News: "DOOM" radio drama

November 09, 2005, 10:16 PM

by tim, via dr_ian and crew -
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The inimitable Dr_Ian and friends, producers of Gamespot.com "PC Game of the Year" (okay so not really) Bodythumper, based on a script by up-and-coming game-writer Jack Thompson, have shocked the internet once again by performing a radio drama based on the legendary "Doom Comic." The drama is best listened to while reading the comic. This drama has actually been around for a while, though it only makes itself known to me . . . now.

Apparently the comic is super-famous amongst players of the Doom games; I didn't know this until seeing it for myself just moments ago. With regards to art, writing, drug-addicted tone, and righteousness, it is a puzzling, bewildering piece of intended entertainment. If the "DOOM" movie had been made in 1996 instead of now, maybe it would have been a direct adaptation of this comic? I get the impression that movies and comics like this just don't get greenlighted in this post-9/11 world of ours. Maybe that's a good thing. Dr_Ian and his hetero-lifemate Knuckles have shed a fine light on the weird violence in all our histories' as gamers, simply by, well, reading this thing aloud over near-pornographic sound effects. Listen!! And fear that maybe Jack Thompson has a point!! or don't