THE FOREVER MAN
AN END OF THE UNIVERSE COMEDY
THE FOREVER MAN – a Doomsday Comedy
On May 30th, 1593 Christian Dating, at Deptford, England, the drunken crooked businessman/spy Frizir misses scarring Christopher Marlowe’s cheek as a Walsingham warning to keep his mouth shut and hits him in the effing eye instead! The Devil, on order from He Who Must Be Obeyed, reluctantly appears Upside and takes over Marlowe’s re-animated body so that the future of Elizabethan drama won’t go down the crapper.
And so, the Devil, physically posing as a now ageless Marlowe, spends the next dozen plus years moving secretly around Europe banging out masterpieces for that semi literate front man from Stratford who couldn’t even scrawl his name the same way twice in a row.
Then, after a drunk and undeservingly rich Shakespeare dies in his down vomit in 1616, the integrated Devil/Marlowe, no longer has a real job.
Buuttt...
He’s made a fortune on investments in cargo from the New World while living in Italy and decide to stay topside for a few more centuries since he’s remaining twenty nine forever and Hell, now that it has been set up properly by a grateful God, can pretty well run itself.
So, as a genuine dual personality that can switch back and forth between the short but randy red head genius writer and the original Hell On Wheels as a ten feet tall Devilish Cloven Hoofed Monster who can pretty well fight His way out of or through anything, the amalgamated but quarrelsome amigos decide to keep the partnership going to see what the next day brings.
However, after seven more or less pleasant centuries of Satanic Top Side Stay, real problems arise in the twenty second century, (other than catastrophic climate change, planet wide resource wars, multi species extinction, floods, droughts and two hundred foot high tsunamis, and a batch of new and deadly diseases, etc.).
Two separate Christs have claimed to be the Second Coming. Both were born at different times from the same couple, Maria and Giuseppe.
Christ Three, The Younger, AKA Christus, wants to rule the Universe and kick the Old Heavenly Order out.
Christ Two, The Older & much much smarter, Hasus, wants to simply destroy the Universe, thus doing the same hit job on the Old Heavenly Host, but with more scientific vindictiveness.
And the Forever Man is once again forced into paying for all the Good Times by trying to terminate the two Johnny Come Lately’s opposing End of the Universe plans.
And the resurgence of the real Adam and Eve from Eden don’t help a bit. And as for the Snake? Hiss no more.
And oh, before little Mutt and gigantic Jeff forget. That snippy and know it all Angelica the bitchy, beautiful blonde foster sister of Hasus is out to eff up the Devil/Marlowe tandem in the nastiest way possible because of their masculine slights to her initial romantic advances.
Never had a return boat ride to Hell look more inviting.