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This is an immigration-themed fantasy-adventure comic about an Asian-Immigrant vigilante who teams up with an Australian vigilante who works against the 'immigration-related cynicism' in Tijuana, Mexico (a very symbolic bordertown in North America).
The purpose of this traffic-conscious 'American fan-fic' is to suggest diagrams of what immigration creates in the 'paranoia landscape.'
Is traffic/immigration culture the new subject for political cartoons? Why has Captain America (democracy-propaganda comic book avatar) 'ideological liberties' created psychotic controversy?
Perhaps social criticism has fundamentally changed since the days of Teddy Roosevelt.
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Tommy was an Australian immigrant living in Tijuana, Mexico, a North American bordertown characterized by confluence-related underworlds, crime syndicates, illegal immigration related commerce, and modern era traffic-congestion related 'multi-cultural-intrigue.' Tommy was a neo-classicist, having studied at Dartmouth, a prestigious American Ivy League school, while living in Australia. After graduating from Dartmouth with a specialized degree in Criminal Psychology, Tommy decided to pack up his bags and relocated to San Diego, California (USA) where he started studying immigration-related crime in North America.
Having found his way to Tijuana, Tommy started his vigilante work and began to call himself 'The Marble Man.' Tommy designed a special large plastic gun (by disassembling and reassembling a toy plastic futuristic gun) fitted with elastic levers designed to shoot marbles. Tommy (aka, The Marble Man) would shoot marbles into the dusty streets of Tijuana every sunset through the summer of 2010, claiming that making the roads of the crime-frenzied bordertown giggle made everyone necessarily a tiny bit humbler. Tommy decided he was not only a vigilante but also an immigration prophet.
News coverage of the work of The Marble Man reached the campus of UCLA, where a bright young Asian-American senior-year student named Ajay was himself studying the history of vigilantism in America. Ajay was fascinated by the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), a masked crusader who received a special power-ring (with the capacity to make holographic weapons on-the-fly) which was charged by a magical lantern. Ajay believed that Green Lantern symbolized the general 'illuminati fervor' fuming in the hearts of today's college students studying anti-establishmentarianism methodology for spiritual reform. Ajay's mother thought her son was insane. Ajay wrote columns in the UCLA Student Gazette about how Green Lantern is modeled after the simple 'metaphysical bioluminescence' of fireflies (he was an eco-propaganda nut!).
Ajay moved to Tijuana to find the Marble Man. Ajay dressed up in a bandana-hat fused head-gear and wore a face-cover and bulletproof vest and carried water-pistols filled with boiling hot water (Ajay had fitted the pistols with internal metal pipes insulated with aluminum which could carry and maintain the temperature of the extremely hot water without melting the plastic casing of the guns). Ajay decided to call himself the Toy-Man, and he wanted to merge forces with The Marble Man. On Halloween Eve in Tijuana, Ajay (aka, Toy-Man) came face-to-face with Tommy (aka, The Marble Man).
TOY-MAN: Do you believe in the illuminati of fireflies?
MARBLE MAN: I use the sheer optimism force of marbles.
TOY-MAN: Fireflies and marbles are both 'points of energy.'
MARBLE MAN: Your hot-water water-pistols are frightening.
TOY-MAN: Let us be 'Machiavellian Tijuana priests' together!
MARBLE MAN: The only rule --- do no harm!
TOY-MAN: Of course --- our power is the pulpit.
MARBLE MAN: We must defend the optimism of the immigrant.
TOY-MAN: We have to support the fascination with self-governance.
MARBLE MAN: Our enemy is the bigot.
The exploits of Toy-Man and Marble Man were printed in Mexican and Californian newspapers and were also the subject of numerous immigration-related political cartoons! Ajay and Tommy decided to become lifelong Tijuana vigilantes, and their decision would change the way Americans looked at social critique (and political cartoons). News of the exploits and surprising successes (e.g., a mock bank-robbery with a musical performance about Mexican school-children) of Toy-Man and The Marble Man reached Washington, D.C., and the American President (Hillary Clinton) declared, "Mexicans are learning about imagination...finally!" Everything was going to plan, but a new anti-American nemesis named Red Dragon (a pro-Communism terrorist) was rising to power and was about to challenge the pro-American dominion of Ajay and Tommy. What would become of this new progressive 'propaganda landscape'?
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TOMMY AND AJAY (PHOTOS):
The purpose of this traffic-conscious 'American fan-fic' is to suggest diagrams of what immigration creates in the 'paranoia landscape.'
Is traffic/immigration culture the new subject for political cartoons? Why has Captain America (democracy-propaganda comic book avatar) 'ideological liberties' created psychotic controversy?
Perhaps social criticism has fundamentally changed since the days of Teddy Roosevelt.
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Tommy was an Australian immigrant living in Tijuana, Mexico, a North American bordertown characterized by confluence-related underworlds, crime syndicates, illegal immigration related commerce, and modern era traffic-congestion related 'multi-cultural-intrigue.' Tommy was a neo-classicist, having studied at Dartmouth, a prestigious American Ivy League school, while living in Australia. After graduating from Dartmouth with a specialized degree in Criminal Psychology, Tommy decided to pack up his bags and relocated to San Diego, California (USA) where he started studying immigration-related crime in North America.
Having found his way to Tijuana, Tommy started his vigilante work and began to call himself 'The Marble Man.' Tommy designed a special large plastic gun (by disassembling and reassembling a toy plastic futuristic gun) fitted with elastic levers designed to shoot marbles. Tommy (aka, The Marble Man) would shoot marbles into the dusty streets of Tijuana every sunset through the summer of 2010, claiming that making the roads of the crime-frenzied bordertown giggle made everyone necessarily a tiny bit humbler. Tommy decided he was not only a vigilante but also an immigration prophet.
News coverage of the work of The Marble Man reached the campus of UCLA, where a bright young Asian-American senior-year student named Ajay was himself studying the history of vigilantism in America. Ajay was fascinated by the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), a masked crusader who received a special power-ring (with the capacity to make holographic weapons on-the-fly) which was charged by a magical lantern. Ajay believed that Green Lantern symbolized the general 'illuminati fervor' fuming in the hearts of today's college students studying anti-establishmentarianism methodology for spiritual reform. Ajay's mother thought her son was insane. Ajay wrote columns in the UCLA Student Gazette about how Green Lantern is modeled after the simple 'metaphysical bioluminescence' of fireflies (he was an eco-propaganda nut!).
Ajay moved to Tijuana to find the Marble Man. Ajay dressed up in a bandana-hat fused head-gear and wore a face-cover and bulletproof vest and carried water-pistols filled with boiling hot water (Ajay had fitted the pistols with internal metal pipes insulated with aluminum which could carry and maintain the temperature of the extremely hot water without melting the plastic casing of the guns). Ajay decided to call himself the Toy-Man, and he wanted to merge forces with The Marble Man. On Halloween Eve in Tijuana, Ajay (aka, Toy-Man) came face-to-face with Tommy (aka, The Marble Man).
TOY-MAN: Do you believe in the illuminati of fireflies?
MARBLE MAN: I use the sheer optimism force of marbles.
TOY-MAN: Fireflies and marbles are both 'points of energy.'
MARBLE MAN: Your hot-water water-pistols are frightening.
TOY-MAN: Let us be 'Machiavellian Tijuana priests' together!
MARBLE MAN: The only rule --- do no harm!
TOY-MAN: Of course --- our power is the pulpit.
MARBLE MAN: We must defend the optimism of the immigrant.
TOY-MAN: We have to support the fascination with self-governance.
MARBLE MAN: Our enemy is the bigot.
The exploits of Toy-Man and Marble Man were printed in Mexican and Californian newspapers and were also the subject of numerous immigration-related political cartoons! Ajay and Tommy decided to become lifelong Tijuana vigilantes, and their decision would change the way Americans looked at social critique (and political cartoons). News of the exploits and surprising successes (e.g., a mock bank-robbery with a musical performance about Mexican school-children) of Toy-Man and The Marble Man reached Washington, D.C., and the American President (Hillary Clinton) declared, "Mexicans are learning about imagination...finally!" Everything was going to plan, but a new anti-American nemesis named Red Dragon (a pro-Communism terrorist) was rising to power and was about to challenge the pro-American dominion of Ajay and Tommy. What would become of this new progressive 'propaganda landscape'?
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TOMMY AND AJAY (PHOTOS):
