Xena Subtext Comics

Seldom Asked Questions

1. What hardware/software do you use to make the pictures?
2. When are you going to make new comics?
3. Does your mother know about your site?
4. Can I link to your page?
5. What episode is that picture from?
6. Why are there no captions for The Kiss?
7. What's with the rodent that is dressed like Xena?

Never Asked Questions

1. Why is Xena playing basketball?
2. Can we vote for more than one comic?
3. Do you really think Xena and Gabby are gay?
4. What's with those tiny squares in the More Comics list?
5. Which comic is your favorite?


1. What hardware/software do you use to make the pictures?
I use a Snappy to capture the frames I want from my VCR. Paint Shop Pro cleans up the images and does size and type conversions. The caption balloons are made using Windows' Paint program.

2. When are you going to make new comics?
New comics depend on a rare alignment of inspiration, subtext packed episodes, and spare time. No scientific method can predict the arrival of these conditions, but their coincidence seems to occur in bunches.

3. Does your mother know about your site?
No, she does not own a computer.

4. Can I link to your page?
Yes, please! The more links there are, the more people will visit my site. More people means a better chance that someone will drop me a line and feed my ego. The bigger my ego gets, the happier it is. When my ego grows too big for my house, I will stop asking for links.
I now have a banner that you may use. Help yourself.

5. What episode is that picture from?
This question led to my making of the Episode Guessing Game. The game is not a serious effort to test anybody's Xenatrivia knowledge.

6. Why are there no captions for "The Kiss"?
This was the first series that I put together. "The Kiss", of course, required no enhancement on my part at all. I simply picked out four frames that looked good. "The Bath" originally was captionless, also. But I added dialog when I reformatted it to the strip form. "Hide the Soap" was the first comic that I put dialog in.

6. 7. What's with the rodent that is dressed like Xena?
The Animaniacs comic book did a take-off on Xena, with Minerva Mink playing "Minerxa: Warrior Princess". Since I had scanned and cleaned that scene for a tee-shirt, I decided to put the picture on my site.


1. Why is Xena playing basketball?
This was the only way I could make sense out of that TV Guide pose. The opportunity came when a Sports Illustrated commercial came on while I was at the computer.

2. Can we vote for more than one comic?
Sure. If two votes come from the same machine, I assume that more than one person at that address is voting. If not, so what. I do check for multiple votes from the same source for the same comic, just in case there are some Xenafanatics out there that think this is some kind of contest.

3. Do you really think Xena and Gabby are gay?
No, I really think Xena and Gabby are fictional characters.

4. What's with those tiny squares in the More Comics list?
When I was converting the comics from the square format to the strip format, I thought it was going to be a long process. I changed the icon each time I changed a comic in case anyone was interested in the progress.

5. Which comic is your favorite?
I still laugh out loud at almost all of them, but I think my all time favorite is "Many Skills". The double entendre in the punch line appeals to my British honed sense of humor.

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