Dwayne

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Dwayne Duncan

From the Official Cast Page

First Appearance: The Beginning (November 2, 1998)

Dwayne Duncan is the founder, president, and lead software engineer for GPF Software. He is a tall, well-built, handsome African-American man of high intelligence and strong moral character. He is full of enthusiasm for the company and is the primary motivational force for anything that gets done. He's also the sanest one of the lot, and that has to drive him nuts.

I really feel for this guy. Poor Dwayne has to face this group of loonies every weekday, 9 to 5, and the fate of his life's dream is in their hands. That has to take its toll on a guy. But Dwayne is strong and confident and (especially) patient. I really admire that in him, and that's why he's so important to the strip. If it weren't for Dwayne, the others would simply be coding in some small room with little light for hours on end. Here, at least, they can code in a small room with little light for hours on end, and it has a purpose.

Dwayne is, without question, the anchor to reality in the strip. While everyone else is being abducted by aliens or bouncing around through time, Dwayne seems to stay firmly planted in the present and oblivious to the more exotic story lines of the strip. While this has left him out of some of the wilder stories, I think it suits him best. Personally, I think that if he knew everything that was going on with his employees, he'd probably blow a few fuses.

Dwayne is currently the only member of the cast who is married. His beautiful wife Nicole recently gave birth to their first child, Sydney, who is sure to keep our favorite company president busy for the next eighteen or so years....

During Surreptitious Machinations, Dwayne becomes an unwilling pawn to the manipulations of Trudy's future self. Trudy manipulates the company's clients to drive off business and put the company in financial trouble, then burns down the building to frame Dwayne for insurance fraud. Although he spends a brief time in prison, a fortunate bus accident frees him and Fooker to work to clear their names. In the end, Dwayne helps the U.G.A. defeat the sinister C.R.U.D.E., his name is cleared, and he rebuilds GPF Software into a bigger, better company than it was before.

Some of Dwayne's GPF milestones: