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  Amusements 9/22/96

   • j********o@***.com
     22/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     Worth a look: "Geeker," Saturday morning cartoon show. The setting is a

     world that desperately wants to be a serious cyberpunk universe, but is

     insidiously subverted to be a warm-hearted satire of one. It's about
     this

     genetically engineered super-entity (Project GEKR) who escapes from a

     mega-corp's secret laboratory and falls in with a cyber-enhanced
     cyberpunk

     and her GE'd tyrannosauroid partner, with the corp's security thugs in
     hot

     pursuit. All sorts of cyberpunk terminology and concepts appear
     ("orbital

     free-zones," an artificially intelligent cold virus that possesses
     people,

     etc.), and would fit right in to "Johnny Mnemonic," say, but there's a

     strong dose of "Sleeper" tossed in to frustrate them. Example: the chief

     bad-guy, boss of the mega-corp, has his security thugs armor decorated

     with shirt-sleeves and a tie. Some of the guards have happy faces
     painted

     over their face-plates. It's the kind of place where you'll be hacking

     some slippery black ice, and a voice will announce: "Please deposit

     twenty... five cents for the next 90 seconds..." Then, of course,
     there's

     the title character, who's basically a cartoon. A drooling, adolescent,

     cartoon geek, with all sorts of defective powers and a wildly

     inappropriate outlook ("I like to think that an enemy is just a
     friend...

     who's trying to kill you."), which is a constant trial to his more
     serious

     associates. "Geeker, you can call me Lady McBeth." "I think I'll call

     you 'Becky,' it's much nicer! Becky, you're my _special_ friend."

     Gorno

       • k******d@d*****i.com
         26/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         In article <523q77$***@n*******.****.***l.com>, j********o@***.com
         (JohnGorno)

         writes: > Worth a look: "Geeker," Saturday morning cartoon show. The
         setting

         is a > world that desperately wants to be a serious cyberpunk
         universe, but is

         > insidiously subverted to be a warm-hearted satire of one. ...

         he-he. Sounds warped. Will have to check it out!

         --Doc