Panzer Strider: or, We're all wayward bound

 

Panzer Strider: 

or, We're all wayward bound

By, Drew Freak.

Thomas Roberts is being court marshaled. The man is in a cell and his Panzer Strider (a biomechanical clone that has been genetically modified to be used as a psychically controlled bipedal tank) is going to be broken down to be used as raw materials in a printer. Thomas stopped his unit from massacering a village on a small moon of Toi-715. They had their orders and he had a conscience. 

However when the Yama Yama man enters his life... Things get Phawking weird. The Yama Yama man is a near-omnipotent ambiguous force of nature and he looks like Koko the clown from the Max and Dave Fleischer cartoons.

He gives Thomas Roberts a ten-can of spun sugar (looks and tastes like cotton candy and this stuff gives the user psychic powers [though it can trigger psychosis and addiction.]) Then the clown disappeared. thomas used his psychic powers to fight his way to his panzer strider and flew off to freedom. But, Thomas will spend the next decade of his life hunting down a question mark... who is the Yama Yama man?

He will make friends with a psychotically induced hallucination that could be a sparrow or a dove named messiah. Fall in love with a young woman named Terry who has a different personality when she talks in her sleep. She will tell anyone in the room about her life in a strange nightmare realm called Wonderland and how her name is Alice. All the while running from and resisting Namomi Mercia and a Golum that skeleton glow in the dark named Little Horn: a pair of bounty hunters hired to hunt him down and bring him to "justice".

He asked messiah what to do... "how can I start over?" and the potentially hallucinated bird said, "You need guns lawyers, and money".

After adventure and misadventure to the point of absurdity, he lands on a planet of anthropomorphic carnivorous mushroom people. Who worships the Yama Yama man. Their sacred scripture is a thousand-year-old piece of music that they sang both bawdy and disturbing. that dates back to the root of humanity a 1908 Broadway song... from the pre-star-traveling days on Earth. A Broadway show tune from a thousand years ago... Or, the demon in the Stars?

Is it all paranoid rambling from a spun sugar addict? or is there a solution to this puzzle? Can the juxtaposition of language in it's contrast create anything but reductive absurdity? A stone falls till it hits the earth, is there anything to transcend? all this the meaning and truth of life will be explained you only have to keep turning those pages! Tune in next week for all these answers and more.