User:Luprand

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Luprand is one or more (possibly all) of the following:

• A college graduate named Simon, with a degree in English (minor in editing). Somewhat overweight, remarkably presbyopic, but works hard at trying to be good-natured. Has become rather reclusive, at least as far as the Comic Genesis community is concerned.

• The cartoonist behind (so far) two comics: NeTrek (There is no emoticon sufficient), a rather scattershot comic that lasted almost three years before he brought it to an abrupt end; and Torio, an attempted tag-team comic that turned into a solo endeavor when the other half's scanner went kaput.

• The former pet puppy of the then-Keenspace forums, a short little anthropomorphic German shepherd dog. Originally a non-morphic wolf puppy, no one's quite sure when he became domesticated, humanoid, and presbyopic, but somehow he ended up standing on two feet, wearing clothes, and needing bifocals to see. Originally using the name "netrek" to match his comic, he switched handles after the forum crash. A number of arguments over admittedly minor things, combined with his uncertain plans starting in the summer of 2005, led to him going inactive on the forums.
  • A character called Dr. Luprand started to develop in the various comic jams on the forums. During the Keenspace Revolution, Luprand and his assistant Komiyan ended up as the neutral force, administrating the Keenspace chapter of the Red Cross (a job that mostly involved draining the blood from anyone they could find). After a certain point, a joke from RKolter turned into a running gag about Luprand randomly ending up pregnant - through non-sexual means and often without him being aware.