SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1995 #13: Aww, F* It

[Scott Eiler]

On 2023-09-17 22:38, Drew Nilium wrote:
> On 9/17/23 8:21 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
>
>> I'd love to see some of your questions.  I've been light on Wyatt 
>> Ferguson text commentary lately, but he's there to answer questions.
> 
> Hmmmmm! Let's see... What actually happened to everyone when the 
> Powernaut was summoned in #12? And why? X>
> 
> Drew "slightly baffled" Nilium

Well, let's start answering!  But this might require two strips' worth 
of commentary.  (Also uploaded, thanks.)

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Bonus Section:  2005 Reprint Commentary from Wyatt Ferguson!  The 
Powernauts Have Gone Crazy and Unconscious

I've been asked, "What actually happened to everyone when the Powernaut 
was summoned in #12? And why?"

As you know, everyone on that battlefield who had Powernaut powers had 
collapsed.  At the time, I was able to make a quick battlefield 
observation.  The scientist S.O.S. had said, Powernauts can't share 
power.  Given these Powernauts had all collapsed, I guessed he was 
spectacularly right.

Knowing what I learned later, I'd say the original Powernaut went into 
shock after his resurrection.  And resurrection it was; he'd been 
discorporated.  That shock cascaded into everyone who had shared his power.

What caused that shock?  Apparently he really wanted a "Paula" to meet 
him.  About which, more with the next strip.

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Bonus Section:  2005 Reprint Commentary from Wyatt Ferguson!  Some Kind 
of Paula?

Just before the original Powernaut went into shock, he was asking for 
some kind of "Paula".  Assuming Powernaut comics are true to life, 
that's almost certainly the woman who was with him at the time he was 
discorporated.  That woman was discorporated also.

Other people of course have other theories about "Paula".  S.O.S. 
himself said on TV, "Paula" was probably Paula Page, the woman who was 
with Jeff Goldblatt on the beach the same time the Powernaut was. 
Perhaps the Powernaut was trying to rescue them both - but he felt most 
urgent about Paula.

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