Licking County, 1998
The story’s mall, pharmacy, community-college and car culture matter because the Kid keeps trying to turn an ordinary late-1990s local life into a mythic territory. His white Mitsubishi Eclipse with purple underglow is as important to that self-construction as any explicit philosophy.
Cast
The Kid · Brant / “Brent” · Kilo · Mr. McGuire / McGwire / Maguire.
Wrestling brain
The Kid understands conflict, masculinity and even thought through professional-wrestling logic. This does not make him another Vacío Arpista. SPACE FLYING TIGER is about becoming a professional worker; ɘPISODI is about a man importing wrestling’s language of honor, heat and moves into a life that does not become more honorable because he narrates it that way.
Series status
The title says “1.1,” but no further ɘPISODI installment appears in the published sequence represented here. The wiki therefore treats it as a series-opening format with one documented installment, not an eight-part cycle hiding somewhere else.