TMTYL

[Steve Swann]

Apologies for the lack of context there - Warren Ellis is a comic writer, sometimes called the Internet Jesus.  :)  He is widely considered to be a peer of such comics luminaries as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. 

You could google for his "Edison Hate Future" one panel comics - they all feature the exact same visual, which is a classic black and white drawing of Thomas Edison sitting next to some device (presumably his first telephone prototype), with tubes/wires going into his ears from the machine, and an oddly intense expression on his face.  For a while Ellis was writing a new caption for that drawing every few weeks.  Some of them are excruciatingly funny if you're at all up on pop culture and internet trends, and have a slightly sick sense of humor.  :) 

Steve

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Hi Steve,
The name isn't familiar to me.

Mary

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As any fan of Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan well knows.  :)

Steve
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  bowl-disruptor effect

Oh I meant "bowel"-disruptor. It's a fictional handheld weapon that does this