The life and times of...

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Bond

I'd like to know why Typhoid decided to go into sheet metal fabrication.

Because when I was in school I liked shop class. I like physically making things, and being able to say "hey, I made that" when you see something on a new building.

[DarkMaster]

Originally Posted by Fox 6

Yeah, im 6'7".

You tall as hell, son.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

You tall as hell, son.

And skinny as a tree.




A very skinny tree....

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Swan

And skinny as a tree.




A very skinny tree....

Post pics or it didn't happen...

Anyhow, I also don't know much about Swan or DarkMaster either.
I've really fallen out of touch with people here.

[Dylflon]

Originally Posted by manasecret

I've been curious about how you started your comic, who the characters represent, who writes and draws it with you, and which one of you gets the writing/drawing credits. (I think it's great.)

My girlfriend (Elaine) and myself met at Simon Fraser University in a poetry class and started dating about a month after we met. The university runs a student newspaper called the Peak and whenever we read their humour section we were disappointed by how crappy it was. We both agreed that we could make better comics than they could and so we started making our own comics. We ran them in the Peak for one semester but stopped when the humour editor changed. We hate the new humour editor so much that we don't submit our comics to the paper. I'm currently waiting for him to graduate so I can start running it there again.

The characters represent myself and Elaine. Of course they aren't really a lot like us (except in some of our comics inspired by actual conversations we've had) but they embody the sillier elements of our personality. The characters (us) are mainly there for identifiability but also sort of as a self-reflexive element to the comic since they aren't characters we made up. They're just vessels for the silly things we think up.

I write the comic and Elaine draws. We dabble in eachother's processes sometimes. Elaine has directly inspired a few of the comics as well as come up with the general ideas for a number of them. I sometimes draw small things within the comics that she is having trouble with including some objects but mostly expressions.

We've only ever had two guest writers. One of them being our very own Fox6 (Cam) who has entirely written a few comics and also wrote a few with me. And we have one comic that was written by Raphael Bob-Wakesburg of the Olde English sketch comedy troup.



And for BreakABone:

I'm 21 one in a month.
Been dating my girlfriend for 2 and 1/3 years.
In my third year of university studying film.
Currently in the editing process of a short film we shot last semester.
I work in a video store.
Uh...that's about everything that doesn't involve me delving deeper into my life. If anyone has specific questions, I can talk more later.

[Dylflon]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

Post pics or it didn't happen...

Here's Cam being tall/skinny and high fiving Swan

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

Here's Cam being tall/skinny and high fiving Swan

You know what the difference is between Swan and I?


I make this look goooooooooooood.

[Bond]

Play much basketball?

[Professor S]

I'd like to know more about our mysterious leader, Neo.

And Crash, including a Halo armor update

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by manasecret

I would also like to know about DeathsHand. I have heard some things from you about you along the way, and yet you still seem mysterious.

-I'm Nathan! I turned 22 a week ago!
-I'm 6'0" and 145lbs!
-I was a teacher's favorite at my magnet elementary school before I freaked out and turned to homeschooling in the 6th grade, which I got bored of upon completing the 8th!
-I have no plans to go back to school outside of maybe getting my GED, if only to stop people from talking to me in a condescendingly slow, hyper-enunciated form of English.
-I work at a local sandwich shop, but I don't make the sandwiches! I have to turn my brain off in order to deal with the steady stream of customers throughout the lunch rush!
-I'm frequently described as either eccentric or an asshole!
-I used to have hair that was longer than most you'd find on females!
-I tend to leave social gatherings without saying goodbye for the sake of not causing a bunch of people to stare at me and feel obligated to wave!
-I have 0 confidence in myself and in others!
-My boss tells me that I'm the only person he's ever met who's turned down free money! Taking it makes me feel guilty (what did I do to deserve it?) and money, outside of "enough to get by", is for people who believe in success as defined in society and that they have a future!
-I don't really care about the starving children in Africa, or most other people or important events! Sometimes I question whether or not I can form a meaningful relationship with anybody!
-I have a number of acquaintances who are into philosophy, which I see as the art of making a mountain out of a mole hill, and even more pointless than most things that the hip kids are studying in college these days.
-I don't see a point to life, but it doesn't get me down and I don't just mope about! I'm more into zoning out, staring off into space, and not remembering events from the previous day!
-I fail to comprehend most social situations, and do not understand how to, nor see the appeal in, making small talk!!
-Some people think I sound scary on paper, and others have taken to simply referring to me as "Creepy", but I'm frequently complimented on my sense of humor, my photography, and my devilishly good looks, and can guarantee 100% that I'm less harmful than your average Joe Six-Pack!

And there you have it.

[Typhoid]

You really, really like exclamation marks!

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Bond

Play much basketball?

Congrats! You just asked me the most frequent question ive ever heard!


Yes.





Plus in my last year of high school i did my public speaking assignment on being tall. I got an "A" grade. ROCK!

[Swan]

-My name is Dylan
-Currently 18
-Work a crappy minumum wage job in the back warehouse of a Sears
-Currently working on getting 2 bands together
-No idea what I want to do with my life, don't really care either (Any suggestions )
-Uh....don't really know what else to say honestly.


Ask any questions any of you would like answered



And no GM I will not tell you how big my package is

[DarkMaster]

I saw my name in here somewhere, so...


In the real world I'm known as Scott. I've lived in Ontario all my life, currently working in Ottawa where it's cold and I shovel snow frequently. I studied both traditional and digital animation in college for 3 years, I now work at a studio in town, helping to produce awesome cartoon shows like Carl Squared, Jacob Two Two, 6teen, Fairly Odd Parents... and a bunch of other crap you probably never heard of if you live in the States and don't have Teletoon!

When I'm not working, I play video games! They are funs.

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

I request information on, I guess the new class of GTers. Granted not new, but weren't around in the ancient days....

include Dyne, Dlyfon, Typhoid, Fox 6 and... whoever else thinks they fall in that gap.

Well, I was here for a while before the rest. I was invited by Nemesis, but he's not around anymore. I had a forum of my own for a year, but the guy who payed for it decided to be a major asshole and cut it off out of the blue with no chance for me to renew anything. Most of the crew was there, except Fox 6 I think. After a long while, and after I started posting, I invited Dylflon here, and then most of the others followed.

As for general info, I'm Phil, 21, currently 220 and 5'11". Fourth year of university, but I need to take a fifth because the planning is horrible here. I need to take two more courses that happen only, surprise, next fall, and next spring. It really blows.

I got my ticket into the game industry through my girlfriend's old crush, who we waited in line for a Wii with. I got a job as Development Support at Propaganda Games, where I worked on Turok for 9 months. However, I'm stuck in the middle of finishing school at the same time so it's going to be a bit of a manuever getting my industry experience working on further Propaganda projects and finishing my degree at the same time. We'll see how it goes! I did work part-time on the last 3 months of Turok at Propaganda Games while still holding a full courseload at school, which a lot of people would find amazing and possibly mesmerizing, if not completely unheard-of.

Anyways, if you want to know anything else, ask.