Never was a story of more glee than the latest addition to Ryan North’s bibliograph-y…

In a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), the 35-year-old author and cartoonist behind Dinosaur Comics, Machine of Death, and Marvel’s The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series answered redditors’ questions on everything from his growing list of creative projects to one user’s request for help thinking up with some creative pet names.

North’s latest book, Romeo and/or Juliet, is a humorous follow-up to his 2013 “choose-your-own-path version of Hamlet” (fittingly titled To Be or Not To Be).

In Romeo and/or Juliet, the writer and illustrator takes the same concept—letting readers pick a character and strategize their own way through the plot—and applies it to the Capulet-Montague feud.

According to North’s Amazon description:

“What if Romeo never met Juliet? What if Juliet got really buff instead of moping around the castle all day? … Choose well, and you may even get to write the world’s most awkward choose-your-own sex scene.”

In a reply to redditor TraviTheRabbi, North explains why he chose to turn this particular Shakespearean classic into a humorous gamebook format:

“The official ending in the play is really frustrating, because Romeo shows up, sees Juliet is ‘dead,’ kills himself, Juliet wakes up SECONDS LATER, sees Romeo is dead, and kills herself. If Romeo just, delayed for five minutes: bought flowers, maybe a nice bottle of wine—ANYTHING—then he would’ve shown up, seen Juliet waking up, and everyone lives happily ever after. It’d be a ridiculously happy ending for such a ridiculous reason, and I made sure to include that when I (finally!) got to that part of the book.”

(But based on the conjunctions in the title, this happy ending seems to be just one of many possible outcomes for Romeo “and/or” Juliet.)

Like North’s recent satires of the Bard, his AMA went on many unexpected detours as redditors asked about his personal life, his other projects, and that one time he got trapped in a skate park.

Here are a few of his best responses.

Will He Ever Run Out of Ideas?

What’s Next? Dostoevsky?