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The Concept

Out where electrons spin and photons flash, ones and zeros represent the sum total of human knowledge. And in that place, anything can happen. Take a one here, and put it there, and suddenly a housewife in Springfield is getting a visit from Ed McMahon. Take a zero here, and put it there, and you can go to a place where the animals talk…

San Francisco bike messenger Estaban Wilson is the Digital Messiah.

He just doesn't know it yet.

The Skinny

The thematic question, "What is identity?" is answered, with authority, for a bike messenger on the 21st-Century-is-not-a-big-deal-but-the-future-is now zeitgeist prevalent in "Multimedia Gulch" in downtown San Francisco. In the midst of his post-adolescent search for identity, Gen-X-er Estaban goes (during the course of this proposed four-issue mini-series) from being an irresponsible and almost unreasonable twenty-something to the leader and philosopher-king of the shadowy, quasi-mystical digital world known as the DifferNet. Peopled by talking packages of data that have assumed ani mal form, Estaban (or, as he is known in the DifferNet by his keyboard stroke, Command D) inherits the mantle of The Reasonable Man. Taking the old adage of "the duality of man" to an extreme, Estaban comes to live a dual existence much like that of Bruce Wayne/Batman or Clark Kent/Superman. At first a disaffected slacker, Estaban is an ordinary kid in a set of extra-ordinary circumstances. In the course of his search for his own identity as merely one of the generation set to inherit the next millen nium, Estaban "bamfs" himself accidentally into a digital sub-society that mankind has never dreamed existed. With an analog foot in the real world, and digital digits in the DifferNet, Estaban is a character who is finally addressing his destiny.

The Players

Estaban Wilson: A twenty-something bike messenger in San Francisco, uber-slacker Wilson gets kidded by his co-workers that he's so distracted and disaffected that he sometimes comes across as being the last boy on earth. Ratty and unkempt hair hangs to his shoulders. He's got Maori pat-

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