Three childhood friends try (and usually succeed at) staying close even though adulthood, careers, politics, aspirations, opinions, single-parenthood, and sudden bouts of gratuitous nerdity always try to tear them apart.
Intrepid(ish) journalist, single dad, sci fi addict, not necessarily in that order. He's got a "will they or won't they" thing going on with Susan, which is only slightly complicated by his girlfriend in Canada (whom he insists is very real). Lemont aspires to be earnest, honest, intelligent, and whatever else might get hin into Starfleet if the CERN supercollider were to ever accidentally shunt him into an alternate reality where Star Trek is real.
Ambitious P.R. and advertising executive who earned a law degree in her spare time. Susan long ago learned to control(ish) her fiery temper. She has all the patience in the world for Lemont (for whom she's pined away since they were six), but none at all for wannabe suitors, for her oversensitive underlings at work, her conniving secretary, or her patronizing boss. She rides a harley, packs a pistol, and founded the relaxing(ish) discipline of “power zen.”
Under-the-radar hustler who's a recording artist, a producer, and an emcee, and who dispenses street wisdom from a therapy booth in the alley, to both the little guy and to the rich and famous alike. Yet he's mastered the art of appearing as if he's never doing anything at all, he still lives in a rent-controlled, run-down basement apartment, and even though he surely doesn't need it, he's always bumming two dollars off of his best friend Lemont, whom he's protected ever since preschool. He's the one Lemont and Susan can always count on to do what needs to be done, as long as they don't ask him how he did it.
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Darrin Bell began cartooning professionally in 1995 for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, and other newspapers. He co-created the comic strip Rudy Park in 1997 for tech magazines before United Media syndicated it in 2001. In 2003, Darrin launched Candorville through the Washington Post Writers Group, and now King Features Syndicate syndicates it.
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