Frequently Asked Questions About the Legion of Net.Heroes

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   If you're looking for more beyond that, or aren't sure where to find

      Using other people's characters is completely okay - as long as

      As for Spider-Man, Superman, and other characters trademarked by

      LNH20: Created in 2012 to combine the best of the original LNH

      Classic LNH: The original and still champion! An enormous

      LNHY: Simple, yet powerful, and it's easy for anyone to

      In all three of these worlds, the LNH is headquartered in the city

      Other LNH imprints that you might see from time to time include:

      NTB: The Net.Trenchcoat Brigade, a Vertigo-inspired take on the

      LUNA: Lunaverse, a similarly urban fantasy take on LNH20.

      LNH2: An alternate-future imprint focusing primarily on the

      No-longer-active LNH-associated imprints include OSD (The Order

      First, you can write an issue (or seven) of one of the LNH's anyone-

* Legion of Net.Heroes vol. 3: The flagship title of the Classic LNH

    imprint.

* LNH Comics Presents: Stories focusing on individual LNHers.

* Looniverse Chronicles: Stories in the worlds of the Classic LNH that

    don't actually involve the LNH itself.

* Another LNH Title? Really?: Self-contained one-shots, featuring

    anyone and anything.

* LNH20 Comics Presents: The flagship title of the LNH20 imprint.

* Bite-Size Tales of the LNH v20: Short-short stories!

* Tales of the LNH v20: Stories taking place in the backstory of

    Earth-20.

* Looniverse Y: The flagship title of the LNHY imprint.

      Second, you can create a series of your own! Don't be afraid to make

      Crossovers are stories with a larger effect on the shared universe

      Chaotic Add-On Cascades are stories where one writer posts the first

      If you're not sure whether a certain story is a crossover or a

      a.) Respect others' characters. One of the neat things about a

* Reading their wiki entry.

* Reading other stories they've appeared in, especially recent ones and

    ones by their creator and/or primary writer.

* Talk to the character's creator and/or primary writer.

* Treat them with as much respect as you treat your own characters.

      b.) Be careful with huge changes. Another neat thing about a shared

      If you want to talk to your fellow writers about these things

      c.) Have fun with it! If you're here, it should be because you

      Ahem. Anyway, the convention on rec.arts.comics.creative is to

      In addition, RACC is moderated by fantastic human being Russ

      Thus, Eightfold stories have an 8FOLD: in front of them, Superhuman

      As well, there are several tags for specific types of posts that

      Stories that involve more than one imprint use both tags. For

      Tags can also be put in brackets, like [LNH], but Google Groups has

      Again, point it out in the group - the writer who made the mistake

      NTB stories are automatically Acraphobe, even if not tagged.

      Nothing is in the public domain anymore unless the owner

      explicitly puts it in the public domain...  Explicitly, as in you

      have a note from the author/owner saying, "I grant this to the

      public domain." Those exact words or words very much like them.

      Some argue that posting to Usenet implicitly grants permission to

      everybody to copy the posting within fairly wide bounds, and

      others feel that Usenet is an automatic store and forward network

      where all the thousands of copies made are done at the command

      (rather than the consent) of the poster.  This is a matter of

      some debate, but even if the former is true... it simply would

      suggest posters are implicitly granting permissions "for the sort

      of copying one might expect when one posts to Usenet" and in no

      case is this a placement of material into the public domain.

      Furthermore it is very difficult for an implicit licence to

      supersede an explicitly stated licence that the copier was aware

      of.

      And for you weisenheimers playing along at home, no, we didn't

* Dvandom -- Dave Van Domelen, a prolific mostly-former LNH writer.

    Many of his creations have "Dvandom" in their names, such as the

    Dvandom Stranger, Dvandom Force, etc.

* Gamer Boy -- A character who was planned but never actually written

    into a story; he exists perpetually offscreen. A running gag is to

    ask "What would Gamer Boy think?"

* Mr. Paprika -- The LNH's favorite soft drink. Its slogan is "That's a

    MAN's pop!"

* RACCies -- The annual rec.arts.comics.creative awards, given to the

    best stories, writers, and posts of the year.

* Retcon -- In the Real World, a storytelling tool in which previously-

    unrevealed past events are revealed. In the Looniverse, the ability

    to make retroactive changes to reality itself.

* Retcoetheric energy -- The energy of retcons. Also known as magic!

* LNHQ -- Legion of Net.Heroes Headquarters. Also called LNHHQ.

* Net.hero -- LNH's equivalent of "superhero".

* Net.villain -- LNH's equivalent of "supervillain".

* Subgroup -- A part of the LNH that acts as its own mini-team. Often,

    stars in its own series and/or belongs to a single writer.

* TEB -- Trade EtherBack. An LNH story in collected format.

* Tsk Force -- A group of LNHers brought together temporarily to

    accomplish a specific goal.

* wReam -- A very prolific former LNH writer. Many of his creations

    have "wReam" in the name, such as wReamhack, wReamicus Maximus,

    etc.

      LNH stories play a lot with Internet terminology, including some

* Crosspost -- In the Real World, a message that is posted to more than

    one newsgroup. In the Looniverse, a method of traveling between

    separate newsgroup-worlds.

* Flame -- A heated insult.

* IRC -- Internet Relay Chat. A form of text-based chatroom run on

    independent IRC servers.

* Killfile -- A newsreader's ignore function. To "killfile" someone is

    to block their posts.

* Lurking -- In the Real World, to read a newsgroup without posting to

    it. In the Looniverse, the ability to fade into the background,

    often including invisibility and intangibility.

* Netiquette -- Internet etiquette. How not to be a jerk online.

* .sig -- Signature file. A file containing a Usenet poster's

    "signature", which gets added to the end of each post they make.

      The LNH, naturally, took this to an absurd level. Even adult

      Of course, not all LNHers are named like this. In the LNH, you'll

      In LNH20, there's an in-character explanation. The Village was a

      NTB stories, despite taking place in the Classic Looniverse,

      Still, alt.comics.lnh was the LNH's home until a couple years

      Nowadays, the only posts on alt.comics.lnh are crossposts from

      The wiki is pretty much never complete. If you want to join in

      The LNH got started as, basically, a running joke. On April 27,

      Eventually, some people got annoyed with this. Rather than write

      The CPDC was notable for, um... never really coming to an end.

      The following fall, Todd "Scavenger" Kogutt was responsible for

      By this time, rec.arts.comics had been split into multiple

      The LNH spread out. At first, everyone's characters overlapped

      Some LNH writers decided to create new shared universes, still

      RACC and the LNH kept growing, especially after RACC was

      But some people wanted to move on. Others got tired of the number

      Between 2000 and 2003, the LNH contracted. There was still a

      But in 2004, this turned around. Saxon Brenton started a monthly

      2006 was the beginning of a minor renaissance. 450 stories were

      April of 2007 saw one of the most ambitious projects in the LNH's

      Over the next few years, the LNH built itself up, posting level

      And that's where we are now. The LNH has a big, open toybox of

      Get it?

Frequently Asked Questions About the Legion of Net.Heroes

Contents

Introduction

The LNH? What's the LNH?

Why should I care about the LNH?

All right, how do I get started?

So... what exactly is a "newsgroup"?

Sounds cool! How do I get on?

Where can I find out more about the LNH?

Writing, Etiquette, and Netiquette

Common Terms and In-Jokes

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