Comments on: Ask An Adventurer – A Little Cross

By: Tolrick

Tolrick — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:38:28 +0000

This answered a few of my questions from a bunch of pages back.
In hysterical fashion, I might add.

That said, I wouldn’t mind seeing this universe’s versions of a few of that old gang in cameos or little moments.

By: Speedy

Speedy — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:06:48 +0000

No, Borg Cubes are delicacies created by the Muppets’ Swedish Chef.

“Resistance is futile. We will be assimilated.”

By: Speedy

Speedy — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 14:56:36 +0000

Kaylee: We’re on a year now, I ain’t had nothing ‘twixt my nethers weren’t run on batteries.

Mal: Oh, God! I can’t know that!

Jayne: I could stand to hear a little more.

By: T

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:18:33 +0000

A million years ago when I first proposed the series, there was a slang term, “faan,” which basically meant an extra-devoted science-fiction fan. Some people had also proposed “fen” as a jokey plural. I considered naming the print series Fen and ended up naming it Faans, figuring that readers would appreciate the in-joke or at least not be too confused.

However, I’d misjudged the culture. Neither of those slang variations had much traction by the time the series was launched, and so I changed the series’ title not long after going online with it. But by then, “fans.com” was indeed taken, as were a lot of variants. I tried “fansontheweb.com” for a while, but five-letter URLs are easier to remember than most even when they’re not quite right, so I just lived with it.

It’s for the best that we didn’t call the series “Ubergeeks” or something else that would’ve conveyed these fans were more fannish than other fans, because Fans is a celebration of fandom and all, but it’s not really into the geek-cred-measuring contests that turn me off nowadays. A celebration of true extremism, ironic or otherwise, wouldn’t really have had room for Shanna… and it wouldn’t be something I could do for very long. What’s special about these guys is that they fight killer robots and don’t give up, and sometimes use fan-knowledge to do it.

By: SotiCoto

SotiCoto — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:16:46 +0000

… This would be the point where I raise one eyebrow first at the strip… then at the comments… and then ask…

T… isn’t “faans” with the double-a just what you used for the web-URL because the one-“a” version was already taken?
I mean isn’t it called “Fans!” … or just “Fans”?

Heck, to be honest I’m pretty sure I’ve always considered the canon name to have the exclamation mark in as standard, but it makes for awkward sentences.