Monday, March 26th, 2001	#346
Back to the Past	The Not So Obvious Interruption

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		The First Strips The Beginning of the Story Mega Man's Missing! The Introduction of the Author The Author as Mega Man The Return of Mega Man The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of George The Hand-drawn Comics I - George's Summer Job The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of Napalm The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Return of Mega Man The Return to the Beginning The Attack of the Yellow Demon The Return of the Author The White Space Why Alcohol is Bad for You The First Megaman Game The Attack on Dr. Wily The Hand-drawn Comics II - Introductions, Version 2.0 The Hand-drawn Comics II - College Orientation Not Again Just Another Day Not Just Another Day The Introduction of George The Introduction of Bob The Attack of Bob The Aftermath of Bob Tales From a Parallel Universe 1 Prelude to a Bad Time A Bad Time Tales From a Parallel Universe 2 Back to the Past The Party The Second Megaman Game - Prologue The Second Megaman Game - The First 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - The Last 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - Back at the Lab The Second Megaman Game - Meanwhile The Second Megaman Game - The Attack on Dr. Wily The Second Megaman Game - The Aftermath Back in the Future The Author's Breakdown Tales From a Parallel Universe 3 Something Stupid The Next Generation Another Coffee Break Tales From a Parallel Universe 4 In the Year 21XX The Arrival of Mynd The Attack of Mynd The Third Megaman Game - The Pregame Show The Third Megaman Game - Magnet Man & Hard Man The Third Megaman Game - Top Man & Shadow Man Tales From a Parallel Time The Second Party The Third Megaman Game - Spark Man & SnakeMan The Third Megaman Game - Needle Man & Gemini Man The Third Megaman Game - Doc Robot The Cataclysm Flashback The Third Megaman Game - The Doc Robot Fight The Third Megaman Game - Resolution Something Different The Attack of Mega Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5 N4T3'5 R3C4P W33K The Fourth Megaman Game - Stalin's Brain The Fourth Megaman Game - Exposition Exposition The Fourth Megaman Game - Fixing Ran Dave's Adventures in Canada The Fourth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress The Third Party The Fourth Megaman Game - Mega Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Bright Man & Pharaoh Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ring Man & Dust Man Non Sequitur The Fourth Megaman Game - Skull, Drill, & Dive Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ran The Fourth Megaman Game - Cossack Bots BnG News Story Time Another Bad Time A Dog's Day George's Bad Day George's Really Bad Day BnG News Exposé Helmeted Preparations Helmeted Attack The Fourth Party The Adventures of Ninja Ned Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 1 The Fifth Megaman Game - Prologue Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 2 The Fifth Megaman Game - Star Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 3 The Fifth Megaman Game - Preparations The Fifth Megaman Game - Robot Masters The Fifth Megaman Game - Month of Destruction The Fifth Megaman Game - Darth Volcanus The Fifth Megaman Game - Wave, Stone, & Charge Man The Fifth Megaman Game - Final Battle The Fifth Megaman Game - Resolution The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Preamble The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Flashback The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Protean The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Charge A&E Biography Month The Fifth Party The Introduction of X The Attack of X The Mind of X, Part 1 Megaman 6 The Mind of X, Part 2 The Aftermath of X Prelude to the Worst Time The Worst Time The First Annual Robot Tournament - Introduction The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 1 The Sixth Party The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 2 The Sixth Megaman Game - Vic The Sixth Megaman Game - Stalling The Sixth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress All Good Things - The First Cycle All Good Things - The Second Cycle All Good Things - The Third Cycle All Good Things - Flashback All Good Things - The Fourth Cycle All Good Things - Mynd All Good Things - Sigma All Good Things - Captain Kinesis The Seventh Party All Good Things - Captain Kinesis All Good Things - The Last Cycle The Return of Bob - Shields The Return of Bob - Standoff The Last Strips The Epilogue

Seeing as how the current storyline was poised to take a rather drastic turn, it seemed like a good place to break for the party that would surround the first anniversary. After all, it isn't every day that your comic celebrates its first year. After one year, the comic was pretty successful, as far as most webcomics go. Some other webcomics had linked to me, such as Real Life by Greg Dean and Exploitation Now (which has ended and its author, Michael Poe, is now working on another comic called Errant Story). That started bringing in new readers, which is usually a death-knell for a small comic hosted on Tripod. Luckily, a fan by the name of Khuffie, asked me to host the comic on his site, ZeldaLegends. It was a pretty nice deal, so move I did. It was also during the first year that several other sprite comics started up in my wake, including Life of Wily by Jim Newberry and the now-incredibly-famous 8-bit Theater by Brian Clevinger. So, yeah, I think it was something to celebrate. The celebration I had in mind was a week of animated comics, and I'd spent the entire month of March working on them, putting them together in a nifty GIF animator I'd found on the interet (called GIF Construction Set, by Alchemy Mindworks). Later on, I'd convert most of them to Flash, mostly to save on bandwidth. Although, I really should go through and actually animate them in Flash, rather than just converting them over, since that would not only improve their quality, but should decrease the bandwidth even more. Oh well. By the way, there are a couple of things to note about this comic. First, this is really the first time Dr. Light does anything to suggest his drinking, which would become a major part of his character later. Since I always kind of imagined Dr. Light as British, I figured he'd probably drink Guinness. Also, we see both X and Mega Man rushing off to get some ice cream, which might seem like something of a plot hole, since when X is first activated he doesn't like ice cream. Luckily, I was able to resolve this by having Bob reprogram X while he was in his capsule, and part of the reprogramming apparently involved the love of ice cream. And one confusing thing about this particular comic is the underlying question of actual time travel versus recreation. If you recall, the first game's storyline was clearly a recreation put on by the cast. So the question was whether or not this game's storyline was going to be another recreation or actual time travel. I mean, we saw Mega Man and X activate the time machine, so we'd should expect the latter, but to have them suddenly be in the future simply by moving a background set piece suggest the former. Maybe the answer is somewhere in the middle, and the entire comic is nothing more than a show being put on by the characters, full well knowing that it's all just a show... It's a metaphysical question that I never answered and the comic has slowly moved away from since.

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