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Monday, May 26, 2003

This Is Your Brain on Television

Book Review by Mark Hand

Brian Gage, The Amazing Snox Box, Soft Skull Press, June 2003. 44 pp. $20.

As long as you please your corporate masters, you can go a long way in life as a politician. Just ask those government leaders around the world who bend over backwards to please the economic elite in their own country and make sure not to anger world economic powers in Washington, New York and London.

The same rules apply in far-away galaxies, according to a new book written by Brian Gage and illustrated by Tom Ellsworth. In their The Amazing Snox Box, Gage and Ellsworth tell the story of poor King Locks from Zanic who didn’t learn that even powerful sovereigns must follow the marching orders of their corporate paymasters. The king didn’t read the fine print when the corporate pimps came calling. It was a time of tremendous turmoil. King Locks’ kingdom was under assault by the millions he had exploited. The crisis had reached a boiling point and the barbarians had reached the gate. King Locks knew his reign was about to end and he had reconciled he would die a terrible death.

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