Sort of. Spider is pretty obviously inspired by the late Hunter S. Thompson, but - frightening as this idea is to those of us who started with HST and found Transmet later - he's much angrier than the real guy.

Dr. Thompson had a habit of blowing stuff up on his Colorado ranch just for the fun of it. In the special issue of Rolling Stone that came out after his death last year, his friend Johnny Depp (who played him in the Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas movie) noted that he kept a keg of gunpowder in his basement guest room, which Depp, living with him for several months before F&L filming, had been using as a nightstand/ashtray until he realized what it was and nearly shat himself in terror. :)

--G.
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