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

[psychopathicus_rex]

It remains to be seen just how extreme this sort of thing will ever actually get. I mean, piercings and tattoos have been around for thousands of years in one form or another, and they haven't really progressed much further than people getting parts of themselves pierced and tattooed that, um, really shouldn't be. I bet that when and if cyborg implants ever get this sophisticated, people will basically just get implanted with variations of stuff that's already in wide use - miniaturized cellphones installed inside your ear and jaw, subcutaneous iPods that you can turn on and off by winking, internet access in your brain - that sort of thing. I find it hard to believe that the police would EVER allow deadly weapons that are installed directly into your body, even for cops or soldiers - that sort of thing is just a horrible accident waiting to happen. And, of course, you couldn't get any of the REALLY extreme modifications unless you were willing to get a limb chopped off and replaced, which I think most people would be just a liiiiittle bit squeamish about. I can't see that sort of thing lasting for very long - it'd be a blip on the radar.

[darkblade]

Well the Waramps kids will be freaking badass. [/tasteless joke]

[psychopathicus_rex]

And one that I don't understand. Who are the Waramps kids?

[darkblade]

Might help if I didn't fail at punchuation there.

War Amps is a charitly for vetrans and children who through incident or deformity have lost limbs. As I said it was quite tasteless.

http://www.waramps.ca/about/history.html

[psychopathicus_rex]

Oh, I get it. Well, why not - if you've got to go through life with a prosthetic limb, you might as well make it a real nifty one.