SCREAMBOT

Munch's figure screams because the universe is too much. Broboticus screams — or holds his head in the approximate posture of screaming, his speaker-grille mouth fixed in its usual grid — because the signal is overwhelming. The sky behind him swirls in the original's violent orange and blue, the fjord winds in the distance, the two background figures remain as indifferent as ever to someone else's crisis. What BasicGlitch adds: a vinyl record spinning in the chest cavity, analog gauges mid-reading, and two cyan tears running from the cooling-fan eyes. He is not having a breakdown. He is receiving too many frequencies simultaneously and has not yet found the right filter. The bridge has seen this before.