"Comics and sci-fi engage warp-speed satire with the help of writers from The Daily Show, The Oblongs, Metalocalypse and more in the second quarterly volume of The Devastator.
Released Thursday, the old-school print brainchild of Los Angeles writers Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows — a self-described “book of comics, satire and awesomeness” — looks to slay the sophomore slump at the expense of Tron, Star Wars, Soylent Green and other sci-fi standbys and oddities. (Yes, we’re looking at you, Existenz.)
“In The Devastator No. 2, you find out that the entire science-fiction genre is actually a giant computer program that we’re living inside, while aliens harvest our body energies to power their panini makers,” said Meadows in an e-mail chat with Wired.com. “How else can you explain Heinlein and Dick?”"
Friday, December 10, 2010
Comedy Quarterly The Devastator Vaporizes Sci-Fi | Underwire | Wired.com
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