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Interview with Matt Donahue |
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| Greetings, and welcome everyone! Today we have with us Matt Donahue of Gemini Bright. Thank you for agreeing to do this interview, Matt. | |
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Sure. |
| Let's start out with a general question. Tell us a bit about yourself. | |
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Uh...Well, geez, what's there to say? I'm a teenager. I go to school, play video games, eat pizza...I like cars, computers, hanging out with my friends, listening to music, watching TV, you get the idea. Or at least I DID like doing all that stuff until I ended up in another dimension. |
| Thank you. Now, let's take some reader questions. This first one is from Stormwarden: How do you keep from being bored on those long trips in the woods? And how do you keep those blue bangs blue? | |
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It's
kind of unavoidable. All you can really do is walk and talk to each
other. Shira tries teaching me basic stuff about their world, and I
tell her some about ours. Then I spend most of the day either trying to
figure out what Darrin's saying, keeping out of Foo's way, or getting
in fights with Newel. Not much to do there. And I use several kinds of
hair dyes. I'd just dyed it before I came here, and they don't have a
lot of chemical shampoos in this world, so I guess it'll last a while. |
| This one is from Seth C. Triggs: How do you get your hair to be so shiny without looking greasy? And what do you think of running through the woods in constant danger? | |
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I bathe. And it's a lot like running through high school. |
Sunstreak asks: So... Cake or Death? And just so you know, we're fresh out of cake. |
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Ooo,
Eddie Izzard, how original. I'd say I'll take the chicken, but chickens
and death are the same thing out here, so check, please. |
| Nylima asks: How do you feel about all the video game and rpg references that have cropped up lately? | |
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I am incredibly weirded out. |
| From Sara: Do you have a girlfriend back home? | |
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Why, honey? You offering? |
| From Tisa: Why do you think Newel hates you so much? | |
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Because
he's a horse's ass? I dunno, he doesn't seem like Mr. Personality. I
guess I'd be cranky too if I had a rabbit's head and no thumbs. |
| From Kira: Do you think you'll ever hook up with Shira? | |
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I think she'd rather eat her sword than go out with me, but I can dream. |
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From Squeaky: Why blue? And are you in a secret love triangle with Shira and Newel? |
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Why red? Why green? Why purple? Why aren't you french kissing a padded wall in a straightjacket? |
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Rockinhare asks: Soooo, Matt......Ginger? Or Mary Anne? |
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Dude, if you're going to use bad television to define your love life, at least watch "WB," not "Nick at Night." |
| Seth Triggs asks: Matt, why do you end up having so many accidents? |
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I do an interview and this is
what I get for questions? Figures. I'll give you a hint:
Why don't you go stand in the middle of the street for a while?
The answer of what DOESN'T happen to me should hit you pretty quickly. |
| Rockinhare asks: Define MY love life, Mister Dresses-Up-In-Drag-On-Legal-Holidays? Okay, pal, next time it's gonna be "Lovey? Or Thurston?". | |
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I might be on the bad side of
the costume department, but it could be worse. I could be asking people about Gilligan's Island.
Now that's just sad. |
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Lupus Draconis asks: Okay, if you were stuck on a deserted island with either Darrin or Newel, which would you prefer? |
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I guess I'd pick Newel. Because then I'd have fun pulling a "Lord of the Flies" thing on him. |
| Kabbalist asks: Matt, there's an old saying that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Do you think that applies in your case? |
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That's what my mother usually says after I pull something stupid. I guess it does, I'm not dead yet! |
| Jansu Thalskina asks: Alright,
Matt. You can go back home for a period of twenty four hours
before you have to return to this new world. You may bring back
one non-lethal item from your homeworld. What would you do during
your 24 hours, and what would you bring back? |
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Buying a ticket to Las Vegas, breaking into the museum, and getting that ^%$#@! puzzle! |
| LotM
asks: What are ya gonna do with that Meep thing, keep it as a pet? What
if it takes you years to try and find another one of those
puzzle-boxes? Do you think you could handle being in a fantasy world
for that long? If you do end up stuck in this realm for a long
while, eventually you're going to need to find a way to support
yourself. How do you think you might do that? (Yeah, yeah, I
know; you're still a teen and there isn't a local equivalent to working
at McD's, as far as you know. Or if there is, I'd back away
verrrrry slooooowly from such an "opportunity"...) |
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I've kind of been trying not to
think about that, but I don't have a whole lot of choices here.
If it takes years, then it it's going to take years, and somehow I'm
going to have to adapt. I guess I might try to find some
relatively "normal" job. I assume they DO have fry cooks here or
something. I dunno what I'm going to do with the blue furball,
I'm really hoping it just wanders off and does whatever it does.
I'm a little freaked out that it seems to like me. |
| Jansu Thalskina asks: Odd you haven't been asked this yet. So, what's your dress size? | |
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Sorry, what? You need more Prozac? I didn't catch that. |
| Purrzah asks: Okay.
We know you're probably not the gamer geek type and you're not finding
yourself in gamer geek heaven. However, for sheer survival you have to
pick up some new skills. Do you think you'll like learning the archaic
weapons like the sword and bow? Or do you like the idea of magic
better, using that handy-dandy vest you've been given? Or do you think
with all the issues you've been having with animals you may turn out to
be some sort of "beast-master" type? |
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You got that right, have you been out of your parents basement lately? *sigh* I guess your question has a point, so I'll give you a real answer: I
don't know. I don't like learning any of it on the fly. Now if I
could get my hands on a magic AK-47 with unlimited magic ammo rounds, that's something I could get to liking quick! |
| Captain Taiidani asks: In
all honesty, is your current situation any worse than your old
one? At least here you know who your enemies are, and are allowed
to kill them off. That is generally frowned upon on 21st century
Earth. |
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Yeah,
Middle Class American existence was really out to get me. I regularly
ran around with political renegades while I was cutting school, and the
cops never did buy the "self-defense" bit after I put a sword
through a monster's head while walking downtown. It was trying to eat
me on Fifth and Pine by the bus stop. I mean, geez! And I've lost
count of how many people I've killed while going to war in
suburbia. Sometimes I'd skip doing my homework just so I could
keep killing things. Goblins in SUV's suck. Yeah, this
whole
"killing and robbing the bodies without repercussions" thing is pretty
sweet and I really wanna go on a good old fashioned bloodthirsty
merciless rampage just to try it out. How about I start with you
and put you out
of my misery? |
| Miss
Mab asks: 1: If/Once you make it out of the dungeon...any idea of how
you are going to find Shira and Co.? Since they're somewhat
renegades its probably not a simple matter of asking the locals. 2: It
has to be a hassle that you can't simply get an insta-recovery from a
spell or whatnot...so other than being immune to ugly chickens, has the
magic immunity been of any use? |
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Finally, some real
questions. Depending on where I come up, I was hoping to
backtrack a bit and look for them. If nothing else, I'd try
to find the road again and head in the direction of the town we were
going to. You're right that I can't really ask the people about them by name...but really, how do you MISS not noticing that
party? As for the second question, yeah, I guess so. I
really'd rather not have any more spells cast on me, even if they are
supposed to help me. |
| Terry Blackwolf asks: Greetings, Terry here, but cutting the chat and going right to the point, here's a question: How do you feel, knowing that your life is being exposed in a webcomic manner? |
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I'd say working at McDonalds looks better all the time. |
| Webkilla asks: So Matt... Newel or Shira - and be honest! (you know you want that hot esquilax stalion action) |
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Hm,
what? Sorry. I
found...anything...to be more interesting than your question and I
wasn't listening. I hope they find the appropriate medication for
you soon.
NEXT! |
| Anonymous asks: Looking
at some of the earlier questions... well, let's not go too much into
that. But do you think 'touching base' with a few people from
your home dimension/universe/whatever is going to help you appreciate
where you are now, or is this just annoying you enough that you'll be
sure to snap at Newel et al? |
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I appreciate a lack of stupidity no matter what dimension I'm in. |
| ANTIcarrot
asks: It doesn't seem to have occurred to your hosts that Darrin's
explosive cooking might have military uses. Have you considered
pointing this out to them? Or alternatively, *not* pointing it out to
them? Or same question for any other piece of interesting information
that you know and they don't. |
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No,
I haven't considered it, but now that you mention it, I don't think I
would. Simply because it doesn't help if you blow up your own
side along with the enemy. |
| Leia Organa Solo asks: Your
vest fascinates me; I know it’s meant to ‘sense’ what you need to help
you, but really, the objects it decides to manifest are so random it
seems to ‘run’ on some weird combination of quantum mechanics and
string theory. Did you ever think of just keep pulling things out
until it manifests another puzzle? |
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If only it were that easy.
It seems to have it's own rules. If I try to stick my hand in
there randomly, it'll be empty. |
| Jansu Thalskina asks: Who
would you associate yourself the most with, and why? Arthur Dent
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Hitomi Kanzaki (The Vision of
Escaflowne), Hank Morgan (A Connectict Yankee in King Arthur's Court),
or John Crichton (Farscape)? |
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I guess Arthur Dent, because my life reads like a Douglas Adams novel. |
| Malaxian
Groundhog asks: Good day. My question is this; Have you in your time in
"that other place" found anything even remotely like coffee? I realize
they would probably have some form of tea, but it just isn't the same.
And while I'm on the subject of addictive substances, how about tobacco? |
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Yeah,
they do have coffee, but it's limited because of the war. I don't
know about tobacco yet. I could kill for a cigarette and
Starbucks right about now. |
| Jhet JackelDrake asks: are
you sure Newel is an Esquilax, and not just a llama with freak ears? I
mean what kind of Esquilaxian things has he done? the rest seem to be
freaky mutants to the point where, scary to say, you are the most
normal one of them. |
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Yeah, that is
pretty scary. I'm not really an expert on anything here. I
mean, last I checked, it was genetically impossible to breed a horse
and a rabbit. So if you really wanna ask that question, ask Newel
yourself. I'm sure he'd love to tell you all about it.
AndI'm sure Shira, Foo, and Darrin would enjoy being called "freaky
mutants." You should try telling them that too. I'll just stand over
here and sell tickets to see their response. |