Val

Val (born October 22, 1952) is an American actor and musician. They have starred in some of the highest-grossing films of their era, such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Independence Day (1996), as well as their respective sequels, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

Val also starred in films including Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Big Chill (1983), and Into the Night (1985), before coming to wider attention as Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), which earned them a Saturn Award for Best Actor. Their other films include The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), The Tall Guy (1989), Deep Cover (1992), Powder (1995), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Cats & Dogs (2001), Igby Goes Down (2002), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Adam Resurrected (2008), Le Week-End (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017).

Val has also starred in several TV series, including the eighth and ninth seasons of Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Zack Nichols. They directed the short film Little Surprises, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Their jazz band, Val and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, released their first album, The Capitol Studios Sessions, in 2018.

Comics
Val's comics include Harold 1 and 2, Code Tangerine, Next Door (partially), Keypad Factory, Robotic Uprising (Maybe), Ask Us Anything, AI Box Tycoon, Hunger Games for Nitro, Dannony Confirmation, Awesome, Hubstuck (partially), TNOTCWCTRETHW 1 and 2, The Bandiversary, and Moving Box Tycoon. Their comics frequently incorporate characters with varying levels of connection to them, ranging from just sharing their name to being a fourth-wall-bending representation of their real-life self.

"Most of their comics are interconnected in various ways and frankly the fuckery is kinda ridiculous so I'll leave it to them to give more detail on that," according to Anonezumi. The fuckery is, quite frankly, kinda ridiculous, and the comics mostly take place across one running story, at various points on the timelines of three universes.

Art Style
Val frequently switches between two different art styles. The first, featuring cartoonish stick figures in a 2D world with layered background, is used in such comics as Robotic Uprising (Maybe) and AI Box Tycoon. Everything in this art style is drawn with a mouse on MS Paint, GIMP, or Photoshop. The second, featuring pasted-in images from Google Images, is used in TNOTCWCTRETHW 1 and 2 in conjunction with the first style. These two styles represent two parallel universes.

Color is also significant in Val's comics. Most comics employing the first style use a single palette of shades of a color-- Robotic Uprising (Maybe), for example, is depicted in shades of lime green to represent a GameBoy's display. AI Box Tycoon, meanwhile, is rendered in greyscale. The exception to this rule is Teal and everything associated with her. She always appears in her namesake color, along with everything under her influence.