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An Interview With The Chicken

I first met the great Diablo at Dor-Con 17. I didn’t get to spend much time with him there, but he was gracious enough to autograph my Chia Pet.

I’m very excited, therefore, to present the following interview with Diablo about his magnum opus, megaGAMERZ 3133T.

Fleen:
When did you realize that you were destined for greatness?

Diablo:
It was a few weeks after Lisa Loeb and I broke up. As you may have read in the tabloids, it was a rough time for me. I stopped working out, I was eating a lot of Quiznos, I would yell at the mailman for no reason at all sometimes.

Then, I realized I was destined for greatness, and everything was okay again. It’s very convenient, the greatness thing. You should try it sometime.

F:
What’s your favorite style of Cheetos?

D:
I’m going to have to say “Zesty Russian Dressing”. The puffs, not the crunchy kind — crunchy Cheetos are for pedophiles and rapists, man. I can’t support those snacks.

F:
When megaGAMERZ 3133T burst onto the scene, it was widely hailed by critics, fans and random celebrities as the greatest act of literature in the 21st century. Has this been good for your sex life?

D:
Yes, but out of respect for Wednesday White, I can’t tell you any of the details.

F:
Can you tell us a little bit about your creative process?

D:
I could spin you a tale of golden bullshit about this one, but I’ll be honest. I mostly just copy shit off of the ingredients labels of packaged food. Then I get high and pretend I’m Condi Rice. It seems to have worked pretty well so far.

F:
How do you feel about the large number of megaGAMERZ clone comics that have come out recently?

D:
They say that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but I think it’s the highest form of lazy-ass drunken swedes who can’t write their own material. I’m talking to you, Pontus.

What the fuck is up with Sweden, anyway? It’s an entire country of Gamma-minuses these days. ‘Brave New World’ isn’t an instruction manual, folks, you don’t need to induce alcohol poisoning in your fetuses in real life.

F:
Do you read the Gamer1/Gamer2 slashfic that has become so wildly popular these days? And if so, where do you stand on the Emperor Blar’Ktath/Scott subgenre?

D:
Suing the perverted folks writing that crap accounted for 1/3 of our revenue in 2005. As far as Blar and Scott go, they’re consenting adult demons and elephants, they can do whatever the hell they want, as long as it doesn’t leave stains.

F:
How does it feel to be made of delicious, delicious meat?

D:
It feels pretty good!

F:
Late last year, you survived an almost mind-rendingly brutal combined attack against megaGAMERZ from both the Christian Right and the Libertarians claiming that your comic was inciting children to Satanism. You never publicly responded to those charges, instead preferring to allow the battle to be carried out at home, in the media, in the courts, and into the deepest reaches of outer space by a swarm of underlings, lawyers and cheese ninjas. Would you be willing to give us the inside story here – is megaGAMERZ cunningly designed to draw children into the dark realms of Satan worship?

D:
That depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is.

F:
We’ve heard all the tales of your childhood, the traumas and the triumphs. Do you feel that you were able to provide a better upbringing for your son, Oliver?

D:
Considering that Oliver is currently trying to take over the universe, I’d say I did a pretty good job. He’s motivated. It’s not like he’s sitting around getting high and playing World of Warcraft, like your readers are. I’d give myself a 9 out of 10 and a free small Pepsi.

F:
What does Satanism really mean to you? Is it a source of daily inspiration and inner fire, or is it just something you do on the weekends because you like the community and the anti-priest does a good bloodletting?

D:
Actually, I’m kind of a lapsed Satanist. I’ve been busy, you know? Although I have been taking a good, hard look at Scientology lately. I’ll let you know.

F:
Has Hollywood come knocking yet, to produce a megaGAMERZ movie?

D:
Well, some guy knocked this morning, but that was just because I had the stereo up too loud. Why? Did you hear something? Fuck, now I have to go to the bathroom. Can you listen for the door?

F:
Do you have any plans to release megaGAMERZ in book form?

D:
MG3 will be released in book form, mini-book form, iPod form, novel form, movie form, microfiche form, cat form, bear form, ghost wolf form, con form, the form of a bucket of water, and transcribed onto clay tablets in cuneiform. Hopefully by this summer, depending on what the cuneiform guy’s schedule is like.

F:
Where do you see megaGAMERZ in 5 years?

D:
Rotting in the desert after having crossed Vinnie Vengeance one too many times.

Vinnie has one rule: stay the hell away from his Men’s Pocky.

F:
Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know about you or megaGAMERZ?

D:
If you don’t understand MG3, it’s not because it’s poorly written or unfunny. It’s because you’re not smart.

I’d like to publicly thank Diablo for his time, and for providing us such a great interview. When it comes to chickens doing webcomics, he’s the best one out there.

I have a question: How exactly can one, hypothetically, party like Marty?

First, you have to deploy the conceptual water pipe.

Are there any other poultry creating webcomics at this point in time?

LOL i’m not gonna comment on the writing of mega gamers but the looks are embaressing in my book – serious issues of expression and shape .. tsk tsk

but the looks are embaressing in my book – serious issues of expression and shape .. tsk tsk

You probably also think that White Ninja is poorly drawn, as well.

Quoth Diablo:
If you don’t understand MG3, it’s not because it’s poorly written or unfunny. It’s because you’re not smart.

That is to say, I think you’re missing the point.

Tbh, LG (Pontus) > this crap comic. Big time.

Tbh, LG (Pontus) > this crap comic. Big time.

Wilco Tango Foxtrot?

I think you’re missing the joke, mate.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, surely?

=P

I like my whiskey in a glass, not on my radio.

You’d think, what with DIABLO the Chicken being the creator, that people would pick up on things just a little quicker.

I’m tasty tasty meat and I feel fine

MegaGamers1337 is horrible. Am I the only who sees the obvious Little Gamers rip-off? That guy is a serious egotistical dick.

Well what do you expect from a person who thinks picturing himself a chicken is funny?

You’re missing the point. Diablo the chicken is a character in Goats. His webcomic, MegaGAMERZ31337, is his idea of a highly ironic, purposely halfassed comic poking fun at all of the crap gamer comics out there (not necessarily just LG). The comic is a joke. It’s not meant to be taken seriously, and John Rosenberg meant it to be that way. By taking it seriously and comparing it to LG, you are missing the entire purpose of the comic to begin with, that it that it is irony in its purist form.

That’s all I have to say.

Okay that guy sounded incredibly pretentious. Ignore him. Megagamerz31337 is a spoof of little gamers, pvp (in its earlier years) and every gaming comic that’s just there to use the pre-existing fanbase. It’s a JOKE. A pisstake. A… um, I’ve run out of synonyms.

I actually stopped reading Little Gamers when I realised that it failed to make me laugh for months at a time, and consisted almost entirely of the cast laughing at their own jokes. I consider MG3 a giant among… well, I hadn’t really meant to poke any further fun at LG, but among midgets. LOL. A synaesthetic romp of surrealist wit. A veritable font of incomprehensible wisdom. Internet Performance Clip Art at its finest. MG3 allows me to take my brain off the hook and let the neurons dance. I love it.

Actually Shuichi you are both correct, you are using the common, or European, letters while Jeff is using the American Millitary letters… the more you know!

The sad thing is that Megagamerz is funnier than Goats is most days now…

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