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Wow! I don't think I've ever been the object of a *squee*!

Power Boy: I like the Kirby Machines, it's part of who Power Boy is. Like Question Lad is Ditko-derived, so therefore he is politically aware.

Everyone: As for humor, I am always up for parodying popular culture and fourth wall breaking. My characters suffer tremendously due to my tendency to retcon, so they show a degree of comic awareness. I like Deadpool, Yugioh Abridged, I'm a Marvel I'm A DC, etc.

So...we're gonna win?!?!

well, my second thought was ....

Pb is going to be around after the Dark Oval, right guys? right?

uh .......

Well, judging by the fiction you are basing the main plot upon, there should be only one/two deaths of a major character if you are more or less following the books exactly (and you seem to be).

As for what I am working on with Abin Quank, I'm hoping to go for something relevant and realistic.

Em, we won't be following the books too closely, just in the thematic sense of the quest.

Oh, there are other definite, deliberate parallels to LotR beyond the Quest themes. I mean we have a Dark Lord, a big firey Eye and a few other things going on. But mostly, this story is its own thing, and that will become more and more apparent.

like ... EVERYBODY dies. for example.

oh and there's that whole destruction of Legion World thing I've got a rough draft for.


..... just kidding.

Or is he? Mwah-ha-ha-ha!

Seriously, don't think we won't set you up to think one thing is gonna happen, then drop a huge TURD on your expectations!

Ya'll have no idea...well Cobie does, but I had to tell someone.

Well, 'long as we know who your favorite is, Dev...



That said, it looks like Lucy and I will throw you all a bit of a curveball rilly soonlike!

There's an awful lot of secrets around here!

All will be revealed though and we'll have to wait and see! I have two nice surprises coming very shortly (not major ones but good ones I think) and many more bigger ones to come.

Oh Lardy...we have our own secrets.

Yeah, I guess we do at that, Dev....

Even though I am going to be in China for two weeks, I do not want what I am currently working with Abin Quank on to grind to a halt. I think you can all able to cooperate and we'll have an interesting story. I'm having fun seeing other people write my characters.

Em, I'm sure by the time you come back from China you won't have missed too much and the Novella will still be going full steam ahead. It looks like this is going to take not only many weeks, but several months, which is totally fine by me. There is still *so much* to do on the quest!

So I wouldn't be worried, you're storylines should be moving along at a solid pace for your return.

That's good to know. The funnest part for me is creating fictional towns, like Charltonburg and Tezukaville. It's fun to research the place names and figure out geography. I'm also hoping to flesh out Britonopolis more in terms of geography. To me a setting is very important.

Cobie,

What is the deal with people named "Helen"?

I'm starting to read the Dark Oval story and not a page in I've got Lardy's daughter, Helena Taylor; her guardian Helen (I think from the wiki that's got to be Hermaphrodite Helen); Lolita's friend, Helena Handbasket; and Weber's World Ambassador Mirenna Helene. Throw in the fact that Shark Lad was created by Dr. Helena Aurelius and I've got to ask:

Is this some old in-joke (30 Helens Agree maybe?), or is "Helen" just the most popular name in the 31st century?

Not to mention the fourway Cobie once had with Helen Mirren, Helen Keller, and Helen of Troy!

I suspect Helen is the 31st century equivalent of Mary / Maria in the middle ages!

What's funny is all of those characters were for the most part created by different people at different times, completely separate (except of course Helen Taylor and her mother, whom she's named after).

I guess the most popular male name is...Michael and it's variations? Surely it is now among children, named after Lash!

Ps - I can't wait for the story where I seduce Helen of Troy and our Bronze Age allies invade the 31st century!

(Eryk and Cobie and Sharky are honorary Argonauts).

What in general is the tone of LMB stories?

Dear Cobie,

Am I still in continuity? Or was that all just an imaginary tale?

Could you talk to me more about what the LMB envisions Earth to be like in a 1000 years? Not just America, but other countries.

OK... I've been trying to figure out the relationships of the "Quank Clan" and the below is what I came up with. The question (for anybody that wants to clarify) is... is this right?:


Pre Egyptian roots:

Numbnuts the Semi-Incomprehensible - ancient Pre-Egyptian mage under whom STU was an apprentice; concubine of the goddess Bast
Pagan Lass - Daughter of Bast and Numbnuts; also a Pre-Egyptian mage and Abin's late wife
Stoopid Cat - Pagan Lass's familiar


Abin and his family:

Abin Quank - Legion World janitor and Green Lantern, as mentioned above, widowed.
Space Ranger - Bart (does he have a last name/is it also "Quank"?) Abin's brother
Everyday Girl - Brittney, Abin's adopted grandaughter. Security Officer - armed with 9 mill Berettas


Everyday Girl's background:

- EG was originally the daughter of Faraway Lad - until history was rewritten during the LMB Infinite Crisis

- She then became the daughter of Hrun the Barbarian (himself the son of a time-traveling Matlock) and Princess Diana of Vallhalia (Pagan Lass's daughter from a previous marriage);

-In both scenarios she was placed in the care of Abin and Pagan Lass for protection

My Whee Fem - Everyday Girl's half Korean/half Phillipino former bunkmate at the Legion World Orphanage; Security Office receptionist - deadly with butterfly knives
Sam Pureheart - EG's Boyfriend; Medicus Two EMT
Nobody and Noone - EG's invisible "Cackles" - demonic sprites that help her out


Other characters:

Slim: Bartender with a vendetta against Cobalt Kid; once imprisoned Stoopid Cat and Pagan Lass
Lonestar: Space Ranger's former ranger collegue; now deceased
Gary Concord: Also deceased; but I have no idea what his story was


So... questions:

- Is the above correct?
- Who else is missing?
- What was the deal with Gary Concord?
- Is the real-life Abin a genius... a madman... or both?