UNION COMPENDIUM 07-94

::sigh:: Well, what to say? Due to the fact that GenoCide is out of
town at the moment, the spot of nfo writing and pack organizing falls
to Neurotic. It's 3:08pm, 52 minutes before the assigned deadline for
the pack, and Hound and I are have almost finished completing the final
ansi submission for this month. I feel somewhat 'iffy' about what
people's response will be to the pack this month.

Included in the pack is HD-RIP.ZIP, a little pack Hound put
together when he discovered someone had accused him of ripping one of
the ansis he drew last month. Included in this mini-pack is Hound's
ansi, the ansi he is accused of ripping, a scanned picture of the
comic book page that both the ansis are taken from, and a nfo file
by Hound that shoots down all the points that were made in STOLEN!.ZIP

If you have already skipped on to the member listings this month,
you will notice that there are a LOT of new faces this month. The first
person to formally join Union this month was PennyWise, who will still
remain with his demo group, Apex, but will also work hard on coding
loaders and modifying the viewer. Unfortunately, PennyWise changed
residency during the last week of June, and we have been unable to
track him down as of yet. The result of this is that the viewer this
month is the same as last month's. Please bare with it.

The first addition to the ansi department this month is DarkForce,
formerly of Imperial. I am quite impressed with his work so far, and
hope to see him continue to improve under the Union name. Einstien
rejoins Union's ansi department, and hopefully we will see some of his
work next month. Twisted Mind, formerly Grey of Rage, joins Union's
ansi department as our first member from overseas. He is from Israel,
and we should see some stuff by him next month.

This month's rips were supplied to us by K-Spiff, a new member
formerly from a short-lived 713 group called Suicide. I find his
cartoony style of rips pretty cool, a step away from the usual comic
book character art.

For those of you who complained about the lack of vga artwork last
month, complain no longer! Three new vga artists join this month,
Quisling, formerly of Crime, Spleef and Vandal. They all managed to
turn out a few pictures this month and will hopefully continue to do
so in the future.

The only s3m in this pack comes from our newest musician, Pinion.
All I can say is listen to it, it is rather cool.

The greatest inflow of members this month comes from our couriering
department. Now all we have to do is organize them. :). The new dudes
who you should see spreading around the pack are Taz, Ipstar, Mephisto,
Lord Exile, Rav and Abover.

In spite of all the new members, Union encountered several problems
this month. Sole Assassin's computer broke, and there is a noticable
lack of ansis from him. Streaker's arm broke, and there is a noticable
lack of ansis from him. Satanic Goldfish has been busy with his band,
and hasn't had time to write music. Future Assassin has been busy
juggling three girlfriends (and playing muds and ufo :), so there is a
noticable lack of tunes from him. Hound has been working double shifts,
so he was only able to make one last minute (literally) submission. The
loss of contact with PennyWise has already been mentioned, and will
hopefully be rectified within the next week. GenoCide is away so I've
been forced to put the pack together this month, if you find any
faults, point in my direction. At least there isn't any menu sets for
me to forget to include again. ::grin::

Union Net is currently unoperational due to the fact that I put
down my board, Programmed Illusion, the main Union Net hub. The net
will be going back up circa as soon as Qur'an returns from vacation.

For some totally UNKNOWN reason sauce fucked up Vandal's pcxs.
I tried converting them to gifs, but my conversion program didn't
recognize them. This delayed the pack for about half an hour as I
discovered the error only a few minutes before I intended to release
it. The only solution I could find was to not sauce Vandal's artwork.

A strange bug called laziness and procrastination has hit the Union
team this month, but thanks to the new additions to the group we didn't
have to write July off as a 'mental health month', as we were forced to
do with last march. This is not a lasting bug, and will not be present
in next month's compendium.

In conclusion, I'd like to say great job to all the artists who
produced outstanding pieces of work this month, and to all the other
Union members, the summer fever bug will past, hurry up and start
working SLAVES! ::grin:: In all seriousness though, there is a world
away from the modem, it comes as no surprise to me that some people
are spending more of their time there now that school is out.

Neurotic
- Union Senior