I've managed to black out the many traumas of line-up reshuffle poster negotiations.







Al B. is not known for his sensitive social perceptions.







I was surprised in revisiting the folders where I kept my PVB work to find that I had several part-finished stories in progress that I had forgotten all about, that I had posted some stories I no longer remembered writing, and that there was even one complete tale I just never got round to putting up!







No, I wasn't confusing them. I really was referring to your novel-style retexturing of Keiko and co. After all, Keiko herself had a sojourn in the Parodyverse once upon a time, long before Chiaki ever saw print.




I'm told that the market for e-novellas has never been better. I know that Amazon Kindle keep sending me royalty cheques for some I've done.




It depends what you want to do with it, and whether you think feedback/possibly little feedback from the relatively quiet board would encourage or dishearten you. On the one hand it can be a good focus group; on the other it could be "firing your powder" ahead of time. Only you can judge.

I'd be happy to see it here, though.







As I recall, I dug up the Void Spectre (originally a minor secondary poster character of a poster who had more or less left off writing before I even started in the Parodyverse) because I wanted a villain who could test Liu Xi by forcing her to push her boundaries to overcome him.

The Void Spectre was one of those massively powerful supernatural types - think something like an evil version of DC's Spectre. At one point he blew up the moon for reasons that were never properly explained. When it became clear that his story wasn't going to progress, and back during my early-years fervour for tidying up continuity in a shared universe where continuity is always going to be a tangle, I wrote a storyline where the Hooded Hood tricked him out of existence (and therefore the moon was never destroyed, and was available for the Librarian to sit on it). But it was clear that the Void Spectre was meant to be massively powerful, terribly alien, and set on doing something that required access to a universe where he did not belong.

It therefore seemed like a good thing to pit him against Liu Xi. Where the UT continuity is, she had recently erased her "grandfather" from existence and has therefore become a bit of an anomaly. That and her affinity for void have attracted the Void Spectre's attention as a means of clawing himself back into existence.

It was my intention in making Liu Xi's use of void terribly dangerous for a while to be able to showcase her skills with other elements, and to show her problem-solving and other qualities that were not dependent of her powers. Unfortunately the series got derailed by circumstance so I was never able to follow through - until now.










I think this one comes a little after the current UT. From the team's point of view,the new members got inducted, they've had about a week underground on a team-building mission, and this is their first day back from that, and straight into another crisis. There are a couple of scenes and events you chronicled which perforce come (presumably shortly) after the issues the team has to deal with in the present story.










There's possibly not enough information to place this since I didn't follow on with the Deadeyes series, but I think that Deadeyes #6 or 7 features Vinnie as an LL member, so that must be after the present Untold Tales too.

You forgot to mention Violet the Part Time Cat, but don't worry since she's in the next issue of Untold Tales.