Talk:The Point of It All

From doktorsleepless

Your Reflection Ok, I'll bite. I'll buy a batch of Shriekyware sets if anyone gets them to be a safe tech.

Heck, I'll take clatter too if someone can actually develop them.

While I agree that there are elements of 'all this stuff is lying around, why don't you assemble it yourself' to all of this great work there's also a very real sense in which I don't have sufficient expertise to make it, or sufficient starting capital to buy the warehouses full of crap needed to start a revolution. --Confusion 08:26, 30 September 2007 (PDT)

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Ellis has certainly said on more than one occasion that he uses his characters as mouthpieces sometimes. There are clearly things that he and Spider agree on. But I think it's a little more complex than that. Ellis isn't talking to us directly. He's talking through a character embedded in a medium, out from behind editors, etc. That's the fun part. The noise is part of the message. The fact that he's a character creates the defamiliarization that allows us to take these words as new. If you just think of them as an extension of the Bad Signal, then I think you're sort of missing the point of writing, drawing, inking, colouring, and printing this fabulous, full-colour, comic-book-thingy.