SW10/WWW: Powernaut 2005 #5: Party 'til the World Obeys!
Scott Eiler
seiler at eilertech.com
Fri Jul 5 10:50:14 PDT 2013
The first Free Powernaut Comic Day was in May 2013. It featured the four
strips of Powernaut 2005 - which promised this sequel. As a result,
*hundreds* of people could well be expecting the Party 'til the World
Obeys. The series has been plotted for about a year now. The time has
come to publish!
http://www.eilertech.com//stories/powernaut/2005b.htm#5
We join this story already in progress! The Powernaut was inserted into
an existing plot line in 2005, and I've chosen not to slog through the
whole thing. I've tried to have the in-story characters provide
commentary to explain what I've skipped. Might as well start now!
...
Bonus Section: Commentary from Vince Cortez! What's Been Happening?
(All the links here can be found under
http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2005/ . The web comic has this same
commentary, plus working links.)
Hi, everyone! I'm Vince Cortez. I referred to the previous Powernauts in
my own web log, which I named after them. (ref: Powernaut the Web Log,
powernaut.htm) I am so excited that there's a new Powernaut now. I
felt so honored when his publishers asked me to *appear* in the first
episodes of his 2005 comic strip. Now I'm glad to give commentary.
I work with the FERG, the Freedom Engineering Research Group. We've been
involved in some national crises, for instance the Reduction of Nappanee
this May. We published an account of that crisis, with a summary of
superhuman affairs. (ref: fergletter_may.htm) We've kept track since
then, so we can give world updates up to August.
Karl Scribner worked with us back in May. Now he works with the
Powernaut. He'd lost track of me for a while, while I took a leave of
absence. But I'm back, and I'm honored to collaborate with Karl again.
The previous Powernaut 2005 strip mentioned how the Space Jellyfish had
taken over Earth. This happened during a severe and ongoing reality
shift. (ref: humans.htm) Before the shift, in the United States we had
Ms. President Rodham. Now, we have Mr. President Bush Jr.
The Jellyfish seem to be benign. Apparently they've dealt with reality
shifts before. They're not part of an alien invasion; it's just a few of
them on our planet.
As for the superhumans, Karl put it best: "Brawny heroes and buxom
heroines are probably fighting to reverse this 20-year-record-size
reality shift." The Powernaut has his own records of this stuff,
alongside legendary extra-universal characters such as Superman and
Thanos. The rest of us *don't* have those records. So the people who
publish the Powernaut's comic strip have skipped those accounts, and I
don't blame them.
The current strip mentions the Powernaut's recent trip to Chicago. (ref:
powerpatrol1.htm) An infestation of stone men arose then, throughout
the metro area. He actually saved the Hurrier from them, at a theater
on the outskirts. No one is quite sure where the stone men came from
yet; they could just be a side effect of the reality shift. They look
like the 1990s mercenary Rock Pile Jim, who was a human transformed into
a rock-like body.
I'm familiar with the ghost research the Powernaut mentioned. Private
enterprise started it, the Government tried to acquire it, and I helped
disrupt it. (ref: fergletter_may.htm) Now they're rebuilding. They
say they need to monitor the feelings of dead people after terror
attacks such as the Reduction of Nappanee. Uh, fine, but we'll need to
stop them capturing people like they captured my friend's brother.
The Powernaut reported the American debut of a German adventurer named
the Hurrier. Wyatt Ferguson has revealed, the Hurrier publishes his
diaries. (ref: pentahedron.htm#hurrier) Perhaps the Hurrier will make
himself more known worldwide in future.
--
(signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------
When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama
I know. - Archie Andrews
- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.
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