Are there any Easter Eggs in your comics/ novels?

snailienz 2019-07-11 00:40:19 UTC #10

I just started mine, but I do plan to have a lot of video game references (mostly neopets parody, but I plan to have cameos and jokey references to fandoms once I get into the meat of the story)

spadesart 2019-07-11 00:45:45 UTC #11

hm theres the loss sign in enccore

and i have a self insert in spire (though i have a rectangle head pixie cut now)

aaaaaaaaaand in an upcoming page alphonzo is indeed wearing these gloves

Buurd 2019-07-11 01:02:28 UTC #12

I'm not sure how much of an "easter egg" it is but I made the flowers he gives be striped carnations. Which mean rejection. (The confession doesn't go well.)

I also reference/parody different brands a lot, but I figure that's normal haha

[ Sony > Tony ]

[ Google > Woogle ]

[ LifeStyles > LivingStyles ]

Also had a mock wikihow article featuring my previous webcomic's characters

And I like to include some easter eggs for people I know in real life. My sister caught me using her nickname for me and birthday in the original version.

tchotchkeco 2019-07-11 01:05:13 UTC #13

I’m laughing and crying at the loss one. Now that’s a high quality Easter egg.

Carossmo 2019-07-11 01:26:46 UTC #14

Some outfit easter eggs :V

Episode 10

Episode 31

snailienz 2019-07-11 01:29:11 UTC #15

Oh bless that charlie costume.

nathanKmcwilliams 2019-07-11 01:36:24 UTC #16

I do! I listen to a ton of Metal music so I drop references to songs. One of the biggest shout outs was this. The song "A New Level" is the theme of the dude in the orange shirt. I made a reference to the album art from the LP to which the song belongs.

racheldenucci 2019-07-11 02:17:02 UTC #17

I have a lot, but one of the most obvious ones is in RomaMates when two of the characters are having a spontaneous dance off. All the music they listen to during that scene is stuff my friends and I have listened to when getting together. I also have cameos from my other story and RavenRose's story (Hers is the cute high school couple that go to Hot Topic on a date.... At least, that's what I like to believe they're doing).

My favorite though, might be how the meaning of flowers are important when they're related to Dewi. He carries around a key-chain with a blue rose on it. Blue roses mean unattainable or impossible love so it makes sense for a guy who has dated around so much, but still had trouble finding someone who would love him back. Being the only one of the roommates to have flowers connected in some way to them, also foreshadows the events of "Alice" when Alice calls him "child of flowers" and .... other things happen (look up Hanahaki disease or read the chapter if you want to know).

ForLackOfStars 2019-07-11 03:39:08 UTC #18

The seasons and events in Nimue's Bar correspond with the seasons and holidays in the real world at the time the chapter is published. There's no real reason behind it; it just sort of happened and I rolled with it.

DiegoPalacios 2019-07-11 03:55:50 UTC #19

lots of foreshadowing....but the most known easter is finding the hidden spy frog hidden in the different pages.

also, the occasional funny background event and early cameos of future characters.

JeanGuillet 2019-07-11 04:02:02 UTC #20

yes and they're HIDDEN durned good

Kura 2019-07-11 04:20:11 UTC #21

For having drawn over 2000 pages between series I actually don't have a whole lot, but here are a few that I can remember putting in (it's also likely I threw some in and forgot about them)

Andrew has a Billy Talent poster on his wall.

Naruto and Kuroko no Basket reference. (you have to click to see these one the forum clips them)

Gundam, My Little Pony (old one, not the one that developed the bronie fandom), Ninja Turtles, Pokemon, Digimon and Raven Wolf. Plus cameo/homage of my brothers cat who passed away.

Lightning from FF13

vfinnigan 2019-07-11 04:36:31 UTC #22

Tiger on the Storm is replete with little Easter Eggs and military in-jokes. But this page, we decided to have a little more obvious fun. Given that Col. Sawyer was imagining a rather ridiculous scenario, we decided, "Well, why not have some fun and throw in some more obvious homages to Mort Walker, Joe Simon, and Jack Kirby?"

dawgofdawgness 2019-07-11 05:31:21 UTC #23

Oh yeahhh, I do! But only in the early pages though.

Frances has a Caravan Palace <|°_°|> shirt here

And there’s a cut-off poster of Yamba’s (Tapas user) avatar as a cameo.

My friend makes an appearance too

BobbyjoeX 2019-07-11 15:41:57 UTC #24

i saw a whooper O^O

so, in my comic... oh my god, theres quotes, theres references, everything... i'll find a few

ok for a personal ref, Jr's car is basically my dad's first car

As for refs other people will get

EarthBound Refs, by the time Royal is finished, it'll be around 40% EarthBound Refs XDD

this first one failed cause of no colour but i tried to pull off the trippy battle background here

second is from chapter 2 pages 36 and 37. there is a line straight from Mother 3 (well, the fan translation)

the second title card is a Ref to the 1969 animated film, The Yellow Submarine

The dreaded 3rd party controller is another callback to my childhood cause i had that one

Mario Party (tbh its also reffing TRG) and Pepsi

and last ref is here, i rather have people guess this one XDD the clue is that Oliver is mocking Jr's Hawaiian shirt

Edit: forgot, the Pizza Company Schroeder works for is a parody of Toppers Pizza

Kayas_Kosmos 2019-07-11 16:34:02 UTC #25

My Overwatch fan comic has two World of Warcraft references hiding on the second page. I also did a realistic version of Pachimari over a year ago which is now hidden in one of the photo frames. Lastly, the old man is clearly a big Lucio fan.

There's also a ton of story elements hidden in the background of each page but they are too numerous to list here.

OttoGruenwald 2019-07-12 11:48:53 UTC #26

My webcomic's setting incorporates as many public domain superheroes as I can cram into it, so easter eggs abound.

Pencilz 2019-07-12 14:45:05 UTC #27

I haven't done this in awhile but sometimes I'll sneak my friends' characters in.

mrtoontastic 2019-07-12 17:42:11 UTC #28

I have a few easter eggs hidden through my comic strips and novels. Some of them are characters from works that my friends have created. Others are visual or verbal references to some of my favorite works in classic media, or (once-in-a-while) GMOD videos. And the third, and biggest one, is when I hide my mascot, Toon Jean, throughout certain pieces of my artwork or comic strips.

I do plan to give Toon Jean a proper series, and have had some scripts in the works, but for now, its fun to hide him around through some of my comic strips. Once in a while, he'll appear in the novels too, but in a more "descriptive manner," or just when I'm making a list.

For Jean-Luc & Joey (the novels), there's a town that the fox-and-rabbit duo used to live in called The Town With No Name. It's a name which was also used for the hilariously bad game, The Town with No Name, for the Amiga CD32.

In Sonia: Legends of Eternal Darkness, Sonia hints to be less of a cartoon-lover, and more for someone who enjoys magical girl anime... especially ones where the heroes travel to faraway lands. This isn't much of an easter egg, but more of a nod to one of the original scrapped concepts I had for the series during the planning stages.

Speaking of Sonia... The story Darkness is Your Nightmare has a reference to Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (albeit named differently) on the original Playstation. Sonia's Dad, Mr. Hardell, actually still owns his original Playstation, something he kept near and dear to him from his college days.

Also, the story Night of the Living Ginger has a scene that's a homage to Scooby-Doo, or more specifically, it was inspired by the chase scene from the Johnny Bravo/Scooby-Doo crossover, Bravo Dooby-Doo,

The story "Let the Dead Bury the Ginger for my Mellisa & Julianna novel, is a direct reference/homage to one of my favorite Spongebob episodes, NASTY PATTY.

In one of the Mellisa & Julianna comic strips, GLOVER makes a hidden appearance.

Julianna has also read the book, "Love, Simon" (I personally never heard of it). Safe to say... I don't think she likes it.

Hey. You ever played the classic arcade game, PAPERBOY? I love that game, and there's a Sticktoons Strip that references it.

Other references include dialogue quotes, and famous products but named different-yet-similar to the real deal (Like Nintendo being named Zentindo, or the Game Boy being renamed as the Game Buddy).

There's more references out there in my various works. You just need a keen eye, and a slap-happy brain to find them~.

MrTwennysebben 2019-07-12 18:16:18 UTC #29

Are we counting any little reference to something as an easter egg? Because I don't know what qualifies, really. Anyway, I have a few references here and there...

My pizza combos are all 80s references, and the show poster is a reference to The Mars Volta's "Deloused in the Comatorium" with the band names being a line from the song The Roulette Dares.

None of my characters actually had names when I first started! I was just using them as blank canvases to rant about my job, with no real thought to who any of them actually are, so after I finally settled on some I started dropping them in panels. Here we have a couple boxes of "shifties," what we call "shift meals" that the guys plan on taking home to eat later.

This one is super friggin' obscure, I think... Way back in the day I had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book where at the end the cops are asking the kids who the Foot are trying to recruit where their hangout is, and one of them responds with "it's in an old warehouse on East and Lairdman" which is itself an easter egg (the creators of TMNT being Eastman and Laird) so I went ahead and put NLPCo on Lairdman Street.

I threw in a few eggs here. I'm on the "hiring board" as well as my girlfriend, references to some of my coworkers, and a few YouTubers. There's "Denny" and "Arnold" (that's what Pres Obama calls Danny and Arin from Game Grumps) and Mr. Fruit, another Let's Player.

Crammed a few in here, really small. I have the numbers from LOST up in the top corner, and at the bottom I have references to THX-1138, George Lucas' student film; the planet from Aliens; the number of the Beast; and I think that last one was supposed to be the Fibonacci sequence? Maybe it's the Golden String. I dunno, I'm not that smart.

This courier for Snack Mule is basically Phillip J. Fry, delivery boy for Planet Express. I used the same color scheme but with a ringer tshirt instead of the red jacket he normally wears. Only one of my friends got this one when I originally posted it.

This strip is basically nothing but references. I put Jay and Silent Bob in the alleyway next to the restaurant, and the sign on the bus is a reference to Invader Zim where Zim and GIR try to get back to their house.

And the posters in Zonk's apartment are of Ninja Sex Party and Perturbator, a couple of my favorite musical talents.

I'm running out of time so I'll just put in this last one

The photos are references to the webcomic I wanted to do but didn't have the confidence to start, STEAM-POWERED EVERYTHING. I'll get to it eventually. And the big one is my take on a Guinness poster.

So yeah, I love references!