How to survive a bad roommate…
by Josh at 10:00 pm
This April, Dark Horse Comics will be publishing the first of a four issue mini-series called ArchEnemies. Back in college, I used to play RPGs with the writer, Drew Melbourne. ArchEnemies is about a superhero and supervillian who are archenemies (go figure) bent on each other’s destruction. In their secret identities and unbeknownst to either of them, they are also roommates who are bent on each other’s destruction.
I was checking out the official site for the comic which is home to a growing number of marketing gimmicks, including a hilarious personality quiz:
You find your roommate’s favorite pair of pants lying in the middle of the living room floor. Do you…
…fold them up nicely and leave them by the door to his room?
…leave them there until they start to smell?
…take them with you to the laundromat, wash them twice, take a thorough shower, and then return them?
…leave them there until they start to smell. And then point at them and laugh?
…build a giant robot to DESTROY THEM?!?
Everything I’ve seen so far looks good and I’m looking forward to seeing the final product when it comes out.
But here’s the thing that’s obvious to me, but others probably haven’t realized yet (possibly not even Drew himself.) The character of the Evil Underlord (whether consciously or not) is clearly based on Drew’s longtime friend Jay Emery Treat III (also mentioned in Drew’s blog.) See the inset picture for evidence. I happen to further know that during his freshman year of college, Jay and his roommate were, in fact, ArchEnemies bent on each other’s destruction. Coincidence? I’ll let you decide.
February 7th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
As you’ve been kind enough to allow me to decide, I, Jay Emery Treat III–and that is the name I always go by–, hereby declare that this is both coincidence and intentional. It’s coincitentional.
I will also take a moment to enilghten the Kiddses’es audience on the nature of my freshman your antipathy: My roommate was in Navy ROTC. He hated authority. He hated authority so much he pissed on it. Literally. Outside our common fourth-floor window into the rooms below. Long story short: he was weak and I destroyed him.
As you can see from my photograph–in which I am displaying my neutral face–I am a calm, benevolent and beautiful man. Therefore do not cross me or I will be forced to hatch a diabolical scheme framing your mother for the theft and eventual deflowering of Emmanual Lewis Jr. Don’t google that name. Don’t do it right now!
February 15th, 2006 at 4:52 am
Sorry to disagree with Jay, but this is entirely coincidental and non-intentional. It is nontirely intencidental.
Unless you are part of the all important “only buys comics featuring characters inspired by Jay Emery Treat III” market. In that case, it was both extremely intentional and non-coincidental.
It was nondentionally inxtremetental.