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Cool World (1992)

★ 5.7 · 798 ratings on TMDB

Holli Would if she could ...and she will

Cool World poster★ 5.7

While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the dest

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In Cool World, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “cartoon underworld”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, power, desire.

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