THE BUG - The Cast

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Everybody who lives in my computer, and me.

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The Bug: a round lime-green bug with big eyes, two antennae and six stubby legs, waving THE BUG
The Y2K bug himself. Round, green, six legs, two antennae, very big eyes and very big plans. At midnight on New Year's Eve he is going to make the clock say 1900, and after that, he says, chaos. He practices his line in the mirror. He jumps at loud noises. For something the whole world is supposed to be afraid of, he worries an awful lot, and I like him for it.
Lives: on the motherboard, wherever he can see Clock.
First strip: #1

Clock: a small black box with a red display reading 1999, two heavy-lidded eyes and stubby gray legs, standing in front of the coin battery CLOCK
The computer's system clock. A small black box with a red display that says 1999, and eyelids that have never once gone all the way up. He runs on the little coin battery on the motherboard, so he's awake even when the computer is off. He has never missed a thing, including every game of solitaire I've ever lost on this machine. He has changed his numbers every second since 1994 and he isn't about to get excited about one more. The Bug is his best friend. Clock has not said so.
Lives: by the battery.
First strip: #1

Floppy: a navy blue 3.5-inch floppy disk with a silver shutter, a bandage on one corner and a grumpy face with gray eyebrows and a mustache on his white label FLOPPY
A 3.5-inch floppy disk, 1.44 megs, navy blue, with a silver shutter and his face on the label. He's older than the computer and he'll tell you about it. Back in '92 he caught a virus in a school computer lab, and he still has the bad sector to show for it, with a bandage on it. Cranky, proud, and a little bit right about most things. Snores.
Lives: wherever he wants. He's earned it.
First strip: #4

Nines: a round purple bug like the Bug, with a big white 9 on his belly, waving and carrying a little brown suitcase NINES
The Bug's cousin from out of town. Same shape as the Bug, purple, with a big 9 on his belly and a little brown suitcase he never puts down. His big day was 9/9/99. It went about as well as you'd think. He says he'll be back for New Year's to watch his cousin, which is very supportive of him, and also the opposite.
Lives: out of his suitcase.
First strip: #2 (the bonus strip)

Cory, seen through the monitor glass: a round smiling face with short brown hair and glasses CORY
That's me. In the strip I'm the big face on the other side of the monitor glass, the guy who owns the computer, plays a lot of solitaire on it, and goes online with a very loud modem. In real life I'm 24 and I work the counter at a used computer store in Dayton, Ohio. My face is the one color in the strip that isn't in Paint's color box. I had to mix it myself. It took longer than the rest of the strip.
Lives: on the other side of the glass.
First strip: #6