Here’s a superhero you should avoid on White Pants Days, ladies! Its creator, longtime City of Heroes player Scott "Sharkey" Sharkey, tweets: "Who has two thumbs and frontpages Reddit with stupid bullshit he posts while drunk at 1AM?" Good lord, Reddit. I mean, really.
Don’t you think Sharkey should put together a whole City of Heroes Field Guide? He could revisit all his old superheroes, too, like Darth Underpants, Disco Fett, Inside-Out Girl, Ground Chuck, Grannyatrix, and Proofreader. This is a thing we would want to see, right?
The weather is strange: a real dog day, overcast and grey and still; perhaps a steady hail of cogs and caps and casings; here and there, a garble of boards and wiring, spat out of the sky, maybe.
Overhead: some sort of roaring gyrodyne or helibus, chopping through the smog sideways; a thin soupy ring of cloud where the sun was. In the distance, a bank of steeples stretch heavenward, bellowing tines of smoke. A fibrillation underfoot; a structural undertow; a gnashing of architectural teeth. Just beyond the next concrete cliff, a window, a promise, a torii framed in steel and sealed with plate glass.
Only a terrible fairy tale. So rest easy tonight, young Charlie, little Jamie, tiny Tilda—the apocalypse is nigh, but it is not yet here. For now, there are only the signs: a pigeon, a dove, an office chair.
Michael Rose on ‘World of Goo’: "It’s a belief that keeps me living purposefully, that makes sense of the world, and that gives me hope for the future. But sometimes I wonder if this belief places me squarely in the midst of a cruel game, wherein I am merely a pawn, used for the sadistic purposes of a cruel God."
