#silly premise

[virovac]

Videogame isekai idea: the macguffin is a "load bearing coconut"

Basically a digital asset that late in development was found for some reason everything stops working if deleted.

It can be as simple as a jpeg.

[virovac]

“My dad took my nose. He took it to his grave. Now I must go into Hell to get it back from him.”

[geekmedium]

Supreme #45 by Alan Moore

You know, on the surface this is pure Silver Age whimsy. But when you really think about it, having your various body parts scattered to the four winds as you rematerialize would be a terrible death of pure agony. And there was a lot of stuff like this in the Silver Age, which was silly and goofy on first read, but when you imagined yourself going through it, it was a lot more scary.

I remember Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time once said his favorite feeling was “Candy Land on the surface, Mad Max underneath.” Which incidentally is a feeling you’ll find all the time in old comics. In fact if I could sum up most of the Silver Age, and SA Superman in particular, it would be “Silly Premise, Horrific Implications.”

I think one of the things that made Alan Moore’s Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow so iconic is that he basically said, “Fuck leaving this stuff under the surface! Let’s show people just how fucked up this would all look from the inside!”