danfinlay

Clearly you two know how to turn a shirt into a book. Are there any shirts out there that you think are begging for books to be written based on them?

Obviously someone has to ask: How has your opinion of New York changed since moving there?

So somewhere out there, there's an original "All my friends are dead" pin, and the owner may not even realize what it's become? Is it the same cartoon, or what?

I'm just an avid reader of the Wall Street Journal!

Whoa, you COULD probably just re-brand The Land!

My shot:

I was thinking it starts with you and Jory each waking up in the morning to discover the world is startlingly empty, like in the Twilight Zone's "Where is Everybody?". You manage to find each other downtown, and just as you utter the titular line (to Jory's chagrin, or vice versa, you'll probably fight for that line)- you encounter one of the lonely characters from your books.

That's right, it's mixed with animation, Roger Rabbit style, all in the style of the book. Anyways, these lonely characters blame you guys for creating them so lonely, but they insist they have no idea where all YOUR friends are. Anyways, you bandy up with some of them, have to be careful of others, it'd be a movie so there's a lot of different interactions that you'd have to flesh out, but ultimately maybe it turns out that one of the characters was so lonely they zapped you into your book land, so you could be lonely too, so you have to defeat him or turn him or something.

Either that or it turns out all your friends were just hiding, and then the animated friends you made along the way are like "well then I guess all your friends aren't dead after all…" but then you guys say "Neither are yours… anymore!!!" And it's a big sappy ending with you guys and all your animated characters, probably try to knock it out of the park bigger than "An Allegory."

I'm a fan of multiple endings, too, so probably just do both or more.