Classic LNH Timeline

LNH Timeline, Or, What Stuff Goes In What Order

Based on the work of Scavenger, Martin Phipps, Jeff Barnes, Russ Allbery and Arthur Spitzer. Format by Mike Escutia.

Stories from LNHY ([Y]), LNH20 ([20]), the NTB ([N]), Superguy ([SG]), and other RACC imprints ([R]) that have direct bearing on the Classic LNH will also be included in this timeline.

Currently missing entries for Organic Lass: Mistress of Molecules #1-2, Myopia Man and Colorblind Kid #1-2, Galumpy C #1-6, Kid Mysticism #1-17, Stranger Tales #1, The Machine #8-10, Pigs in Time #1-5, The Indie #7, and the part of Beige Midnight that was set during Retcon Hour, as well as flashbacks and flashforwards in various series. If you can place any of this, feel free to add it! And if there are any glaring errors, feel free to fix them!

See also the NTB Timeline, LNH2 Timeline, LNHY Timeline, and LNH20 Timeline.

Notes:

1. <<Anchor(1)>>The flashback in Just Imagine Saxon Brenton vs. Andrew Perron in the Return of the RACCies! #9 is described in broad detail and takes place over about eighty years.
1. <<Anchor(2)>>Generation Y #0 takes place immediately after the Cosmic Plot-Device Caper, but was written far later and probably should not be read until just before Generation Y #1.
1. <<Anchor(3)>>The Cannon Fodder mentioned in the Origin of Ultimate Ninja is not the same as Cannon Fodder, the LNH member.
1. <<Anchor(4)>> The continuity around the end of Cry.Sig is a bit confused.  Quest for Cheeze #1-4, Sieze Dangerous #1, and the first 17 chapters of Integrity Quest take place simultaneously with the end of Cry.Sig, since The Cosmic Conspiracy occurs immediately after it and the return of Typo Lad has to take place before Cosmic Conspiracy.
1. <<Anchor(5)>> The first eight parts of Integrity Quest were unnumbered, and then the numbering began with #1.  This timeline numbers the first eight parts as Integrity Quest Prelude #1-8.
1. <<Anchor(6)>> There is a gap of approximately a week between Sieze Dangerous #1 and #2 (while Contraption Man works on the Peril Room) and between Integrity Quest #9 and #10 (Defacto visits Panta repeatedly, and the Woody Incident occurs approximately a week after the first visit).  Both of these gaps seem consistent with the stories.
1. <<Anchor(7)>> The Comics Connection definitely takes place before Kid Kirby and Sing-Along Lass #1-2, and since KKSAL #2 states that the Peril Room had not been constructed yet, they must all take place before Sieze Dangerous #2.  Comics Snob Boy is killed in Comics Connection, but appears in Sieze Dangerous and Electrocutioner's Song; Drizzt called out this contradiction when he appears in The Flame Wars.
1. <<Anchor(8)>> The Death of Flatulence Lad was missing from the archives for a long period of time. The Electrocutioner's Song contradicts it somewhat, although Pat Buchanan, who ordered Flatulence Lad's death, could have been Acton Lord in disguise.
1. <<Anchor(9)>> The first chapter of Jungle Cheesecake is officially called System Corruptors #2; it's renamed here to avoid confusion with Martin's System Corruptors #2.  It is found in the [Cheesecake TEB].
1. <<Anchor(10)>> Ven-Dorr, The Soda Machine That Walked, er, Rolled Like a Man! clearly happens after Jungle Cheesecake and before LetterinG MaN #5, but Paper Tigers fits better into continuity back before the Leadership Crisis.  The beginning of Ven-Dorr can be explained by the fact that Doublecross's take-over was at the Net level, and therefore doesn't have to quite follow the normal flow of events.
1. <<Anchor(11)>> Early issues of LNH Comics Presents consisted of multiple shorter stories, each of which was often part of a multi-issue arc. LNHCP #4-6 and Special #1 also contained The One True Dave, an Elsewhirls story inspired by Scales of Justice.
1. <<Anchor(12)>> At the time of this story, Rebel Yell hadn't returned to the LNH and wasn't in contact with Lurking Girl.  Lurking Girl's statements to the contrary can be safely ignored.  Move along.
1. <<Anchor(13)>> JONG #4 takes place at around the same time as the Valentine's Ball, but contains references to many things written far later and is also a Robot Invasion crossover.
1. <<Anchor(14)>> Trying to reconcile the various references to other issues in Easily-Discovered Man #14 and #15 and Substitute Lad #1 with continuity is hopeless.  Trust me.  We've tried.
1. <<Anchor(15)>> Dvandom Force #46-47 takes place in an alternate future; see "Ex Post Facto".
1. <<Anchor(16)>> In order to create confusion to replace that avoided by not having a footnote 20 and thus maintain the cosmic balance, there is no footnote 16.
1. <<Anchor(17)>> Refugees of Net.ropolis has been removed from the archives at the author's request, but is left in this timeline so that the references make sense.
1. <<Anchor(18)>> Stranger Tales #3-6 has the Dvandom Stranger telling the story of an alternate reality around the time of the Kinda Big Darkness Saga.  Stranger Tales #7 does likewise for Dvandom Force #55.
1. <<Anchor(19)>> Generation Y #17 takes place over the course of several months but should be read shortly before #18.
1. <<Anchor(20)>> In order to avoid confusion (ha!), there is no footnote 20.
1. <<Anchor(21)>> There is no Thesaurus Lass v1 #1.  The #1 in the archives is v2 #1. 
1. <<Anchor(22)>> In Journey Inside a Ninja, the writer declared that the villain of the series was a resurrected Sig.Lad.  Sig.Lad's creator disagreed.  Thus, all parts of the series relating to that are retconned out, including pretty much all of issue #3.5.
1. <<Anchor(23)>> Golden Man: Life and Death Book III seems never to have shown up on RACC.
1. <<Anchor(24)>> According to the notes on Limp-Asparagus Lad #51, #45 and Annual #1 take place between #50 and #51.  Since Annual #1's plot centers around New Year's Eve/Day 2000, they must go in an order something like this.
1. <<Anchor(25)>> Mutton Mania Epi-Epilogue and Saviors of the Net #13 are the same story.
1. <<Anchor(26)>>The destruction of Sig.ago in The Team #25 was retconned out in Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #24. It hasn't been established if this unhappened any of the rest of the story.
1. <<Anchor(27)>>Journey Into Irrelevancy took place over a very short period of time, a few weeks at most. Its ending immediately leads into the beginning of Net.Heroes on Parade. However, this is less problematic than it would otherwise be due to the extremely low activity of the LNH during most of its run. The placement of Limp-Asparagus Lad #55 assumes that the theft of the Clogs of Comedy and resultant darkening of the Looniverse in Journey Into Irrelevancy #4 caused/is caused by/coincides with the Looniverse's reaction to the Real World events of September 11 in LAL #55, so these issues take place more or less simultaneously.
1. <<Anchor(28)>>Flame Wars V, which bore a marked resemblance to the infamous Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, was so awful it was pre-emptively retconned before even being written. Only an epilogue exists. However, Vel survived from this timeline and joined the LNH in Flame Wars VI.
1. <<Anchor(29)>>Ultimate Mercenary #5 takes place at a point in Flame Wars VI when different timelines were converging. It is set simultaneously in the Classic LNH timeline's 2003 and LNH2's 2036.
1. <<Anchor(30)>>Just Imagine Saxon Brenton's RACCies! #13 was skipped, due to bad luck.
1. <<Anchor(31)>>Just Imagine Saxon Brenton's RACCies! #25 was originally posted as a flashback in Just Imagine Saxon Brenton vs. Andrew Perron in the Return of the RACCies! #8.
1. <<Anchor(32)>>We're taking "a long cold winter" in #8 literally.
1. <<Anchor(33)>>Okay, so.  Alt.stralian Yarns #14 takes place "several months" before October 2007.  Since the #11-#14 arc contains "the first time the world encountered" the Turtles of Apocalyptic Proportions, it has to be before Infinite April.  #9 and 10 are "seven months" earlier, but #1-8 are "many years" after that, implying that these issues take place significantly in the future of when they were posted.  What. And Possum-Man: Relinquished #6 takes place before Infinite April as well - but Possum-Man #1 takes place five months after Alt.stralian Yarns #6!
1. <<Anchor(34)>>The Adventures of Easily-Discovered Man #50 explicitly takes place between Beige Countdown #11 and 10, and the next two issues follow right after.  #45 begins a plot that goes through at least past #52, but the opening to #51 alludes to the Infinite Leadership Crisis interrupting the plot, so this is probably what it should look like?
1. <<Anchor(35)>>Mister Blister and Sister State-the-Obvious #2 concerns the 2008 American presidential election, and it follows directly on from #1, so they must both go here!
1. <<Anchor(36)>>Masterplan Lad's reference in Ultimate Mercenary #6 to Beige Midnight being ongoing are from a Real World perspective, not an in-story perspective. Interestingly enough, the reference to six years passing since the last issue works from both perspectives, even though it was a different six-year gap, since #5 and #6 were both exactly three years behind in continuity. Gotta love crossovers.
1. <<Anchor(37)>>Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #38 was an Elsewhirls.
1. <<Anchor(38)>>The first issue LNH v2 #51 and its add-on were removed from continuity, and another issue with the same numbering was posted in its place (along with two add-ons).
1. <<Anchor(39)>>Only the framing sequence of System Corruptors #28 takes place at this point. The flashbacks take place in ancient history, in a different timeline and a version of history that didn't exist when the LNH was formed.
1. <<Anchor(40)>>The Age of Apocalisp issues of Manga Girl are very difficult to place. They seem to take place in an alternate present, but based on Ultimate Mercenary's origin, they would have to take place many generations in the future. Also, neither the mature Tom Russell nor Saxon Brenton could determine whether it was the main-timeline or alternate-timeline ApocaLISP who died at the end. It's probably best not to think too hard about Tom Russell's adolescent work.
1. <<Anchor(41)>>Hell's Titans, Jesse Willey's first LNH series, was intended by the author to be the LNH's real future at the time. It involved the world ending in 2000. Obviously this didn't take. Later this world appeared as an alternate timeline; the events of this series take place simultaneously with the beginning of Flame Wars VI.
1. <<Anchor(42)>>The issues listed here are only those that cross into the Classic LNH timeline or are part of Classic LNH series.
1. <<Anchor(43)>>The unnamed protagonist of LNH Forever and Deja Dude II make several other brief time jumps during their battle.
1. <<Anchor(44)>>The flashbacks related by Humanity in Kid Not Appearing in Any Retcon Hour Story don't have any information to place them on a specific point on the timeline (and were erased from continuity anyway, except for the memory of a few cosmic level beings and Net.Access). Since it involves characters from Refugees of Net.ropolis it likely takes place in 1995, not long before the Leftovers arc began.
1. <<Anchor(45)>>This story is set "some time" before Journey Into Irrelevancy #7; no other context is provided.
1. <<Anchor(46)>>LNH Comics Presents Special #8 is set some time after Cute Anna, Crypt Looter #7-12, which immediately precedes Flame Wars IV, but it has Miss Translation and her supporting cast as members of the LNH, which means it can't be set after FWIV.  As well, it has Lurking Girl as an LNHer, which doesn't make sense anywhere past 1992. (Unless these were X-Over Men.) The fact that it features Bush as president may point to it being an Elsewhirl, and indeed, the President Evil cascade was started specifically to resolve this continuity conundrum.  Sadly, it was never finished.
1. <<Anchor(47)>>Jennifer Whitson left RACC when Misfits was in the middle of a crossover.  She came back and finished up her part, fixing that in continuity, and then continued forward from there, rarely tying any of the issues afterward into "current events" at any point that they could be set.
1. <<Anchor(48)>>Clearly, the apathy storm is causing/caused by the presence of The Laziness.
1. <<Anchor(49)>>The Liminals #1 has an editorial note that puts it "shortly after WikiLull #10". However, this was before !WikiLull developed in the apocalyptic direction it ended up going. Given that the characters express uncertainty on their placement on the timeline relative to !WikiLull, it's probably best to put the story around its publication date.
1. <<Anchor(50)>>The placement of the earliest LNH stories can be a bit wibbly-wobbly, since after the Two-and-a-Half Month Gap, the LNH split into several branching and converging narrative strands. The Cosmic Plot Device Caper continuation posts that introduced characters like Ultimate Ninja and Acton Lord were going on at the same time as both 501 Blues: The Long Road Home and the Cry.Sig. Thus, 501 Blues references the Cry.Sig even though it takes place earlier (and the end leads into it). Early stories about Sig.Lad, Netlurker and Ultimate Ninja are out-of-context posts from these threads so their placement is a bit speculative. The timeline is particularly weird for Sig.Lad and Acton Lord, who jump back and forth between different narrative strands. It actually gets less confusing after the time travel and clones happen.
1. <<Anchor(51)>> Martin Phipps's stories about the early LNH place their founding in 1985. However, other stories generally place it much closer to the Cosmic Plot Device Caper. Choose your own canon~

. TF. <<Anchor(TF)>>After Jesse Willey used Electra without permission in Adventures Beyond Comprehension #10, Tom Russell officially Elsewhirled her appearance in it, along with all appearances of the Teenfactor cast written by himself or Jesse. At the same time, he put all of those characters in the usability status of "free for use unless you're Jesse Willey". Therefore, all Teenfactor stories can be considered not inherently a part of the continuity (with the possible exception of New Teenfactor #1), but some version of the characters exists, may have had experiences similar to those in the stories, and have made presumably canonical appearances in stories not written by Tom or Jesse. (Insofar as the LNH has a canon.)
. (Relevant notes: Teenfactor #100-111 were set in a parallel universe, making them effectively an Elsewhirl to an Elsewhirl. Teenfactor #46-48 were retconned by #131-133 before themselves being retconned. Journey Into Irrelevancy #4 and Web of Mainstream Man #2 have brief appearances by Teenfactor cast members that don't effect the story outside of those scenes. The latter series also involves a new incarnation of minor Teenfactor villain the Purple Crayon, but apart from a few lines the original doesn't need to have existed for this story to work. The canonicity of Flame Wars VI is largely moot since it involves merging parallel timelines. My head hurts.)
. TF1. <<Anchor(TF1)>>New Teenfactor was written in 2007 but set in 1997. This series was supposed to tell the real story of Teenfactor and replace the original series in continuity, but was abandoned after one issue.
. NHOP. <<Anchor(NHOP)>>In 2006, Tom Russell wrote revised TEB editions of Net.Heroes on Parade which removed excessive purple prose, poorly thought-out characterization and abandoned subplots. These editions are canonical. #24-26 were removed from continuity, as eventually were the later appearances of these characters in Road to Killfile Wars.

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