SW10/WWW/PRECOG: Powernaut Coming Attractions 2024!

[candycanearter07]

On 1/10/24 22:19, Scott Eiler wrote:
> After completing four consecutive weekly comics, it seems I'm still 
> happy to work on Powernaut Comics.  Having nothing in my schedule, I've 
> been working on some infrastructure.
> 
> (1) I've trained Powernaut Comic pages going forward, to get their links 
> to other Powernaut Comics from one source.  So as I prepare a page for a 
> new story, it and the main page can display the links to all my most 
> recent stories up through story year 1995 - and vice versa.  Old stories 
> will be retrofitted later, whenever I'm editing those stories anyway.
> 
> (2) The next story year will build comics out of modular blocks.  I'll 
> pile them on top of each other to build a daily-style comic (about three 
> panels), Sunday-style (about six, or current Powernaut style), or 
> old-style epic (about twelve, or Powernaut 1912 style).  I might need 
> all of those formats for my next story...
> 
> (3) World's Fair 2024!
>      -  For the first time since Powernaut 2011, I am working on a story 
> sometime even *close* to the year it takes place.  And I had to work 
> hard at the end of 2012 to make even *that* happen - but here we are in 
> January of the right year for once!
>      -  So I can show how wonderful the future world of 2024 could be - 
> and take advantage of new public domain characters.  Also, it's a 
> ten-year reunion for the Power School Class of 2014!  But factions from 
> beyond might be interested...  New character alert!  With modular 
> components, this could all take place in very small chunks.

OO cool, so will it be the retro-future of flying cars?

> (4) While I spew out some 2024 chunks, I have two more 1990s 
> mega-stories on the scale of Maximum Extremity to handle sometime. After 
> *that*, it's down to whatever unpublished stories I might select from 
> Powernaut history.  Maybe the world needs the Powernaut as Dick 
> Tracy...  Yay, Powernaut!

90s heck yea
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