CWCki:Operation Mailbag

PROTIP: Deadline for submitting your e-mails is 13 December 2009 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Submissions will be posted onto CWCipedia for Chris's mailbag on 14 December 2009.

Post your e-mails to Chris here. Please see CWCki talk:Operation Mailbag for Rules of Engagement and details. --Champthom 00:31, 29 November 2009 (CET)

From: Gabe Syme <honestgabe@gmail.com> Dear Chris, I've been reading your comics for a long time now, and I have to say, your writing style is very unique! I've grown to appreciate it a great deal, and being an avid reader, I would like to enjoy more books like it! I absolutely love books of all forms. Some of my favorite authors include Tim Dorsey, Max Barry, GK Chesterson, Robert W. Chambers, Mark Z. Danielewski, and of course, Christian Weston Chandler!  :) But I'm curious to know what you like, or what you find particularly inspiring. So I gotta ask: 1.) What books or authors would you say influenced your writing the most? I know you're a fan of RL Stine's work, but are there any others? 2.) What books would you recommend to your fans? Again, I know you enjoy the collective works of RL Stine and How to Talk to Girls by Alec Greven. What else do you enjoy? 3.) Have other mediums inspired your writing style? For example, I love the storytelling of Gochi Suda (Who wrote the story for games like Contact and Killer7). Are there any TV, Film, or Video game writers that influenced how you tell your stories? 4.) A little bit off topic, but a lot of great writers crave variety, and like to occasionally take a break from their established work and focus on telling a completely new story that's totally disconnected from their prior work. Do you plan on telling any stories with nothing to do with Sonichu, Rosechu, or anybody else from CWCville VA? Please be as in depth as possible, as I really love your work, and want to know as many of your inspirations as I can! :D Thanks a bunch, and have a great day! --Gabe Syme

From: Randi Foulk <sonichuis44@hotmail.com> Chris-chan, Hi! I'm so glad you started drawing the comic again, I thought you'd given up on it, because you didn't write any new pages for a long time! I'm a boyfriend-free girl, but theres this really cute, quiet, shy boy in my class, and I told my friend to tell his friend to ask me out, so maybe I won't be boyfriend free for long ;) I had some questions! 1. I've watched a lot of your videos, and your room looks amazing, there's soo much cool stuff! Can you take some pictures or show us in a video, so we can see all the neat stuff you have? 2. I read about how you think gay boys can be saved if you reprogram them to like women! I think that's really important and God would like that! But why would you have them do it with female prisoners?? if they're in jail they're probably really mean, and they might make things worse, or just refuse to help those poor men out... 3. This is kind of a naughty question, so you don't have to answer if you don't want to ;) Do you wear pajamas to bed, or do you sleep "all natural"? Thanks a lot!!!! --Randi

From: Jacob N. <jacob_n333@yahoo.com> Hello, Chris, My name is Jacob and I've been following your work for a while now. It has not been far from my mind as I have been working on my first novel, the first draft of which was finished just today (the 27th). As it's my first, I've been quite exhilarated, and in the afterglow I suddenly remembered a couple of things I've been wanting to ask you. First: if I may be so audacious, I'd like it if you could read the first draft of my novel and tell me what you think of it. When I get to writing the second draft in six weeks, I'd like as many perspectives on the novel as I can, so that I can write the best novel that I can before sending it to publishers to be evaluated. Might I send you a copy? Second: as a fellow Cherokee, I can't help but wonder why you drew your Cherokee ancestor as being pale-skinned, blue-eyed, and adorned with golden armor. Are the copper skin and leather of your ancestors not visually impressive enough for you? I also wonder why you used a pretend clan as a rival as opposed to one of our ancestral rivals, such as the Mi-Go or the Yithans. Ia! Ithaqua f'taghn! With admiration, Jacob Nathaniel Lights-in-the-Sky of the Cherokee nation.

This would be awesome if the following two emails were next to each other:

From: Harper Steinbeck harpersteinbeck62@gmail.com Chris, My children are huge Sonichu fans and can't wait for the video games to be published. However, they recently showed me a YouTube video showing one of your comics where you shoot a man in the legs in an argument over a woman. I am shocked that you claim to advocate gun control yet you depict yourself taking part in such depraved gun violence. Shooting someone in the legs is no laughing matter. As a physical therapist I work rehabilitating wounded soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. Recovering from gunshot wounds is a painful, lengthy process and some victims may never walk again. This is exactly why we have to keep guns out of the hands of sick individuals who think shooting someone is an appropriate means to settle a conflict. You claim to be for gun control yet you draw yourself shooting an unarmed man? You need to explain yourself. -- Harper Steinbeck

From: John Lee nra4ever@gmail.com My children love reading all your Sonichu comics and going through the CWCipedia. However, we are saddened to learn that you are a supporter of gun control. When my wife and I bought our first home I awoke in the middle of the night to find two men crawling through my living room window. Fortunately I had a gun and was able to hold them at gunpoint until the police arrived. To this day I still don't know if they were simply after our belongings or if they wanted to hurt my family. Thankfully I didn't have to shoot them but I easily could have. Chris, how would you defend yourself, your parents, or your future wife and daughter if people decided to break into your home? The police can't be everywhere at once. If I understand correctly you live in a rural area where help could be almost an hour away if you called 911. I'm sure hearing about gun violence in the news makes you sick. It makes me sick, too. But gun control isn't the answer. Criminals won't obey gun control laws. That's why they're criminals. All gun control does is leave law-abiding citizens defenseless against say, crazy people who would shoot someone in a petty squabble over a woman. Please explain yourself. John Lee NRA Lifetime Member