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I sneak out of my house late at night and make may way to an abandoned factory, unmarked except for overlapping gang tags. Once inside, I change into tights of silver and baby blue, with a matching mask and a serrated cape. Now I am ‘The Brilliant Malaise’, luchadore extraordinaire. The crowd screams for my blood, and they are never disappointed.

The Gormenghast books (Mervyn Peake), Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis), Anton Chekhov, Death in Venice (Thomas Mann), The Three Musketeers, The Sadean Woman (Angela Carter), Ambrose Bierce, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), Paradise Lost (John Milton), Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto), Rime Sparse (Francesco Petrarch), The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope), The Saga of The Swamp Thing (Alan Moore), Astro City (Kurt Busiek)

Blade Runner, Brazil, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Yojimbo, The Seventh Seal, Alien, Dark City, Young Frankenstein, Michael Clayton, Galaxy Quest, Dr. Strangelove, Death Race 2000, Conan the Barbarian, Bowfinger