{"id":44,"date":"2003-02-19T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2003-02-19T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T14:38:40","slug":"global-frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Global Frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"warrenellis.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\">Warren Ellis&#8217;<\/a> new comic book series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfrequency.org\/\">_Global Frequency_<\/a> (four issues out so far) isn&#8217;t as mindblowing as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transmetropolitan.com\/\">_Transmetropolitan_<\/a> was, but it&#8217;s pretty much fun in the way it matches high-concept with low pulp. You see, Global Frequency is a worldwide organization, with 1001 members, which intervenes in crisis situations&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nInstead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toonopedia.com\/jla.htm\">The Justice League of America<\/a> or some other such band of superheroes, Global Frequency is composed of ordinary people&#8211;though with extraordinary skills&#8211;who step out of their usual day jobs and lives to pitch in and deal with a crisis. And Global Frequency is a distributed network, linked globally by high-tech communications devices, rather than a centralized bureaucracy. (Though it does have a leader, the <i>noir<\/i>-ish Miranda Zero, and something like a central dispatcher, the riot-grrl-ish Aleph).<\/p>\n<p>The Global Frequency network is high-concept, as are the dangers they face:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A human bomb with a wormhole opening in his body that connects to an atomic weapon buried on another continent;<\/li>\n<li>A bionic man, gone crazy because the US military has transformed him into a weapon of mass destruction and superhuman strength, who can only orgasm when he kills;<\/li>\n<li>An alien memetic plague, which colonizes the hardware of human brains;<\/li>\n<li>A Heaven&#8217;s Gate-like apocalyptic death cult of web designers, taking hostages with them for the journey into the world to come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The low pulp comes in the action part of the comic, with lots of gunfights and explosions, as well as corny &#8220;love is what makes us human&#8221; messages woven into the plot. All in all, a nice mix.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and also every issue is a self-contained episode; no wider story arcs (which makes sense for a distributed network without a central hero). And each issue has a different illustrator, which helps to keep things visually exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"warrenellis.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\">Warren Ellis&#8217;<\/a> new comic book series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfrequency.org\/\">_Global Frequency_<\/a> (four issues out so far) isn&#8217;t as mindblowing as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transmetropolitan.com\/\">_Transmetropolitan_<\/a> was, but it&#8217;s pretty much fun in the way it matches high-concept with low pulp. You see, Global Frequency is a worldwide organization, with 1001 members, which intervenes in crisis situations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}