Welcome to the Picasso cast list, filled with happy balloons!

I never meant to do web comics. I’ve always enjoyed reading them, and I’m a patron of quite a few, but it was never my intention to use the Jux page for posting my own graphical works. Mostly because I have no artistic ability, not a single bit. Nothing. El nada. But, for whatever reason, I decided to bring the little stick doodle figures I’ve been doing since I was in elementary school, and update them for a web format. Plus I added myself, Travis and Kenny as characters. Speaking of characters, I’m doing a lazy day today, so your feature is just going to be a quick history of all the characters that have appeared so far in the online version. Isn’t that nice of me? And just so you know, all of the evil animals are just random creations of mine, and thus, not worthy of a profile. Not even the cow king.

Ah, Mrs. Blanchard. She was the main character in all of the strips I did in 6th grade. Not at all coincidentally, she’s named after my third and final elementary school AIM teacher. So, naturally, once I left grade school, part of the fun of drawing her left. Now she’s sort of a secondary character. I have no clue who she’s married to, but she is married. She also has super powers, since all of my old stick figure characters had them. One of her powers is being a complete bitch and liking to hurt people. This is nothing at all like the real Mrs. Blanchard, who, if she’s reading this through some miracle of internet randomness, was a very nice lady. That’s also where the character comes from, because she was always smiling. That’s also her second power: That maw of hers can expand to any size, and her body with it. She can theoretically swallow sky scrapers. One thing that hasn’t appeared in the comic yet is her “sonic scream”, where she…screams really loud. She was never very good at this, but her sister and super villain Mrs. Howell excelled at it.

Bobert is a strange one. The character of a blind man named Bobert who speaks in braille because he’s in a comic, and blind, is completely original to the Jux website. The name Bobert I used throughout highschool as a random name when I needed either a theoretical faceless person, or was just telling a story. “Then the guy, we’ll call him ‘Bobert'”…you get the idea. I especially used the name in notes, so Rebecca and Ryann (Hello!) know what I’m talking about. “Ugthor” is my other commonly used name, that one used to describe brutes. Bobert unfortunately has no powers other than being blind, which makes him sort of useless in combat, no? 🙂

My avatar in the comics. I had to think of things to differentiate the stick figures of Travis, Kenny and myself when I started the comic, since I’m not graphically skilled enough to draw us differently. So, I gave them the differences, and I’m the “normal” stick figure. However, my appearances are at a minimum. I use myself as a character far less often than I use Zen and Kitty. However, when we’re all in the same scene (and I remember) I do try to draw my character to scale, that is, taller. If I had any skill at doing stick hair I would give my long locks to my character, but I don’t see that happening. Oh, his super power? He hurls deadly sharp stars of david. Thus, my signature image with the blood, if you havn’t figured that out yet.

Yeah, so this is Kenny’s avatar. His special feature? Those kitty ear things. His special abilities include the ability to bite, claw, hiss and scratch, and being able to cling to ceilings for indefinite amounts of time. Oh, he’s also the only person other than the Spelling the Vacuum guest appearance characters who speaks in purple.

Ah, the star. Picasso is also from the sixth grade years. Do you have any clue how strange it is to be on the Dean’s list in college and still drawing things you did when you thought Nick at Night was cool? At any rate, while Picasso wasn’t the star in the old days, he was my favourite, because he was the most original of the bunch. As such he lived on, decorating notes (along with Gimpy the Stick Camel) in high school and bored doodles damn near everywhere. He has an interesting super power: He can turn into anything I can draw. But he’s a coward. He’s an all powerful coward. Of course, he could use his morphing ability to look normal (he may, in fact, be normal…), but he doesn’t. Those are his eyes, and he does have hands back there that he can grasp things with. He has to drop the eyes to do it, though. They’re suprisingly light, allowing for easy carrying at all times. He’s also got giant tear ducts on the back. And yes, his mouth magically floats. So, yeah, there you go. Oh, and that balloon is tied to wrist with a slipknot, just like you did when you were a child.

Travis’s avatar. He has one eye larger than the other to differentiate, and also because one of Travis’s eyes is lazy. Lazy blind. Lazily, lazy blind. Don’t try and hide it Zen, you know it’s true. His special power: he can hurl cabbages. This all started because I accused him of smelling like cabbage. Which he just might, I’m not telling.