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{{quote|''Someone stole your future. Don't you ever wonder who?''|[http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/92053.html Warren Ellis]}}
About ten years from now, the American city of Heavenside is home to the "grinder" subculture: teenagers and young adults using extreme body modification - not decorative so much as functional, actually building computers into themselves - as a new way of life. Grinding began with the pioneering work of, among other people, the young genius and futurist John Reinhardt, who disappeared years ago.
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''Doktor Sleepless'' is a comic book series from [[Avatar Press]], written by [[Warren Ellis]] with art by Ivan Rodriguez. It originally lasted for 13 issues, from July, 2007 to July, 2009. After issue #13, it went on an extended hiatus, and is supposed to resume publication sometime in 2012.
It has an extensive wiki of its own [https://archive.is/20120729130000/http://www.doktorsleepless.com/index.php/Main_Page here].
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* [[My Parents Are Dead]]: John's parents disappeared when he was a young child, and there's more to the incident than we've yet been shown. Whatever happened did so in their mansion's library.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: After issue #13, ''Doktor Sleepless'' went on hiatus. It is reportedly coming back at some point in 2012.
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311174938/http://www.doktorsleepless.com/index.php/The_Darkening_Sky The Darkening Sky]'', by Henrik Boemer, was a short-run paperback that conflated fatalist philosophy, H.P. Lovecraft's Elder Gods, and a cyclical vision of history. When John's parents disappeared, ''The Darkening Sky'' was the only book out of the hundreds in their mansion's library that was at all disturbed, and John went on to read that copy of the book to pieces over the following years. One of the first things John Reinhardt does upon returning to Heavenside is print and distribute a new run of the book, which flies off of the shelves due to the Doktor's newfound popularity, and people who've read it immediately start acting just a little bit more creepy...
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: The only major characters in the series who aren't murderous or deranged are Sing and Sarah.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Heavenside is a "Northwestern port city," founded by good Christian folk.
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