Actually, it’s possible that Dallas would be waiting in line for a PS3 or Wii. Although, it’s much more likely that he’d eschew the entire affair as console childishness, preferring the comfort of a mouse and monitor to a controller and television (as you saw, their TV isn’t exactly HD).

The opening arc of a comic is like the overture in a suite: get all the major themes together, introduce them, and let the reader know that they’re going to get stirred up later. While we had spent a decent amount of time planning this opening arc, it wasn’t until I sat down, having written five strips already, and said, “Hey, where’s the other guy?” Li embodies my question here.

It works out well, I think, given Dallas’s occupation. There are all sorts of archetypes at play with the haggard code jockey, but I know enough of them as friends and co-workers to know that at least half of them are true. There isn’t a week that goes by where I don’t have a work-related e-mail I read at 8am that had been sent by the poor guy at 2:45am… while he was at work. Such is life under a deadline.

~Matt

~*~

Well, I’m heading up to Portland this weekend to meet my partner in crime for the first time. It’s kinda funny. We’ve known each other for almost a decade, but have never met face to face, and have only talked on the phone once. When I was a student living in Florida, neither of us had the money to travel across country to visit. Even when I was a student in San Francisco, it was hard, because I had even less money. Then, I got a job, and while I had enough money… I didn’t have enough time. So finally, this weekend, I’m going up to Portland to visit.

In other news, it has just recently been confirmed that I will be temporarily moving to San Francisco after Thanksgiving. I’ve got a 3 month contract working on a movie that may (or may not) involve talking like a pirate. “Arr… matey.”

~Rich

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