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people they know. If you have an opening coming up at your job, the first guy you’re going to go to is someone you know. You’re going to think, “Hey, do I know anybody that could fill this position?” And comic books are pretty much the exact same way. Opportunities go to people that are easy to work with. That’s probably the biggest “secret” to working in comics. Of course, that’s not to say that it’s all about who you know, but it is a big part of it. So, that’s the biggest thing, I think. GS: Alright, so those are pretty much the questions I have. Do you have anything else to add? RG: No, that’s pretty much it. Coming up, we have issue 26 comes out I think next week. Which is going to be the beginning of our sixth story arc, Space Cakes. If you read issue 25, issue 25 is pretty insane. A lot stuff happens in 25. 26 is kind of the cool down, the breather issue before things get crazy again. I can’t really say too much about this arc. So, basically we have for this arc we have a new protagonist, Tony’s sister who is named Toni. She is going to be your primary for the next few issues. That’s pretty much all I’ll say about it. After that, next month, we have a reprint of issue 27. In case no one knows, we released issue 27 about a year early last year, which confused everyone, including me. We’re going to re-release it in sequence, and then about a month after that in July, we’re going to release a oneshot, our first one-shot, Secret Agent Poyo, who is probably our most popular character. A luchador chicken, who is now cybernetic. It’s pretty insane. After that, for the rest of the year, we’ll finish with Space Cakes and probably finish with issue 30 and march into the second half of the story. GS: Is CHEW set to end at a certain point? RG: Yeah. Issue 60. Which is why I like if you read issue 25, we give a panel from issue 60, which is the last issue. That’s the plan so far. GS: Thank you again for doing this. RG: No problem, thanks for having me. GS: Yet again, RG Guillory, artist of CHEW very gracious and very kind to talk to us. RG: Cool. No problem.
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