Brendan Wright talks to Shannon Wheeler at length about Too Much Coffee Man, Gumby and his recent comic strip collection Screw Heaven, When I Die I’m Going To Mars:

WO: What does it mean in the solicitation for Screw Heaven that we’re seeing the “sweeter side?” What does that entail?

SW: [laughs] I don’t know. I was thinking I was getting more bitter, but my editor wrote the copy on it. I guess a little bit there’s less open hostility between the characters, and that is a little bit deliberate. In Too Much Coffee Man, it’s really easy to make jokes where two characters are hostile towards each other and some sort of punchline comes out of the hostile banter. And I just looked at that intellectually thinking, “Are there other ways of doing humor that aren’t violence-related or anger-related, that are idea-related?” So it’s a deliberate shift.

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