Out of the frying pan, into the fire…
on February 8, 2018 at 12:01 amWhen T and I were putting the framework of this story together and decided that it’d involve universal travel so our characters could meet, there was one wrench in the works: Shanna had shown up in my strip before as a cameo. However, we made lemons outta lemonade, decided that the extra Shanna was a dimensional doppelganger, and suddenly The Cheese had motive for showing up in the story. Huzzah!
Also Meighan also got to be a doppelganger, probably to give Shanna someone to talk to.
(please ignore the rumy eye cameos on various head alien screens)
You’d think I’d be primed for it, but I somehow hadn’t noticed that Shanna Cochran had already appeared in It’s Walky once prior to the crossover, alongside a humanized version of Lorna from Newshounds. Once David pointed that out, though, I really wanted to make a thing of it in a way that’d reward sharper-eyed readers without leaving the rest of us behind.
The Scanner specified “two of them” and the Cheese is wasting no time with Rikk and the others, so it seems the other Fans characters do not have parallel counterparts in this universe… hey, sometimes that’s how it goes: maybe their parents never met here. Maybe Will’s mom came to her senses and left his dad before they had a kid. Maybe Alisin met the early fate she was headed toward in her first appearances. There may be infinite yous out there in the multiverse, but there are also infinite instances where the world’s gotten by just fine without you.
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You know if you tell us to ignore Head Alien’s screens you’ll just get us paying even more attention to them…
I want to know your recipe for lemons made from lemonade
is it like the oranges made from (???) that the kaiten sushi place in Tysons Corner has
You’d think extracting the sugar would be the hard part, but compared to pushing it back inside the pulp? Of course, then you just need is to sew the peels back up and you’re done.
wait
Lorna is ALREADY human in Newshounds…?
Ha, well, you got me. I was only passingly familiar with that one and made a mistake here. I’ll ask if David can fix that bit later for posterity’s sake.
I actually NOTICED Shanna back in the first run of these strips, which made this really cool when it was called out in this arc. Not being a reader of Newshounds I didn’t know about Loma.
Now that the strips are tagged it’s even cooler that David calls it out if you look.
(hint, hint, David)
I like the idea of alternate universes with alternate versions of the main characters. It’s always interesting seeing how different they are from each other.
In one they have goatees …
Yes. Thank you. 😀
Wait, so if there’s someone with identical genetic codes to someone else in this universe, the Cheese gets to claim one?
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…. I guess Walky and Sal are lucky that they’re not identical twins.
It probably also depends on some Trek-level technobabble like dimensional phase resonance. Identical twins born in one universe both belong there, but their dimension-hopping counterparts from another universe don’t.
Except the Cheese is only checking that stuff now, having already declared them to be surplus. On the other hand, “suddenly joined it” suggests he has noticed they came from another universe by the more direct method of simply detecting it happen.
(Also, because the world is complicated, it turns out identical twins don’t necessarily have identical genetic codes. Although the same could probably be said of parallel universe doppelgangers.)
So if the Fanz is just another alternate universe could they also be Duplicates in DoA? It’s the Webcomic Multiverse, the WCMU.
Shanna isn’t tagged in characters here