SW10/WWW/PRECOG: Powernaut Coming Attractions
the-deeman at webtv.net
the-deeman at webtv.net
Mon Apr 21 03:03:23 PDT 2014
On Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:18:01 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> I've just seen the latest High Concept Challenge: Back From The Dead.
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> This is *not* part of any upcoming Powernaut plot. Of course I love to
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> fold a random plot device into my stories, but I've used that plot
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> device enough already. (It figured in the build-up to Powernaut 2011.)
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> So, we'll see, but I might sit this one out.
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> However, I can't stop Powernaut comics. But I can take a rest, and this
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> is the time of year for it. The RACCies are soon. On the Powernaut's
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> pages, I refer to those as the Powernaut All-Star Break. But Powernaut
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> comics will resume no later than early June.
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> I have to decide what to publish next, though. This is especially
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> important because Free Powernaut Comic Day #2 is almost here. My
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> favorite comic book store will be handing out "PowerTEEN Meets Paula
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> Power!", and so will I. (If you want one, it's at
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> http://www.eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/1955.pdf .) I really ought
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> to follow up on that big bit of marketing.
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> My publishing schedule goes 2005, 1960s, 2005, 1960s... By that
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> schedule, 2005 Episode 4 is rightfully next. That's the big series
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> "Occulator Compuplex", which resolves everything the other 2005 series
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> have mentioned. 2005 is of course the home of decompressed
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> storytelling, though. I've plotted six strips, and it'll take that many
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> just to set up the menace. And this (like the rest of Powernaut 2005)
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> has already been published as text stories. People can search
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> "Occulator Compuplex" on Google to see how this story ends.
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> However, Powernaut 1912 has intervened in my publishing. So I might go
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> 2005, 1968, 1912, 1969! Powernaut 1969 is the big "Hypergaard" series.
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> I've started plotting that in parallel with "Occulator Compuplex".
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> Powernaut 1969 will be explosive within the first two strips, before it
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> even mentions Hypergaard. And it *does* mention Paula Power!
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> Increasingly I think I need to do that one next.
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> You're all in the Powernaut's online Power Patrol, at least as honorary
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> members. (You can make it official at
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> https://www.facebook.com/powernaut if you like. The Powernaut would
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> love that.) So I'm taking a non-binding poll. What would you like to
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> see next: Occulator Compuplex 2005, or Hypergaard 1969?
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> --
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> (signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------
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> When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
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> or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama
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> I know. - Archie Andrews
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> - from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.
You yourself said you need to do Hypergaard next so bring it. Especially after saying it will be "explosive". Explosive good. :)
Dee
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