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{{w|Emily Dickinson}} is a famous American poet, who wrote a poem called "[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/stop.html Death]", about the personification of Death kindly stopping for her to pick her up. | {{w|Emily Dickinson}} is a famous American poet, who wrote a poem called "[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/stop.html Death]", about the personification of Death kindly stopping for her to pick her up. | ||
− | + | {{w|Grand Theft Auto (series)|Grand Theft Auto (GTA)}} is a famous video game series, where the player frequently steals cars by grabbing their drivers and throwing them out of the car. The Y-button is used in GTA to enter (steal) or exit a vehicle. | |
− | + | In this alternate version of "Death", Emily is the protagonist in her own Grand Theft Auto spinoff game. Instead of Emily being carried off peacefully in Death's carriage, she violently carriage-jacks Death and takes over his carriage to use for her own purposes. | |
− | The title text refers to [ | + | The title text refers to [[Randall]] learning from the web comic {{w|Achewood]] that a poem written in {{w|ballad meter}} can be sung to the tune of {{w|Gilligan's Island}}, a 1960s sitcom with a catchy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY intro song]. Since then he has not been able to read the poem normally, he always begins to hum the tune... He does seem rather displeased with this. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:He kindly stopped for me | :He kindly stopped for me | ||
− | :[ | + | :[A woman wearing her hair in a bun grabs Death by the arm and pulls him off the carriage. There is a circle with the letter Y in the lower left corner. The text above the carriage is in a frame.] |
:The carriage held but just oursel- | :The carriage held but just oursel- | ||
:Death: Hey! | :Death: Hey! | ||
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:Circle: Y | :Circle: Y | ||
− | :[ | + | :[The woman takes off in the carriage with the scythe, leaving Death behind on the ground in the dust from the carriage taking off.] |
− | : | + | :Woman: Hyah! |
− | :[ | + | :[The woman stands with her arms crossed, and Deaths scythe next to her. The first text above her is printed as the official logo and the text below is in a type of square brackets.] |
:Grand Theft Auto | :Grand Theft Auto | ||
− | :Emily Dickinson Edition | + | :Emily Dickinson Edition" |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Video games]] | [[Category:Video games]] | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring real people]] | [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] |