Mack Daddy of Fictional Characters (750 hits)
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Submitted by ghola (View user info) at 2007-10-04 15:32:56 EDT
"Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save Us!"...
...and I'll look down, and whisper, 'No.'"
"Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
Was Rorschach."
User Reviews
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-11-09 12:36:46 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2007-10-07 07:17:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Rorshach. Ghola, you're my new hero.
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2007-10-07 01:16:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
You are the shining pen goddess,
your every breath is a thin spray of caligraphy,
diagrammed and mapped through the thin soak of typistry.
I broke my foot.
I have to wear a big fuckin moon boot.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-06 11:25:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
too bad because he is.
you poor sap.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-06 04:25:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Insufferable bandwagon but I guess that sums up uber.
Dont think this thing can be called the mack daddy.
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-10-06 01:44:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
forgot the +2 for the only comic book to recieve a hugo award
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-10-06 01:43:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i cant wait for the movie due out next spring
Submitted by Leonore (user info) at 2007-10-06 00:37:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'd never heard of this until today.
So I bought the book on break at work.
I didn't get much work done for the rest of the shift.
THANK YOU.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-05 15:42:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
hey gank: it was on the newyork times top 100 books list.
only comic to ever do that i think.
Submitted by jared.melton (user info) at 2007-10-05 04:20:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2007-10-05 01:57:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Thermo-dynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2007-10-04 21:36:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by moneyshotforyou (user info) at 2007-10-04 19:11:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I hate this shit...
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-10-04 18:28:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck the Uniter.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-10-04 18:24:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-10-04 18:24:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by gank (user info) at 2007-10-04 17:15:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
The quotes are cool.
Otherwise, I'm not into comic books to much.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-10-04 17:12:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
a rare swing and a miss...
Submitted by triangle_man (user info) at 2007-10-04 16:14:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I don't fear...
Some do...some will
Submitted by Kaelic (user info) at 2007-10-04 16:07:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
For who will watch the watchmen?
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-10-04 16:00:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:44:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I think I actually have one of the original issues of this, before it was a paperback, stuck somewhere in my big box o comics.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:42:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ubmitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:38:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It may be because I am in the midst of two english classes this semester and spend very little time reading outside of things like "The Yemessee" and "A Study of Daisy Miller."
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Reason #666 why if/when I ever make it back to school, English will be as far as humanly possible from my Major.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:42:13 EDT (#)
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Stop
Gholatime...
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:39:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh, and I know nobody cares, but my favorite character was Rorschach.
Bicth...
Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:39:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
rock.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:38:50 EDT (#)
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It may be because I am in the midst of two english classes this semester and spend very little time reading outside of things like "The Yemessee" and "A Study of Daisy Miller."
Will try to read your latest posts though.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:37:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
And how come you never rate my stories?
I may have rapist eyes, but dammit, I have feelings too.
You and KK make me a sad ghey panda indeed.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:37:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:33:53 EDT (#)
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Not you too...
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Have I offended your good taste sir?
OH THE HORRORSSS
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:37:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by something_or_other (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:34:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Eight kinds of awesome crammed into a five-kind variety pack.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:34:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Just discovered the Watchmen a few months ago.
Best...Thing...EVAR.
+2 +2 +2 +2 +2
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-10-04 15:33:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Not you too...