animate/inanimate

[Eric Rosenbloom]

David Simpson wrote:
> Clearly the theme is pervasive in GR. Consider: rocket limericks (in which various 
> techniques for having sex with the A4 are described); rocket worship;
> imipolex G; the deathcamps (where what was once living is reduced to a residue of 
> lifeless product: gold fillings, soap, lampshades); Pavlovian mechanics;
> Tchitcherine (a surgical reconstruction, "more metal than anything else"); and so on. 
> The persistence of the theme in M&D (cf. various golems, Vaucanson's
> duck, etc.) has been discussed extensively here.

And then there's Plasticman, former career criminal:

<http://www.geocities.com/mbrown123/greatest_comics/policecomics1.html>