The Remote Control Experience

How does a computer processor wired directly into your brain and operated by a separate device tend to interact with you? Does it make you feel things? Effect your impulses? Or perhaps it alters your perception of reality?

I think the more important question is, how do you make the reader realize what is happening to the character? I'm toying with the idea of Adam's remote control interacting with him through an avatar, or some sort of character that only Adam can see... Not a figment of Adam's imagination, but more of a virtual interface representative of Adam's Remote Control Device (damn I need a friggin' name for that thing!)

Should I make it into a character? I think so, because I like the idea of it fighting with Adam's imagination... I'll need to work on a visual means of communicating to the reader that this character is actually an aspect of the Remote, and not an individual character that everyone else can see...

So far I've decided to make it a little floating robot looking thing, sort of reminiscent of the little angel and devil characters that are pretty common in cartoons (although I don't go for the morality play.)
Maybe I should try to make it into more of a hologram? How do you draw a hologram in black and white? I'm loath to use much grey... eh, what can you do?

I wonder if I'm wasting my time with all this complex scenario bullshit... There's very little space available for words and drawings... How much subtlety will be able to come across? How many times can I diverge from the normal comic set-up of talking pet and person?

I guess it doesn't matter though... I don't really know what else to do. I'm just so bored of the standard comic, I'm bored of pop-culture references, and I'm bored of the "legacies"... So I guess I just gotta see what I can do.