Poor Matt, I liked your shoes too. ;___;
Well, guys, looks like the team is gonna have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do. How do Izzy and Jiang Shi know each other? Angel’s in the Outcasts? Matt’s some kind of bat Changer? Syren hides behind tables?!
OH AND KEIRA STILL BETRAYED THEM, GUYS. THAT’S STILL A THING.
Stay tuned 
TWC is Angel, looking all sexy like.
edit: By the way, I apologize for the lack of Worldbuilding Wednesday today! Kate was working all of Tuesday, and I’ve been swamped between my jobs, cosplay, and an awesome surprise I have for you on the next update…. (d’ohoho) Lisalo’s question about what does/doesn’t exist in the JP Universe (due either to the fact that this comic is set in 2000 so technology would be farther behind, and the differences that would happen in a world where superhumans exist) will be addressed next week.
Screw all of that. ME WANT DOORKNOBS!!!
they all look so happy…
They’re all going to Cheesecake Factory after this and celebrating!!
I think Matt is my favorite character in this comic.
YOU HAVE EXCELLENT TASTE
No, seriously. Matt’s become my favorite character to write, if not my favorite character in general.
really i peged yo more of angel type person overmind you seem to be cool and collected adn keep eeey thing in perspective tho now that think about it yeah i can definatly feel some of matts personal in ya to being able to laugh at what others would call inapropreate
Haha, well it’s less about who relates to me best (since I guess the closest to me would arguably be Angel, although she and I are still quite different), and more about who I enjoy as characters, both as the writer working on the script and from a larger perspective. Matt is a very liberating character to write, since he just speaks his mind and calls people out on his bullshit—again, very liberating. I also have the strange ability to know what’s on his mind when he’s speaking his mind, and that just makes me love him more.
Though it’s a little inevitable that a bit of yourself leaks into the characters you write when you’re working collaboratively like this, and the others will definitely agree with me when I say that. (particularly when they have an unfortunate habit of calling me Angel, at times) Ultimately, your characters fill the roles in the story that you think are necessary, and the impulse for that generally comes from within rather than sitting back and thinking: “Hm, well, I think we need a snarky guy who changes into a bat, I think the story needs that.”
Also, just reading the blog again. There are more homos there than in Scott Pilgrim, no?
Funny you should say that. Sexuality, particularly in women, is a fluid thing, and our characters cover a range of the Kinsey Scale. If “homos,” as you so charmingly put it, bother you, then I think you’re going to have a problem with future events of the comic.
I have no issue with homosexuals i am proud to say I have many a friend in both camps, what i have issue with is them stealing my rainbows also im pissed at the common folk for taking good and pure words and turning them into sinister hate filled things like the word gay used to mean happy and it still does when i say it, and the word fagot actualy means a pile or bundle of sticks how it became to denote some one whom enjoys the company of the same sex I’ll never know.
Do you want to know what a good word for denoting some one that enojys the same sex “queer” as it means odd or out of the normal and that is what it is out of the normal, and I just happen to adore queer things they add spice and flaovr to what would be otherwise a boring and dull existants.
gah sorry for the rant
No oofence, but that has NOTHING to do with anything whatsoever.
No prob, it’s just weird. One or two homos are okay, hell, it’s not like I have a problem with http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CastFullOfGay, bit this is more like http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsGay (maybe http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsBi)
Well, I’m not sure what exactly you’re talking about — the Angelshipping drabbles, I think? — but regardless, keep in mind that we haven’t in-story said ANYONE’S sexual orientation yet. Those drabbles ARE canonical, yes, but none of them are explicitly sexual or even necessarily romantic. None of this is to say that no one on the team is anything but straight — that is patently untrue, and as Ally said, if you have any problem with gay characters you’ll have problems with future events. But taking those shipping drabbles to say EVERYONE IS GAY is as erroneous a leap in logic as taking them to say EVERYONE LOVES ANGEL — which we joke about, but which is not ACTUALLY true.
Fair enough.
I just want to give my two cents on the issue, then I honestly want to drop the subject before it becomes a hotbutton. As Nat said above, you’re reacting to the Angelshipping drabbles, and speaking as the sole author of all of those texts, I think I can tell you the authorial intent behind them.
We’ve had a longstanding joke, as writers, that everyone has a crush on Angel. Of course it’s not true, but we always had a good giggle about it. As a way of letting you in on the joke, we posted a poll on the site last year asking people who they shipped Angel with, and as a reward for voting, I wrote up little drabbles for each “pairing.” They were designed to be canonically accurate, but with a certain amount of ambiguity that could be taken any way. It was, ultimately, a huge joke inspired by the amount of shipping (of any kind) that happens in fandoms. They were not to be taken entirely seriously. As Nat said, not everyone actually has a crush on Angel.
Also, there’s a flaw in what you said about the tropes. Allow me to quote:
“Not to be confused with Everyone is Gay, which is about fanfics where the entire cast is suddenly gay because Het Is Ew. Also, in spite of the fact that some examples center more around bisexual characters, this is distinct from Everyone is Bi, in which gender and sexual orientation are simply treated as a non-issue.”
1- Everyone Is Gay relates specifically to when the fans make everyone gay. Even though the drabbles were tied to the poll, it was something generated by the creators and therefore unrelated to that trope.
2- Gender and sexual orientation are an issue in the comic. Trust me. There are characters who are 100% straight, there are characters that are 100% gay, and there are some characters who sit in the middle (or who transcend, in some way, the Kinsey Scale).
So yes, even though the drabbles shouldn’t be taken entirely seriously, this is a queer-friendly comic. I’ll remind you that the comic has a major underlying theme of human rights, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we’re writing a generally open-minded comic over here. I stress, and this is to everyone: if that bothers you, then you will be bothered by future events of the comic. But I won’t tolerate homophobic language in our comments, and will police things if I find anything inappropriate in the future.