ANSWERED: Q&A with... Steve Purcell!

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  • edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    not a question, but i just finished making these and thought you might enjoy seeing them:

    sammaxdone.png

    Me! Want!
  • edited April 2010
    Lena_P wrote: »
    What brand beer works best for playing fizzball?

    It's got to be the "Cheap Evil-Smelling Beer" which should be easy to spot in the grocery store.
    It's always on sale and has an sadly sparse, uninspired label design.
  • nikasaurnikasaur Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    That's the first batch of questions! We picked out some of the sillier ones for him to answer a bit later so keep your eyes peeled for some more.
  • edited April 2010
    Me! Want!
    Well, Steve wants them... would you give them up avistew?
  • edited April 2010
    Well, Steve wants them... would you give them up avistew?

    Tell you what, I'm giving Steve Purcell visiting rights as a guardian :p (The future owners shouldn't object to that too much).
  • edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Tell you what, I'm giving Steve Purcell visiting rights as a guardian :p (The future owners shouldn't object to that too much).

    *lol* this thread is still making my day ^^!
    I don't know that I ever gave him a fuller name than Max. Telltale has but who knows if Max could even remember it.

    I have a friend who's called Max. Just Max. In fact, every time he present himself, it's something among this lines:

    - I'm Max
    - Oh, Maximilian!
    - No. Just Max. Really
    - *silence*
    - What?
  • edited April 2010
    Graxer wrote: »
    My only question would be about what you think of the idea of a Sam & Max: Hit the Road Special Edition. If you were to consider a such thing, would you want it to be in full 3D (by Telltale Games), 2D with 3D-looking sprites or 2D with cartoon sprites. Also, would you have the voice acting re-done with the current voice actors, or use the original voices. (I prefer the new ones personally)

    Lots of the new fans haven't had the chance to play Hit the Road. At least here in the UK where it is very hard to come by.


    Are you aware that there is a free episodic adventure game series coming in a few months? It is being worked on by Charles Cecil, the creator of Broken Sword.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_100408_01/Doctor_Who_Adventure_Games_announced


    Great googily Moogily, how did I not hear of this? Free, in canon, Mac playable games?

    This must be my lucky day. Only problem is if they're UK only like the TV shows.
  • edited April 2010
    2. How is someone like Max allowed to work in law enforcement?
    "Allow" has nothing at all to do with it.
    Best answer in the entire thread.
  • edited April 2010
    Where does max keep his gun:D
  • MRNMRN
    edited April 2010
    ^^None of your damn bussiness!
  • edited April 2010
    MRN wrote: »
    ^^None of your damn bussiness!

    damn! :p
  • edited April 2010
    nikasaur wrote: »
    That's the first batch of questions! We picked out some of the sillier ones for him to answer a bit later so keep your eyes peeled for some more.

    My question isn't silly, is it? :(
  • edited April 2010
    And mine? I had a lot more then just the one...
  • nikasaurnikasaur Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    We only had time to pick out some of the questions from the mix. If you invent more hours in a day, we'd happily offer more questions to be answered therein.
    But likely, people would just want to watch more TV or something.
  • edited April 2010
    Tv sucks... :(
    So, is this forum gonna be open áfter the release? (Not a question for Steve;))
  • edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    That sounds like it would be pretty impractical to drink from, with the ears getting in the way and whatnot.

    I dunno. Maybe one of his ears contains a straw? :p
  • nikasaurnikasaur Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    People will be able to see it, but likely no more Q&A will be done unless we're feeling fiesty. Or we could keep it going!
  • edited April 2010
    If I had known that I would have just asked Ernie and Suda questions, since that's what I cared about learning about the most. Oh well, it was nice of Steve to take the time to answer our questions, as I'm sure he's a pretty busy dude. So I'll be content.
  • edited April 2010
    Rats in the comics started turning up as part of my way of staying interested in the tedious inking process. Most of the background gags and the rats and roaches were added while inking comics pages to keep me interested. At one point Also at one point I had a pet rat named Ernie who wound up inspiring the character of Suda's partner in "Toybox."

    The rats are definitely one of my favorite aspects of Sam and Max. They're like the doodles in the margins of MAD magazine and play out their own little perverse version of the city overhead.

    But then again, the hard drinking chain smoking pigeons are a close second.
  • edited April 2010
    nikasaur wrote: »
    We only had time to pick out some of the questions from the mix. If you invent more hours in a day, we'd happily offer more questions to be answered therein.
    But likely, people would just want to watch more TV or something.

    Oh! Oh! I'll invent more hours in a day!

    As soon as this show's over...
  • edited April 2010
    nikasaur wrote: »
    We only had time to pick out some of the questions from the mix. If you invent more hours in a day, we'd happily offer more questions to be answered therein.
    But likely, people would just want to watch more TV or something.

    More hours in a day?
    I think it's already been done... The only downside is that you have fewer days...
  • edited April 2010
    Meh, I usually wish days had less hours.

    24 hours is a darn bloody long time...
  • edited April 2010
    Wouldn't it be easy to just fit 8 hours of sleep in... 20 minutes or something?
    That way you have more time for Sam and Max, and Steve has more time for answering our weird, annoying questions!
    On the other hand, you'd also have to wait longer for the release...
  • edited April 2010
    Meh, I usually wish days had less hours.

    24 hours is a darn bloody long time...

    Tell you what. Give me a few of your spare hours so I can actually have some time to play Sam 'n Max tonight, that way you'll have less! ;)
  • edited April 2010
    Deal accepted, once I finished playing S&M 301.
    Or do you want the 5 hours that remain waiting now :p?
  • edited April 2010
    Thanks for answering the questions Mr. Purcell! It must have taken a fair amount of time to go through it all.
  • edited April 2010
    nikasaur wrote: »
    *kicks forum until it displays Steve's account as legit*

    *ashamed*
  • edited April 2010
    1) Whats your favorite Telltale game?
    2) Whats your favorite game that isn't made by telltale?
    3) What is your gun of choice?
    4) Which is your favorite Sam and Max Season, 1, 2, or 3?
  • edited April 2010
    Did you have long hair when you were a teenager?
  • edited April 2010
    That's a really random question Falanca!
  • edited April 2010
    Random? It's what everybody wants to know! Aaand probably noone asked this before because everyone in this forums is adorable-y shy.
  • edited April 2010
    Falanca wrote: »
    Random? It's what everybody wants to know! Aaand probably noone asked this before because everyone in this forums is adorable-y shy.
    It's true. I wanted, nay...needed to have the question asked. But I was...well, paralyzed. Paralyzed by my need for acceptance. I was so afraid that my radical questioning would irrevocably sever me from the community.

    But now I know, I'm not alone.
  • edited April 2010
    I can feel it, a legend has entered this topic. Let's browse back a few pages.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    It's true. I wanted, nay...needed to have the question asked. But I was...well, paralyzed. Paralyzed by my need for acceptance. I was so afraid that my radical questioning would irrevocably sever me from the community.

    But now I know, I'm not alone.

    Dashing, I think we've really made a breakthrough here. It's long been obvious that your vaguely supercilious demeanour is a self-defence mechanism that germinated when your mother stopped breastfeeding before you were ready. It would have developed further during a barren childhood bereft of human kindness, and later, with the realisation that your life would be an unendurable litany of ever-darker days, solidified into an immutable mass of emotional constipation.

    I think I speak for everyone here when I say this: we can't bear to think of you crying gently over your morning Cheerios, in one of those rare moments you allow yourself a brief flicker of introspection, when you dare to peer into the gaping abyss of your soul, always wondering but never able to summon the courage to reach out - never able to ask the real, pertinent, life-altering questions, the ones that go to the very root of human existence.

    We should all be grateful to Falanca for putting this one out in the open.
  • edited April 2010
    Falanca wrote: »
    Did you have long hair when you were a teenager?

    Or did you have short hair like all awesome men should?
  • edited April 2010
    I'm starting to feel guilty for calling the question random...

    I must apologize.

    Sorry Falanca - I shall not question the bravery and awsomeness of your questions again. I hope in time you will forgive me.
  • edited April 2010
    hmm did i miss it.. i only now got access to the thread (darned it)
    I have loaddds of questions for him regarding snm

    always wanted to know if he wanted to inject characters from his other artworks into his sam n max realm

    say a suda doll sitting on a shelf or a Defenders of Dynatron City poster or something or mag in a rack
    etc

    sort of like the mainac mansion painting only in reverse
    (like you telltale is doing with max in every pod or so)


    Is there a sam or max hand puppet owned by you?
    Not a sock puppet people ... a real deal..(jeff dunham style)

    unrelated (will the nose glasses ever surface from zak mckracken!!! oops sorry digression )

    points like the monkey on family guy to jake
  • edited April 2010
    nikasaur wrote: »
    We only had time to pick out some of the questions from the mix. If you invent more hours in a day, we'd happily offer more questions to be answered therein.
    But likely, people would just want to watch more TV or something.

    Well, that might just answer my fifth question. Now, to figure out a way to move the Earth slightly away from the Sun without causing major environmental damage... Or maybe to maximize it... I guess it will depend on my mood.
  • edited April 2010
    Steve, do you think the humor of Sam&Max has changed since the original comics?

    Also,

    Can I have a cookie?
    Or maybe a McGuffin?
  • edited May 2010
    Well, that might just answer my fifth question. Now, to figure out a way to move the Earth slightly away from the Sun without causing major environmental damage... Or maybe to maximize it... I guess it will depend on my mood.

    Nope, that'd be a longer year. Making the Earth rotate slower would lengthen days.
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