It all started when my wife went on a cruise with her sister and mom and I had tons of time to myself since I took a week off from work and stumbled upon 2543 posted on someones facebook wall and I was like "nicely drawn, snarky, some humor." So I went back in the archive to #1 and in a nearly breathless two day session caught every strip.
Watching everything go in almost real-time was enough to totally suck me in to the point where if I didn't know any better I'd say the realism made it seem like jeph was live-blogging/cartooning his friends lives. It's that good.
One of the hooks that set was the whole "marten plays guitar and is in a band" thing. I'm a musician known on the internet as aliensporebomb and dig stories with snippets of band life from time to time.
Anyway, carry on.