LNH/LNH20/LUNA: FLASH! LNH Comics Presents Monthly #3

[Drew Perron]

On 5/22/2017 9:40 PM, Adrian McClure wrote:
> IT'S BACK!!! IT'S BACK!!! IT'S BACK!!!

HELL YEAH

>> [LNH/LUNA] "Speaker For the Thread" Part 3
>> by Dave Van Domelen
>>
>>    The question. Who answers.
>
> Getting new Dvandom LNH stuff regularly is more than enough
> justification for this series's existence.

Agreed :D

>>     I am a speaker for the thread, which sometimes means answering questions
>> forgotten, laying the old ghosts to rest.  This is not without its danger,
>> thread necromancy is feared and hated.
>>     But I answer them nonetheless.
>
> I love how this story is taking a concept like "thread necromancy" and
> building something weird and resonant on it... That's very LNH.

I know, right? It's Deep Engagement with technology and culture and emotion.

>>    "NO MORE BEING QUIET!" thundered a voice from everywhere. "NO MORE
>> HOLDING BACK! NOW AND FOREVER, I AM... NON-BINARY!"
>
> Holy fuck this is amazing. PC Person definitely wins the award for
> best revamp right now. I love the idea of actually treating them as a
> character and taking their perspective seriously.

:D :D :D I KNOW RIGHT. This has been tricky to get right but I think 
it's coming across well.

> Also how we've been getting more jokes about queer and trans stuff
> from a queer and trans perspective. (The pronoun stuff here, for
> example. And I'm inordinately proud of that one Marvel Zombie Lad line
> in SC #34.)

Yesssss. :3

> Also Miss Social-Cues is adorable.

Awwwww <3 Thank you! She's also been a little tricky to get right, but 
very worth it

>> *--------------------------------DREAM DATE--------------------------------*
>
> So this is an interesting issue for me b/c it has stories from me from
> both sides of the Four Month Gap. This one was written shortly before
> the long burnout period....
>
>> *-----------------------------CHICKS IN SPACE!-----------------------------*
>
> And this was written after. And the contrast is really interesting.

Agreed! :> There's definite evolution going on.

> My
> style has been changing a lot lately, and the first one is maybe right
> at the beginning of that, where instead of political outrage stuff I'm
> choosing to respond to the bullshit that's going on right now by
> focusing more on queer intimacy.

A good way to do it.

> But I don't quite get there yet.
> "Dream Date" is, like a lot of things I have written, a story about
> frustrated desire. The Liminals is all about pushing through that
> barrier, about accepting the intimacy and building community and such.

Hm! Yes.

> The second story is written on the other side of that, it's one that
> makes that kind of feeling of casual intimacy very clear, the kind of
> thing I would have struggled to write at an earlier stage. A lot of
> the characters I write and gravitate toward are deeply repressed (and
> Cat is still repressed about a lot of things even though she's also
> emotionally expressive in some ways) and now I'm trying to get to the
> point of letting them be happy and cuddle and stuff, even though
> emotionally traumatic shit and complicated story arcs are still going
> on.

Ohhhhh, that's an excellent excellent point. :> I mean, obviously, in 
WBP I got really really free with that stuff. :3

> I'm also trying to do less "good" writing. Trying to prioritize
> capturing emotions and being expressive over having conventionally
> good writing structure. I think that's part of how the LNH is supposed
> to work.

DEFINITELY. That's one of the most important things about the LNH.

> whereas the second is riffing on like four or five different things
> (not Thelma and Louise though! I've never seen it. I didn't know until
> just now it was from 1991 and not like the 70s).

Yep, that was me. X3

> This whole feeling of
> packing in as many riffs and ideas and sensations as you can is part
> of what made the best Classic LNH stories great. This is the year I
> really got that I think--when I cracked the "LNH Code." And I finally
> feel like writing "real" LNH after trying to figure out how for like
> five years (though that still produced a lot of good work).

Same, really. <3

> Also--I now realize I totally know at least one person who would date
> the octopus.

Yes. :3

>> DREW: The Core LNH #3.0 takes place before the Another LNH Title? Really?
>> Free Comic Book Day Special, wherein it's revealed that WikiBoy has gained
>> the ability to suggest edits to others - or, perhaps, simply become
>> comfortable with that ability.
>
> I feel like he'd be more comfortable with that with people he's
> particularly close to, like Merissa or Cannon Fodder. (I haven't got
> into it yet but I feel like WB and CF got to be friends over being the
> LNHers that the rest of the team has a history of taking for granted.)

Man, that makes a *lot* of sense. :>

Drew "casual respect" Perron