Elves and fridgehorror in OotS

[FujinAkari]

We know no such thing. We know that Rich made a comment on it after strip #9, but we have no way of knowing if someone, possibly on another message board, made a comment earlier. Say, back after strip #3, with the "girl talk" episode. When Rich started the strip, he used to post it at several different D&D message boards that he was a member of to get additional feedback/exposure, so people were reading and discussing on other sites right from the beginning.

Nowhere does he say that the fans were members of HIS forums, nor does he identify the early strip in question. If the strip was #3 instead of #9, the situation is reversed: V was intended to be female, but he included verbiage in #9 to deliberately make it a point of confusion. The post of his you linked is therefore him simply acknowledging publicly what he had decided six strips earlier: That V's gender was ambiguous.

This isn't an unsound theory, can you please link to the debate on some other message board that you are referring too? If not, I'm afraid all you really have is speculation and it still won't stand up to evidence.

You don't actually have evidence.

The links seem to indicate otherwise. Unless you (or someone) can produce an earlier point of contention, then there is absolutely no reason to think the debate which Rich refers to precedes the first time the issue was debated on the official forum.

Additionally, your logic does not follow. Rich had decided to make V's gender ambiguous, and so he choose to have a character refer to V in an extremely unambiguous manner?

There are a number of strips that play at the ambiguity and confuse the issue, this is not one of them.