(???) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (???) Archive of all posts made Apr/2023 : 640kb@happynetbox.com | (???) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (???) ============================================================================== (???) pril 26, 2023 (???) ============================================================================== (???) So I'm watching 'Lois & Clark' and an email system interface pops up on a (???) sweet looking, lo-rez, mid-90s, computer screen. It's a GUI screen that looks (???) like an easy conversion to text (though it would have definitely looked nicer (???) as a color ANSI screen). I had to make some modifications but close enough to (???) the original (in spirit). (640kb@happynetbox.com : 26apr2023) (???) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------, (???) The Lois & Clark e-mail system | (???) _____________________________________________________________________________| (???) | (???) To: 1337.H4CK3r.DUD@someplace.on.fidonet.org | (???) ___________________________________________________________ | (???) | | | (???) | Composition Window | [ Messages ] | (???) |___________________________________________________________| | (???) | | | (???) | > How are you even finding all of this? | [ Contacts ] | (???) | | | (???) | A few ways but I really like: | | (???) | | [ Notes ] | (???) | http://www.altavista.com | | (???) | | | (???) | I can't believe how fast they included my own site in | [ Calendar ] | (???) | their results. I keep asking myself... how was I even | | (???) | getting around before? | | (???) | | [ Dial Out ] | (???) | Catch you later on the bbs? | | (???) | | | (???) | No one seems to want to hang there anymore... | [ Fax-Modem] | (???) | | | (???) |___________________________________________________________| | (???) | (???) [ Cancel ] [ Send ] | (???) _____________________________________________________________________________| (???) ============================================================================== (???) pril 27, 2023 (???) ============================================================================== (???) ~~~~~~~~~~ { 640kb@happynetbox.com ... 27-apr-2023 } ~~~~~~~~~~ ' (???) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------. (???) So I left the comfort of comics & characters I'm familiar with in the | (???) DC and Marvel worlds. Everything following Irredeemable were online | (???) recommendations that told stories similar-ish to Irredeemable. | (???) | (???) End result... some of the best reading I've ever done. I've taken a | (???) hiatus from reading comics: this is my current recommendation list. If | (???) you like Irredeemable, I think you'll like everything that follows it | (???) on this list. | (???) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------' (???) _____________________________________ ____________________________________ (???) \ / | (???) * Secret Wars (I, II) | * No Hero (2008, Warren Ellis) | (???) * Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars | | (???) | * Sidekick (2013, Straczynski) | (???) * Civil War + Tie-ins | | (???) | * Black Summer (2007, Warren Ellis) | (???) * Irredeemable (BOOM! Studios) | | (???) | * Halcyon (2010, Marc Guggenheim) | (???) * Absolution (2009, Christos Gage) | (ends in cliffhangar) | (???) * Absolution - Happy Kitty (2013) | | (???) * Absolution - Rubicon (2013) | * Leaving Megalopolis (2014/Simone) | (???) | * Surviving Megalopolis (Part II) | (???) | | (???) _____________________________________/ \____________________________________| (???) ====================== END ================================================== (???) -- (???) ant another? finger thegoat@happynetbox.com