OUR STRIP

NEARLY EXTINCT
is set in the remote mid-western town of Nearly Extinct, an enclave, rising up like a mini phoenix from the ashes of an abandoned nuclear testing site. The only remaining inhabitants of this barren wasteland, are four very-mutated lab monkeys, who attempt to mimic a modern society, to which they have had no real exposure. Even without first hand experience, the foursome successfully interpret genuine North American values and become anti-social, self-serving, opportunists, as they interact in a parody of real life situations. Emotions flare when these apish residents attempt to exploit the town’s only tree, debate the health issues surrounding a single hydro pole, run a school system to educate a ventriloquist’s dummy, and operate a casino without money. Although Nearly Extinct is poised on the slippery slope of obsolescence, like a rec-room packed with seventies computer equipment, it explodes with new life when Elvis, a ‘King of Rock & Roll’ look-a-like, coasts into town. Elvis represents a lucrative resource to the town’s economy and culture, so the inhabitants waste little time in staking a claim, ignorant to the possibility that their new saviour may prove obsolete himself.