High Life - Section E
Sep 07, 2021
Despite my best intentions, I always seem to end up doing things differently. I think this is shown with this episode's 'big' reveal. As I mentioned previously, I'm a big fan of Dredd, but I wanted to do something different with my own future lawman. It's not that I think I'm better, if anything it's all part of my inferiority complex, so (in my case) if you can't beat them, run the other way (or at least a different way, usually through the wrong door and down a flight of ricketty steps which lead to a damp basement, with no lights and faulty electrics).
I know Frank Sinatra had it that doing things your own way, or at least his way, I mean 'my way', was a good thing and maybe it is ... if you're Frank Sinatra, but maybe also, doing what everybody else is doing isn't a bad thing, especially if you're not Frank Sinatra, or Frank Miller (to give a more relevant example of a comic iconoclast) if you want to reach people or at the very least, get noticed.
My main point is, that as much as I like mainstream stuff, something inside me squirms and wriggles when I try to play it straight and ends up making my hand make contradictory, contrary stuff rather than Eagle award-winning comics. Like when I watched Black Widow the other day, I began to think 'wouldn't it be funny if the bad guys just killed her early on and we spent the rest of the film watching them file their paperwork?'. Perhaps I read too many Mad magazines as a child, or perhaps it's something to do with trying to be funny (notice I said trying to be funny). I definitely, and without any doubt, do not know. Letters on a postcard to my fictitious readers' page.
Anyway, I hope that despite its contradictory nature of what's expected from futuristic lawdubes, this story amuses you and makes some sort of sense.
In the meantime, I'll just keep on being contradictory, hoping that world catches up with me or I catch up with the world or at least that something in my work gets better!
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