NTRODUCTION Well, here we are once again, starring anxiously at the Features page to see what the informative interviewer of investigation (Augh...damned dub announcer) has cooked up this time. After my interview with Sean, many of you wondered, "just who would be next?" The answer to that question came before I even finished posting Sean's interview. For a while now, someone's been patiently waiting in line so to speak. Someone who has brought us one of the more controversial voices in the new dub, Mr. Sonny Strait, known best for his voicing of Krillin, Tom the host of Toonami, and coming soon to a tv screen near you, Bardock from FUNimation's version of the Bardock TV special, which will be entitled "Bardock: The Father of Goku." What I found in Sonny was a talanted actor who's had, to say the least, a mixed reaction from the fans. Most die hard fans couldn't stand it, while others enjoyed the new direction the character has been taken into. The main question almost everyone had was why such a big change was made in the first place to Krillin's voice though. Because of this and many other questions, I realised that Sonny would be a great choice for the next interview, and once again, the final result far exceeded my expecations. Sonny's the kind of guy who really doesn't hold much back if he's got somthing on his mind, and given an open forum like this, he left quite the footprints in his proverbial soapbox to say the least. To make matters better, he's bestowed upon us some of his fantastic artwork, which I think you guys are really gonna be surprised by and enjoy. My only regret is perhaps that I couldn't make more puns with his last name, but aside from this factor, I'm completely satisfied with it. So join me as we raise a martooni and take a look at Sonny Strait, man, artist, actor and offbeat cool guy all wrapped into one 5'7 package, as we set it Strait with Sonny. Mondo cool indeed. Jon: To start off with, where are you from? I'm from Dallas, Texas. I've lived here most of my life. I've lived a few months in Virginia, and I'm planning on moving in a couple of years, but right now I'm kind of stuck here, hehe. I'll be moving to California since there's a bit more voice work up there, and plus since I'm working on the Elf Quest series, I'd like to be closer to the producers in Santa Monica. Jon: What kind of acting training have you had? Well, let's see, it kind depends on how far back you wanna go. I guess that my first form of training came from my Dad. He was a big "Life of the party" kind of guy, always the center of attention, and he was always doing cartoon voices. He taught me how to do Donald Duck when I was like 4 years old. Actually, he didn't really teach me, he'd just sort of come home from work and go (Donald Duck voice) "Hi Sonny!" and I'd just say "hi," ya know, but I'd watch him, and listen to what he did, until one day I just spent all day practicing it and he came home and went (Donald voice) "Hi Sonny!" and I went (Donald voice) "Hi Dad!" (Sonny's Dad in Donald voice) "Oh my God, Sonny you got it!" (Sonny laughing like Donald). So that kind of thing was my initial training, just growing up in a situation like that. My parents split up when I was about 12, and my Dad was moving out, and on the day he moved out, he asked me what I was gonna take in High School and College, and I said "I dunno, I was thinking about band, and things like that..," and he was like "You know, you oughtta get into theater, since you're such a clown anyway, you'd do pretty good in that," so I did, and it's really helped me out. I took a lot of acting classes in High School, and then went into college and took a few classes there, and did a lot of community theater work, as well as some professional work. I've done about a hundred plays. In fact, I was awarded a full tuition scholarship at Texas Wesley College for my acting skills, so I guess I was a bit of a drama jock. That's most of my theater training. Jon: How did you come to work for FUNimation, and Krillin more specifically? FUNimation had open auditions and I auditioned for all the parts. According to Chris I was the runner up for most of the main parts. You know it's funny but I remember Chris also saying at that time that some guy from Denton nailed most of the other parts. I just realized he must have been talking about himself!! (laughing) I love that guy. Anyway, for the auditions we were giving character description sheets for all the parts and then we were placed in a private booth with a mic, headphones, a remote and tv/vcr with excerpts of the different characters saying lines from the past season. However Krillin's sheet was not in the folder they gave me so for some reason I just assumed that he must have already been cast. I guess I thought that because I came into the auditions pretty late. Anyway I didn't pay attention to Krillin at all in the booth. I then went into another room, stood behind a mic with Barry Watson and Chris Sabat across from me sitting at a table. They would sat the name of a character and told me to read the script as that character. All was going well and then they said, "OK, now do Krillin." I got a little nervous and said, "Oh, that character wasn't in my folder so I didn't even pay attention to him in the booth." They said, "That's ok, just do your best." I said, "Look, I don't even have a clue." Barry then told me, "kind of high pitched and nasally" ... so I did something.. I have no idea what I did.. I think they still have the tapes from that audition.. I'd love to hear it. Anyway, a few days later Chris called me and said that I was up for Krillin but it was between me and another guy. Chris said, "That guy sounded more like Krillin but you are a much better actor." I asked if I could come in early and hear Krillin's voice again. Chris said that would be fine. Then I knew I had it because I'm a good enough mimic to pull off a voice I just heard. So, I went in and nailed it. And I haven't done the same voice since. (laughs) Jon: Of all the new voices on the show, your version of Krillin seemed to differ the most from the previous version. Was it a matter of not being able to imitate Terry Klasson's voice, or did the producers simply wish to take the character into a new direction? (Terry Klasson impression) "Aw c'mon now Jon! Aw, I can do old Terry Klasson! This is nuts!" Actually though, I got the part because I could do Terry Klasson, but it's been a while since I've done it, so that last bit might not have been quite accurate. When they had the auditions at FUNimation here in the Dallas area, they were looking for people who could sound like the old cast, and I got the part because I could sound like them. But at the very first recording, Barry Watson, who was the director at the time, was listening to me do the voice and he said "You know, that's really good, I mean it sounds like Terry's but, I always felt that Krillin should sound a little tougher." and I said "Really," ... and he goes "Yeah, I mean Krillin's supposed to be the strongest human on the planet, so is there anything you could do to toughen up his voice a little bit?" So I'm like (current Krillin voice) "How bout this?" And I started talking a little bit rougher like that, and I realized that there was some room for interpretation. I have my own theater group, and I thoroughly analyze every part that I'm in, and I hadn't done anything with Krillin at the beginning because I thought "Well, I'm just supposed to be a mimic here," and then when I realized that I could do my own interpretation of the character, so I decided to research the character, and did a lot of research. I'd read all the manga even, and once I got a good hold of his history, the voice started changing for me because it was just what I felt that Krillin should sound like as opposed to sound like someone else. Plus, ya know, I hate hearing people when they take over another part that's already been established, trying to sound like the old actor. I don't know if you've seen the newer Scooby Doo movies, but it's always like, they kind of sound like the old voices, but because it's not perfect, it gets really annoying. In the Flinstones there were two Barneys, one was Mel Blanc (you know.. Bugs Bunny?), but I liked the first guy's interpretation of Barney better, maybe because he was first, so I think that that situation can get pretty annoying. Even when I perform in a play that's been made into a movie, I won't watch the movie. I don't like to try and sound like the guy who played the part before. Even the best mimic isn't going to sound exactly like the person they're imitating. So why even try when you can make the part into something unique? Jon: And then you have to take into consideration that most of the previous cast had at least some of a Canadian accent. (Canadian voice) "Aw take off, eh?" So yeah, when Barry told me that he wanted me to change the voice a little, I took that as my cue to just go at it full force, and take Krillin in a bit of a new light. I took some liberties. Jon: It kind of leaves you wondering how much some fans would have bitched had you gone ahead and imitated the old Krillin. Exactly. I mean, people are always going to complain, but I've gotten a good number of compliments about what I've done with the voice as well. I hear the negative criticism too though, and I expected it. As soon as I started taking the voice in another direction I went "Ooooooh.. this is gonna piss a few people off," but I felt that I could do the part more justice if by making it my own, because I'm not Terry Klasson. Jon: Because of the changes made to Krillin's voice, as well as the ridiculous lines he was given early on (mostly 80's slang), how did you deal with the response most fans had towards it? Uh, I don't think that's very mondo cool of you to ask me that Jon. (laughing) Actually though, I didn't get much of the feedback about that aspect, it was just like, here and there they'd show me some of the letters and stuff (maybe they didn't want me to feel bad), but I've noticed that this season, they've kind of toned down the "hip lingo" that they were approaching at the beginning. Jon: (Krillin voice) Bro. (laughing) I don't know, maybe they were just trying to make it sound cooler or something, even though sometimes they used phrases that I didn't think were cool when people originally did them. But, you know, that's all a matter of taste. A good friend of mine always says that perfection is relative in this world. Jon: (Krillin voice) Scuze me for living. Yeah, that's what I say to people who criticize Krillin's voice now. (Krillin voice) "Scuze me for living!" Jon: Jon: (laughing) (Terry Klasson Krillin) "Aw scuze me for living!... Eh?!" Jon: (laughs) This wasn't the first time you had to deal with a changed character or voice. Tell me a little bit about how you came to be Tom, the new host of Toonami. Well, that one was a brand new character though, and I got to go with him from the beginning, since it was one character replacing another, and not changing voices in the same character, so basically I could do whatever I wanted to. Cartoon Network had a nationwide audition looking for a new host to replace (deep voice) "Moltar," so they called most of the production studios, and FUNimation sent them demos of all their actors, and they picked three of the actors to come in and audition. They picked me, Chris Sabat, and Linda Chambers, and Mike McFarland so obviously they had no clue what they were looking for, since we're four very diverse actors. We all went in there, and were given a video of the character, it had a really bad voice over on it, but here was this robot, and they told us nothing about him, so we had nothing to go on. So all weekend I was practicing (robotic voice) "this robot voice, trying to come up with something that would sound interesting," so I went in there, but I wasn't the first to go in, Chris Sabat had been first, I believe, and he was expecting the same thing, so he went in and had his robot voices prepared which we never got to hear but I wish I had, but I'm guessing (deep Piccolo/robot tone) "It was something like dis," (Vegeta-ish/robot voice) "No! You punk! You can't do that!" but the director comes in and listens to Chris and was like "No no, I just want you to just sound natural," and Chris was like "What?!" and later said that really threw him, and it threw me as well because I was thinking "Oh my God, what do we do," so I went in, and again he tells me that he just wanted us to sound natural. I was like (fake agitation) "You don't wanna hear my robot voice?!" .. and he was like "What?" "I was practicing all weekend on that robot voice!" "Well, do a little bit then." (robo voice) "Ok I will then." I went into the voice and then he said "Ok, good, now let's do it my way." "Oh, alright.." but it kinda helped break the ice, and I think he kinda liked that I was real feisty too, because that was kind of character he was looking for, a little guy who'd flip the finger to someone twice his size and such. So I got in, and just read it normal and he said "Yeah, I liked that," so about two weeks later he called me and told me that they were gonna go ahead and cast me for it. It's a fun role. Jon: Another character that you've picked up recently has been Bardock, the father of Gokou. How have you gone about voicing him, as it's one of the more serious roles in the series? What can we expect to hear from him? Actually, Bardock sounds pretty close to my own voice, maybe a little bit rougher. I try not to affect it too much. That was a choice of John (Burgmier), the director of the Bardock special. He said "All of our character's voices have a tendency to go towards roughness, and instead of a Clint Eastwood kind of thing, why don't we try your own voice, just try to sound tough," so that's what I did. It was pretty much just me sounding tough. It all depends on the scene though, because this wasn't really acting for a voice, as much as it was acting for the character in the given situation. Jon: That's what we wanna hear. (laughing) This character we really decided to handle as being more realistic, I mean, while I try to make Krillin as believable as possible he is more of comedic relief character, and this (Bardock voice) was something much more natural. Jon: The Bardock special really stands out from the rest of the series in that it's a lot more serious in that way. Well, I can't wait to see it myself. I haven't seen all of our version finished yet, but I think that it's gonna be really good. It'll be interesting to see what they did with the music too. I think the main thing about them not using the original music, and I could be wrong, is because of the dated factor of it, but I really liked it regardless of that. I mean, I like old Speed Racer episodes, and I loved the music they'd use in the backgrounds the way it could just get so dramatic. The opening credits as well. I once bought a video tape with the opening credits and I played it like five times in a row. (imitates the opening). Heh, I'm about to go into song here. "Here he comes, here comes Speed," I'm sorry, I'll stop. ^_^ But uh, there's definitely an appeal to it, but I don't think that it's as wide a range of appeal as what they want. I mean, people like you, and others that are die-hard anime fans are definitely gonna want as much of the original as possible, but I think the general population is more entertained by screaming guitars and such. When you try to appeal to the general population, you need to appeal to a different level, and it's not exactly an intellectual one ^_^. Jon: While the voices used for your characters can be debated, your line delivery and direction has usually been overlooked, especially considering how good it's been as of late. How have you researched your characters, both Krillin and Bardock respectively? Have you watched the Japanese version at all? Well, not exactly. I haven't seen a ton of the Japanese version. Jon: Boooo! Like I mentioned earlier, I really try to kind of avoid any outside influence that affects me when someone else has done it before, because I don't want to try to sound like something else, and I really don't like to know too much details about what Krillin's future is, as an actor I want to know what his past was, so I can react to the moment, but I don't like to know what's coming up. I want the reactions to be more as I see them, and as they happen, so that they come across as being more natural. That's a choice I made very early on. I thought it'd be cool to live with Krillin. With Bardock, I asked John if beforehand could we just sit down and talk about this, and analyze the character, rather than just jumping into it, and he said "Well, if you want to. Sounds like a good idea." So we spent a couple of days just sitting down and watching it. I'd asked for the original Japanese version, but at the time all we had was the Spanish version, and we watched that, which still had the original Japanese music in it, which I thought was really cool. Especially at the end. I really thought that "Solid State Scouter" was great. Anyway, we sat down and talked about it and analyzed it, because I really wanted to know just what this character was all about before we did it. We then went into the recording studio and recorded about the first quarter of it, and I went home that night and started thinking about the character a little bit more, and read the script again and went "That all sucked," so I went back the next day and asked John "Could we just scrap everything that we did yesterday and start over?" to which he replied "Well you're lucky that we have time to do that," so we did. With Krillin, I really analyzed that character. He's not always the happy go lucky guy that people think. His original motivation was basically just to be Gokou's rival, and basically to get chicks too (a motivation which I can understand, by the way), but the thing is, Krillin was a real ambitious sort of guy. Even though he's become extremely good natured from his experiences in life, the basis of his personality is still there, it has to be, and it's just gotta kill him to see all his friends surpassing him left and right in power levels. Even his best friend, who he was about equal with, and now even his best friend's kid surpasses him, even though he's so respectful as a monk and all, there's got to be an element there that kicks him in the groin. (Krillin voice) "Why me?" And even though he's the strongest human, being next to the others makes it mean nothing. I always thought that he should just quit all the intergalactic stuff, move into some suburbs and start a super hero gig, and just fight regular bad guys. Jon: And then Gohan beats him to that too. Exactly, and obviously Gohan doesn't need to do that because he can fight the stronger bad guys. Krillin gets gypped left and right, hehe. By the way though, Dragonball is based on the whole Monkey King legend, and Krillin is based upon the monk, the way he's sort of like the center, only crossed with Charlie Brown. Except that when he kicks that football and misses, it motivates Linus to kick everyone else's ass. Of course Linus in this story is Gohan. Jon: How do you feel about how much the dialogue has been rewritten? An example would be how the reoccurring joke of Krillin trying to get married was replaced with him wondering why he didn't become a shoe salesmen. Again, since I am not privy to the scripts, or too much of the show in it's original Japanese form, I don't exactly know what's coming, but, yeah, I thought that was a little corny, but that's not really my business, which is to act, and not write the scripts. I don't see why they'd change that, since it's obviously such a powerful motivation for him, and the marriage thing is his main motivation all the time, but it's not my business to write it. I guess they were just going for comedy. Jon: Talk to the hand. Don't go there! Jon: What is your opinion of both Krillin and Bardock's characters? I really love the whole story of Bardock because it's basically a story about redemption, and those are always the strongest stories since they appeal to everyone on a very base level, and Bardock was in the lowest of the low, basically, but totally redeemed himself, and even went beyond his genetic up bringing, and redeemed himself at the very end. It's always fun to play a character like that with all this mental turmoil, and actually resolves it all within two hours or less. ^_^ Krillin, I can relate to a lot. I'm 5'7, so I've dealt with being the shortest guy, and trying to over compensate for that, and uh, I tend to date women who are tall. (laughing) That might be just because I don't have too much choice in the matter. (laughing) My current girlfriend is about 5'11, so with high heels is about 6'3 or so, so it really does look like Krillin walking around with Android #18. I can also relate to how he can feel so powerless in certain situations, but I'm not really much of a sidekick. Because I'm a little stranger than the average bear, there's not too many people I tend to follow. I will however follow, Al Gore. I don't mean to drift off subject but... Jon: Go ahead. I really cannot respect anyone who won't vote when they have the right to. Vote any way you want, but here's the way I look at it. We've got two futures coming. The Bush future, we have "Road Warrior." The Gore future, we've got "Star Trek." Choose whichever way, but vote. Please. Jon: So I take it you're voting for Gore then? Yes. Bush really never answers a question directly, it's always been "Well I'll make that change once I get in office," and gosh darn it he is so obviously unqualified for the position.. that is obvious, isn't it? Whereas Gore sets out his plans, and his been open about it. And you really have the blinders on if you can't see that he's qualified for the job. With what's going on in the middle east we really need a president who is going to at least know the names of the major world leaders, you know? I mean I don't either but Bush is running for president for Crisco's sake! But really, I think a lot of people probably want to vote for Bush because, basically, he's stupid. (hillbilly voice) "Well heck, he's like me! I'm stupid! Ah, ah'll vote fer him! It's almost like havin me in tha Whitehouse! HOOOOO DOGGY!! Take me to the voting booths! (banjo music plays)(singing) goin' into the votin booth right now, pull the lever...YEEHAWWW!!! (gunshots)" Jon: (Yosamitee Sam voice) OOOOH AH HATES THEM BUSHES! (laughing) but then, that's just my opinion. Still though, if you're stupid, you know that you don't want YOU in the Whitehouse. Think about the people you care about, and how their life would SUCK if you ruled! Jon: (laughing) I think I'll vote for Gore now. I mean c'mon, he doesn't even know the meaning of affirmative action?! He had to have it EXPLAINED to him on national television! It's the most powerful office on the planet, between these two people, and it saddens me. :) Jon: Is there any sort of ritual or preparation you go through before voicing any of your characters? I slaughter a chicken. Actually though, I'll usually warm up my voice for about 15-20 minutes, and as far as getting into Krillin, I'll clear my throat like Krillin a little. (Krillin voice) " Aheeem.... and then start talking." Bardock I really didn't have long enough to create a ritual for him. Jon: How do you feel about the comparisons to both the previous English cast, as well as the Japanese cast, which many feel the voices should be based off of? Well, we kind of covered this before, but like I said, I find it's much better when an actor puts in his own interpretation rather than trying to sound like someone else, since a character is much more than just voice, and the voice should come from the understanding of the character, but that's my opinion. I can understand how people can get attached to the original way of how a character sounds though, but do you want the cast to just be a bunch of mimics, or do you want them to give it more from their heart. However, even if the original cast had stayed, I'm sure that their voices would have changed by this point as well too, because their development has grown, and their understanding of the character has changed as well. Look at the Simpsons. Listen to how much Homer's character has changed over the years. The guy who voices Homer remembers when it finally clicked with him about how Homer can be a bit more whiny. I mean, if the voice is gonna change anyway, it might be better to just start from scratch sometimes. If someone went on stage on a Broadway production of "Harvey" and tried to seriously imitate Jimmy Stewart's voice (Jim's voice) "I can guarantee that you'd be laughed off the stage never to perform again." They'd do their interpretation because they're the next person to play Elwood P. Dowd. I'm the next person to play Krillin. But heck look at the rest of the current cast. I'll bet if you put what they are doing now against the old cast they sound a lot different. You can't help but develop the more you relate to a character. I love what everybody's doing with their characters. Especially Sabat and Schemmel but those guys are obvious. Listen to what Mike McFarland's doing with Yajirobe.. it's great! He tags every line with what he calls a "fat-lib." Listen closely to him on the later episodes and you'll hear after every line this catching of breath sound. It's like he's so lazy that just speaking makes him out of breath... now THAT'S a character trait! Jon: While many know of your voice acting ventures, your work as a Comic Book artist hasn't been as recognized by some fans. Tell me a little about that. What series have you worked on? That's because it was un-recognizeable. (laughing) I struggled for, I guess about ten years to get into the comic book business, and the reason I didn't make it really big was because I was always trying to do my own characters and my own books, as opposed to your standard Marvel and DC stuff. I have 13 books published. I started off publishing my own series called "Mr. Average," and did that one with my friend Bill Foster, and we worked on that for a while and then it got us some recognition, and then some other publishers saw the work and came up to me at my booth at a convention and asked if we were doing any other stories. I showed him one I was doing called "Jack," which was based upon Egyptian mythology, and was about the jackal God Anubis, who in the story everyone called "Jack," and they said "Hey man, we'll publish this tomorrow." I said ok do it, and they did, and then another company saw that, and I started getting a little business here and there, but one publisher in New York (who we'll leave un named) published "Jack," and it was a smaller press so you expect smaller numbers, but the first book sold over 5,000 copies, and with my contract I'd make like, $1,500 off it, so for the first time in my life I was going to be able to live off my comics, which I was really excited about. Problem is, the publisher was so late getting it to the printer, and then to the distributors, that the major distributors canceled their orders, so it was all gone. By this point I was so sick of the Comic book industry that I just dropped out. I was talking to Marv Wolfman, who's one of the writers of the Elfquest movie, and I said that the comic book industry is run by evil people and morons, and he said that "No no no, they're ALL morons. They are way too stupid to be evil." ^_^ Right now I'm working on an 8 page Elf Quest story that'll have the proceeds donated to the Make a Wish foundation. After that I've been contracted to do a 150+ page Elfquest graphic novel and it should be out this Fall, and will be called "All but Blood." The story kicks ASS. Of course, at this point, I really should mention that my mother taught me how to draw when I was six. She was a great cartoonist and could draw anything. See, I just realized that I mentioned my father's influence earlier and when you're the child of divorced parents you gotta give 'em equal time. It's the law. Or at least that's what I got in the settlement. So thanks mom and dad I couldn't have done it without you! Love you both! MM-WAH! Jon: Seeing as how he still works for the company as a writer (for whatever reason that may be), have you ever attempted to contact Terry Klasson, Krillin's previous actor to "compare notes," so to speak? Uh, yeah. (Krillin voice) "Hey Terry, this is Krillin! Look, can ya lay off the mondo cool stuff for a while, please? I mean, I think you're a great writer! I do! I, God knows I love the writing, but the mondo cool stuff... is not, mondo cool. Aw, I'm just kiddin, I love the mondo cool. Put some more in! How bout mondo terrific? Mondo Explicit! I'M GOING MONDO NUTS!!! MONDO KAME HAME HA!!!" Jon: (laughing) I can only imagine what he'd say to that... He'd say "Who is this again? You are?" (laughing) He'd probably just yell at me. (Terry Klasson voice) "Thanks for BUTCHERING my character! Eh?! Aw, take off with that impersonation of me! That sucks! Everybody else got a good interpretation but me! AaaaaAAAAaaaw! This is nuts! MONDO NUTS!" Jon: (laughing) I've waited almost two years to hear you say that one. (Krillin voice) "Ya know he really is nuts." Jon: I'll bet. Mondo nuts. Jon: Are there any other characters we might hear you voicing in the next season, and do you plan to continue voicing Krillin through all three series? If you catch me at autograph signings, I do Vegeta a lot, but then we all do, hehe. As far as the new season, we'll see. I'm auditioning for several of the parts coming up. As for voicing Krillin, as of right now yes. As long as they'll have me, I'll continue to voice him. Jon: Which do you feel that you relate to better, Krillin, or Bardock? A little of both, I guess. I can be a very aggressive person, when it comes to what I want, but at the same time I really relate to Krillin as I'm the perennial nice guy. I think that being a nice guy really helps out though, especially when trying out for a part, sometimes when there's equal talent it'll come down to whether you're a nice person or not. If the director thinks "That guy's an ass, I'm not gonna cast him," then odds are he won't get casted. I think a lot of the connections I've made just comes from me being really nice to people. And I think a little bag of humility goes a long way. Jon: Are you coo coo for Coa Coa Puffs? (Sonny the Coo Coo Bird voice) "Aw...yeees!" Jon: When Dragonball's all said and done, what can we expect from Sonny Strait? Are there any side projects that you're working on now that we don't know about? Well when I move out to California I'll be doing a lot of auditions for voice work, but I think that I'm gonna focus a lot on comics, so odds are you're gonna see a lot of comics out of me. even though I love doing voice work, I've struggled a long time to get a break like this with Elf Quest, and it's totally blown me away, because I was a huge fan of Elf Quest for years. Wendi Pini was one of my greatest teachers as far as drawing went since her books were still in black and white. It really affected how I drew, and I think it's been amazing how she's such a big fan of Dragonball Z, and that at the San Diego Comic Con her booth would be right next to our booth, and that she'd want me to draw a comic book with her. It's a big thing for me, but I love doing VA work as well, so I also plan to continue doing that. Jon: Any final words for the fans? Vote Gore! Or at least get informed before you vote and then you will vote Gore. The problem is, you've got so many people saying stuff like (hick voice) "Yeah I think I'll vote for Bush since he did such a great job last time he was President," Yeeahh... you know what? You shouldn't be allowed to vote. That's where we draw the line. For all the Dragonball Z fans though, pleeeaase don't hate me because I'm Krillin. I'm sorry if my interpretation isn't what you might do, but I'm doing my best here. Ok? Really, I am. I love the character, I love the series, and I've studied the heck out of it. The HECK out of the whole series, and I love it. I'm really trying hard to make Krillin appealing, and he's real to me, and... stop that Krillin, get down. (Krillin voice) "No I wanna talk!" I'm talking on the phone now. (Krillin voice) "C'mon, lemmy talk!" Look, I'm holding this over your head Krillin! You can't reach it! (Krillin voice) "GIMMY THE PHONE! GIMMY THE PHOOOOONE!!"