Publisher's Synopsis
SEVEN ELEVEN, The Complete Files, is a Double Volume story, a cyber mystery rolled into in a collection of short essays, a gallery of off-beat visuals. An absolutely alternative style of storytelling. Characters struggle to define their place in the story and the reader is drawn into the process of sifting through the collection of evidence to make their own conclusions. The various graphic collections, stories and visual evidence lead to conspiracy theories which are pursued in the Double Volumes.
Volume One, The Cash Register Files, is a collection of stories that depict a series of complicated events involving a mysterious source of data which is streamed directly into the store's cash register. The codes imbedded in the files are discovered in several Large Panel files which contain massive amounts of visual cultural debris. Later, the files are decrypted by a group of geneticists and the implications on our current understanding of human behavior is shocking. The characters who become trapped in the convenience store record their passing time in a variety of ways and these short essays comprise a large portion of the book. Several of the characters are actually young t-shirt designers. Their visual, graphic designs are represented and critiqued in the book which becomes yet another tangent embedded in the overall story.
