Author notes

Whale In A Haystack

KDog

on May 19, 2012

Valkyrie's been laying low from her usual criminal career due to
threats from her fellow Blacktron pirates, so I figured that had to be
driving her law enforcement pursuer, Officer Freundlich, nuts.
Freundlich's quest to capture Valkyrie hasn't been depicted in a long
time, and in reading back through their previous comics, I realized I
had actually shown Valkyrie displaying her face to the guy who was after
her! D'OH! This kind of conflicted with later comics in which she was
very concerned about anyone seeing her face, or at least connecting her
visage to the notorious Commander Valkyrie. The facial distortion field
in Blacktron helmets is absolutely a retroactive fix, but I also liked
the idea. And Valkyrie is the kind of person who would take a chance
like that for the thrill, and to taunt an opponent she was also trying
to briefly distract with her flirtations in that particular story.
When the comic started, both Schwartz and the reader assumed that
Valkyrie was a man, until the dramatic reveal. I've settled on her
gender perhaps not being known by everyone, but not a secret either.
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