About us...
On this page you will find information about us (the old "us") and how we (the old "we") plan to run the comic. As you may already know, "The 77 coffees of the apocalypse" is a webcomic that was once run by two persons. Now only Lancelot remains, but you can still read about Boomer here.Every Thursday or Monday, Lancelot will write and draw a comic and post it on the "latest" page.
Oh, and by the way, when you behave extra nice (or when Lancelot have more free time), he occasionally do an extra update in the week.
Name: Lancelot Dubois
aka: Lancelot
e-mail: lancelot_77ca@caramail.com
Lancelot was born and raised in a small ninja village in Québec. As all the ninja sucked at their respective martial arts, Lancelot went around in the woods surrounding the village to make a Mu Sha Shugyo (path of the samurai). Obviously, and maybe because he was only 4 years old, he got lost almost immediately.
That's how, in the strange ways Fate usually try to kill us (and sometime make us stronger),
he made his Mu Sha Shugyo. He killed several bunnies, squirrels, wild dogs, star
foxes, black bears, grizzlies, dinosaurs and even ninjas (but not a single one from his
own village).
After a few days, he finally got out of the forest.
Some grown-ups took him to something they called... SCHOOL !
School was intimidating in the first few days, 'cause he didn't have to kill people. But !...
The third day Lancelot killed the school's principal and rescued the young student that he was keeping
captive. Since he killed him with a lance (the only weapon a 4 years old boy can construct from
scratch when he's in a survival situation), and struck him like 8 times the number
of hit nessary to kill him, the other students called him Lance-a-lot.
Yeah, it's a stupid way to earn a name. Now you go tell that to the kid who pounded into pulp
a man when he was 8 years old, (plus the fact that he already killed several ninja with
a similar weapon at 4 years old...)
The 8 years that followed weren't of any great interest. There's nothing to say about them except that
he became the school's principal after he killed the old one, and that with his newly acquired autority he trained
the students to become ninjas or mad scientists.
At 16 years old he was already the leader of the biggest ninja/scientist terrorist faction in the
know world. But what is the purpose of secretly dominating the world (with ninjas) if you have to go through the trouble of ruling it ? Nothing. So as time passed on he
decided to leave his organization to one of his minions. He then he became a freelance
ninja. In a twisted way, he was still pursuing his Mu Sha Shugyo.
After that, he went to college and learned about psychology. The human mind... what a great thing to
study. Lancelot studied social psychology for some years before he had the choice between:
1 - Starting a religious group consisting of brainwashed adepts who would worship him body and soul
2 - Continue to study
He choose the second choice. Needing money (at least money that wasn't secret ninja currency) to deepen his knowledge of psychology,
he started to work as a tree-planter. After enough time, he realized that working in the woods
was just as fun as brainwashing human beings. He became a ninja-forester, and, in his spare time,
he started to publish an online comic with his friend Boomer.
But enough historical anectodes, let's directly ask him to describe himself:
What do I like: The forest, bad movies, good movies, pretty girls, music, drawing (ha hahaaa !
that was a good one ! Okay, I like to draw, but I'm just poor at it. I hope that you like my humor instead !)
What do I dislike: spam, e-mails that tell you to send them to everyone you know or you'll melt, people
who think you think they're cool, disrespectful people.
Main occupations: Studying forestry in the winter, working deep in the woods far away
from the filthy civilized world in the summer (but when I finally come back to civilization, I
admit I like it !)
Favorite VGs: Hitman, Escape Velocity, any turn-based game that is as good as Master of Orion,
any RPG better than the most recent FF,
a few FPS like Quake 3 and... the first Soul Reaver (Raziel was totally uber cool). I wish I had a console to play with. Seriously, I wish I could play more
games. I like to play games and I really wish I could make more jokes about games in the comic.
But the fact is that between my studies, my paper-thin social life and this freakin' web-comic,
I just DON'T HAVE THE TIME.
Where do you find your inspiration ?: Perhaps you think we lived some really crazy things, but me
and Boomer were roommates for like two years (we spent a great amount of time together before
being roommates, but it's not the same thing). In these two tiny years, we had enough adventures to
inspire this comic for at least two full years. We didn't take drugs nor did we own any squids,
so you can guess that we did twisted the fact a little in the comic. But, just talking together is often to inspire us. And
I admit that I always have some paper and pencil, so when I think of something...
Boomer's spirit lived on, trapped in his metal shell. Unafraid of death, Boomer got secretly
involved in numerous conflicts and tipped the scales of many wars. With the end of the 20th century, it occurred
to Boomer that his robotic body was starting to rust and had trouble manipulating the latest technological
devices made by humanity (his large misshapen metal claws were more limited than he initially though). He
reverse-voodooed his soul in the body of a hapless college student. The tedious necessities of an organic body
forced Boomer to actually work again in order to get money that he could trade for food to ingest. In order to
avoid getting bored with this most uninteresting phase of his life, Boomer teamed up with freelance ninja Lancelot
to work on a webcomic. A small beacon of hope in the vast cesspool of borderline-useless information called the Internet.
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Boomer (boomer_77ca@caramail.com):
Boomer is actually born in the late 17th century somewhere in the central Balkan region. Abandoned
a few weeks after his birth, he was found and subsequently raised by a colony of lobsters in the
Adriatic sea. Boomer soon realized that he was different (with the absence of claws and the fact
that he couldn't lay eggs and stuff). His adoptive parents told him about his true origins (he was
in fact, a vertebrate). Armed with his vast knowledge of the ocean floor and its mollusk fauna, Boomer
set out to discover the surface world.
The harshness of the surface made Boomer realize
that the world was a fish eat fish one. In order to survive, Boomer remembered his crustacean heritage
and returned to the sea. He became a buccaneer and set out to make fortune in the Caribbean. He sunk many
ships, plundered many towns, befriended many parrots and buried many treasures over the years. But time was
passing on, and Boomer body's was failing him. He sought the help of one of mysterious blind inventor,
who along with a voodoo sorcerer bonded his spirit into a primitive automaton constructed
of a crude patchwork of tin cans and wires.
Boomer is most amused by low budget movies, useless trivia, videogames, and anything with ninjas in it. On the subject of
videogames, turn based strategy, first person shooters, good RPGs and shmups are the genres he esteems the most.
He is most interested in the violin and its manipulation. He harbors a special fondness for the act of drawing, but he just recently got
back into it and openly admits that his art skills aren't impressive.