There's also going to be three prequel comics you need to read if you want to have any hope of understanding what's going on.  Ironically, they won't be any help.

I think you may have made the first Killer7 reference anyone ever made on the The AV Club. Kinda surprising it took this long, really.

I think you may have made the first Killer7 reference anyone ever made on the The AV Club. Kinda surprising it took this long, really.

I had no idea Se7en inspired a line of Halloween costumes.

I had no idea Se7en inspired a line of Halloween costumes.

Words…words. Need time to process.

Words…words. Need time to process.

He probably helped with the direction on the B-plot too.

He probably helped with the direction on the B-plot too.

It gets better if you imagine him doing all the messages in a single session in the space of an afternoon, and as he goes on he works himself more and more, imagining this is happening, they are wrecking his station, why do they do this to him, just stoking the fire hotter and hotter.

It gets better if you imagine him doing all the messages in a single session in the space of an afternoon, and as he goes on he works himself more and more, imagining this is happening, they are wrecking his station, why do they do this to him, just stoking the fire hotter and hotter.

And her mother, SHODAN. (Though I did find XERXES even creepier because he was effectively lobotomized and didn't know it.)

And her mother, SHODAN. (Though I did find XERXES even creepier because he was effectively lobotomized and didn't know it.)

Dukat probably thinks he's Space Neurath, but he's really more Space Heydrich.

Dukat probably thinks he's Space Neurath, but he's really more Space Heydrich.

Ooh, I wouldn't recommend that, especially if you want to eat a Great Ape of some sort. Near as the virologists can figure, both ebola and HIV made the jump to humans after some guys in West Africa ate infected apes. You might have better luck with monkeys, but it still seems dicey.

Ooh, I wouldn't recommend that, especially if you want to eat a Great Ape of some sort. Near as the virologists can figure, both ebola and HIV made the jump to humans after some guys in West Africa ate infected apes. You might have better luck with monkeys, but it still seems dicey.

God, and I just spend last night trawling the Buckley hate thread down at SomethingAwful.

God, and I just spend last night trawling the Buckley hate thread down at SomethingAwful.

And the entire film is shot with two people on either side of the frame endlessly vomiting words at each other in front of a greenscreen with a background stolen from Google Image Search composited in.