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The Winslow is a fictional reptilian creature measuring 66 centimeters in length that plays a prominent role in many of comics artist Phil Foglio's various graphic novels, most notably ''Buck Godot'' and ''MythAdventures'' (with occasional guest appearances in the ''Girl Genius'' strip (), (), and ()). ==Biography== The Winslow is technically sentient and capable of speech, though rarely says anything more than the informal, colloquial greeting "Hi!", which it often enjoys repeating ''ad nauseam''. Indeed, this diminutive creature would be completely unremarkable save for the fact that it is utterly indestructible and presumably immortal, and figures prominently one way or another into fully three-fourths of the galaxy's known religions. Despite its religious ubiquity, the true nature and purpose of the Winslow is unknown. Some cultures fear it, some worship it, but nearly everyone wants it for their own purposes and is willing to go to any imaginable lengths to obtain it. There are endless explanations as to why the Winslow is so important, despite the fact that it displays none of the 14 Accepted Signs of Divinity (other than #14, "Be the Winslow"); yet most of these explanations are depressingly circular, e.g. "The Winslow is the exact shape and size of the Perfect Lizard of Love, which, of course, is the Winslow." Despite the fact that it is immortal and indestructible (fairly impressive in and of itself), the Winslow's importance may be due to nothing more than the fact that everyone ''else'' seems to think it's Pretty Damn Important (i.e., that it's a MacGuffin). In the Buck Godot comic, the protagonist asks members of the Uligb, entities who have direct perception of all eleven dimensions of reality, about the Winslow:〔http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Personal/Hobbies/Books/Booklist2003.html〕 Buck: What do the Uligb know that the others don't? Uligb 1: Hard to explain. If you carry something too big, you die, savvy? Buck: Yes... so? Uligb 1: The thread that is the Winslow has no beginning! Uligb 2: It has no end! Uligb 1: It is too big for any race to carry. You cannot savvy how big. Uligb 2: Those who try are... bent... Uligb 1: Strained... Uligb 2: Unbalanced... Uligb 1: They cannot see. Consequently, anyone who ever succeeds in their quest to obtain the Winslow faces the combined zeal of tens of thousands of other cultures and species hell-bent on the same goal. Probably the most effective way to obtain the indestructible Winslow for one's own is to vaporize the current host's home planet and collect it from amongst the remaining debris (as suggested by a tabloid reporter and rejected by her editor〔http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20090604〕). Because of the obvious need to keep the whereabouts of the Winslow hidden, humanity, generally indifferent to the Winslow and its supposed divinity, accepted its secret custodianship from the Prime Mover, a member of a race of omnipotent superbeings whose primary function appears to be keeping all manners of conflicting extraterrestrial cultures, biologies, and religions from annihilating one another. The Prime Movers, however, only exacerbate religious turmoil by continuing to maintain that the Winslow is the single most important being in the history of the universe, yet pointedly refusing to elaborate as to ''why'' (though they all say it's not any of the reasons the various other races have come up with so far). This is the sort of enigmatic, condescending and totally useless statement that makes a large majority of the scientists and philosophers of The Gallimaufry yearn to pound The Prime Movers' ever-so-superior heads in with a large cosmic tire iron. And despite the appearance of being dumber than a sack of bricks, there are times where one has to wonder: Buck: Ho. I wonder how long ''this'' association will last? Unknown Voice: Quite awhile, actually. I predict that a Klegdixal/Humanity partnership will produce a unique dynamic, one that to outsiders will appear quite doomed, but it will actually supersede the relationship you have with he pogs. Buck: Was that... ...did you... Winslow: Honk! 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Winslow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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