SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1995 #21: Then My Work Here is Done! (tm)

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On 1/3/24 19:56, Scott Eiler wrote:
> ... Well, sort of, Powernaut.  But you're about to get a Quest!  For 
> everyone else in the episode, the time has come for the three little 
> words every character loves to hear:  TO BE CONCLUDED!  (Probably next 
> week!)
> 
> http://eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/1995b.htm#21
> 
> This week...  Powernaut Comics used to be simpler, when Powernauts got 
> to beat up Adolf Hitler instead of Saddam Hussein.  So for this one, 
> we're trying panel-level commentary!
> 
> ...
> 
> Bonus Section: 2005 Reprint Commentary from Wyatt Ferguson! Panel by Panel!
> 
> People often critique later-period Powernaut Comics as being difficult 
> to understand because they're so dense with artistic clues instead of 
> explanatory dialogue. So as the episode finally nears its end, let's try 
> a strip's worth of commentary - panel by panel!

I have to agree with it being confusing, but that could just be from not 
following from the beginning.

> 1.    Megaphone just slugged the Powernaut, who is lying on the ground. 
> Megaphone is of course gloating. The Powernaut is of course having 
> nothing more to do with this fight. (If they did continue, it would be 
> on roughly equal terms, only Megaphone is a much better boxer.)
> 
> 2.    Sorting things out.
>          Upper: Crusher Joe escorts Megaphone away, almost tenderly. 
> Megaphone literally has no place to go except back to Total Conversion 
> HQ in the Bahamas.
>          Lower: The Powernaut is thinking, "I don't let people get hurt 
> - especially not myself!" He's shown a healing touch before, in 1987. 
> And Leo reveals the existence of a Time Police force, from whose far 
> future Megaphone came from, in search of 1990s adventure. Megaphone 
> never admitted *how* far his future is, but it's at least well beyond 2005.

So wait, was this drawn in 95 or 24? Did the characters travel back to 95?

> 3.    Cleanup. Apparently Total Conversion is taking custody of the 
> junior alien of the invaders! The other aliens have either died or fled. 
> And the guy from Hypergaard is proud to be helping, and even taking 
> charge. (Note how he has actual color to his skin when the rest of us 
> don't. It's an effect of his being 4-dimensional.)
> 
> 4.    "Then My Work Here is Done!" TM - It seems Powernaut Comics is 
> trying to trademark that phrase from the 1988 comic! Total Conversion 
> (the superhero team on premises) is saying Yeesh. But Leo is such a 
> fanboy as he starts his career, that he's impressed.

I don't think that you can trademark a phrase like that lol

> 5.    Racer Girl is impatient that the Powernaut has been interfering 
> with our mission to rescue the Powernaut. Go figure. The Mad Axeman from 
> Shenandoah and I were still waiting there to watch. (Racer Girl is from 
> 4-dimensional Hypergaard and has actual color to her skin.)
> 
> 6.    The Powernaut had been recreated from fragments of himself. He has 
> sensed that his ladyfriend Paula Page will have to be recreated likewise.
> 
> 7.    As the Hypernaut comes back from the flooding platform, Racer Girl 
> tells the Powernaut that recreating Paula will not be that easy.


Interesting!
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