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- "That's it!" said Scary Ghost Lass. "It's time to end this farce!"
- "This isn't a farce," said Kid Quickly-Irritated-By-Others, quickly becoming irritated. "I hate it when people use the word `farce' incorrectly! A farce..."
- "Is a fast-paced comedy revolving around slapstick humour, mistaken identities, ironic timing, and double entendres, all elements of the show Three's Company," said Ben Stein's Monster.
Journey into Irrelevancy is a Classic LNH series by Amabel Holland. This sometimes darkly absurd, sometimes just silly comedic series was originally intended as a distraction from the grim, super-serious Pearly White, but Amabel found writing that series too depressing and concentrated on JII instead.
- It was very seldom that any drama was seriously attempted. It possessed the pacing and logic of a Jay Ward cartoon and showed a healthy disrespect for anything resembling taste. It was goofy and silly and broke the fourth wall at every possible occasion. It had no redeeming artistic qualities and most of the jokes were lame puns or obscure pop culture references.
- But damn, did I love writing it.
- – Amabel Holland, Some Psuedo-Random Thoughts on the LNH
It introduced or reintroduced many of Amabel's Classic LNH characters not affiliated with Teenfactor. (And killed off a bunch of them, but a surprising number came back as ghosts or revenants.)
It also had backup stories of wildly varying style and tone, setting up JII's more serious and horror-oriented successor, Net.heroes on Parade.[1]
It can be read on the Eyrie Archive here.
Contents
Plot
Framed for murder, Kid Quickly-Irritated-By-Others and his ragtag band of net.hero allies go on the run and get wrapped up in a succession of rapid-fire cinematic parodies. And also get stuck in a giant space toilet. Don't ask.
Characters
There are a lot:
Main Cast
Other LNHers
- Super Apathy Lad
- Scary Ghost Lass
- Bears-a-Striking-Resemblance-to-Linda-Blair-in-The-Exorcist Lass
- Sister State-the-Obvious
- Groundswell
- Sleeps-With-Anything-Alive Girl
- Anything-You-Can-Do-I-Can-Do-Better Lad
- And a bunch of other characters who show up for one-off gags.
Awful Antagonists and Vile Villains
- Ben Stein's Monster
- Doctor Willy and her evil robots
Others
Plot Devices
Deaths
- Scary Ghost Lass (#1, already dead, sent to Hell by Ben Stein's Monster, returned in Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!#6pi (October 2020B) (but still dead))
Footnotes
- ↑ Amabel ran the introduction of Maggie Bernard as a long backup story because of her past difficulty finishing miniseries. Later on she'd finish some really swell ones in 8FOLD.
