 He is endlessly being accosted by would-be disciples seeking the truth (among them such long-running Crumb characters as Flakey Foont and Shuman the Human).He typically regards them with amused condescension and a certain grudging affection, although his patience often wears thin and he takes sadistic pleasure in making them feel like idiots.While he is typically very cool and in control, he sometimes ends up in humiliating predicaments like languishing for years in a mental institution.