Who is the random Secret Bakery employee from strip 1845? Red/black flannel shirt, glasses, scar on the neck, mullet-like hair. S/he’s talking to Elliot about Padma (that much is now clear), when Hanners and Marten first walk in, and they see it’s eeriely similar to the main circle’s dynamic. You’ve introduced everyone from SB (and a few not in that strip) except that person. Can we a gender/name?

Eventually. Unless I change my mind.

What would your last meal be? Go.

A bullet

Is the fancy bar based on a real place? Cause it would be awesome to have a classy bar like that.

Based on the Dirty Truth in Northampton, but if you go in and ask about fancy outfits you will be scorned severely.

Hey Jeph. Will there ever be a time when your loyal UK following will be able to buy the QC volumes at reasonable rates?

Nothing I can do about shipping costs, unfortunately. Sorry.

Hey man, thanks for all the comics. Do you like Devin Townsed/SYL? Are you playing any games lately, do you even have time?

I’ve only heard bits and pieces of Townsend’s work, but it sounds pretty good. I’m on my second playthrough of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Why did you give up drinking?

I was getting too good at it.

Hey Jeph, last year around this time you did a run-down of music you were listening to, and thanks to you I picked up the Besnard Lakes, Fang Island, and the newest Broken Social Scene record, none of which I would have come across otherwise. Any recommendations for this year?

I’ll do another Best-Of list towards the end of the year, keep an eye out for that.

Jeph, any word on if there’s going to be another webcomics weekend in the valley? So far the internet has produced no info.

There definitely will be, its date is sort of up in the air at the moment AFAIK. Sometime in 2012 fo sho.

Ok, since Momo said she was 2 1/2, (presumably since initial ‘activation’) and is now in a pre-teen (early-teen?) looking chassis, how old is her ‘personality’? When you select (purchase?) an Anthro-PC, do you get a choice of the ‘age’ of the initial personality, or do they all start from the same (relative) point?

They all start from the same relative point, but they develop in different directions. I wouldn’t say Momo is particularly “childish,” just that she’s more naive and sheltered than, say, Pintsize. Now she’s out exploring the world on her own more, which leads to more new experiences and formative things.

How old are all the characters?

Hanners and Marigold are only 21 or 22, Marten and Faye and the bulk of the cast are 24-25, Dora’s 26, Sven’s 27, etc etc etc I have a million characters

you saying that you had “like 458 characters” in your comic made me think that maybe you could do a character page with, perhaps, a pic and bio and which comic they were introduced in. just a thought for the future.

I really ought to do this, but it would take FOREVER.

When it comes to webcomics, should you keep working until you get a panel just right, or settle for what you know how to do at the moment?

Depends on your update schedule and your willingness to self-administer misery.

i thought i would look terrible with my septum done (and i still am not entirely sure why i did it), but after about three days i fell in love with it. it’s been about four months now and i think i would cry if i had to take it out. they seem a lot less temporary than normal nasal piercings. POINT BEING, if you still want it, go for it! the worst thing that can happen is you don’t like it and you take it out. :D

STOP TEMPTING ME my wife would be mad if I got one!!!!