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

[Scott Eiler]

On 2024-01-04 14:47, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 2024-01-04 14:09, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>> So wait, was this drawn in 95 or 24? Did the characters travel back 
>>>> to 95?
>>>
>>> It's even more complicated than you think...  In-universe, it was 
>>> drawn in and characters come from '95 (and reprinted in '05, hence 
>>> the reprint commentary).  In the real world, drawn in '23 (hence the 
>>> copyright notice) and published in '24.
>>
>> "Oh no I've gone cross-eyed" -Austin Powers
>>
>> (wait theres a comic series in universe that the characters read and 
>> also the "actual" comic takes place in 2005? or)
> 
> Oh, my, this one's so complicated, it needs a visual aid.  Welcome to 
> Fractal Time!  (Scroll down from the cartoon to see Ununillium's 
> original question and the answer from Powernaut Comics 2005, originally 
> published in the Real World in 2012.)
> 
> http://eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/2005.htm#3
> 
> -  We live in a universe in which people may dress up as Powernauts, but 
> Powernauts with powers don't exist.  I get to publish Powernaut Comics 
> here.
> 
> -  Powernaut Comics are originally published in a universe where 
> Powernauts have existed but some of their adventures are fictional, and 
> commentators have always had to sort out the details.
> 
> -  Powernauts actually exist in Fractal Time, in which their timeline 
> sometimes goes off at right angles to reality, and it's always subject 
> to change.  In that timeline, any Powernaut story is true for them.  But 
> any adventures with Powernauts in them may differ from original stories. 
>   Usually those changes are for the better, in my modern-day opinion.
> 
> Back in the Real World, I have some stories from before I published 
> Powernauts.  I have changed many details in those over the years, based 
> on who the main characters are.  Maximum Extremity has had three sets of 
> main characters over the years:  Total Conversion, Wyatt Ferguson, and 
> now the Powernaut.  So it has three versions.  I now consider the 
> version with Powernauts to be definitive.
> 
> ... Uh, hope this helps!  8{D>

Oh, and if a story *says* it's happening in 1995, it's happening with 
characters which somehow exist in 1995, and their origin is not 
important to the story unless the story mentions it!  (The aftermath of 
Megaphone: The End may be an awkward time to mention this, but oh well.)

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