Pulp Valley is a region in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California that serves as a global center for print media. It was established in the 1990s following the collapse of Silicon Valley.
History
Following the collapse of Silicon Valley in the 1990s due to post-11/2 technophobia, the overwhelming resurgence of print media became the prominent staple of news and entertainment in the public sphere.[1] Sean Parker invested his money in the resurgence of print media in Pulp Valley, which helped him become a billionaire.[2]
Following the release of The Book of Rorschach by Sons of Pale Horse, Pulp Valley pundits canceled the record for romanticizing a vicious right-wing thug, trivializing mental illness, and being out-of-step with the optimism of Robert Redford's administration.[1]
Trivia
- The word "pulp" in the name refers to the major raw material used in papermaking and the industrial production of other paper products.
- It may also be a homage to the pulp fiction magazines, radio dramas, and dime novels of the 1920s and 1930s, whose inter-galactic adventure yarns (Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon) and mysterious anti-hero detectives (the Shadow and Green Hornet) later became the blueprints for our modern conception of superheroes.
- The collapse of Silicon Valley and the rise of Pulp Valley serves as a point of divergence in the show's timeline. Adrian Veidt's actions in the original series consequently made society massively technophobic, as new emerging technology at the time was viewed as the likely cause for bringing the transdimensional "alien" to Earth as well as the recall of all Doctor Manhattan-based products powered by lithium. Because of this, technology companies like Microsoft collapsed, thus preventing the existence of real-world technology such as cell phones, tablets, and laptops.