Trivia / Outsiders

• Creator Backlash: While MacVeigh doesn't seem to outright hate the comic, he does seem a bit embarrassed by the lack of direction later on that would have led to him including more outlandish scenarios had he not deleted it and started anew with When Heaven Spits You Out instead.
• Deleted Role: Had the series gone on, Siobhan would have gained a secretary named Alyx at one point. Her design can be seen here, and is based off Suzanne, the protagonist in the original unused concept of Red 348. The basic idea for her design, however, would later be recycled for Janie Hanzlicek in When Heaven Spits You Out.
• Deleted Scene: Siobhan and Ebony's sex scene became one after MacVeigh decided to remove it to make the comic more tasteful. Also, there is a part in Volume 3 that was clearly taken out before it was even released. During Ebony's medical exam, the nurse asks her to take her shirt off so her heartbeat can be checked. Ebony then uncomfortably tells the nurse that she doesn't wear a bra. It then cuts to her talking to Siobhan about the incident. How can you tell something was cut? Because the page numbers after the cutting of Siobhan and Ebony's love making in Volume 1 display a different font than the others, and so do the pages after Ebony's medical exam in this volume, so there must've at least been a page where Ebony exposes her chest to the nurse. By that logic, something explicit must've also happened in volume two between Siobhan showing Ebony the Queen tickets and them going to the concert, but it's not certain what was cut there.
• Hypothetical Casting: MacVeigh claims that the design of Harold Wisley is based off of Richard Burton, and if possible, he would have his voice if the comic was adapted to film (though he knows that Burton died, he still thinks that if the software was available to recreate the voices of deceased actors, singers or other celebrities, we could one day hear Richard Burton’s voice on the big screen once again).
• Schedule Slip: The comic has gone through a variety of scheduling regimens as this series has been moved from website to website due to hosting issues:
  • Originally, when published on MacVeigh's personal website, the series was uploaded in its entirety with a planned schedule of new volumes every 60 days.
  • When the series moved to Tapas.io (which is where it has stayed the longest), volumes are now updated every two months, with page batches uploaded Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
  • When the series was hosted on Webtoons, the series was uploaded near constantly on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday basis, although there were gaps between when individual volumes were released; sometimes immediately after the previous while other times it would be the beginning of the next month.
  • On Smack Jeeves, the comic is released twice daily.
• Screwed By the Hosting Site: MacVeigh was forced to stop releasing pages of his comic on Webtoons due to the site's admins removing certain pages because of a conflict of content policy. As a result, his comic has now moved to ComicFury
• What Could Have Been: Had the series gone on, according to Macveigh, some things that would have happened included:
  • Ebony being involved in a near plane crash.
  • Siobhan getting wrapped up in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, during which time she suffers a minor heart attack and left in a worrying state for a while.
• Word of God:
  • Adria Mackenzie, a family friend of the Pattinsons who winds up becoming Ebony's driving instructor, is named after the Slovenian airline Adria Airways.
  • The orgy Ebony walks in on in Volume 9 is based on a sex party a flatmate of MacVeigh's held when he was in University. While MacVeigh didn't partake in it, he found it hard to sleep because of it. According to MacVeigh, in the room next door to his, his flatmate had a threesome on his drum kit with two girls which made a ton of noise, a group of girls and boys he'd invited went wild in the communal living room and left the place in tatters, while his two gay friends made love in the communal shower and left the controls... "erm... sticky..." Back then, the incident felt horrid for him, but now, he says he can look back on it and laugh.
• Write What You Know: The part where Siobhan and Ebony are refused the right to share a room at a hotel because they're a same-sex couple is based on an incident MacVeigh heard about that happened in 2010, where a same-sex couple were refused to stay in the same hotel as each other by the management. This led to a rather controversial legal battle in which the hotel lost and was forced to close.