Frequently Asked "Questions"
the web page
Q. Are Emily and Satan an item?
A. emily has a
huge crush on satan, and satan claims to hate all women-kind. whether or not he
has feelings for her is unknown by all except me. i created satan and i know how
he thinks.
Q. So does Satan have a crush on Emily?
A. as
satan would probably say, "shut up."
Q. Is god a
stoner?
A. he likes to smoke marijuana, yes.
Q. is bob
gay?
A. if gay means happy, then no. he is the most un-gay man there
is.
Q. what are the hidden text messages in the
episodes?
A. they are pain
Q. What is Emily's
occupation? heh...
A. she works at "the office building" in "the big
city." she does a lot of typing and smart-person work. on her lunch break she
plays tetris.
Q. And she gets home at 11 am?
A. I'm a
bad writer.
Q. What sort of scheiss were you smoking for the first
two strips?
A. it was about 2 years ago... i was very angry and sick
and medicated (robitussin, dayquil, benadril)... erik the juiceman sorta
happened on the back of a periodic table of elements.
Q. what do
the characters mean to you?
A. the world
Q. Does Erik
the Juiceman have any sort of basis in DBZ?
A. well, when i first drew
the comic strip series, there were parodies of the "super saiyan"
transformation. the fighting is kind of inspired by dragonball, but weirder.
there will be levels of power in juiceman, but no spikey blonde
hair.
Q. What the hell is a Juiceman?
A. it isn't an
appliance. i'll explain maybe when i'm on my death bed.
Q. who's
your favorite character?
A. emily, she's a lot like
me
Q. Why is Bob an important character? (Or is he?)
A.
he's there.
Q. Why haven't you added any more new cartoons in a
long time?
A. fucking college.
Q. how do you write an
episode?
A. first i take out a sheet of binder paper or printer paper,
i go somewhere that pisses me off, and i let it pour
Q. how is the
music chosen?
A. i read a certain scene from the storyboard while
clicking "next" on my mp3 playlist while it's on random.
Q. which
character is the stongest and could beat the hell out of any of the others in a
fight?
A. right now, mike, by a whole lot. satan is KNOWN to be the
strongest, but emily is at least two times stronger than him, but doesn't like
to show it.
Q. is satan his real name?
A. well, his real
name is ryan. satan is a nickname he got... somehow...
Q. how did
erik the juiceman go from comic strip to animation?
A. i was assigned
to learn a program called "director 7" in my music technology class. it sucked,
so i made it not suck... i wrote "the football game" which was made for
animation. the original animation was so fucking ugly, but it was a
start.
Q. how did you choose the voice cast?
A. i went
to my closest friends and said "wanna be in a cartoon?" it was easy, because my
friends always indirectly inspire whatever i'm doing at a certain moment. the
toughest voice to cast was emily. i chose audrey, cause she talks all funky and
cool, and she can scream loud enough to disintegrate a quarter of the
world.
Q. Where does juiceman take place?
A. probably
somewhere on the east coast. most likely New Jersey.
Q. what's the
clown's name?
A. he is nameless, like a knight on a quest for solitary
vengeance
Q. why do the foo fighters rock so hard?
A.
maybe because they've achieved the ultimate power
Q. What do you
think a "Ho-Banger" is?
A. most likely a man who has worked at taco
bell for at least 3 years, quit, and moved onto another taco bell location.. *(i
later found out that it was a drink of the alcoholic variety.. i'm not too keen
with that stuff)
Q. If you could be any anime character, which one
would you be?
A. i would be spike from cowboy bebop. he is easy-going,
he likes food, he smokes about a trillion cigarettes a day, and for some reason
he can still kick everyone's ass.
Q. what's your favorite
meat?
A. my favorite kind of meat is probably veal. whenever i eat it,
i feel the power of youth
Q.
"oh my goodness...?"
A. shut up, bryan.
Q. Have you been
writing any more strips recently or is your primary focus on animating the many
you've accumulated and simply writing and storyboarding your new ideas like the
mammoth Mike Saga?
A. Very good question. There's a total of about 40
something "beginning" strips. Every now and then I'll write a comic strip here
and there, mostly as therapy when I'm stressed out. There are maybe five
post-Mike saga strips that are floating around in a binder somewhere. I call
them "the anger strips." They're close to the tone of the original 40 something,
but more severely pissed. I'll eventually animate them. I wrote the Mike saga in
many places, and it's finished. I wrote it in my Livermore room, the Santa Cruz
beach I always go to, various classrooms I've been in Granada High, a Las Vegas
hotel room, etc etc... I don't want to give anything away regarding the next
saga (following mike) because I'm nowhere near completing the animation of Mike
Saga... Who knows, maybe I'll shorten the Mike Saga a bit.
*Answered by
JOE
Q. what's
mike's phone number?
A. (f-u-c) k-i-n-g d-i-e
Q. mike
is hot.
A. that's not a question. please fill up your bathtub, go to
the kitchen and unplug your toaster, then plug it in by the tub. pick it up, set
lever in the 'down' position, get in the tub, and submerge the toaster.
*Answered by Tony
Q.
Why is my leg on fire?
A. Chicken Nuggets.
*Answered by John once more
Q.
If Audrey were a boy, would you still do her?
A. I would DO her... DO
her a favor and get her a sex change. Boy i weaseled outta that one
nicely.
Q. Had this entire extravaganza of an animation never
existed, would your world (or ours for that matter) ever be the same?
A. I don't know for sure about other people's worlds, cause I'm not
them. As for me, I would probably still be into making stupid music if juiceman
never existed.
Q. Two words: peanut butter. Agree or disagree?
A. Agree
Q. To shave or not to shave?
A. Ah!
Another very good question. It depends. For me, I don't shave very much. People
say that I should, but I doubt that i'll listen. it just takes too much time.
the same thing goes for showers. know what i mean?
Q. What are
your views on marbles?
A. they're shiny round objects
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