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BananaHands
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You can pick one of the characters you've drawn to come to life. Who would it be and why?
Zappit
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Oh, god. I wouldn't wish any of my characters on the world. Having said that...Tate Cain from the Pixel-verse. He was a pretty serious newsman. He would actually have a chance to adapt to the real world. Gul'Jagen from my first comic, Cute Ninja Girls, would be the next choice, but I'd limit his immortal culture-shocked shenanigans to Florida, where he could blend in.
Would you mow your lawn at 7:30? If yes, then go for it. If not, then leave the noisy machinery alone for the evening.
I sometimes think your drawing style is a bizarro-style to my own (or vise versa). Do you think I am you from another dimension?
Zappit
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Hmm. I just watched the new Spider-Man today. I guess I'd sing the Asshole Song to Dennis Leary. My singing voice is not far off from euthanasia, and really, it's not a song meant to be sung well.[DOUBLEPOST=1357954956][/DOUBLEPOST]
Well, fuck. You figured it out. My plan to replace you and permanently escape my apocalyptic dimension will have to be shelved.
If you'll excuse me, I need to go fend off some teenage mutant vampire turtles, and then maybe do some drawing.
Can I be the executor of your will?
Zappit
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I don't know if you want to. The executor will carry a document granting ownership of my entire estate, but will be hunted for sport by my heirs, likely facing a gruesome, urine-soaked end. You up for that?
Are these drawings roughly based off your own likeness? Do you find that you try to change your drawn-self when you change something in real life? (glasses, facial hair, etc.)
Zappit
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Nope. I look nothing like my cartoon doppelgänger, (aside from a receding hairline) and none of my other characters look like me.
I really am bizarro-you..
Zappit
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Well I did just tell you that.
Zappit
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Yes.
I've been dealing with people like you my whole life.
In college, yes. I used to enjoy a good quesadilla in my art classes, eaten with a knife and fork to keep my art makers clean and the paper pristine.
Zappit
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That is not a question. That is a statement, which earns this statement as a response.
Zappit
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Jeezus, yes. My whole family would make fantastic protagonists - think Johnathan Franzen (minus the sex) if it were written by George Carlin. I really do need to write that book.
Which console do you think has/had the best controller? This is totally preference, not innovation.
Zappit
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Whoever asks for a People magazine or US Weekly first.
It really never got better than this.
If you fancy someone, what's the first thing you hope they notice about you?
Zappit
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The ultimate nerd debate is, and always will be, Kirk or Picard: Best Captain? There are no winners there. Everyone is a loser.
We good, bud.
That I'm alive...
Zappit
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Zappit
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I guess that would be my 12th grade AP English teacher. Before that point, I was dickering with comics, and he saw them and wanted to put them in the school paper; I wound up winning an award for them.
He just...seemed to be able to get people - pretty much everyone around him. It might have been more of a social intuition, but he got me thinking about literature in a new and different way, and made a huge impact on me on how I turned out as an adult.
My art teacher in my junior/senior year told me I was wasting time drawing cartoons, and would always tell me to stop doing them. I hated that bitch. Looking back I think of all the people like me she may have been snuffing out their desires to more suit what she preferred. I'm glad she didn't break my spirit though. I wish I had someone that backed me up on my hobbies/interests when I was in high school like you did. That's an awesome English teacher you had there.
North_Ranger
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What's your zombie plan?
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