Questions to whoever feels like answering.

[Yin]

What's your favourite Ben and Jerry's flavour? (Or, failing that, your favourite ice cream flavour overall?)

[Tom Siddell]

Chubby Hubby, but I can't find it anywhere anymore.

[fjodor]

Tom,

Some time ago you said that you'd be in favor of 'Gunners' as the name for GC-fans. Can I assume that you support Arsenal?

[Tom Siddell]

Nope. I do not follow football (or soccer) in the slightest. In fact I actively avoid it.

[nickgoodway]

Tom,
If Annie sounds like Kate Rusby and Kat is a Scot, do the two of them talking sound like Kate and John McCusker bantering on stage?

[todd]

Well, I'm not Tom, but I'd say that unless John McCusker (whoever he is) hasn't hit adolescence yet, he probably wouldn't sound that much like Kat (accent aside).

[La Poire]

admin said:

Nope. I do not follow football (or soccer) in the slightest. In fact I actively avoid it.

Nice. Any sports you have any active interest in? Judo?

[toxicvoid]

Would you say that most of your fanbase is in the UK or the US? I stumbled on your website and love it because I can read at work I'm upset at myself though because I didn't set a good pace-- I went by too quickly and now I've read the whole story and have to wait for more

[Uglyhead]

So... how did the Comix Thing go, Tom!? Was it full of nerds? Did people buy your things? Did people ask you to make sketches of dumb things for them? Did you make lots of new friends and have a great time?

[Madii]

In relation to the Thing yesterday: do you get annoyed at irritating dwarf types asking you to draw them while they're simultaneously insulting your preferred gaming platform of choice?

(A thousand apologies, my good man. I think little before I speak, most of the time. It's a bad habit. As I said in a comment, the picture is now framed and treasured.)

[Tom Siddell]

The comix Thing was a very fun ol' time. I sold pretty much everything I took save for some of the pin badges. Next time I will have to take more books because I sold them all despite my thinking I would not sell any.
There were nerds as you would expect but nerds are usually nice people. There were also very attractive people but I will not say who they were! The other comic guys were really nice too, like Dr.McNinja, Scary Go Round, Beaver and Steve, Darken, the boys and girls from Reckless Youth and all the others I met. I wish I'd had more time to talk to people though, but since the two people I was going to be with decided not to come I was stuck behind my table all day.
I did do some sketches! Not many at first, but it seemed to pick up afterwards, which was good because doing the sketches was fun. I did have to draw a pirate fighting a ninja (damn you, Internet) but there were also some good/original requests. You can see one in Madii's avatar right there.

Also hello Madii no I did not get annoyed. Despite your mockery of the Dreamcast (boo) I found you to be a very agreeable person. Also I see you are from Birmingham which is where I am from so that is good.

[woo]

Hi Tom. Love your comic, and the fact you release new pages at a steady pace unlike so many other webcomics

Your first GC book was about 120 pages, and now you've gotten to page 224.. so I'm wondering if you have another book planned soon

[yeochild]

Will we ever find out what it was that Zimmy entered into the science fair?

[Tom Siddell]

woo said:

Hi Tom. Love your comic, and the fact you release new pages at a steady pace unlike so many other webcomics

Your first GC book was about 120 pages, and now you've gotten to page 224.. so I'm wondering if you have another book planned soon

Well the next "book" is almost finished now, but I am currently not sure what I am going to do with it with regards to printing.

[Tom Siddell]

yeochild said:

Will we ever find out what it was that Zimmy entered into the science fair?

The answer is in your hearts.

[nickgoodway]

Ventricles?

[Count Casimir]

Evil blood cells?

[yeochild]

*Desperately tries to make this fit in with his pre-formed conclusion*

Ummm, my heart kinda makes this "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh" sound. Doctors say that it's closer to "Lub-dub, lub-dub, lub-dub", but have you ever noticed that nearly every interesting doctor is either evil or crazy or both? (Doctor Doom, Doctor No, Doctor Disaster) Therefore you shouldn't trust them. Logic!

[mrw]

admin said:

yeochild said:

Will we ever find out what it was that Zimmy entered into the science fair?

The answer is in your hearts.

That just makes me think of Yeochild's speculation:

Yeochild wrote: "My personal, utterly baseless guess is that it's some strange, magical thingy that looks like what the seer fears/hates most. Annie sees her dead mother, and recognizes that it's a sick trick. The scientists see a biological superweapon, and are taken in, despite Zimmy's raving."

Maybe.

[fjodor]

So Yeochild may have gotten it right. Which opens up room for new questions, like, what substance could cause this reaction, and will it play a role in the story later on?

Or maybe we are analysing this to death, and we should just use our imagination and think of something abominable. New thread?

[owl]

yeochild said:

*Desperately tries to make this fit in with his pre-formed conclusion*

Ummm, my heart kinda makes this "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh" sound. Doctors say that it's closer to "Lub-dub, lub-dub, lub-dub", but have you ever noticed that nearly every interesting doctor is either evil or crazy or both? (Doctor Doom, Doctor No, Doctor Disaster) Therefore you shouldn't trust them. Logic!

Untrue! What of Doctor McNinja? He's not eveil, he's a Ninja.

[yeochild]

Crazy though. He has a GORILLA as a SECRETARY and FIGHTS RAPTORS.

And while "non-awesome ninja" is a non-sequitur, "evil ninja" isn't.

[owl]

Hmf, true enough, I suppose.

[Count Casimir]

Dr. McNinja is definitely NOT evil. He fights crime--just some of his things happen to unwittingly go beyond the scope of law.

Back to the original topic of the thread, though;

Tom, what size of paper do you draw on? I'm trying to start my own webcomic (thanks in no small part to yourself and a few others), and 8x11 seems kinda small. Or is that just me?

[Aspen d'Grey]

Tom- could you take a quick read through the GC MMO thread and tell us whether it would be OK to make a MOO based off of GC?

[Tom Siddell]

countcasimir said:

Tom, what size of paper do you draw on? I'm trying to start my own webcomic (thanks in no small part to yourself and a few others), and 8x11 seems kinda small. Or is that just me?

I draw my pages on A4 sized papger, which is roughly 8x11 (or 8 and a quarter by 11 and a half).

[Tom Siddell]

aspengrey said:

Tom- could you take a quick read through the GC MMO thread and tell us whether it would be OK to make a MOO based off of GC?

This is something that I am not okay with.

[faxmaster]

admin said:

countcasimir said:

Tom, what size of paper do you draw on? I'm trying to start my own webcomic (thanks in no small part to yourself and a few others), and 8x11 seems kinda small. Or is that just me?

I draw my pages on A4 sized papger, which is roughly 8x11 (or 8 and a quarter by 11 and a half).

Any chance you could post some wips of a page being made at some point? Not for a tutorial or anything (unless you want to), I just always love to see the process of other artists.

as this is my first post I also feel obliged to mention that your comic is awesome, but I'm pretty sure that my signing up to this forum sort of implies that anyway.

[mrw]

Hi Tom,
I hope all is well with you.

Question: If people seem to be getting too close to predicting actual events or plotlines in their speculations, are you going to feel compelled to change the storyline?

Thank you!

[yeochild]

Tom, is Sullivan's John going to become a more important character in the future?