SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1962 #7: Here Come the Reds!

[Scott Eiler]

On 3/18/2013 8:14 PM, mrnelson007 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, March 18, 2013 9:45:46 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
>

>> I'm not exactly sure how to address the United States Metahuman
>> Registration Act in-story.  I know it must have existed from 1955
>> onward, but it's the kind of thing that never would have been mentioned
>> in a comic book before at least 1968.  I'll probably stick it all in the
>> Powernaut 1962 letters page anyway, though, because we all know the
>> Powernaut's stories are for *all* time.
>
> You really don't have to use it, I was just being goofy. I loved the
> response though.

Thanks.

 > I was generally envisioning the MRA as a resurgence of
> the McCarthyist sensibilities in a period after the Cuban Missile
> Crisis. My current plan is to make the awakening of the first metahuman
> to be this world's equivalent of that.

That's kind of an 80's storyline, though.  Which actually fits Powernaut 
1987 nicely.  8{D>

About that missile crisis and the politics back home...  Things might 
work out a little differently in this story, now that the Commies have 
*actually fired a missile* against Americans.  And hey, is that Fidel 
Castro on that spaceship?  8{D>


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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.