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" 'Adventure Time' tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk. "

" A huge potential audience, great interaction with your readers, the ability to see what people like and what they don't, the ability to see how people respond to what you're doing in real-time - there's just tons of great stuff that you get by being online. "

" As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well. "

" As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal. "

" A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it. "

" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "

" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "

" For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place. "

" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "

" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "

" I believe good writing can save bad art. "

" I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time. "

" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "

" I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it. "

" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "

" If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit. "

" I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour. "

" In earlier comics, my only priority was telling a joke in the last panel, but now I try to make every panel as interesting as possible, and that normally means at least a li'l joke there. "

" I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out. "

" I read all these Marvel wikis, and there are characters that just stand out to you, and you think, 'How is this character not being used? This is crazy.' "

" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "

" I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty huge influence on me and the way I think and write. "

" I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points. "

" I think with most things online, if you treat your audience like friends instead of like Impressions and Clickthrough Percentages and Returns On Investment, then you're off to a great start. "

" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "

" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "

" It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.' There's nothing of theirs to read, so you don't know what it's going to be like. Kickstarter is great, but you also have to put your work out there whenever you can so you can build a reputation. "

" It's good to have hobbies. "

" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "

" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "

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