Posts tagged maddy mcgee p.i.
by Peter N. Trinh
Anatomy of a Cyborg
The latest few pages of Maddy McGee, P.I. have been pretty enjoyable for Britt and I, but the one part I’m most happy about is being able to show off a bit of the design for Maddy’s robotic prostheses. While we’re both fans of science fiction, the idea of creating characters in a transhumanist/android based world is fairly new to us. That said, it’s been really exciting for us in terms of R&D for creating all things kinetic and mechanical.
A lot of questions are asked back and forth between us about how to go about transhumans and cyborgs. Here’s a sample of the things we ask each other in regards to such robotic augmentations:
- Does the person gain any subhuman/superhuman traits with them?
- How are the parts powered?
- How expensive are these elements?
- Are they connected to the nervous system and in what way?
- Are they permanently attached or are they removable?
- How are they maintained?
I suppose I’ll use Maddy as an example for these questions, since she’s the only one you’ve seen so far that’s a cyborg.
It occurred to me that I’ve never actually tried to format my own post on Tumblr before, so this is kind of an experiment in two ways. It’s half Britt-tries-to-figure-out-technology (Which I am, for the most part, really terrible at), and because Maddy isn’t updating this week, I figured I should do something. So I’m going to talk about this comic I write with Peter Trinh that no one reads!
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A wonderful post by my co-writer, Britt Baker! It’s why she’s part of the two-part team.
(And yes, I put the #ponies tag on it in hopes that we get more readers.)
A note about my dream comic project.
WHOA. Original written content on my Tumblr blog? Yeah, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? But I thought I’d share with you guys something about the stuff I’m doing now.
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Someone during my university years once described to me how Waterworld was likely to have been Kevin Costner’s dream concept—the one movie he had to make. The movie had massive budget issues and developmental setbacks, but Costner just had to finish it! Unfortunately, when you ask me about my thoughts on the film, I tend to find it boring and silly with a poor execution on the world-building in the narrative. The most interesting elements I find in the film are the characters, but they all seem too silly or out-of-place because of the lack of quality story elements surrounding them. When you think about it, it’s really too bad that it was how it turned out.
“What does this have to do with me,” you may be asking.
“There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible”
As one who is co-writing a group of private investigators in a comic that is a bit inspired by what Britt and I can remember from Doyle’s work…
…I approve of this rant.
Disclaimer: this rant is written for a specific group of people. If you don’t belong to it, you already know that you don’t, congratulations, great shall be your reward in the afterlife.
DEAR [PEOPLE WHO DEBATE ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES’ SEXUALITY],
A glimpse into the minds behind Maddy McGee, P.I. (Part 2)
