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I doubt that we've seen the last of Tony, Sharon, or those I-life critters, but I wouldn't be too surprised if we did.
I think that a lot of the sloppiness and inconsistencies some folks are complaining about are an important part of the high concept for the series. It's supposed to be messy, it shouldn't come together all neat and tidy-like. Next issue may not have many answers at all and instead be one last big confusing trip.
As for the world of the Crack... yeah, it seems right now to be the microscopic world of bacteria that surrounds and permeates all things, but there seems to be more to it than just that... Anyone remember that Morrison once mentioned he believed Gods were real and that he regularly travelled to another dimension to commune with them? That other dimension being the 2nd dimension, the world of lines on paper. In other words, write yourself into a story with whatever God you want to meet. Or, write yourself into a story to be the hero you've always wanted to be.
Could the Crack be a fictional 2-d universe? I think this has been mentioned before - Ned as Greg's FICTIONAL avatar , the super-spy adventures as real in the sense that they are stories he writes, etc. It doesn't seem too far fetched. All of Greg's mundane struggles and concerns get transformed into epic adventures through the power of his imaginative writing. Everything that happens in the 2-d world has an analogue in the "real"-world. Anyone from the real world can be a "character" from the Crack-verse because the characters are just types, suits, para-personalities used to contain elements from elsewhere (ideas, real-world analogues, etc.)
Perhaps Greg's grief got so intense that he attempted suicide and in his last hallucinatory moments, he gets lost in the fictional universe he created, a fictional universe which has taken on a life of its own, has become self-aware, and is trying to save itself by "waking" Greg up. Yes GM's done it before... guess we'll have to wait a few more weeks to be sure.
And what exactly does PARA-PERSONALITY mean anyway? Any etymologists out there? Para, in my understanding, can mean to hold or contain (or confine). This interpetaiton fits nicely with GM's whole fiction-suit concept, and it's also got a nice link to PARABLE - "a narrative of imagined events used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson". Aren't all fictional characters, in a sense, para(ble)-personalities? And anyone of us can be them... |
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