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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 well known video game series where players commonly steal cars by grabbing the driver and throwing them out of the vehicle. In the lower left corner of the second panel, there is a picture of the Y-button used to enter (and steal) vehicles in the Xbox version of the game. | |
| − | The proposed Emily Dickinson edition of | + | The proposed Emily Dickinson edition of Grand Theft Auto mashes up these two concepts. When Death stops to pick up the protagonist ([[Hairbun]], possibly representing Dickinson herself), she violently carriage-jacks him and takes over his carriage to use for her own purposes. |
| − | The title text refers to [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08032010 this] strip from the webcomic | + | The title text refers to [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08032010 this] strip from the webcomic {{w|Achewood}} where it is pointed out that poems written in {{w|ballad metre}} can be sung to the same tune as the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY theme song] of {{w|Gilligan's Island}}, a 1960s sitcom. Upon learning this it can (as it seemingly has for Randall) become difficult to read Dickinson's poem without singing it. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[Hairbun stands with her arms crossed, and Death's 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.] | :[Hairbun stands with her arms crossed, and Death's 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}} | ||
