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This is as good an elegy as I could imagine. I personally recall
someone named April argue with me about fractal time as it relates to
the Powernaut.

In other Facebook news, Dvandom is at home resting with specialized
equipment for those who have had a heart attack.

- Scott


On 2026-01-31 11:12, Arthur Spitzer wrote:

Over on Facebook Martin's Wife posted this:

"hi.hello good morning.

this wife of martin phipps my husband
is pass away last october 08 2025..im open
hes facebook i gonna miss so much

martin you always guide of me
with your 2 sons.."

Martin was a long time Legion of Net.Heroes writer starting way back

in 1992. Definitely as a person he could be very difficult to deal with sometimes and liked to endlessly argue with others about all kinds of
stuff. Certainly the last few times he posted to
rec.arts.comics.creative it seemed like he wanted to burn every single
bridge. I'd say he was very sensitive about his own feelings and not
very sensitive about other people's feelings and that was probably his
biggest flaw.

That being said he was a very important voice in shaping the LNH --

helped create some fun characters like Master Blaster and Deja Dude (a
very semi-autobiographical type character). If there is such a thing as
an LNH style of writing then he would be one of the architects (along
with Hubert Bartels, wReam, Ken Schmidt, and Jeff McCoskey) of such a
thing. He wrote a ton of LNH stories and perhaps wrote more than any
other writer (well either him or Amabel Holland hold that distinction).
He wrote most of the first volume of the LNH series. He created the
LNH2 imprint (set in a possible LNH future). He also wrote stuff in the
LNHY and LNH20 imprints). I enjoyed various stuff he wrote like the LNH
v1 series, The Master Blaster/Deja Dude miniseries, Generation Y,
Google.mesh, and various stuff he wrote for LNH Comics Presents.

And he helped write some stuff for Beige Countdown and Beige Midnight

and I'll always appreciate him for that work.

Anyways so long Martin and if there are afterlifes I do hope you end

up in one of the okay ones.

Here's a link to one of the series he wrote: https://archives.eyrie.org/racc/lnhy/Google.mesh/

Also looking through Facebook -- Dave Van Domelen has had a heart

attack. Best wishes to him and hope he has a quick recovery.

Arthur "Best Wishes to All..." Spitzer

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On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 2:12?PM Arthur Spitzer <arspitzer2@gmail.co

wrote:

Over on Facebook Martin's Wife posted this:

"hi.hello good morning.

this wife of martin phipps my husband
is pass away last october 08 2025..im open
hes facebook i gonna miss so much

martin you always guide of me
with your 2 sons.."

Damn. That's... a lot. I'm glad he had people there with him at the end.

Martin was a long time Legion of Net.Heroes writer starting way back in 1

992. Definitely as a person he could be very difficult to deal with someti
mes and liked to endlessly argue with others about all kinds of stuff. Cer tainly the last few times he posted to rec.arts.comics.creative it seemed l
ike he wanted to burn every single bridge. I'd say he was very sensitive a bout his own feelings and not very sensitive about other people's feelings
and that was probably his biggest flaw.

That being said he was a very important voice in shaping the LNH -- helpe

d create some fun characters like Master Blaster and Deja Dude (a very semi -autobiographical type character). If there is such a thing as an LNH styl
e of writing then he would be one of the architects (along with Hubert Bart els, wReam, Ken Schmidt, and Jeff McCoskey) of such a thing. He wrote a to
n of LNH stories and perhaps wrote more than any other writer (well either
him or Amabel Holland hold that distinction). He wrote most of the first v olume of the LNH series. He created the LNH2 imprint (set in a possible LN
H future). He also wrote stuff in the LNHY and LNH20 imprints). I enjoyed
various stuff he wrote like the LNH v1 series, The Master Blaster/Deja Dud
e miniseries, Generation Y, Google.mesh, and various stuff he wrote for LNH
Comics Presents.

And he helped write some stuff for Beige Countdown and Beige Midnight and

I'll always appreciate him for that work.

Yeah. With the Classic LNH Adventures reposts, I've been reading a lot
of his older stuff, and like... he was always a frustrating guy, but
also, there's clearly a lot of dedication there to this community and
helping it keep going, resolving things that had been left dangling so
people could keep moving forward. He maintained a *lot* of the early information files, and as the maintainer of the wiki I know how much
work that can be.

Anyways so long Martin and if there are afterlifes I do hope you end up i

n one of the okay ones.

I hope your beingness moves on to something new and fun. <3

Also looking through Facebook -- Dave Van Domelen has had a heart attack.

Best wishes to him and hope he has a quick recovery.

Yeah, thankfully he's doing okay! I'll let him post if he wants to
share details.

Drew "it's been a weird and intense winter" Nilium

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