boy are his issues developing!! hearty chortle

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes shared a photo. 7/26 near Recolle

Welcome to the latest development in Retrospec's weirdness. They sent me these comics about myself a few months ago and most of them were really messed up. Damaged covers, missing pages, all sorts of rips and tears, you name it. But I just took another look at them today and a bunch of the damage is fixed now. Most of the covers on the Young Allies ones are mostly restored, and a lot of pages that were ripped out earlier are now back in the books like they were never gone. I don't know what it means, but it's creepy. Now here's where I ask the obligatory questions: has anyone else had anything similar happen, what's Retrospec playing at here, are they crawling into my windows when I'm asleep to glue new pages in, etc. etc.

(( Full image available here, because I ain't about to embed that nonsense. ))

Comments

[originallutece]

A bit more of a book I've gotten has filled in.

What's the plot of the Young Allies?

[frostythehitman]

Bunch of kids and teenagers join together to foil Nazi schemes and punch Hitler and Hirohito and their cronies in the face. And one of them lights on fire.

What's your book supposed to be?

[originallutece]

"Lights on fire" as in one of the kids, or Hitler et all?

And it's a book on quantum physics. One that I-- or the other me, at any rate-- wrote.

[frostythehitman]

One of the kids, but he could light some Nazis up too if he really wanted. He can throw flames around too.

You wrote it and part of it was missing? What did Retrospec rip out of it at first?

[flexer]

Okay but are the comics good?

[frostythehitman]

Why don't you take a look for yourself, you tell me.

(( Pretend all these pages are appropriately aged and slightly ripped. All instances of Steve's name/title are still missing, as if the top layer of the paper in those portions of dialogue had been ripped up like poorly ripped off tape. ))

[livingdeadgirl]

oh wow
is that just the art or does that one guy have an actual skull face

[frostythehitman]

That's an actual skull face.

Although in at least one of the comics it's a mask.

[flexer]

The dialogue is... interesting.

This is a little embarrassing, actually.
And they're about you?

[frostythehitman]

It'd be more embarrassing if they weren't so obviously fake.

But yeah, they're supposedly about me. Or some version of me that runs around yelling "wahoo" all the time.

[explodosafe]

Any chances that the books are getting replaced?

[Hey, at least one other person is thinking that's weird. Yay?]

[frostythehitman]

Doubt it. All the other damage still looks the exact same, just some of it's been repaired.

Unless you think Retrospec has a thousand versions of the same exact comic books with the same exact damage marks that they're swapping out for me.

[ It sounds ridiculous, but so is everything else about this, so honestly, as skeptical as he sounds (and is), he'd still believe it. ]

[explodosafe]

Considering their other weirdness? I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[Highly questioning their sanity and motives, sure. But not really that much surprised.]

Want me to keep one for you for a couple of days as an experiment? How long does it take between the fixes? If the ones you have keep restoring and the one with me doesn't we've got one more clue.

[frostythehitman]

I don't know, I didn't keep track because I didn't think they'd actually change.

But sure, I can loan you one for a while so long as you don't damage them any more than they already are.

[yamagishi]

If they are gluing new pages, they sure are really good at being ninjas!

[frostythehitman]

A little too good, if you ask me.

I might have to start setting up security webcams in my house to try and catch them in the act. If that's what's really going on.

[yamagishi]

I'm not sure but you might want to be a bit careful!

Although, I suppose it can be a good thing that the comics are being restored or something?

[frostythehitman]

Be careful with what, setting up webcams? If anything, they're gonna help me be more careful.

I don't really care about the comics, though--I don't care that they're getting restored beyond it being part of Retrospec's weirdness. It's only good if you consider it helpful to find out more ways they're screwing with us.

[gnasher]

okay, but are the comics good?

[idiots in stereo]

[frostythehitman]

[ oh my god. he's not gonna even bother writing a new response for him tbh ]

See for yourself.

[gnasher]

wait holy shit

is this a dorian gray situation

[frostythehitman]

A what situation?

[ he's uncultured. help him, rin ]

[liberal_arts]

You know, I have to say the strangest thing about these supposed vanity comics is that you don't really strike me as the patriotic sort.

No offense.

[frostythehitman]

[ s q u i n t ]

I'm literally an army brat.

[liberal_arts]

That doesn't mean you're patriotic.