your comic is about, you are free to do so, it’s your comic. But nothing is missing by keeping the players behind the curtain. You watch a puppet show for the puppets, not the puppeteers.
I debated this very much for that very reason. When we began I told myself we would never show the players for that very reason. The next page will address something that female gamers sometimes experience in the real world and I wanted to show how it affects Anna, not just Anorra. I don’t plan to show the players often, but when we do it’s important.
Well it changes the nature of the comic.
Whether it is a good move or not depends on your writing.
Then I hope I don’t disappoint.
I’m just about finished with the archives, and to weigh in on this: It was very disconcerting when the players were first shown, but now that they have been, it makes sense to do so when appropriate. And this seems like an appropriate time.
Thank you. I was very torn between doing this in-character or out-of-character. I will probably only show the players when I try to address serious real-world topics, and those moments will be few and far between.