Saviors of the Net (series)

Saviors of the Net was a Chaotic Add-On Cascade set in the Classic Looniverse, kicked off by Arthur Spitzer and written part in 1998 and part in 2000.

Plot

A new net.hero team has shown up on the streets of Net.ropolis, and they're stealing the LNH's thunder. But is there more to the Saviors of the Net than it seems? Who is pulling their strings? What did Doctor Net.ropolis do? And why can't anyone remember?

Contributing Writers

• Arthur Spitzer
• Mike McMullan
• Steven Howard
• Amabel Holland
• Saxon Brenton
• Jesse Willey
• Marc Singer
• Martin Phipps

Series

The First Half

• Saviors of the Net #1: By Arthur Spitzer
• Saviors of the Net #2: By Mike McMullan
• Saviors of the Net #3: By Steven Howard
• Saviors of the Net #Pi: By Amabel Holland
• Saviors of the Net #4: By Mike McMullan
• Saviors of the Net #5: By Saxon Brenton
• Saviors of the Net #6: By Arthur Spitzer
• Saviors of the Net #2Pi: By Amabel Holland
• Saviors of the Net #7: By Saxon Brenton
• Saviors of the Net #8: By Steven Howard
• Saviors of the Net #9a: By Arthur Spitzer
• Saviors of the Net #9b: By Jesse Willey
• Saviors of the Net #10a and 10b: By Saxon Brenton
• Saviors of the Net #11: By Steven Howard
• Saviors of the Net #12: By Jesse Willey

The Second Half

After the Mechanical Author retconned away everyone's memories of the Saviors of the Net, life in the Looniverse went back to normal and the Saviors series went on hiatus for a couple of years. It wasn't until the end of the Mutton Mania cascade in 2000 that Marc Singer resurrected the series, by making Mutton's epi-epilogue Saviors of the Net #13.

• Saviors of the Net #12.5: By Arthur Spitzer
• Saviors of the Net #13: By Marc Singer
• Saviors of the Net #14: By Marc Singer
• Saviors of the Net #15: By Martin Phipps
• Saviors of the Net #16: By Marc Singer
• Saviors of the Net #17a and 17b: By Marc Singer
• Arthur E.L. Presence #1: By Martin Phipps

Legacy

Saviors of the Net is one of the stories that set the tone for the 21st-century LNH. Everything from the characters to the worldbuilding to the structure of the cascade to Amabel's weird issue numbering has inspired and influenced later works.

In 2013, Arthur wrote Before Saviors of the Net: Human Aquarium as a parody of DC's Before Watchmen comics.