[UA] Re: Horror Books to snag stuff from

Nick Wedig mrteapot at disinfo.net
Thu Dec 7 15:03:05 PST 2000


>Subject: Re: [UA] Re: Horror Books to snag stuff from
>> On that note, did you see Ken Hite's Suppressed Transmission on the Fool?
>
>i'm not subscribed to Pyramid, so no, though i have read through the first
>collection and thought it was pretty cool.

I think the parts important to what I was referring are in one of the additional footnotes added in the collection.

>the thing i've always liked about Gotham and Metropolis, as DC's two main
>imaginary cities, is that they both seem to be borne of city archetypes from
>the 30s. like New York went through some kind of transporter accident or
>something and got split into the Good and Evil Twins. Metropolis is the Good
>Twin, the city as the hub of progress. Gotham is the Evil Twin, city as pit
>of corruption

The rule formulated among writers at DC was that 
Metropolis was New York during the day, and Gotham was 
New York by night.

Mr. Teapot
by day, masked avenger by night

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