Pondus (real name Patrick) is a living football encyclopedia in his mid thirties (once quoted to be 35), and an avid fan of Liverpool F.C.
When it comes to knowledge about British football, he has nearly idiot savant expertise, about teams and players down to the obscure Lower Leagues.
He worked for several years as a bus driver, but did at one point get too much exposure to "the freaks that use public transportation", and as pub-owner Turid-Laila was leaving for a transglobal sailing trip, Pondus quit his old job and bought her pub.
Her taste in music is offensive to Pondus, as she likes to listen to Michael Bolton, Modern Talking, Ricky Martin etc.
Her vocabulary is limited to very few words, one of which is Dommerjævel (English: bastard referee), which doesn't please her mother but gives her father some satisfaction.
More recently, Bjarne was attached to a motorized hang-glider, because Kevin wanted to get away from the chore of follow the dog on his regular rounds.
Kevin and Pondus watched helplessly as the dog drifted away overseas, being spotted at a Norwegian oil rig, and then over Shetland, before turning up in Washington D.C., where he collided with president Barack Obama during his annual Christmas speech.
The story was published as a Christmas special, by the way pointing out that Pondus and his family lives in Bergen, or at least in the western parts of Norway.
Jokke (real name Joachim Jacobsen, English: Raymond) used to be a notorious flirt with the very ugliest women to be found, due to some internal code that no opportunity should ever be left unattempted.
Jokke is also Pondus' equal in terms of football fanhood, but his less fortunate destiny is supporting Leeds United, a club doomed to poor results of recent years.
For a while he lived at home with his mother Else and his stepfather Günther, but moved out when their sexual escapades became too much to bear, to share an apartment with Turid-Laila.
He reunited with his long-lost, ex-criminal father and opened a vintage record store with him, and he met Camilla who is several leagues above the sort of girls pursued in the past.
An entirely normal and healthy woman that works as a teacher, and plays football athletically, her selection of Jokke as a partner is her only freak factor.
Camilla recently left Tor-Ivar because of his fanatical devotion to chess, something she at first thought to be cute, but later found irritating to the point of murderous rage.
Their reunion is delayed one day because Camilla has to view the TV series "Greys Anatomy", which Jokke can't bear watching.
The parents are in an eternal quarrel over the football teams on his behalf, but there is a hint that Gordon himself is going for Queens Park Rangers because of their colours.
In a 2006 strip, she was shown taking the drivers test for the 250th time, and her driving instructor has told her that her lessons alone will fund the summer home he's building in Spain.
His attempts at stopping crime are usually unsuccessful, he once actually offered some robbers help to carry the famous paintings The Scream and Madonna into a van, although he has recently been inducted, after a painful initiation process, into a brotherhood of dubious superheroes.
Together they have opened up an Antiques&Vinyl shop, consisting mostly of items acquired by Jokke's father during his long life of crime, sold for irrationally high prices due to fake statements and facts, such as a cheap little cabinet bought at IKEA a few years back was sold as antique.
Turid-Laila (English: Tammy-Sue) is a desirable blonde who works as a bartender at the local pub, which Pondus and Jokke have frequented since the beginning of the strip.
She stated that this relationship probably was "the real thing", leading to the decision to go on a transglobal sailing journey with her, and selling her pub to Pondus.
Harold has an obsession with his aquarium fish and golf, and is also shown as a whisky-drinker who buys good quality brands, but blends with cola (prompting Pondus to steal the bottle from him, reasoning that the only decent action is to adopt it).
On a rare night out with Pondus and Jokke (he comments that the last time he set foot in a bar, Ronald Reagan was U.S. president) he becomes intoxicated after one sip of whisky.
The last time she woke up, it was revealed that the nurses were ready to give her "usual treatment" (holding a baseball bat, to keep her in coma).
At this point, dr Zimmerknaben suggested therapy, and Petra was released from hospital, only to meet a piano dropped from a plane.
He would cheat his own grandmother with absolutely no remorse (the punchline of a strip), and creatively charge for opening the hood of the car and then relaxing for a while, billing it as motor-airing.
Only on one occasion has he been unable to find any fault in a car to exploit for profit, namely a Fiat 509 belonging to Gaston Lagaffe who made a silhouetted cameo in a strip, Reidar conceding defeat while thinking, "They just don't make them like that anymore..".
His work has often led him to experiment with highly original variations of the superhero concepts, but more recently he has taken to copy already successful characters and place them together.
Examples of Roger's series are: Tanga Trond, Kaptein Kølle(Captain Cock), Roy the boy toy, Sergeant Shitface, Dirty Duck, Nicky Buttface, Karaoke Kid, Mikke Snus og Kjøttbein (Mickey Snuff & Meaty) and Kaptein Dynetrekk (Captain Bedspread).
Despite his intimidating appearance, snaggletoothed and corpse-like features, he has quite a gentle and innocent personality, singing Stevie Wonder and sleeping in Care-Bear pyjamas.