MCF is grilling us for information again.

1) Your life is going to be a graphic novel. Who's writing it, and who's drawing it?

Frank Miller and Frank Miller. I don't know why anyone would want anybody else to do the art or the story.

In fact, Frank and I have actually been working on a treatment for a story about my life for some time now. We're slightly modifying the title from one of his previous works.

2) Weather patterns are shifting every year. Wars are exploding across the globe. When and how do you see the world coming to an end?

People worry about that kind of thing all the time. I guess I just don't think it's relevant and that it's a waste of time to think about it.

I've heard all kinds of answers. For the first thirty-some years of my life I was taught a colorful pseudo-Christian science fiction story that had been invented by an Irish lawyer, and I made an effort to believe it… but it all struck me as simply silly. It was a major relief to finally learn as an adult that none of it is actually Scriptural, nor is any of it taken seriously by legitimate theologians (like this guy) as opposed to notorious fabulists (like this guy). I know that it might be hard for readers in other parts of the country and/or world to believe me, but there are people in this area of the country who really take this stuff seriously. The rapture, the political rise of the antichrist... they swallow it all.

I'll put it this way: The Left Behind books and Da Vinci Code are one in the same: Both claim to be fictional works based on fact, but both are laughable works of fantasy based on lies and desperate misinterpretations… and both are terribly harmful to the real message of Christ. Read and believe either at your own peril.

I've also seen and read every possible secular idea about the end of the world (like this one and this one and this one) and I noticed that all of them hinge on the supremely vain idea that man is actually capable of destroying the planet. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy some of those movies and books, they weren't without artistic merit… but they aren't to be taken seriously, either.

How will the world end? It's a silly question and it's pointless to ponder it. The real matter I need to consider is that my own life will end, and I'd better be living right when that happens.

3) What, if anything, would turn you into a supervillain?

You mean I'm not one now???

4) Let's try another showdown question: TMNT vs. The Kurgan; who wins?

I don't know what either of those things are. I'm gong to have to look it up.

OK, I've learned that Kurgan is a Northern or Central Eurasian burial mound. I've also learned that TMNT is a contributor to the Urban Dictionary, and that his sole contribution to the dictionary is the word "edumacated", which he says is street vernacular for "educated."

So now, what was the question again?


Alright, who would win in a battle between a guy who can't pronounce the word "educated" and a burial mound in an indistinct area in either Europe or Asia?

I suppose we've all pondered that at least a time or two in our lives.

I'm having a hard time picturing the battle in my head. I just have an image in my head of a fairly inarticulate young man jumping up and down on a mound of dirt, yelling "Edumacated! Edumacated!" I suppose that in the end, you'd have to declare him the winner… but in battles such as these, does anyone really win?

SPECIAL BONUS QUESTION: The year is 3994. What’s a Mok?

I suppose that a number of things might have gone amok by that time. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, though… so I'll say that in the year 3994, culture, politics and the arts will all be amok. By the way, you should start spell-checking the McFats before you post them. Your spelling of "amok" was all weird looking.

Oh, crap… I've just gone back and looked at your original post so I can post a link to my answers. I just copy and paste your questions to a Microsoft Word document when I write my answers. Anyway, I now see that you provided links to TMNT and Kurgan, and they had nothing to do with my answers, did they? Regardless, I'm sticking with my original answer: The inarticulate guy would win.