Muckrat Jack
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It’s the Frankenstein myth bent into a sneer. Instead of fearing what the creature might do to us, Hawley makes us stare at what the makers did to the creature—and then dares us to cheer when the experiment claws its way out of the lab.
September 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s the Frankenstein myth bent into a sneer. Instead of fearing what the creature might do to us, Hawley makes us stare at what the makers did to the creature—and then dares us to cheer when the experiment claws its way out of the lab.
That’s why Pearl Jam’s “Animal” isn’t just a cool needle-drop; it’s the thesis. Five against one, kids against the suits, hybrids against the company, Gen X against the institutions that chewed them up. Not a warning from Olympus, but a street-level howl: we’re not experiments, we’re the reckoning.
September 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
That’s why Pearl Jam’s “Animal” isn’t just a cool needle-drop; it’s the thesis. Five against one, kids against the suits, hybrids against the company, Gen X against the institutions that chewed them up. Not a warning from Olympus, but a street-level howl: we’re not experiments, we’re the reckoning.
Ridley’s Prometheus is the boomer’s nightmare: hubris, cosmic punishment, “we flew too close to the sun.” Hawley’s Alien Earth feels like the Gen X counterpunch—resentment, neglect, being used as fuel for someone else’s machine.
September 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Ridley’s Prometheus is the boomer’s nightmare: hubris, cosmic punishment, “we flew too close to the sun.” Hawley’s Alien Earth feels like the Gen X counterpunch—resentment, neglect, being used as fuel for someone else’s machine.
Does that picture look as shitty to you as it does to me?
August 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Does that picture look as shitty to you as it does to me?
Then I just leaned into it...
"model sheet/character design - sketches including artist notes in margins for a fat gluttonous rat villain for a comic book. show different poses/ideas/faces"
"model sheet/character design - sketches including artist notes in margins for a fat gluttonous rat villain for a comic book. show different poses/ideas/faces"
July 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Then I just leaned into it...
"model sheet/character design - sketches including artist notes in margins for a fat gluttonous rat villain for a comic book. show different poses/ideas/faces"
"model sheet/character design - sketches including artist notes in margins for a fat gluttonous rat villain for a comic book. show different poses/ideas/faces"