Lane Mastodon Alternates

Several years ago, the Infocom Documentation Project b Not Everyone Has a Pair of 3-D Glasses: No produced the definitive Adobe Acrobat version of the printer-friendly two dimensional version of the comic Leather Goddesses of Phobos docs and feelies. The is available that I’m aware of. The last Activision Documentaion Project PDF is not only complete, it’s as compilation CD includes a reasonably nasty low-res beautiful a document as your copy of Acrobat might ever 2-D version in printer-hostile purple, and that’s it, I have the privilege to open (and the same goes for the other think, for folks without the funny spectacles. documents they completed, especially the gorgeous job This PDF is intended to unofficially supplement the Infocom they did with Wishbringer). Documentation Project version by providing two alternate But in the case, specifically, of Issue #91 of The Adven- versions of the comic-book interior. tures of Lane Mastodon, the definitive PDF suffers from its The first is a clear, black-on-white, printer-friendly two- own perfection. Just as you’ll have difficulty playing your dimensional version, digitally extracted from fresh high- original LGoP game diskette on most modern computers, resolution scans of an original feelie. This is, essentially, the the artfully-rendered and faithfully-scanned 3-D comic blue portion of the two-tone comic, isolated with all reds becomes increasingly difficult to enjoy properly, for a few removed (since the bluelines are the original artwork, with key reasons: all of Ray Zone’s magic taking place in the redlines). The b 3-D Has Changed: In 1985, standard American 2-D version would also be a lot of fun to color with colored 3-D glasses used red and blue tinted lenses, while pencils if you have a rainy afternoon and no working copy modern glasses (of the sort you can scrounge from of Frotz! special issues of magazines, modern 3-D comics, …