SW10: Summer of Discontent #3a: The Agents
Andrew Perron
pwerdna at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 14:11:06 PDT 2011
On Sep 25, 7:17 pm, Scott Eiler <sei... at eilertech.com> wrote:
> What Has Gone Before: There's a Plan to defeat the next great winter by
> moving the Earth back to its old orbit.
> (http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2011/discontent1.txt) Some of The
> Plan's agents are captive in South Vietnam.
> (http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2011/discontent2.txt) Others have
> been lost on another Earth
> (http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2011/discontent3.txt), or in the
> timestream (http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2011/1971.txt).
Jeez, they're not doing very well. Well, at least I know that one
group of our heroes, though separated from their home world, is still
operating free and--
> Next to a sign saying "Ordered Realities Badge Station - Schenectady",
> the Mighty Tim looked up from the nets he'd been bound in.
D'oh!
> "Don't worry. I got this one." In a burst of flame *and* lightning,
> the Mighty Tim and the Powernaut disappeared from Schenectady!
Hm, interesting. That capture was resolved quick!
> "I know the one... Yeah, this is really me." Wyatt Ferguson looked tired.
I bet!
> Seven minutes later, Corrigan said, "Skip the news briefing. Can we do
> The Plan today?"
>
> Ingrid Bodil, National Security Advisor, said "No."
>
> "What's missing?"
>
> "The Chancellor's blockade on Earth is still up. And we have not found
> The Trillions command ship."
And now I see where in the timeline things fit~
> Wyatt said, "Yeah... Let's do it, Pam. I see you have the right hat."
Girl Genius reference!
> "Dammit! Well, we got stuff going on. We might get in a Trillions
> ship. And the Commander-in-Chief has authorized, The Plan is going into
> overtime. The way the world is going, any fix is better than no fix."
To be concluded...
> I've been re-reading various seventy-five-issue storylines from out of
> Vertigo Comics recently. Sandman, The Books of Magic, and Lucifer all
> went exactly that long. Lucifer did best, in my opinion. The Books of
> Magic got a lot of complaints because the author knew stuff the readers
> didn't. This gives me an idea of plot cohesion to aspire to, hopefully
> above The Books of Magic.
Interesting. I've read some Lucifer, and it's pretty tight; Books of
Magic probably suffers in that respect from not being written by the
original creator.
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, hoo~
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