Let's face it, our favorite comic strip is frequently obscure or inconsistent, and key characters are sometimes left stranded for years. Long-suffering readers are within their rights to demand some full explanations. Each week a trusted Town Hall intern will harvest only the best questions e-mailed to us via the "Ask GBT" form, then forward them to the home office in Manhattan. Selected questions will be personally answered by G.B. Trudeau or one of his top aides, and immediately posted. As each new Q&A is added, the previous one will be archived, thus slowly building a remarkable primary source for scholars in the years ahead.
Didn't Sherman, the studio guy Toggle is now working for used to work with Jimmy Thudpucker?
-- Robert Gibbs, Manchester, UK
Indeed. We first met Sherm in JT's studio back in July 1999, when Thudpucker was enjoying a run as the premier American song stylist in Vietnam, performing lite classics with his band Hearts & Minds. In these two sequences Phred Nguyen (former Viet Cong terrorist and friend-captor to B.D.) pays a visit to Jimmy to discuss the upcoming NetAid concert and Jimmy's anthem "Too Poor".
