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[Lars_B]

On Page 290 Minna answers Keegan Thomas on the voices of the team
 
Keegan Thomas
Mina, if you can read this, what kind of voices do you imagine your characters having?
 
minnasundberg
Heh, I don't have terribly specific descriptions for most of them, but let's see here: Emil and Reynir have about as androgynous voices as they look, more manly than girly though, Lalli is pretty much half-whispering whenever he speak, Mikkel has a deep, even bear-voice, Tuuri has a cute, chattery and very feminine voice, and Sigrun has the kind of voice that a female cop on a police-drama show might have. Not the sexy girlish type, the badass boss-cop type.

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/sssscomic/stand_still_stay_silent_webcomic_page_290/#comment-1931030231
 
And then she answers jp_otter on a book issue:
 
jp_otter
Kinda nervous because Minna said there aren't any new ones left, so it's not like she can just send a replacement. But hopefully it'll show up.

minnasundberg
I have a few spare ones left just in case anyone's books never do show up, or show up damaged. But sometimes books to the Americas have taken over 6 weeks to arrive, so I guess there's still time. (I can't remember when I send the books, agh. )
But let me know in a couple of week if they're still missing, by then it's probably safe to assume that they've disappeared and I'll mail new ones.

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/sssscomic/stand_still_stay_silent_webcomic_page_290/#comment-1931107982

[SovietTr0llGuy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

The Svalbard Seed Vault was built on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. It contains samples from plants across the world, preserved so that in the event of a global catastrophe many species of plants would survive.

I think that this would be an awesome plot point in the comic. Just the idea of the crew finding some mention of the Vault and traveling across an infected Scandinavia and massive oceans sounds awesome!

[Haiz]

I was actually snooping around for info on SSSS-verse Svalbard some time ago, and apparently Minna said this in a comment on the world map page:

"Svalbard was too “pointless” for them to cram in on a map like this, and too far north to fit anyway. There’s no settlements on the islands and there hasn’t been a need to raid the seed vault yet. “

yet

[P__]

Answering Duinhir's question about the state of the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, p.293:

minnasundberg
It'd just be a big empty tunnel to them if they went there, since it won't actually start being used until sometime in the 2020's at its earliest. ^_^
http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php#comment-1939751146

[Mayabird]

Has anyone asked Minna if more of the information pages could be linked under the World Info Pages section of the About page? 

Specifically, I was thinking the Differences Between Beasts, Trolls, and Giants, that subclass of troll, the information about the Dalahästen, and especially the language tree could be added.

Could someone with a Discus account ask if no one else has?   Or would that be too impolite?

[JoB]

Could someone with a Discus account ask if no one else has?

I do remember people ask about that in the Disqus comments. Twice at least.

http://sssscomic.wikia.com/wiki/Table_of_Special_Pages#Other_Fact_Sheets

[BrainBlow]

Is Sigrun a donor in the Dagrenning program?

BrainBlow
MINNA, what kind of "payment" would a donor get? 10000 donors in a world with so few (immune)people seems quite a bit much on charity alone, even if it is a great cause.
Do they get some sort of benefits for it?
...
Does Sigrun have a bunch of children running around elsewhere in the world...?

minnasundberg
Of they get paid something for their "donation", like people today do. Otherwise no-one would bother

But I can confirm that Sigrun has no biological children running around, you couldn't hold her attention long enough on such a boring subject for her to even agree to the procedure.

The answer is no.

[Rabbit]

Is Sigrun a donor in the Dagrenning program?

The answer is no.

On the same topic, re: tiny Mikkels, Minna had this to say:

Hmmmm... I want to say "no" but the guy can be a little bit of a mystery sometimes, sooo... :I

Although I now realise the way I phrased the question - 'does he have biological offspring running around somewhere', not 'did he ever donate to the Dagrenning' - means we're left not knowing if Mikkel has biological children or not, and not knowing if any hypothetical tiny Mikkels are Dagrenning babies, or made the old-fashioned way...


Also from page 300, Curiosity's comment about the year the Dagrenning program began gave us this little bit of extra info about Reynir's family:

Since year 67? That's when the whole program started or when it began to bring more stable result?
I have a feeling it's the latter, because otherwise Reynir's siblings have to be 23 years old and younger, and they definitely are older (as we may presume from the story so far).

Shoot, you're right! I forgot that it's only year 90 and not y100 now, Reynir's oldest sibling is 12 years older than he is so it's one decade off. (I'll change it to "since 57".)

[P__]

same quote as the last one from Rabbit: preddictions of the future!

By the way, for anyone possibly being concerned: it won't ever turn out in this story that the people choosing artificial insemination are doing something wrong, it's a voluntary and very benign program in the scope of this fictional society and won't suddenly be revealed to be the root of all evil or anything. And Reynir won't ever be touted as more of a "real" child to his parents than his siblings, his parents love them all equally.

http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php#comment-1965264793

[BrainBlow]

Confirmation on speculation regarding great cats:

Alaron
Question for Minna that I thought of: are the great cats (lions, tigers, etc.) also immune like housecats? Or are there even now lionBeasts roaming the savannah?

minnasundberg
Yes they are. So stay close to those tigers and lions, everyone, they might be able to protect you! (Or eat you, more likely.)

[wavewright62]

Here's Minna with a little off-hand comment on the chapter 7 cover...

"Fear not, Onni could never be a villain. He's too much of a wimp.
Now Emil on the other hand..."

Yikes! Foreshadowing much?

[Mayabird]

I do remember people ask about that in the Disqus comments. Twice at least.

http://sssscomic.wikia.com/wiki/Table_of_Special_Pages#Other_Fact_Sheets

And with the new website format, the pages have been updated and the newer stuff has been added.  Hooray!

Also I'm pretty happy that my speculation waaaaaaay back when about if there were wild cats running about was correct. 

[Sunflower]

From comments on Minna's latest blog post:

JoB
The actual printing is being crowdfunded ... so the first ~1,000 books go to the folks who have participated in that campaign. Another ~1,000 books will be produced on top of that to be sold "normally" - historically either through Minnas own webshop, or HiveWorks' - in batches.

No date has been announced yet, though, and batches tend to sell fast these days. Keep your eyes peeled and pointed at this website to learn about upcoming sales in time ...

minnasundberg Mod
This is correct. The sale of the extra copies will most likely begin sometime after summer, and I'll probably be selling them in much larger batches through Hiveworks this time.

indui
... I missed the kickstarter for book 1 of SSSS and i'm infinitely sad - will there be another opportunity to buy it? I would love this book so bad and am willing to pay all the monies if necessary haha

minnasundberg Mod 
Yup, I've got a price quote from the printers and I'll be able to print up ~1,000 extra copies with the additional money that the print drive made, I'll start selling those after all backer rewards are sent out. Possibly either late summer or early autumn. (And I'll be saving the profits of those books to print more if and when they eventually run out.)

[BrainBlow]

Hints on the existence of non-feral, non-troll dogs.

WishIWasGerman
But, but doggy. Minna, will we ever see a (preferably large) healthy dog? Please?

minnasundberg
An Icelandic sheep dog will be a likely sight eventually.

Further elaboration.

BrainBlow
On that subject, are there still domesticated dogs OUTSIDE of Iceland, or did they all pretty much either go extinct or feral?

minnasundberg
Bornholm and Mora definitely both have plenty of dogs and other domesticated farm animals, and some of the larger settlements in Finland and Norway might have a few that were lucky enough to be immune and therefore aren't a danger to keep around.

[Blacky]

Ooo, immune animals that aren't cats or humans! That's a revelation! (Perfectly logical of course though; if humans can be immune so can other species.)