Characters
Jeffrey
I'm Jeffrey. I'm in the driver's seat. I'm loud, I spout random intellectual bravado, and I have an unhealthy obsession with myself. I really, really like driving. I'll drive people around if they ask me. I'll even do it if they don't ask me! I'm a bit creepy that way!
First Appearance: CAR #1: It Starts
James
James is a longtime friend of mine. I ran a few websites with him back in the day, we were both totally obsessed with Konami's music games (we ran the DDR club in high school). Even now, he's known around the Bay Area as a great dancer. Off the dance pads, of course. He's nowhere as near a killjoy as I make him out to be.
First Appearance: CAR #5: Hoof Arted
80's Guy
80's Guy was once my most frequent flyer. As his name implies, he has a vast knowledge of the 1980's, and he even OWNS A DELOREAN.
First Appearance: CAR #2: It... Still Starts
Bryan
Bryan is some crazy kid who went to school with me at UC Santa Cruz. In his heyday, he ran websites devoted to finding crazy shit on the internet, and he'd play a buttload of DDR with me. He's a damn talented cartoonist and you'll probably see that he makes better CAR stuff than I do.
First Appearance: CAR #4: Are You Enjoy?
Sophie
Sophie is a fellow techie who went to college with me. She lives on the scary, mysterious side of Marin - which used to be a long drive, until I ended up working up the street from her house.
First Appearance: CAR #7: In More Ways Than Seven
Lily
My sister, Lily, is a drummer and a big fan of local bands and progressive rock. She's off at NYU now!
First Appearance: CAR #13: Boyz In The Hood
Adam
Adam likes to follow Bryan around wherever he goes. Oh yeah, he's Jewish.
First Appearance: CAR #4: Are You Enjoy?
Hannah
Hannah went to our partner high school, San Rafael HS, and went UCSC with the rest of us! We used to carpool together to Jewish stuff, and I'd help her with computer problems all the time, but now we're just buddies and like to kick it from time to time. She can be really hyper.
First Appearance: CAR #6: Front Seat
Conrad
Conrad went to high school with Bryan, Sophie, et al, but got his GED early and is basically on his own nowadays. He's somehow amazed by my website designing and cartooning skills, but thinks that we're all insane for playing music games that well.
First Appearance: CAR #7: In More Ways Than Seven
Keith
I often gave Keith a ride home back in high school. He's a big fan of local bands and has a wide knowledge of music, but often says things that makes me want to turn him into a stick figure.
First Appearance: CAR #11: Bad Representation
Brad
Brad is the Canadian DDR wonder, capable of AAAing tall songs in a few hundred bounds.
First Appearance: CAR #120: Buy A Rack
Levi
Levi is the first full-blooded Canadian to appear in this strip. For that he is proud. He also likes Asians a lot... I'm pretty sure he's proud of that too. Believe it or not, he also plays DDR.
First Appearance: CAR #61: Warp Speed 10
Simeon
I've known Simeon longer than anyone else in the comic. He was my first step into the world of Terra Linda geekdom. He's a geek in any sense of the word - from computer mods to Star Trek to Warhammer to whatever, Simeon's your man.
First Appearance: CAR #46: Social Life
Omid
Omid is metal. Throughout the ages he's been known to spout hundreds of catchphrases (like such classics as "You're such a *clicks tongue*," "GNYAAAAAAHT," and "I chhhet bugzs"), earning him the title of "King of Catchphrases."
First Appearance: CAR #10: King of Catchphrases
Jeremiah
Jam also went to UCSC with me, and can freestyle like a mofo. I mean, he can basically do Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon stunts in real life. It's freaking scary. Makes trance music too.
First Appearance: CAR #58: Unusable Characters
Java
Yes, that's a dog. A real dog. Half-poodle and half-Pekingese, Java is a dog with an attitude. An attitude like a cat. Okay, he's a little pansy and has the looks to go along with it (yes, he does actually have blue ears), but he cost a lot of money, so that means there have got to be some redeeming qualities about him.
First Appearance: CAR #35: Good Dog
Indogutsu
Probably the only person I don't know in real life (and hasn't been in my car) who will appear in CAR. Indogutsu is basically a jack-of-all-trades on the net, specializing in MIDI composition and making MASSIV games for RPG Maker 2000.
First Appearance: CAR #14: Indogutsu Is Bigger Than You
Felix
Felix is the Brit with the 'tude, and fortunately for him, this is the second comic of mine that he's been featured in. I still think that he'd say stereotypical British things for you if you gave him enough money.
First Appearance: CAR #58: Unusable Characters
Steve
Steve thinks he's Max Payne, and has the snazzy leather jacket to prove it.
First Appearance: CAR #58: Unusable Characters
Nessa
Nessa is by Steve's side through thick and thin, whatever that means. Like most Catholic school girls, she's Jewish.
First Appearance: CAR #58: Unusable Characters
Jeff
I've known Jeff almost as long as I've known Simeon. He calls me Jeff also, which rather complicates things, but he and 80's Guy have thought of these awful pet names for me to tell us apart.
First Appearance: CAR #8: Chichen Itza
Annie
Annie is Sophie's friend. Believe it or not, she also went to highschool with her and the rest of the gang. I'm sure she's amazed at our mad skill in DDR. Definitely. She says "meep."
First Appearance: CAR #72: -THE CITY-
Francisco
Not much is known of Francisco's true origins. In fact, I'm even too bored to ask. But he often bums a ride off of me. He has a wide knowledge of Bob Marley, has the most unkempt hair in the history of everything, and often sports the same gaping expression (see drawing).
First Appearance: CAR #3: Road Trip
Ashley
Ashley is often seen hanging around 80's. She has never missed a DDR Club meeting, but she's never played it. She has a boyfriend who's probably a member of the KKK. She lives within the borders of a state prison. She acts excessively promiscous around me. What's not to love about Ashley?
First Appearance: CAR #58: Unusable Characters
Mary
Mary and I would often take a leisurely morning stop at the coffee shop and carpool to school afterward. She has been known to prove that the manliest men act just like women. That's how her keen sense of deductive reasoning works. (ed - I don't remember what this is supposed to mean)
First Appearance: CAR #58: Unusable Characters
Margot
Margot's an animator and corset salesperson from San Francisco! I don't usually take my car to go see her because parking in San Francisco is ridiculous.
First Appearance: CAR #230: Medical Emergency
Paolo
Paolo is an Oaklandian friend of mine and aspiring stand-up comic who is quite well-versed in the ways of pop culture. One could say he speaks Referencese.
Sakura
Saku's my good friend from UC Santa Cruz, though she's from the Bay Area as well. She's an awesome artist and web designer, and a total gamer nerd as well.
First Appearance: CAR #171: Free Glomps
Geoff
Geoff's yet another UC Santa Cruz kiddo that used to go to high school with Sophie, Bryan, and the gang. Likes photography, local music, indie culture, radical political thought, you name it! Also, he's a furry.
First Appearance: CAR #172: Rain and Clocks
Grace
Grace is this girl from San Francisco! She hates it and wants to leave, but never seems to be able to.
First Appearance: CAR #165: Teh SF Outing With Teh Grace
Andy
Andy Craig used to live in Marin with all of the other high school folk, but then he moved away forever. Poor Andy!
First Appearance: CAR #160: Devious Scheme
Chris
Chris is this creepy dude who is a lot older than everyone but despite that he serves as a social hub for basically everyone in the Bay Area. For that, we tolerate him.
First Appearance: CAR #160: Devious Scheme
Allison
Allison is some girl James once dated! Whoa.
First Appearance: CAR #157: You Can't Eject Half A Car
