That is one remarkable piece of family history.




I'm not aware of anyone, but Watson, being derived from son-of-Walter, is a really common surname.

I do know that the family owns a farm that is now under the north sea off the coast of Yorkshire, so come the next ice age we will be rich. Rich!




I've been reading quite a bit of my PV output for the first time since it was posted and I'm pleased that some of it holds up well. I was particularly surprised by Saving the Future, since I remembered virtually none of it and I was actually wondering what would happen next.

And just today I came across this exchange between the Purveyors of Peril and the Juniors in Saving the Future #24

“Forget the Junior part,” Kerry told him, standing over her fallen team-mate. “It doesn’t matter what else happens, but when the Purveyors of Peril come attacking the world, when bad guys think they can beat heroes and do whatever they like, whatever they do to us, no matter how horrible, the guys who come to stop them whatever the cost, we are called The Lair Legion.”

“I think you’ll find we now own the copyright on that name,” smirked VelcroVixen.

“I think thou wilt find we art the Lair Legion anyway,” answered Harlagaz Donarson.




It's good to have ambitions. And role models. Universally.

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It's better than Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark

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Oh Zod, why did I google that?

Heh.

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We've never really got a depiction of the Shoggoth all bandaged up a-la the Invisible Man though, have we?

Again, I want to say yes but I don;t remember where or by whom. Maybe it was just the micro-hero version?

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[Xanadelle] appears in the more specialised Who's Who in the Technoverse list.

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I'm as amazed at the depth of background there as poster ag was in the comments section!

That was a fun storyline to run, and it developed quite a few other plotlines in the wider Parodyverse.

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Because running off with Mircandalee worked out so well for Hacker9

Ah, he ran off with Galactivac.

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Let's talk more about the Harper kids up-thread? One of them at least.

That's Lord Kyza to you, primitive!

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The non-Biblical adventures of Abraham are really quite fun.

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The non-biblical parts are always better.

Some of the medieval additions are great, like Bible fan-fiction. I really like the adventures of Eliezar, Abraham's trusty servent and special agent, who gets sent out on all kinds of dangerous missions. Eliezar gets perhaps one mention in the Book of Genesis but he has whole story arcs in the accreted storylines.

In face Eliezar stars in one of the earliest versions of the story where a traveller stays at an inn where the landlord has a special bed, and will either stretch his guest to it of chop his feet off to fit it, until the hero stays and turns the tables.

Eliezar also shows up in The Fall of Babel.

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You sound like you enjoyed writing the Bable story. I hope you find a decent publisher in due course.

It was a very challenging write but I do like the end result. It has all my strengths and weaknesses, including an improbably romance, sleazy villains, and nked women; the latter assisted by scholarly evidence that female dress in that place and time was basically a scarf.

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A life of globetrotting glamour is palling now? What next? Bunyip-taming?

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The glamour wore off years ago. But I do have a great job, I'm good at it, well known and respected in the industry, and enjoy it. Still, enough of that other business will drive a sane man to, as you say, test the waters.

Are you allowed a sabbatical?

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I've always held the view that if life gets too much you can always run away and join the circus (as opposed to suicide). Bunyip-taming is another option.

Should you feel strong urges to either suicide or circus performing please refer to me first. For bunyip-taming one must first catch your bunyip.