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CHARACTERS -
MAIN CHARACTERS ::


Sam is the typical fanboy--the type that worships Nintendo more than any sane man should. He's Jewish, which is the first thing that's wrong with him. He's also a whiney son of a bitch. Definitely the kind of gamer that would declare a game he loses at "unfair", complete with a face covered in tears and at least one broken TV screen.



Alex is the raw brains of the operation. Sadly his "beautiful mind" is a little warped, bent every so often on killing small animals or stealing food from the homeless. Hey, he can't help it--the video games really do rot your brain, y'know! Also has a tendency to confuse fiction for reality, often with startling consequences.



Nick is the last with a witty retort. Possibly smarter than Alex and more cynical than Sam, but keeps it hidden under a trendy "rock emo" persona. Proves his gaming manhood by beating games quick and dirty. Would not eat his own clothing for a new Zelda game, but has come very, very close.



Gus is the tough gamer with a "fuck you" attitude. Under the punk facade lies a boy who spends his entire day in his basement lair either watching the Labyrinth or doing voice-overs for classic Final Fantasies. Absurd? Pathetic? Maybe. Just don't say anything about it and you'll escape with your life.



SIDE CHARACTERS ::

Blake is Gus's entourage. Yeah, all of it. Met through a complex greeting process in Square's Final Fantasy Online...
  • APPEARANCES: 4, 14, 28, 69



  • Andrea is Sam's ultimate crush - the girl that "would" be perfect for him, if only he weren't such a creep.
  • APPEARANCES: 5, 63


  • Steven was one of those kids that just didn't have a clue what was going on, but was always sure he did. He wanted more than anything to be Sam and Alex's friend. Poor fool.
  • APPEARANCES: 6, 19, 78


  • Irritating Rainbow is a new wave band from Milwaukee whose biggest (and really only) fans are our four boys. True story.
  • APPEARANCES: 11


  • 12-year-olds are our worst enemies. We just fucking hate them. GOD DAMMMIT!
  • APPEARANCES: 17, 88, 92


  • Robo-Moto was an assassin robot replica of Shigeru Miyamoto sent from Japan to interact with Alex, Sam, Gus, and Nick. Not all is what it seems, it seems...
  • APPEARANCES: 18, 21


  • Shigeru Miyamoto is the god and master of all you foresee. The boys would go through Hell and back to get a chance to meet him. You know you would too.
  • APPEARANCES: 25, 72, 76, 77, 78


  • David Byrne (of Talking Heads) is a great performer and talented lyricist. He sometimes stops by to say hello to Alex.
  • APPEARANCES: 32


  • Eric Wible was a good man. A damn good man.
  • APPEARANCES: 54


  • Denny's this guy we party with. He's a cardshark, the man everyone wants to need, and dare I say, the Christ child reborn?
  • APPEARANCES: 56


  • Joe screwed up Sam's computer. So we killed ourselves.
  • APPEARANCES: 58, 64


  • Mr. Boss is Alex's employer at Weiner World. "Welcome to the firm, Sonny."
  • APPEARANCES: 59


  • Bill Gates is an evil mastermind with the power to manifest incredible technology at will. Shigeru Miyamoto's arch-villain.
  • APPEARANCES: 66, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79


  • The X-Beast is a destructive robot built by Microsoft whose sole purpose is to smash (and not in the Smash Bros. sense of the word, mind you).
  • APPEARANCES: 72, 73, 74, 75


  • The Dreamcaster was for a time the ruler of all consoles. Today he is but a battle-worn wandering old man with some advice to give the Fanforce.
  • APPEARANCES: 74


  • Jessica was Steve of Stan + Steve Comics' younger sister. For some reason, the cops never choose to investigate Alex's murders...
  • APPEARANCES: 84


  • Kaia is one of our Rentonian friends from Japanese class. She likes a good boy joke, but sex with cardboard just pushes it too far.
  • APPEARANCES: 93, 94


  • Mitchell is our other friend from Japanese class. He's got us all figured out. It's borderline creepy.
  • APPEARANCES: 94


  • Sassy (or "Sasquatch", for short) was our good friend from the woods. We found him bigfoot hunting in Skamania county. He didn't catch any bigfeet, but WE caught ourselves a new friendship! A-and yellow fever.
  • APPEARANCES: 101, 108, 114, 128, 136


  • Sean is one of those Kirkland kids we all love to love. He has hair and glasses and isn't Nick.
  • APPEARANCES: 106, 107


  • Nosferatu is Alex's husband. Most famous for bringing back bubonic plague in the 1840's. Starred in a movie once. It was pretty good.
  • APPEARANCES: 131


  • Gabby is the subconscious manifestation of the type of girl Sam is most likely to "get" in the future: the ugly pity fuck girl.
  • APPEARANCES: 134, 136


  • Sam's Parents are Sam's parents. His dad, Tom, is an artist trapped in a businessman's suit. His mom, Gail, is a hippie turned computer programmer. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Aside from Sam, they also own an older child and a rambunctious teddy bear named Dee Dee.
  • APPEARANCES: 135


  • Jacob is a guy Alex had one of his strangest sexual encounters with (and that's saying something).
  • APPEARANCES: 137

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