Who wants to be a cyborg?

[superboyprime]

Mek was a mini-series written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Steve Rolston. It explores the world of body modification fads, with a science-fiction twist.



"Elective cyborging has become an underground subculture in the mode of piercing, branding or tattooing today. The technology used to effect this is called, simply, MEK. Metal fetishism. These aren't your clean-lined cyborgs of videogames and the Six Million Dollar Man. These are weird, spiky, buzzing, sexy, scary, transgressive people. Like any youth culture in its early iteration, it's kind of unsettling...

It began in LA. And deep in the Mek area of LA, RJ COIN, one of the original Mek developers, is shot to death..."









Many years later:

Sarissa returns to Sky Road after ex-boyfriend RJ is murdered there. She wants to get to the bottom of his death.















The police chief tells her that the man behind the killing is Ghost Eddie, a biomechanic who helped Sarissa found the movement.



She kills the guy.

Comments

[hyperactivator]

Why do they need these cybernectic killing tools? For duck hunting?

[jlroberson]

You've clearly never met the Metal Ducks of Death.

They have daisycutters.

[lakrids404]

Probably the same reason?, that people wants to own guns, fear and a want to be feared/respected.

[proteus_lives]

That's a stereotype of gun-owners.

[jarodrussell]

Why do you want a two-ton slab of metal capable of mowing people down at 80MPH?

[jarodrussell]

Yes, because only Americans realize the value of cars.

[hyperactivator]

To go to the bank. I also want my electricly super heated metal box to bake muffins.

[hyperactivator]

You can beat someone to death with a stool but it was made to sit on. These devices were made to kill.

[jarodrussell]

Clubs were built to kill, but someone figured out how to use them to play baseball. Knives were built to kill, but we learned they could be used to cut rope, wire, cheese, etc. Their Dark MEK might be designed to kill, but that doesn't mean the underlying technology doesn't have non-violent, practical purposes.

[darkblade]

So their bloody dog doesn't laugh at their miserable failures.