This interview is of spearcarrier, whose comics are: Akashik, Ologist at LARGE and Going Under!
(interview conducted by Anubis!)


1.Where did the idea of Akashik come from? What drugs were you using?
LOL… that's easy and hard at the same time. The condensed story is that Taus has always been with me in some form or another. She's just one of those characters that permeates everything you do. I used to tell her story to myself when I was a small child, back when drugs were frowned upon for small children. This would be long before ritlin or however you spell it.


2. What's with that hair? I mean really?
I'll have you know I've been growing this hair since 1989… no wait. You mean Taus, right? Or Ganji? Um. Yeoman? Okay, whose hair and whome did it strangle?


3. How long have the Writers been doing it?
“It” as in the comic, I should assume? Because if you're referring to another it, we're going to have to take you aside and explain about age grouping and ratings on DD. Be that as it may, it will be three years for us in regards to Akashik this November.


4. Do you use whips and riding crops to get your staff to work faster and harder??
No. I tried using a whip and only succeeded in cutting my own face. Riding crops don't even look menacing, and I think War would like that too much. Mostly I use the power of whine and the lure of nonexistent money.


5. What prompted you to start the comic?
One day I lost yet another desk job and thought, “Screw this! I'm going back to comics!” I assembled a team of people and here we are.


6. Your characters have a lot of quirks to them; do you or your team share those quirks?
Bwa ha ha ha… yes. Guess which one of us loves guns and which one of us has an aversion to getting arrested.


7. How much say do you have over the storyline?
100%. It's ultimately my story. Yet somehow War's wit and Conquest's tendency to puns creeps in uncontrollably. Akashik was actually meant to be a very serious comic, but sticking three girls and a single chocolate bar together never ends well.


8. What do you find the most challenging thing about Akashik?
Keeping people from losing the plot. It's hard because everything is happening in more than one place at once, so we have to do cameos and flashbacks often. There are mistakes we've made but it's too late to go back now. So we just keep plugging forward, because it's very important to me to see the end of the story. I've other comics I want to do!


9. Do you take inspiration from movies or comics or other sources?
Well, like I said the story has always lived in me. There's a lot of hard-core research that has went into the story from places like Hindu texts and UFO lore. Other than that, we avoid other mediums. The Apocalypse Writers actually have a rule about staying away from pop culture to an extent. We'll cameo characters (there's a smurf in a crowd on one of the recent pages, for example.) and lords know at the very beginning I had to beat War to death to get her to stop with the Firefly references (there *is no* “If Weeden can do it we can, too”). But events and plot devices are at least because it seems natural not because we really loved The Iron Giant. =^-^=


10. Taus is a very interesting character. Is that you?
Look! A butterfly!


11. Is Taus safe?
Is that a loaded question? Because Yeoman might have a loaded answer for you.

12. For the last wee while we have had Ganji being in Taus life. What sandwiches does Taus like?
PB it's an ethnic thing. I've always done comics. When I was in kindergarten, I drew comics. The same goes for every other grade. When I was in high school I hooked up with all of the other guys who wanted to be comic artists and drew for them. Now they work in tech support, and I draw comics. It's just what I do.


20. Porn please? Uhh I mean, if you could take over the world and remake it in your own image…would you like toast or waffles?
Well, if I request toast then everyone would BE toast … and you can't rule the world without a world to rule. So waffles it is. If you burn the edges, you're toast.

Awesome interview :P
It's not common to see a team of people working on comics on DD, but it's always interesting.
…mmm…waffles.

<3

Nice interview, DD has a lot of characters doesn't it?