Posted 11:54Amber was playing Tiny Tower, a free game for the iPhone. It’s a lot of fun and you should check it out.
And, yes! She did speak. My amazing and totally legitimate reason I didn’t pull out of my ass is as follows: she blew out her voice. That’s right.
I don’t really want to do a comic addressing this because then it shines and odd light on the whole thing. The reason Amber is talking now is that I felt, as a writer, I committed a lot of web-comic cliches that I disagree with. One of them being the female of the comic is just there for 1) fan service or 2) to be a bitch or 3) to fall in love with the geeky main character. I hate that shit.
Amber didn’t talk in the beginning because I didn’t write her any lines. Not on purpose I was just like HUR HUR FUNNY JOKE DAVE AND PSY DAVE AND PSY and then people were noticing a pattern of…Amber never spoke. Then we have all that weirdness of cycling through a female lead blah blah blah - fast forward to today!
I want Amber to be part of the group and a girl. I don’t want her to be part of the group but a girl. Her gender should be secondary to her interaction with the main characters. I have plenty of female friends and they don’t come out and shout I AM A WOMAN mid sentence. Except Gina. Weirdo.
I dunno maybe I’m taking this whole web-comic thing too seriously but I really feel like I did a disservice to the female cast (and audience) of gg-guys and having Amber just kind of start speaking like it’s not a big deal is what it should be. Vs. a 12 part mini series on why Amber spoke or didn’t speak.
At one point we we’re going to make her a super hero and Martin was going to be the reporter following her around.