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Hi Winston! You're awesome, thanks again for setting up that large format custom printing of the "Weird" poster for me like two years ago, it's still my favorite poster and I love it when people stop and read it.

• Your comics are a lot more understanding about the human condition than most others I've read. Why do you think this is? The most notable difference with your comic is the length and verbosity, but that seems like a really simple answer. Have you studied psychology or something?

• What music have you been listening to recently?

• What do you think will be the world-common language in the future? I think English will hold that title until it changes into another language, simply because of inertia; everyone speaks it as a second language already, it's easy-ish to learn, and it's fairly resilient to mistakes while remaining clear so you don't need a high level to communicate.

• Lastly, what's you favorite branch of science? There's a lot of choices, but I'm sure there's one that comes to mind first.

Thanks!

Hi Winston! I've been a fan for a long time (I was the dude who asked for a large print of the "Weird." comic! It's still on my wall, and I love telling visitors to read it), and I'm loving "peopleWatching" a lot so far.

My question is, what made you decide to make peopleWatching one single cast of reusable characters, without much continuity (that I've noticed so far, at least) between episodes? In Subnormality, you have a single cast of great characters who evolve and get to know each other and such, and then you have one-off characters sometimes for interactions that don't fit your regular characters. In peopleWatching, they all met at the speed dating thing and the Secret Losers meeting for example, but they don't seem to recognize each other. But each person still has their own personality that seems to stay consistent, too. So yeah, what made you take this approach?