When I visited Myrtle Beach in the winter of 1992, all the summer stores were boarded up and the only people who lived there were the ones who couldn't get away.
Now they've somehow managed to convince people to retire there.
Myrtle Beach is located on a strip of land that the Native Americans wouldn't live on, and that settlers failed regularly to occupy for three or four generations, before a railroad baron decided it would make a good spot for a vacation town.
It's swamp. Mosquitoes, alligators, fever, water moccasins, the whole nine yards. If you dig a three-foot hole it fills with two feet of water.
So they paved it and filled it with waterparks and strip clubs and call it a family resort town.
And they tricked enough people into visiting it that now people think it's a good place to retire.
@johnp I thought it was pretty good. Very interesting ideas, though I'm not a massive fan of the "keeping the interesting bits away from the readers" tactic.
Hmm yeah I have mixed feelings about it. I don't mind being thrown into a story but I thought it was a while before I really understood what was going on! Started Vol 2 today
Was very surprised to see Ireland feature in it :D let alone Irish artists
I may attend comic con this summer
Do you find the writing anything like transmetropolitan
