The AskRoonas section hasn't been updated in a while, so I thought I'd make a pest of myself...

Well, I can't respond if people don't write em' ... so let's have at it, already!

First off, let me say that I thoroughly enjoy the comic and I frequently try to get my friends to read it. I've since figured out that most of them are illiterate and wouldn't recognize something fun to read if I beat them with it. *sigh* Being such a good pal, I'll keep trying to enlighten them.

Well that's good of you ... Sacred Pie needs all the prophets it can get! Just tell your friends it's their loss and move on to others ... we don't care who we grab, so long as they like it ...

On to the questions...

Goodie-Goodie-Gumdrops!

What kind of varied background did you guys come from that caused a bunch of drunken college friends to come up with an idea like SP? When I fondly look back at my drunken college days,we never got quite so esoteric. I just can't imagine sitting around (back then at least) thinking up things like "what if Lucifer had a Betty Crocker oven and baked a Sacred Pie...." I might just have been hanging out with the wrong bunch of geeks.

Probably ... I happen to be blessed with knowing some of the biggest (and best/brightest) geeks on the Eastern Seaboard ... and we were a bunch of drunken retards, but that's ok for when you're 21-22 ... and Bob was the most "retarded" of us all :D ... that boy can sure drink, which explains where the Pie talk started ... I just got him to finally put down his beer long enough to finish out some rough sketches and get enough motivation so I could sit back on cruise control and just watch for a while. I only step in and use my Geek-powers when I need to, Bob's are on 24-6 ... (he always loses a day in there somewhere) ;) ...

Have any favorite authors? Recommended Sci-Fi or anything? I read the SP updates and then have to wait a week for the next installment... It would be nice to have something else to readwhile waiting.

I'd say favorite authors list could go something like-a-dis:

Asimov - (Read the robot series first, then Foundation to the end, you can also throw in some Galactic Empire novels, but they aren't as pivotal to the over-all story Asimov created!)

Card - Ender's Game ... mind blowing. Very broad-spectrum'd Sci-fi ... and a series (in totality) that I highly recommend, not just the first book.

Herbert - Dune dude ... all of em' ... should be required reading for everyone (IMO).

Where did the Wachowski brothers go wrong with the Matrix?

My feelings on this are all over the place. In one way, I wanna say - 'wtg' Wachowski bro's, but in another way, I wanna ask them why they skimped out on the plot by making the third movie - heck - as far as trilogies go, this one wasn't Grade-A ... (in fact, it's partly my ambivalence that has kept Bob and I from doing an "Roonas and Bob at the movies" critique for it) ... I would've prefered to either see them end it right after the second movie, or to have made more of a statement intellectually in the third one ... so, to sum up - they made a third movie not on the caliber of the first or second just to beat the rush ... and it blew.

Wiley E. Coyote or the Road Runner?

-Psyche

Wiley E. Coyote of course ... gotta love a guy who just doesn't quit.

-Your friendly neighborhood Roonas!