SCRIPT- NEIL GAIMAN
PENCILS- BRYAN TALEOT
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LETTERS- STEVE CRADDOCK
10D EVENING AND
COME TO OUR
NEW UNIVERSE.
AS YOU CAN
TELL, WE'VE MADE
ANUMBER OF IM-
PROVEMENTS ON
THE OLD ONE.
TODAY WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK AT HOW OUR
PRESENT UTOPIA
WAS ACHIEVED,
FIRST SLIDE,
PLEASE,
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THE PROBLEMS
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START WAS WITH BOOKS,
REPOSITORIES
OF IDEAS,
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BOOK WHICH PRESENTS
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ENTIRE CREATIVE
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RECEIVED EXCLUSIVE
PERMISS
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LID ON THE CREATIVE
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ANTHOLOGY OF MINOR LATE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
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CIVILISATION |WE REMOVED THEM ALL,
ALONG WITH THEIR
IDEAS AND THEIR
CREATIONS, NO MORE
‘MONA LISA,
NO MORE
CARRY ON
CAMPING DHALGREEN
BOOKS OF BLOOD
AND GUTS IN
HIGH SCHOOL 11.
CAN T HAVE
THE NEXT SLIDE
PLEASE?
LISTS WERE
AAADE UP OF
THE FEY AND THE
QUESTIONABLE
IN HISTORY,
THE STRANGE.
IN OUR LITOPIA,
LACKING CULTURAL.
REFERENT FOR DEVIANCY,
‘ALL ARE HAPPY WITH
THEIR LOT 11.
EVERYBODY IS
EXACTLY THE SAME,
WHOLE GAMUT OF H
SEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUAL ACTS,
HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS,
EVEN THE ABSTRACT CONCEPT.”
— LORD CAITHNESS,
Local GOVERNMENT MINISTER 1986.YES -1T?°S
HAPPENING,
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A MESSAGE
1S ACTUALLY
COMING FROM
THE INFINITE
TO THE INFINITE 1T?S COMING,
IDEAS COME 1T*S COMING.ANYTHING TOIMPLY.
THAT I BELIEVE THE
UNIVERSE IS IN ANT WAY
DEFICIENT IN THE
MATTER OF FUNNY
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FOR BRYAN
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CONVINCINGLY-A FOUR-FAGE COMIC!
FOR PITY’S SAKE.
1S THAT ASKING.
FOR SO MUCH >
WELL, I'M SORRY
TO HAVE WASTED
YouR TIME
The following Thursday the author received a note from
the Infinite, apologising for the interruption in
service, and asking if it could have its funny cat-book
idea back, because there were people who needed it.
But it was too late. It had already been. used as the
introduction to an anthology of minor Late-Seventeenth
Century Metaphysical Poets.STV sue ewe eevee Ter
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