by PriamNevhausten » Fri May 04, 2007 10:47 am
whose identity I have since forgotten, who linked an image a year or so ago parodying We3 using syndicated strip characters, thank you. The concept caught my eye, and I recently purchased We3, the trade paperback collection--and it is one of the best things I have read in, perhaps, my life.
I'd thank you personally, but, like, I can't remember who you are. YEAH.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru