Talk:Sluggy Freelance
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[edit] Zoë's ancestry
Zoë is half-Korean? Where do we find this out?
- When we meet her parents in this strip and several strips thereafter. To quote Pete through his mouthpiece Trillian (and this comes from the Defenders of the Nifty compedium, so if you have an account for that you can read it yourself there under 2001):
- From the very beginning, Pete always intended for Zoë to be half-Asian, probably half-Korean and half-Cuban. He got the idea for that from a friend who was half-Korean and half-Cuban and had really interesting features. He kept her exact ethnicity undefined for a long time to give him a little extra writing flexibility in case he wanted to work in a Japanese samurai story or cheesy kung-fu parody based off Zoë's background. Unfortunately, the half-Korean half-Cuban idea went by the wayside because in the early days of Sluggy, Pete’s computer monitor was not calibrated correctly. This made him unaware of the fact that in the color Sundays, Zoë, who was supposed to be part Asian, looked very Caucasian, and Torg was pink as a pig! The only way Zoë could be half-Korean would be if her father was a Viking. So, when he brought her family into the strip, he made her mom Korean and her father very, very white to explain both her features and her coloring. (Pete: And fun was had by all!) -- Compendium entry for Sunday September 2, 2001 comic
- Tyler 18:25, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Added link to the system.--65.27.238.201 20:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Character page?
I was thinking we should move the massive character list to its own page, and list only very short descriptions for the main characters (Torg, Riff, Zoe, Bun-Bun, Kiki, Aylee, Gwenn). nifboy 21:27, 8 Mar 2005
[edit] Storyline section
It's a bit big, isn't it? Especially as the 'characters' section has just been shuffled off to its own page. Might it not be better to do the same with this new section? Hig Hertenfleurst 19:57, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I honestly don't know. It could probably use a trim if it stays (possibly by sorting them into their major plotlines and cutting the sidestories), but I haven't seen any precedent for shipping plot summaries to their own pages. nifboy 19:22, 13 Mar 2005 (EST)
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- Is it important to have plot summeries at all? If someone wants to know the details of the plot, they'll presumably just go read sluggy... If the summeries stay, I think they should be shortened quite a lot. Oracleoftruth 23:23, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
- Support moving the storyline sections to their own page. Sluggy Freelance is a noteworthy enough webcomic to merit a pretty in-depth plot summary (if anything is), but having it on the main page is a completely bad idea that greatly lowers the encyclopedicness and usefulness of the Sluggy Freelance page. Give it its own page and make it a more interesting read by scattering panels throughout it to illustrate various parts of the plot, just as was done with Characters of Sluggy Freelance to illustrate the characters. -Silence 09:35, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Still no action? OK, I'll do it myself. But first, I want to know which of the following three options is the way we should go with this:
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- 1) Leave the organized by year (and add months and more detail, perhaps?), but move to a new page. Storyline of Sluggy Freelance?
- 2) Change the storyline section to being organized by storyline and perhaps book; we could even have one page for each collection of Sluggy Freelance, in the style of the The Sandman (DC Comics Modern Age) collections. Would work with the storylines as subsections, too, since no storyline is cut off by the end of a book. Sluggy Freelance: Is It Not Nifty, etc.?
- 3) Detailed plot summaries of a popular webcomic are unencyclopedic. Trim the section in Sluggy Freelance down severely, but don't bother transferring the information to any other page.
- 4) Other? -Silence 01:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Okay, so apparently nothing's been done about this after how many months. I would suggest as a possible course of action what's been done on the Bob and George page. Namely, really short summaries of events on the main page (shorter than here), seperated by years, with longer summaries on a Storyline of Sluggy Freelance page. —Matthew0028 09:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- I concur with the above comment. I think the storyline should be moved to its own page, with events separated by book order, and perhaps further by chapters. Meanwhile, we keep a brief section on this page, with events separated by years or (as the strip continues to get older) groups of years. Whatever happens, something definitely needs to be done about it soon.-Highway99 02:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sahsa Riff's boyfriend?
Um... shouldn't Sasha be Riff's 'girlfriend', because currently, she's listed as his 'boyfriend'. Just thought I'd point that out.
- Um, you realize that this is a wiki, right? And that means you can, you know, edit stuff?--59.121.205.91 04:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bun-bun's position
Shouldn't Bun-bun be under the bad guys? He's a psychpath, after all... he's just not bothered about killing the main cast (although he was during "On the Run"). The only times he's ever done anything good are when he's been coerced (often via baywatch, once by the Black Op Elves for a James Bond parody) or by accident (as in the end of The Bug, The Witch and The Robot). This also permits placing the holidays under the good guys (which is where most of them belong, although probably not Basphomy).
- Nah. Bun-bun is still part of the "main cast" (read: good guys) regardless of his moral standing or relation with the holidays. Nifboy 11:28, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
- Agreed. Bad guys = antagonists. Good guys = protagonists. Bun-bun is clearly a protagonist. (And currently a good Bun-bun, right? The nasty Bun-bun is currently dead.) - Tεxτurε 23:30, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Puns
One of the things Sluggy is infamous for is its terrible puns, inserted at every oppertunity... Perhaps these should get some mention?
- Eh? I know Pete likes to drop a pun or two dozen at times but I wouldn't call him "infamous" for it. Nifboy 03:38, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
- No, but the Pun Demon might get a mention on the characters page. (for those who don't know, the pun demon is a little stick figure Pete tends to draw in the background from time to time. An easter egg of sorts) ~Nec
[edit] Pic
Can we get any pic? There is fanart, I am sure we can get something for Wiki. Perhaps some more prominent visitor to Sluggy forums can even ask for an official piece of art to use on Wiki? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Z-Com Game
What is the game seen in the Z-Com strips in 2005? // X-Com
[edit] Character section, redux
The character descriptions on the main page are, I think, a bit too short to give any real information on the characters, and why they're important. I propose doing something similar to what's been done on the Bob and George page, and have basic information on the characters (briefly, but more than currently exists), and have the more detailed information on the second page (as you are now doing). —Matthew0028 09:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Broadman & Midget specific parodies?
Are the radio show co-hosts Broadman & Midget parodies of anyone in specific, the way Dr. Lorna parodies Dr. Laura? I don't think their name is similar enough to Rush Limbaugh's for it to be him. --Robotech_Master 04:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
- The first radio duo that came to mind was Opie and Anthony, although the setup is now cliche enough that it could simply be a parody of the format. Nifboy 21:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Too much material
This article needs to lose some weight. Are there sections that are particularly good right now, that the rest of the article should be brought to that level? - brenneman {L} 05:28, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Recent Storyline Title
Does anyone here think that the "next" storyline should be labeled the "recent" storyline and should be called "Pheonix Rising" and not "Slice of Evil"?
