This “mystery poster” was created by my
friend Howard Hendrickson. Please
examine it for hidden clues before reading further.
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According to Howard, the Duluth map
represents the setting of my web comic.
The superimposed unicorn represents
the unicorn ponies and is an iconic tie to the WASS story.
The poster proposes an alternative
history where intelligent cabs were manufactured in the first decade of the 1900’s. This was many decades before the “Magical Cab
Awakening” happened in the cannon comic.
The poster is for an early incarnation for the Choleric Coach Company. Choleric is an anachronistic word for ill-tempered.
In the lower right you can find an
invitation for me to come to Duluth to experience this coach company’s automated
driven coaches - known for their distinctive, if foul tempered artificial
intelligence. This also supposes that I
was born in the 1880’s, have automobile mechanics skills, while living in
another city, such as Chicago,
Illinois.
This invitation is from my friend Nikola
Tesla who invented intelligent cab technology.
Only Nikola Tesla and a few trusted scientists who work for him
understand the mechanism that creates intelligent cab technology.
In the upper left, if you look you
will find a message in Morse code. If
Howard got it right, it is a happy anniversary message for my comic.
This poster opens up possibilities for an alternative
universe, where angry cabs were manufactured in a steam punk universe, instead
of created by an unknown force that made ordinary cabs into intelligent beings.
I thank Howard for this poster. It was not what I expected, but I’m thankful
for his artwork and the ideas expressed within it.
Note: The cab
in the cannon story only becomes angry when Abigail Adams’s family that feared
and hated intelligent cabs sent him from New York City to Duluth, Minnesota.
Note: Some of
my readers have asked me if intelligent cabs can drive themselves, why these
cabs need human drivers in the first place.
Because, that is the way I wrote the story. I suppose that intelligent cabs need human
drivers to interact with other humans, such as helping people and their luggage
into and out of the cab, collecting fares, filling out tax forms, and so on.
Note: “Washington's Army of Sorcerers and
Sorceresses” (WASS) was created on April 19, 1775 by George Washington. Working in secret, WASS Sorcerers and
Sorceresses made great contributions to defend America.
For
example, in 1776 they summoned storms and then a fog that made possible
Washington’s retreat across the East River.
During the
British attack on the city of Washington in 1814, WASS Sorcerers and
Sorceresses summoned a severe thunderstorm and a tornado that helped to
extinguish the fires set by British soldiers, while persuading them to evacuate
the city.
Note: In this world, most people are aware that
magic exists and most use minor magical artifacts. Yet, few know how common it is or how to
control it to their advantage.
