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Plywood: Gender Man Revealed

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Originally published August, 2005.

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One of the things I love about this strip is how it emphasizes that no matter how much game experience Jon gets, he will forever be the proverbial Noob -- a sense of childlike curiosity and wonder in a really detailed utility belt. We never really got a chance to go into Jayne's experiences as a Mentor, which I actually did field research for. MAN, those people ask a lot of questions.

--Monica, August 8, 2008

This comic was the whole point of the Gender Man arc, more or less. We had to get in at least one public service announcement about SL resident rights and respect. So it fell to Jayne, the local advocate of common sense, to do it. And again with the disclaimers, just in case there was one reader who still didn’t get it when we repeatedly hit him over the head with the point the last half dozen times.

Jon looks especially comic book heroic in frames one and two. Fortuitous lighting, combined with Monica’s awesome costume work. Too bad he has to ruin it by gaping like a fish in frame three.

--Nathan, August 8, 2008

Monica actually went through the application process to become a sanctioned SL Mentor (required Linden Lab approval, interviews, etc), in part for field research, in part because she thought it'd be nice to help new folks into SL. I still think that's pretty dang cool. As mentioned before, Monica was our Jayne.

-Nathan, February 15, 2012
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