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The BQE further extends its mythology by\nanthropomorphizing the expressway and its theoretical conceits into a\n40-page comic book (cover by Matt Loux, masthead by Christian Acker), in which three extra-terrestrial superhero sisters (Botanica, Quantus, and Electress) use hula-hoops to combat the \"the Messiah of Civic Projects,\" Captain Moses,\nand his totalitarian social architecture. The comic book, written by\nStevens and gorgeously drawn, colored, and inked by longtime friend and\ncollaborator Stephen Halker, visualizes in graphic\nform many of the political motifs of the movie and soundtrack:\nmid-century urban theory, modernism, post-modernism, hoop dynamics, and\nthe spiritual practice of Subud.