POWERNAUT 1962!

Dear Mister Powernaut,

I have performed a thorough check of the entire USMRA database, and I regret to inform you that I cannot locate any registrant with the alias "Powernaut". You have 30 days to comply with USMRA code 3-A and register at the nearest USMRA office and apply for a Metahuman Activities Permit or terminate all such activities immediately.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely, Elliot Parker, Clerk, United States Metahuman Relations Agency

Queezl,

I got this message from Earth in your daily radio packet. Is this a joke? Because this is not how America treats its heroes in 1962! It's more like one of those dystopian stories about the far-flung future of 2006.

Signing off, Powernaut.

Powernaut,

You ask the wrong being about Earth jokes. But this is an actual letter the Power Patrol office received this week. Its attitude matches what I know of your species. In other species, either the individuals have all responsibility and power, or the group does. Only humans argue over which. I could take Elliot Parker to my laboratory on Venus and train him in the way my species does it...

Signing off, Queezl.

Queezl,

No! Just tell the temporary office manager to send Agent Parker's letter to our lawyer. He'll take care of it.

Signing off, Powernaut.

Dear Mr. Parker:

I represent Power Patrol, Inc., a limited liability company based in Power City. You have our apologies for the lack of paperwork filed with your department. It was and remains our understanding that the activities of the Powernaut and the Power Patrol are covered by a technological license and mutual disclosure agreement signed between Power Patrol, Inc. and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (hereafter referred to as NASA). I understand there may be alternative interpretations of this agreement relative to the Metahuman Relations Act of 1955 (hereafter referred to as the Act). However, even under strict interpretation the Powernaut is in compliance with the Act; he was inactive from 1955 to 1960, and has engaged in costumed metahuman activities only off planet from 1961 to the present.

I look forward to further discussions with a view toward resolving these differences. My client is presently away from the office, but I'm hopeful we can arrange a solution to present to him upon his return. Please sign and return the attachments, then I'll arrange for a meeting.

Sincerely, George Lang, Esq., Attorney at Law.

(attached: NASA Non-Disclosure Agreement)

(attached: NASA Security Clearance Application)

Dear Powernaut Komix!

I've got a funny idea for your next komic! What if the Cigar Commando gave the Powernaut a Cigar for the Powernaut to smoke!? But when he smokes it, it turns out to be the Cigar Commando's Special Boxing Glove Cigar! And it Bops the Powernaut right in the kisser!!

Or wait, this is an even funnier idea!! What if the Cigar Commando gave the Powernaut a *Cigar* for the Powernaut to smoke!? But when he smokes it, it turns out to be the Cigar Commando's Special Banana Cream Pie Cigar and it splatters banana cream pie all over the Powernaut's face!!!!!

I think these would be very, very funny!!!!

Feel free to take these ideas!!

(signed) Li'l Karl age 144!!

Why thanks, li'l buddy! Here at the Power Patrol, we already watch out for the Cigar Commando's exploding cigars and his knockout gas cigars. Good thing he can't use those things on Mars! Or... can he?

Hey, buddy, I think you mistyped your age. You wouldn't be trying to convince me you're really Karl Marx, would you?

Thanks for writing in to the Power Patrol!

(signed) the Powernaut