Midnight Pals: The Future

Alan Moore: [appears in a clap of thunder] Behold! The Arch Magus!
Poe: The arch magus!
King: the arch magus!
Barker: the arch magus!
Koontz: the arch magus!
Lovecraft: the arch magus!

Moore: today i bring you a chilling vision of the future!
Koontz: oh boy! a vision of the future!
Koontz: i hope there's good stuff happening!
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Koontz: i hope it's a positive, star trek-esque utopian vision of the future!

Moore: Imagine! A future where america is ravaged by disease and britain held in the grip of a fascist who's sexually obsessed with an AI
Moore: i know it's hard, but try to imagine

King: goshdarn it alan can't anyone have any nice visions of the future for once?
King: it's always such a downer
King: i mean, this is almost as depressing as that sower parable octavia told Octavia
Butler: that wasn't a parable
Butler: that was a documentary filmed in real time as it happened

King: surely someone has a nice story about the future they can share
King: you know
King: for dean's sake
Koontz: stop treating me like a child! >:C
Koontz: i'm a big boy, i can take it!
King: i'm sure you can, dean

King: c'mon SOMEONE must have a positive vision of the future
George Romero: i believe that socialism offers just that
Romero: you see, soon heavy industry will make it possible for the proletariat to get-
King: does anyone ELSE have a positive vision of the future?
King: anyone?

EM Forster: i've got one
King: ok let's hear this
Forster: it's about what if the internet stopped working
King: i don't really know that's a positive story
King: no wait
King: i guess it kind of is
Kris Straub: n-no internet?!?!
Straub: how will the narwal bacon at midnight??

William Gibson: [wearing black duster and fingerless gloves] i've got a positive vision of the future
King: that's highly dubious
Gibson: it's like our current future
Gibson: but everyone's got these cool cybernetic implanted borg eye sphincters
King: oh hey that's way better

Aubrey Wood: i've got one too
Wood: it's a little like william's
Wood: but you can also buy lab grown human meat
Tiernan Blanchard: well that just takes all the fun out of it

Moore: fools! you know not what the future holds!
Straub: magus, did you know that your work inspired an anonymous internet army to take up arms
Straub: and well i guess they kinda did some bad stuff
Straub: but for one brief beautiful moment they slightly annoyed the church of scientology

L Ron Hubbard: ah yes for you all that protest was the most important day of your internet life, but for me
Hubbard: it was tuesday