I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline. - Alan Moore

For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise...and step into the shadow now without complaint.

-Rorschach

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE'S MISTAKES!

I GIVE YOU...
THE AVERAGE MAN!


PHYSICALLY
UNREMARKABLE
, IT HAS
INSTEAD
A DEFORMED SET OF
VALUES.


NOTICE THE
HIDEOUSLY BLOATED
SENSE OF
HUMANITY'S IMPORTANCE.
THE CLUB-FOOTED
SOCIAL CONSCIENCE
AND THE
WITHERED OPTIMISM.


IT'S CERTAINLY NOT FOR THE
SQUEAMISH
IS IT?

MOST
REPULSIVE
OF
ALL
, ARE ITS
FRAIL
AND
USELESS
NOTIONS OF
ORDER
AND
SANITY.
IF TOO MUCH
WEIGHT
IS PLACED UPON THEM...

... THEY
SNAP.


HOW DOES IT
LIVE
, I HEAR YOU ASK?

HOW DOES THIS POOR, PATHETIC SPECIMEN
SURVIVE
IN TODAY'S
HARSH
AND
IRRATIONAL
WORLD?

THE SAD ANSWER
IS
'NOT VERY
WELL.

We are approaching a more fluid state. I have talked about cultural boiling. The idea of the phase-transition period which, in fractal mathematics, is the chaotic flux between one state and another. …Culturally, and as a species, we are approaching a phase-transition. I don’t know quite what that means, on a human level.