the Faultie Circuit :: In-Depth GPF

Loose threads are, simply put, unanswered questions that have arisen from storylines in GPF. Ultimately, many loose threads are answered as the comic progresses. There are some questions, however, that have yet to be answered. A short listing of those questions follows . . .

Year 1
Why did Nick apply at a small software company like GPF? What prompted Dwayne to start GPF? How did Ki know Nick was on IRC as "gort", or, for that matter, where to find him online? What motivated Trudy to be nice to Nick and mean to everyone else right off the bat? Did Randall ever recover? What are Fooker's other inventions? What happened to the passenger seat in Fooker's car? How did Fooker escape Trudy's dungeon? Where did Trudy live before she moved in next to Fooker?
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Year 2
What are some of Professor Wisebottom's other great inventions? Where did Trent obtain the evidence for the other safe droppings? What did the mysterious caller tell Trudy to gain her attention? How did Dwayne and Nicole meet and eventually marry?
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Year 3
When will Trudy collect on this favor? Who's Ki's old best friend? How did Nick meet Mindy Sizemore? Who is Fooker's college pal? Who was Fooker's R.A. in college? Who did Ki replace at GPF? What happened at Lake Murphy? Who publishes the Supervillain Newsletter? When did Trudy attempt to create an army of super mutants? Did Johnson, the police officer trapped against the levee, survive? When has Nick drawn in the past? Where did Trudy stash her secret weapons?
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Year 4 - Surreptitious Machinations
Who is Doctor "O"? What are Socrates' origins? How long ago did Ki hack Fooker's home network? What was the last part of Trudy's plan? Who is Fooker's "old friend"? How did Butch end up back in jail? Who are the three people who know of the U.G.A.? Who were the three agents lost? Did Todd's story actually happen? Why is Todd so affectionate toward Persephone? Who are the other spies Ki and Todd need to worry about? Who are the other members of C.R.U.D.E.? Was Professor Wisebottom's theft of Fred ever detected? How does Velociraptor actually work? Who caused the paradox in the first place? What are the possible infractions Nick presents?
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Year 5
Who are GPF's upstairs neighbors? What happened to the girl at Nick's summer camp? Does Sharon have experience pranking coworkers as a systems administrator? What are the GPF crew's other time wasting activities? Will Ki ever finish her novel? How did the Barkers' father end up in the military? How did the Barkers' mother die? What happened at Trudy's family reunion? Who is Trudy's sister? Why would Trudy's mother's clients necessitate a secret exit? When did Ki get a restraining order against Dexter? What is Nick working on with Professor Wisebottom? What are some of Todd's weird adventures with the Gamester? Agent #12 hints at being adopted. Who were her adopted parents? What will Trent do to find out about the previous summer? What would have been the final test to give to Sharon?
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Year 6
What does the device held by Ki do? Who is "N", and what are his plans for Nick? How did Nick's father end up working as a police officer after being a high school English teacher? Who won the Monopoly game - Fred or Charlie? What will Nick unwittingly do to initiate a cosmic calamity? What will Trudy do with her new-found knowledge of Todd, Empress Trudy, and the Gamester? What was on the disc Van Horton gave to The German? What are the slime molds' counterparts like? Who is the person the police brought to Dr. Sehgal? What illness did Dr. Seghal's sister suffer from? What kind of competitions did Nicole and Mercades engage in? Where did Fooker find a new apartment? What was in the e-mail Tim sent Fooker?
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Year 7
What occured in Patty's previous relationship? Will Lynn and Dex become friends? How did Mercedes make Judge Oaliriff cry? Are Sharon and Fooker going to tie the knot anytime in the forseeable future? Did Nick and Ki ever settle on what kind of plates they wanted? How did Fred develop the "remote control" ability? Who did the woman's voice belong to at Dexter's place? What is the Trans-Dimensional Council? Who is Justice? Will Ki ever remember seeing the Gamester? Will Sharon ever get to meet her real mother or father? Will Fooker and Sharon's future child be the geek messiah? Which candidate for "The One" is Tim falling in love with? How did Socrates lose Fred? Will Trent find other employment or end up back in prison? Will Dex pursue writing more about "Prometheus One"?
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Year 8 - To Thine Own Self...
Will Socrates ever have at least five minutes to talk to Fred? What happened at the U.G.A. to make Fooker so concerned? Who is the duchess? What is emergency plan D? Where did "Ki" and Nick disappear to? Where did "Trudy" come from, and why did she go through Yoshi's version of the MUTEX? How did Patty screw up the last wedding?
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