SCRIPT- NEIL GAIMAN PENCILS- BRYAN TALEOT INK8-_ MARK BUCKINGHAM 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, — \ | ‘wah tv QS THINK We CAN ALL SEE THE PROBLEMS Hi Hi THE OBVIOUS PLACE TO START WAS WITH BOOKS, REPOSITORIES OF IDEAS, EXAMINE; PLEASE. A BOOK WHICH PRESENTS La A FAIRLY SYMPATHETIC CATAMITE 7WE TAKE THE CHAR- THE SAME GOES ACTER OUT. NO REAL FOR ENTERTAIN- PROBLEM HERE. ‘MENT, STS = so 4 TRE AND THe Rest WE CONSIGN TO A opyious BONFIRE OR THE OCEAN + aay Ss Ee q MUSIC? NO MORE BOWIE, COMMUNARDS WERE ANY BEATLES. WERE THERE 2 WE'LL RUN A VINE up You TRELLISAn Honest Answer neu Baan “Where do you enna or get your ideas?" rA inscribed by SONTA CURTIS 4T?S A QUESTION WRITERS ARE ASKED ALL THE TIME. AND WE eeoause INEXTRICABL' LINKED WITH THE ENTIRE CREATIVE FROCESS NOW, I HAVE RECEIVED EXCLUSIVE PERMISS ION TO LIFT THE LID ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS - JusT THIS ONCE an vie on A SPACE cone STRIP SECRET 15, YOU OPEN YOURSELF To | [Ne tHe INFINI w “OLLOW CREATIVE ACTIVITIES THAT WILL GIVE US THIS VERY STRIP ANTHOLOGY OF MINOR LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Raab “MemaursIeas poets: Z'D APPRECIATE 1F HELLO? INFINITE >so we started} [ill TOTAKE ‘THEM OUT, VEDDY FLAT, NORFOLK, ITWAS A AG START. BUT THEN , PEOPLE KNEW AUTHORS HA‘ EXISTED, on MRR Goi THEN WE HIT SOME: BOTH OF THEM FOUNDED REAL SNAGS, TAKE ‘ON IT, LACED WITH IT. THE GREEK AND SWIMMING IN IT. SPARTAN CULTURES -~ nn ! | a On IN {| ni 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, i\ 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 nfinite offered CAT BOOKS? fter that, the up, in short orde LIKE HARD WORK @ parti filthy cularly Sonnet Gd TOO DIFFICULT FOR BRYAN To DRAW 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 But in these times i's 0 bard to be sure. each other f quanti Gdilfece cacraon Ricard Fomman: 18 Consider the cold bastions of lw,‘But in these times ‘The Ughts go out, I think I think of you Ter ener Ive never been intentionally taboo, ‘But in these times 0 bard to be su *