The Grace of Gilda: The Complete History of Gilda Dent, Part 1

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What must it be like, to be a villain’s love interest?

To be a supporting player of a supporting player, vanishing into comic book limbo and emerging once every ten or thirty years to again play your role on the sidelines of someone else’s tragedy? What happens when writers think that your love isn’t enough, and that you need to be something else

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Holy crap, he's BACK! At long, long last, he's back! Hey, man! How's it going

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Allow me to offer my own "holy crap" in response! You're here! I truly didn't know if any of the old gang would notice if I posted something! And I'm especially glad it's you

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I'm doing all right. I've regrettably had to put the YouTube stuff on hold for a while - technical issues, plus a raft of other complications I was tired of fighting past. I do still hope to pick it up at some point in the future, but it'll have to wait for a while. Plus, yeah, 2020 sucked; so far, this year is pretty sucky as well; I've been going through some family issues which haven't been much fun, and, you know, western civilization keeps threatening to take that final toilet-plunge no matter from what perspective you look at it - so, yeah. Happy happy

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I hope you're able to get back to it when life and logistics are able to work out for you. I actually was considering doing something like that myself, taking you specifically as an example and moving these sorts of discussions to vlogging, but I am far too insecure about my appearance to do that. Similarly, planned to do podcasts, but couldn't bring myself to do it. So here I am again

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Yeah, I hope I can, too. I sank a fair amount of time and energy into that webshow, and I'm proud of the end results - but the whole business just got overwhelming after a while, and, seriously, things reached a point where every single time I made a video, even something really simple, something would go catastrophically wrong and I would have to scramble to fix it. Maybe it was just my equipment, maybe it's because I was making mistakes - whatever. It was mind-frying. I'll jump back on the horse eventually, but for the moment, I'm just waiting 'til my brain is back in the right place for that sort of thing

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I know someone who is dealing with similar frustrations you describe, be they technical or IRL issues. I can sympathize. On my end, we (that is the Henchgirl and myself) have been looking into animated avatars, actually! It's strange new technology to me so I'm skittish on top of my own anxieties about performing again. But it's definitely something we're considering! As scared as I am about going on YouTube or whatever the next big thing is, I know that I'm gonna need to get comfortable with something like that if I want an audience. Which will also open me up to exposure to some of the more undesirable elements of fandom, but such is the risk one needs to take

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They don't have to be animated, strictly speaking. I don't know if you're familiar with the YouTuber 'Just Some Guy' - he does a lot of comics-related stuff, so you might have heard of him; his stuff's pretty good if you haven't - but his avatar is just a still image with variations. Like, there's a selection of neutral, annoyed, furious, amused, mischievous, etc. images that he posts as appropriate. (He's not the only one; there's plenty of others who do that, but he's probably the most notable example.) If full animation intimidates you, you might want to try that avenue.

Thanks! It's not strictly the 'first draft', as that's often defined, because I tend to edit my work as I write it - but it's still a work in progress, definitely.

I'll let you know when I've seen 'em. Nighttime is arguably not completely wrong for the series, though; a number of the Season One episodes took place partly or primarily at night - the first Catwoman episode, for instance.

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Well, we got FaceRig, so I am curious to try it. We'll see how that goes. I'll certainly be exploring options.

Either way, it sounds like you have your work cut out for you, but you also have the raw material to work with, which is awesome. Again, keep me posted!

Oh sure, I know some episodes did take place at night, but it's part of a larger problem with the animated movies not being bright and colorful enough. They're kinda washed-out and the animation is pretty cheap-looking, which seems to be par for the course when it comes to DC animated films. Thankfully, the writing and voice acting are pretty damn solid throughout (with some exceptions, like the rather standard takes on the Joker and the Penguin). That's what matters to me.