• Re: SW10/WWW/PRECOG: Powernaut Coming Attractions 2024!

    From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Scott Eiler on Thu Jan 11 05:11:42 2024
    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 After *that*, it's down to whatever unpublished stories I might select from Powernaut history.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
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Scott Eiler@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 11 04:19:20 2024
    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.

    (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!

    --
    -- (signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> ------ http://www.eilertech.com/ -------

    "Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
    to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
    of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."

    - Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal. From "The golden age of
    Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
    Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.

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  • From Scott Eiler@21:1/5 to Scott Eiler on Tue Jan 23 08:28:27 2024
    I've now done the below mentioned things and uploaded them! I'll
    publicize World's Fair 2024 Part 1 soon, after a bit more review... but
    its first four strips are there now! You might find them with some
    navigation through the main page.

    Honestly, what gets me going tonight is listening to Pink Floyd while
    reviewing that old RACCCon story about the evil Waffle on the Moon. I
    finally added the appropriate prism effect to the waffle. http://eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/2014b.htm#12

    (See also https://lnh.diamond-age.net/wiki/The_Syrup_of_the_Gods . I
    updated the LNH Wiki accordingly.)

    Scott 8{D>

    On 2024-01-10 20:19, 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.

    --
    -- (signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> ------ http://www.eilertech.com/ -------

    "Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
    to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
    of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."

    - Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal. From "The golden age of
    Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
    Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.

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