9 is the artist of SED. He also does the site design and management. And he writes the comic, and pretty much everything else (except manage the forums on a daily basis).

9 started making comics when he didn’t have much luck getting a “real job” after getting kicked out of college for being poor. Since then, 9 has led a wonderful life of sleeping on other people’s couches, being homeless and starving. While it may sound like 9 holds a grudge against people for this, I, 9, can assure you that he doesn’t.

Not in the slightest.

Seriously.

He curses a fair bit. He has been legally dead 3 times. He was given the “full ride” scholarship treatment by Duke University. He decided not to go because math is really boring. Instead, he ended up going to college for Art, which turned out to be a huge mistake (See Above). He graduated high school at 16 (law says you have to be in school until 16). He also became an emancipated minor at 16, and got his first apartment then. He has no wife or girlfriend or significant other of any kind. He has little family, and even less money.

9 is generally considered to be a workaholic. At one point, the fans of his comic were threatening to stage a coup if he didn’t take some time off.

9 is also generally considered to be a pretentious know-it-all that talks down to everyone. 9 is offended by this opinion, because he admits he doesn’t know it all, and thus pursues knowledge that he doesn’t have… and in doing so, does actually end up knowing a lot about a lot. …Unlike everyone else, who relies on information that they got from a friend of a friend of a friend’s cousin’s former roommate who heard from some guy at the 7-11 about that one thing. (Just because someone you trust told you that the best way to build a website is to dance around the computer three times while sprinkling mountain dew on the carpet doesn’t make it true!!) 9 has a penchant for medium sized words, trying to teach people about things that he knows, and a habit of making ridiculous metaphors and similies.

The last thing you must know about 9 is that he is like an innocent child with a cookie. He loves his cookie and wants to share it with you. If you don’t like the little nibble marks, just smile sweetly and decline. But for god’s sake, don’t get angry or offended when he tries to share his cookie.

Knowledge is 9’s cookie.

His favorite things in the world are:
- People who aren’t hypocrites.
- The color blue.
- His best-friend, pet, and cat Bobblehead. (Even though she gets in the way and doesn’t shut up.)
- Music, of all types.
- SCIENCE!!

His least favorite things are:
- Anything Citrus.
- Pork.
- People who allow sex to become the core of their self worth. (99% of Americans.)
- People who complain that they don’t have any money to spare, but then buy expensive crap and brag about it to him.
- Friends who think that being a dick is perfectly acceptable as long as you’re friends. So then what’s the point, asshole?