Whoever wrote this knows more about what’s going on than you do. A lot more.
3 thoughts on “The Parking Lot is Full”
The McK says:
To flesh this out a bit better… You need to go to about the late middle of the archives (1998 is a good start)to get to the really usable UA stuff – Things like the little known facts (here and here) seem like good clues, and overall it has this eery, uneven feel to it, bad puns and pop-culture references and then brain-eating and letters from dead people.
The ending is a saga about about sock puppets being murdered. In a game context, I’d say it probably means somebody got tired of this guy’s attempts to get the truth out and slowly brain-melted him over several months… the sock puppet thing being a cry for help in comic form. Or maybe not.
Toxic Memes (a Transhuman Space book) references the second one Corso mentions.
The comics tone is mournful at times. There are a few moments of whimsy and fun in it, but mostly it seems like the mentally ill cousin of the Farside (also a good UA source).
To flesh this out a bit better… You need to go to about the late middle of the archives (1998 is a good start)to get to the really usable UA stuff – Things like the little known facts (here and here) seem like good clues, and overall it has this eery, uneven feel to it, bad puns and pop-culture references and then brain-eating and letters from dead people.
The ending is a saga about about sock puppets being murdered. In a game context, I’d say it probably means somebody got tired of this guy’s attempts to get the truth out and slowly brain-melted him over several months… the sock puppet thing being a cry for help in comic form. Or maybe not.
Thats a pretty good comic, the whole thing has an amazing UA feel to it. Especially the ¨what you hear¨ parts of the source book.
http://www.plif.com/archive/wc277.gif
and
http://www.plif.com/archive/wc263.gif
were the first 2 a randomly picked.
Toxic Memes (a Transhuman Space book) references the second one Corso mentions.
The comics tone is mournful at times. There are a few moments of whimsy and fun in it, but mostly it seems like the mentally ill cousin of the Farside (also a good UA source).
http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
That one I think is very UA appropriate.