SW10/WWW/HCC: Powernaut 1966 #1: Oooh, The Powernaut is So Dreamy!

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 16:35:36 PDT 2013


On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 05:16:15 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:

> -snort-  Well, the *real* title comes toward the end of the strip.
> 
> http://www.eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/1966.htm#1

YES HE'S BACK

> This series will be a challenge in and of itself... I'm publishing and 
> drawing this while I'm on a North American tour. So far, the drawing is 
> massively ahead of schedule; I have dropped my habit of writing detailed 
> travelogues, and just draw Powernaut cartoons in pubs as usual. I just 
> have to get the drawings to where my Eilertech work computer is, to edit 
> and publish. This computer can in theory go to pubs too, but dining with 
> computers instead of paper is usually antisocial so I've avoided it so 
> far. Still, #1 is on schedule and I should be able to manage #2.

Wooooooooo!

> This episode #1 more or less answers the question, "Where did you find a 
> yellow bow tie?" (2012 RACCies Award Ceremonies)

In 1966. Makes sense.

> This series also answers the current RACC High Concept Challenge:  Movie 
> Plot Mash-Ups!  It's pretty obvious this strip comes from James Bond. 
> (Well, I was thinking Man from U.N.C.L.E., but they must have been 
> thinking James Bond.  So was S.H.I.E.L.D., for that matter.)  This 
> series will also eventually show "Indiana Jones" and "2001" tendencies. 
>   Oh, you say those tendencies weren't there in 1966?  Well, the 
> underlying stuff was.  Heh, so goes my usual copout entry for HCC.

Indeed, Indiana Jones is drawing on stuff from the '30s and the short story
that 2001 is based on was published in 1951. So you're good!

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, whose HCC entry is completed and in
editing.


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