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From: Norm Larsen <wilco@wwcoinc.com>
Date: 25 Aug 1997 22:08:42 -0400
Organization: ciwa

<URL:http://www.webhunter.com>

Weatherwood Company Inc., a Minneapolis-based Web design firm, has
produced Spectacular Adventure With Web Hunter and Donna Matrix!, a short
novel in fourteen parts. Strongly influenced by the pulp novels and
adventure serials
of the '30s and '40s, yet still absolutely contemporary, the novel charts
the adventures of the titular superheroes as they battle their arch-nemesis
Doctor Luddite.
The two new heroes make an unusual pair. Web Hunter is a
down-to-earth man in his early 40s, who spends much of his free time
drinking beer and
hunting. Donna Matrix is an urbane young woman, fashionably dressed and more
at home in the city than the great outdoors. This odd couple finds common
ground in their mutual thirst for justice. Using knowledge, street smarts,
high-tech weaponry and gadgets, as well as substantial physical prowess, Web
Hunter and Donna Matrix protect the innocent from the encroachments of evil.
Set among the contemporary information landscape, Web Hunter and Donna
Matrix's adventures concern the advancements of technology and how these
advancements can be used for both just and unjust purposes. As technological
advances become integrated into the lives and minds of humanity, it becomes
ever more important to have heroes who understand what this means and how
best to deal with it.
Norm Larsen, president of Weatherwood, views the story in this way:
"Comic books and movies these days are full of super-powered heroes, but
who are
they? Batman, he's been around for fifty years. So has Superman. And newer
heroes like this Spawn or the Mask, are they really contemporary? Do they
really reflect current concerns and issues? I doubt it. But Web Hunter and
Donna Matrix are heroes for the millennium. They're connected to the heart
of what's going on right now."
Pat Harrigan, writer of Spectacular Adventure, describes the story as a
direct descendent of earlier pulp fiction: "I find much to admire in pulp
adventure writers like Lester Dent and Walter Gibson, because those writers
knew how to keep a story moving, and how to keep readers turning the pages."
Spectacular Adventure will be released in printed form and on the
Web (at http://www.webhunter.com), one chapter per week for fourteen weeks.
Readers
can also expect to see associated Web Hunter and Donna Matrix products,
perhaps ultimately Web Hunter and Donna Matrix t-shirts, baseball caps,
swimsuits and other paraphernalia.
"But we probably won't be releasing any Web Hunter lingerie," quips
Harrigan.
The novel is to be released in installments beginning September
2nd, on the Web and soon will be in book form.

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