5: Jagged Steele J.D. Masters (Simon Hawke)

#4 Steele

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gellaho

I'm pretty sure Steele's entire head is robot, so I don't really understand how he can produce saliva but he can

Dr Skin, the dandy

I think you guys should write Steele fanfiction.

Tommyg13

This prose is so purple, it’s got bruises

Old Man Brendan

This prose is so purple, it's a female character in itself.

sensitive New Age jakesy

The “Masters” (- shakedownville) of Steele selectively choosing which memories he keeps is the most interesting part of this book

gellaho

You haven't earned that comparison

Btw we're back with the deadmeat

Djonin Foxman

I’d write shitty Steele self insert fiction making fun of the writing, but that would be indistinguishable from just bad writing

Dr Skin, the dandy

No, the joke would have to be that anyone can write incrementally better fiction, whilst still cranking out a terrible Steele novel.

Just a consistent 10% better.

Tommyg13

He actually read this and said, “yeah, this is good!”

gellaho

Dr Skin, the dandy

I think he regrets having his daughter character go through all that and doesn't want to address it.

sensitive New Age jakesy

Foreeeeeeeeeeshadowwwwwwwinnnng

Old Man Brendan

I wrote a column about pitching bad books once, and in dude's defense, it was 10x more incomprehensible than the fake bad books inside it, so...what I'm saying is I'm ready for my nysteel upgrades to increase comedy while selectively deleting MAMMARIES. He chuckled at his unintentional pun about misogyny in writing.

"G-get it?"

Dr Skin, the dandy

Don't forget about that black trim.

Tommyg13

The Optimus Prime-Princess Leia scene Brockway wrote about was better than this

Old Man Brendan

The black banding is how you know these snakes...are POISON.

gellaho

This Tracy dude is so dead

Dr Skin, the dandy

You know the author drew this cobra uniform

sensitive New Age jakesy

The best writers usually have major plot points explained by characters who you’ve never seen before running into the scene and screaming them at you

Old Man Brendan

first comic con I ever had a table at the dude next to me got a CBG who asked him to draw a Cobra HISS tank raping Storm. :frowning:

Science God Q Alchemy

Man I had to run some errands and it looks like I missed so much Steele

gellaho

That is basically what happened, yeah

Then Tracy had a long think about whether or not to stop a coup

Then climbed a fence

Djonin Foxman

I need to write a shitty parody chapter

Tommyg13

@Old Man Brendan That’s just squicky

@Djonin Foxman Your parody will be better than the original

Old Man Brendan

The squickest! He looked exactly like you're picturing but more chef Boyardee stains on his sweater.

Dr Skin, the dandy

Wait what's the Cobra MO, cos I'm saying just nuke the fucking place.

gellaho

Higgins has ties with the crazy general guy apparently

Dr Skin, the dandy

Like, haha I will nuke this fucking nuked virus ridden wasteland.

Tommyg13

@Old Man Brendan a lovely image to be sure

Sheesh.

gellaho

I will now only refer to the villain as "Skeet"

Dr Skin, the dandy

What does Cord want

Tommyg13

Skeet, skeet, skeet ala Dave Chapelle

gellaho

Cord wants to rule the country I guess

even though there isn't a functional government

and no people

Old Man Brendan

There's always a Skeet or a Deke.

He's usually the asshole who tells everyone to stay frosty.

Dr Skin, the dandy

But he would have to maintain control by always pointing a nuclear missile at his own seat of government.

sensitive New Age jakesy

Flanked by Lieutenant Fan and Corporal End Table

gellaho

There he is

sensitive New Age jakesy

Oh sorry I thought we were naming characters after things we see in front of us as we write

Ohhhhhh shit

Old Man Brendan

Maybe he's doing the Trump strategy of ruining an area then seizing the real estate he wanted once it's worthless.

Tommyg13

How did Skeet outflank them while being pinned down by automatic fire?

sensitive New Age jakesy

Ice Ice baby

:ice_cube:

Old Man Brendan

ICE IS HERE

Dr Skin, the dandy

He only knows one strategy to introduce the character who needs no introduction

His great big black arms waved hello

gellaho

JD is horny for Ice

Tommyg13

24 inch pythons, brother!

Old Man Brendan

"what did he look like?"

"BLACK! T-t-tall...officer, definitely 200 lbs. Women fucking loved him, I'll tell you that."

"Did he have lats like angels' wings?"

Science God Q Alchemy

Gid jd masters is obsessed with ices lats

Dr Skin, the dandy

Motherfucking ICE, with his lats like...ah dammit.

Tommyg13

Flaring lats. And flaring nostrils.

Dr Skin, the dandy

Do lats flare?

Where does ice get his growth hormones?

gellaho

A black man that reads? Now I've heard everything

Nobody take that out of context

sensitive New Age jakesy

Lol his first line is “this be a surprise”

Tommyg13

@gellaho Boooo. Booo.

Like the scene in the boondocks with the exorcism

sensitive New Age jakesy

If there’s one thing masters knows, it’s how to write dialogue

gellaho

Good lord

Dr Skin, the dandy

Oof.

John Coffey.

Djonin Foxman

I’m sorry is he intentionally talking like what his portrait would say in an RTS game when you click him?

gellaho

Po-lice

Djonin Foxman

He sounds like the fucking Marauders from Starcraft

Tommyg13

He’s really well read, boss.

gellaho

They also let Victor Borodini go, so you really didn't get a crack at him Ice

Dr Skin, the dandy

This is actually getting worse.

sensitive New Age jakesy

Hell yeah, let’s get to Borodini

Dr Skin, the dandy

"I think I pass"

Djonin Foxman

Like this is horrible but also I’m really growing attached to Mr Cool Ice

Science God Q Alchemy

I think the books he picks for ice are the kind if books a stupid person thinks a smart person would read

Tommyg13

Po-lice??

gellaho

yes

Dr Skin, the dandy

"You a kind man Mr H, a huh ahuh ahuh"

sensitive New Age jakesy

Yeah Ice is the only actual good character even if his dialogue was written by a chud

Science God Q Alchemy

I think simon hawke exclusively reads pulp science fiction

Old Man Brendan

Everybody loves Ice because he's the only character who slices through everyone else's bullshit.

Djonin Foxman

“You read Dostoevsky? That cat was mad somber.”

gellaho

He's like not even using verbs in some of these sentences

Dr Skin, the dandy

We don't know about his past

gellaho

Also, "That's mighty white of you"

Djonin Foxman

Oh shit Ice is a reoccurring guy?

Tommyg13

That’s mighty white of you? Hoo brother

Old Man Brendan

All the other characters are out here making things dumb and noisy, but Ice just wastes everyone who's in the way of the plot.

gellaho

indeed

Dr Skin, the dandy

He's the only non suspected rapist in 8 books.

So he glows by comparison.

gellaho

The former leader of the Skull (black) gang

Djonin Foxman

Okay, my self insert fic needs to involve high fiving Ice

Science God Q Alchemy

Ice rules

gellaho

He was pushed out by Victor Borodini and vowed revenge

Old Man Brendan

He's got his own stuff going on, he doesn't go in for all the perv computers and rape syndicates.

Science God Q Alchemy

By all rights he should be the hero

gellaho

which he didn't get

Tommyg13

@Dr Skin, the dandy Holy cow, eight books of this?

Greg Danang Danar Dono

We have a ways to go

Dr Skin, the dandy

I think so.

@gellaho ?

gellaho

Yes

The last one has a lady robot ninja

Greg Danang Danar Dono

I can't wait to see the character development over 8 books

sensitive New Age jakesy

Yeah I think this is book 4 of 8

Dr Skin, the dandy

I think I missed where they wiped his memory. It's midnight here.

sensitive New Age jakesy

I’m not against us crowdsourcing a 9th book in this discord

Everyone signs up for a chapter

Djonin Foxman

Oh fuck.

Tommyg13

@Dr Skin, the dandy Hi. Where is here?

gellaho

Here's the description of Skeet

Dr Skin, the dandy

Let's crowdsource the graphic novel.

Old Man Brendan

This series could be the next My Dad Wrote a Porno.

gellaho

It was at the very end of the last book

Science God Q Alchemy

God he is so obsessed with how jacked all these dudes are

And tall

Dr Skin, the dandy

UK, West Yorkshire

gellaho

He only alluded to it, but I guess they went through with it

Djonin Foxman

I could write bad erotica if Chimera’s rates are too high.

Science God Q Alchemy

Does simon hawke have some issues with his own masculinity?

Tommyg13

@Dr Skin, the dandy Ta.

gellaho

"@Science God Q Alchemy Flaring lats are a clue"

Yes

Djonin Foxman

Honestly this isn’t as bad as Ben Shapiro’s bear-of-a-man characters.

Old Man Brendan

He could have just said the general was Tom Selleck and called it a day.

Djonin Foxman

Ben Shapiro writes just sentence after sentence about muscle daddies

Science God Q Alchemy

Erotica? In this economy? You think anyon can afford that?

Dr Skin, the dandy

5" 8, lesser character I guess.

sensitive New Age jakesy

I’m guessing that Masters is under 6 feet tall and he hates that

It eats at him

Old Man Brendan

No, villain. Definitely the traitor in disguise.

Greg Danang Danar Dono

This is the second time we've been given Ice's chest measurements

Dr Skin, the dandy

He's 5"11 I bet.

Old Man Brendan

The people DESERVE TO KNOW if Ice is getting enough maintenance protein

Dr Skin, the dandy

Why couldn't ice have a big fat belly.

Old Man Brendan

That's his cousin Sno-Kone

Dr Skin, the dandy

Like, why flared lats and a trim waist?

Djonin Foxman

He writes like a 5’10” guy who was measured at 5’11” once and refuses to acknowledge it was probably a mistake

Tommyg13

@Dr Skin, the dandy 24” pythons, brother!

Old Man Brendan

Muscle-ups.

Science God Q Alchemy

Simon hawke looks like he works out in his pics, is/ was he a body builder?

Greg Danang Danar Dono

His first appearance

gellaho

This Tracy guy is great at escaping undetected

Greg Danang Danar Dono

Just the same description almost word for word

gellaho

I hate to quibble, but that's from the second book

Science God Q Alchemy

I mean, that would make him somewhat human not godlike and huge

Tommyg13

That’s twice he mentioned the voice of doom

Old Man Brendan

He's obsessessed with power and purity, so...probably?

Dr Skin, the dandy

Oh, his obviously black voice.

gellaho

In his introduction, he was described as having an "unmistakably black voice"

Dr Skin, the dandy

Sorry that was it.

Tommyg13

@Dr Skin, the dandy I’m surprised the hack hasn’t mentioned Ice’s big big balls.

Djonin Foxman

“He had the voice you heard in your head when you read a Luke Cage comic”

Dr Skin, the dandy

"did you just hear a Chinese guy with shit lats?"

Old Man Brendan

one is reminded of George Carlin's "openly Black" bit.

Science God Q Alchemy

Bodybuilders and fascist overlap venn diagram

Old Man Brendan

Ugh, I used to know a guy on Millarworld...truth.

They both LOVE Earth X Captain America.

Tommyg13

@Science God Q Alchemy Regretfully

gellaho

He met with Steele in secret, but Victor Borodini found out. Then Steele got destroyed by Borodini's gang, which is how he became a robot. Ice escaped unscathed because he's the best

Science God Q Alchemy

Like I know some not terrible bodybuilder dudes but like, it's a problem

Dr Skin, the dandy

Ice probably just pulled his way up a fire escape or something. With a wide grip.

Old Man Brendan

Powerlifters are the sweetest dudes (and a lot of olympic-style lifters are women). Bodybuilders...hey. Good luck with your life.

Tommyg13

@Old Man Brendan That’s true from what I heard.

Djonin Foxman

Who do we cast to play Ice in the movie?

gellaho

You know what, maybe Tracy can make it

Dr Skin, the dandy

Women who Olympic lift caused me a total mind schism about where strength lies and what it looks like.

Tommyg13

@Djonin Foxman Too bad Michael Clark Duncan is dead

Science God Q Alchemy

Dwayne the rock johnson is the only man big enough but he's not the best choice otherwise

Old Man Brendan

Hey, a HUD.

Djonin Foxman

I was gonna say

Dr Skin, the dandy

what is Tracy blowing up and why is he throwing up

gellaho

In case you were wondering what that backpack is, cops and soldiers get missile backpacks that are fired with computers

Djonin Foxman

Michael Clarke Duncan is in my mind here.

Science God Q Alchemy

I'd love to hear the rock talk jive written by a white weirdo

gellaho

It was used once at the very beginning of the first book during a training exercise and never again

Tommyg13

@Dr Skin, the dandy Oh, NOW we’re bringing logic into this?

Djonin Foxman

Watch WWE

Science God Q Alchemy

A good thing for cops to have access to

gellaho

He blew up the soldiers chasing him from the base

Djonin Foxman

Oh man please tell me there’s a Mexican guy, I want to see that phonetic accent.

Dr Skin, the dandy

Oh, you don't know about "Chang"

Tommyg13

@Djonin Foxman Ten bucks he’d sound like Razor Ramon

Djonin Foxman

Jesus, the name “Chang” says enough.

Sounds like he has shit lats

Dr Skin, the dandy

It does.

gellaho

Oh, I guess he made it to a phone

Old Man Brendan

Razor Ramon was so racist we were horrified by it as 11-year-olds at the actual time.

Science God Q Alchemy

Chang is what you name your chinese character when you're a dipshit

2

Dr Skin, the dandy

What was the Hispanic gang called again.

Old Man Brendan

The SoHo one?

sensitive New Age jakesy

I think he wrote this book in a PF Changs

Tommyg13

@Old Man Brendan Wrestling is soooo very pc lol

gellaho

The Chingos

sensitive New Age jakesy

Using my unified theory of masters naming shit after things he can see around him

Tommyg13

@gellaho Get out of here

Djonin Foxman

“Where you is” Ice asked blackly over the comms

Dr Skin, the dandy

The Chingos. Oh god. Yes. That is correct.

gellaho

Skulls, Chingos, Green Dragons, The Brood

Science God Q Alchemy

That still sounds like a slur to me

gellaho

Black, Mexican, Chinese, Bikers

[7:05 PM]

The four races

Science God Q Alchemy

The four ethnicities

Old Man Brendan

Yeah, I remember that Marvel crossover.

Tommyg13

@gellaho Is this guy secretly L. Ron Hubbard?

Dr Skin, the dandy

And...Peacemaker.

Djonin Foxman

... like, not what you think, the Chingos are named for their love of the bar game Chingona

Science God Q Alchemy

You know 40% of gang members are white?

@Tommyg13

@gellaho Is this guy secretly L. Ron Hubbard?

gellaho

He's secretly Simon Hawke

sensitive New Age jakesy

In other words, 60% are not white

Science God Q Alchemy

Like I think that would not change in the future right?

Dr Skin, the dandy

Not in the Green Dragons baby.

Tommyg13

@gellaho I’d be ashamed to let people know that.

Djonin Foxman

The black gang is called the Skulls?

Science God Q Alchemy

Youd think there's be higher rates of white dudes considering how badly everything shit the bed in this world

Tommyg13

@Dr Skin, the dandy Not the Jade Dragons? I’m disappointed

sensitive New Age jakesy

Maybe they all died in the fake apocalypse?

Science God Q Alchemy

Why define gangs on racial lines in a ruined earth?

Djonin Foxman

That’s a very white gang name unless we’re going for a Live And Let Die-tier West Indies sterotype

Science God Q Alchemy

Like race no longer matters after the nuclear apocalypse I feel

Dr Skin, the dandy

The world was annihilated except for what the author imagined a new York ghetto was.

Djonin Foxman

So this is the Maze Runner

Tommyg13

@Science God Q Alchemy Yeah, you’d think there’d be more important priorities

Science God Q Alchemy

The only white gang is the Italian gang, and even then depends on how you define white

Tommyg13

This is getting aggressively bad, guys

sensitive New Age jakesy

You ain’t seen nothing yet

Dr Skin, the dandy

Italian count?

gellaho

You know nothing, young one

Djonin Foxman

Oh Jesus the Italian gang is called the Gabbagoul isn’t it

And they all have pressed suits

Dr Skin, the dandy

The Cosa Spaghetti monster

Tommyg13

@gellaho Thus young Palawan is willing to learn. Lol :joy:

gellaho

It's the Borodini Enclave, and it was a conglomeration of the Green Dragons, the Chingos, and the Skulls

Old Man Brendan

In fairness, weren't the Chingos one of those multicultural '80s gangs?

gellaho

it kind of doesn't exist anymore

Science God Q Alchemy

To some, not to others

Djonin Foxman

And they got names like Johnny the beak

sensitive New Age jakesy

“I make-a da pasta and then shoot-a your face!” Said Borodini

Science God Q Alchemy

Almost like race is kind of bullshit a little bit

Old Man Brendan

Fargo S4 is really good.

Tommyg13

@Djonin Foxman this is becoming a bad family guy skit

Djonin Foxman

I fucking remember seeing an interview with a gangster who confirmed italian organized crime nicknames were all dumb.

He knew a guy called Eggs cause he liked eggs.

Old Man Brendan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkMshhyIpiA

YouTube

RagingLoon

Rush Limbaugh's Fight Scene on Family Guy (the "Excellence in Broad...

Tommyg13

@sensitive New Age jakesy Hey, I’m Italian...and pretty accurate I must say, for this hack.

Dr Skin, the dandy

Tony two fingers and Fat Sammy Delalio

Tommyg13

@Old Man Brendan Ugh, that guy.

Science God Q Alchemy

I love when family guy has just a random 5 minute fight scene just to pad run time

It's just the best

Tommyg13

And Johnny Two times, Johnny two times

gellaho

OK, so Higgins is trying to get the computer program with a copy of Steele's brain to fuse with Steele's memories

Science God Q Alchemy

I am super interested in like, organized crime and the sociological shit going on there. It's fascinating

gellaho

I'm not really clear on why

Science God Q Alchemy

Have we been clear on why any thing happens in these books

Tommyg13

The matrix? Is Keanu going to be here?

sensitive New Age jakesy

Oh shit I forgot that Steeles rogue AI is floating around the internet somewhere now

gellaho

I guess they're trying to capture it from the phone lines

before it gets to his brain?

Dr Skin, the dandy

Just a fucking Dickless algorithm

Tommyg13

@sensitive New Age jakesy Ahh, he’d get lost in a Reddit AMA

Science God Q Alchemy

Every steele book feels like a rough draft, but what if simon hawke works hard on these?

sensitive New Age jakesy

Ah right, this is the AOL internet data

Science God Q Alchemy

Like weeks spent just writing and rewriting

That would make me so sad if it was the case

Tommyg13

@sensitive New Age jakesy make sure you have a cd :cd:

@Science God Q Alchemy you have a kind heart

Dr Skin, the dandy

He definitely did.

gellaho

All the copy seems to want to do is show Higgins and Stone's sex tape

Tommyg13

It truly is the internet

Dr Skin, the dandy

The Steele AI has been holding revenge porn since the last book.

sensitive New Age jakesy

God dam AI decides to go with revenge porn as its tactic

Dr Skin, the dandy

What a weak ass use of its time.

gellaho

I guess Steele got his memories back

Science God Q Alchemy

Ha owned