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Since Mistigris revived in 2014, there has been a nigh- unprecedented eruption of Star Wars in the world, five of them released across a five-year period. And now, with the exception of the streaming TV series, it's all pretty much wound down... which brings us to the dubious cultural cachet of May the Fourth be with you, celebrating all things Sith and Jedi one day a year. Is anyone looking forward to more Star Wars in the wake of the Rise of Skywalker, or are we instead grateful that the bones have been put back in the steamer trunk for a well-deserved rest? But our community of artists continue minting Star Wars fanart, and when else exactly will be a better time of year to share it? As usual, however, there isn't enough of it to warrant a full-bore all-Star-Wars artpack collection, so again we hedge our bets and dedicate our May release to the big tent of science fiction. It's an odd time to be an SF fan, with society radically refigured in the face of a global pandemic, looking forward to an imminent climate collapse expected to dwarf all expectations in its societal disruption. Writers have traditionally used science fiction as a lens through which the issues of today could be viewed, but at this juncture in history everything is so in the air it's impossible to plausibly predict what next year is going to look like, let alone a distant future. As the old expression pithily has it, yesterday's tomorrow is today. Last year we observed some of our more compelling SF futures, such as Blade Runner and Akira, receding into the quaint annals of retrofuturism. We're really boldly proceeding into uncharted territory here! Consequently we've folded in some pieces pertaining to the current global Covid-19 pandemic among all the other works celebrating alternate futures. (Does that follow? Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!) I'll take a brief moment to celebrate some of the works taking place in the strange and far-off world of 2020: most obviously, Cyberpunk 2020. (We've been here for 30 years already, glad you caught up!) Also we might have been the setting for The Edge of Tomorrow. The US Robotics company was supposed to be refigured from manufacturing 14.4k sportster modems to robot production this year, according to I, Robot. The year's very name is also contained in Sealab 2020, Super Baseball 2020, and perhaps the most spectacularly interesting failure of the lot, Texas Gladiators 2020. However the chips fall, I hope that you have a calmer time than Pacific Rim, but not one as quiet as A Quiet Place. May it be brighter than Perfect Dark Zero, and more satiated than The Hungry Earth. In conclusion, Terrahawks. OK, enough silliness. On with the infofile business. I'd like to draw your attention to new contributors Farrell Legos, who builds nerdy mosaics using a certain block-shaped construction toy I'm going to leave to your imagination, Joninscii, whose designs are inspired by simple textmode compositions, Littlebitspace, who had the misfortune to come next and suffer a direct comparison of their work with Joninscii's, and Mig_Moog, whose work stands on its own! This collection marks their collective underground computer artscene debut, which is always something I like to celebrate. Two other bodies of work jump out to the casual viewer of this collection: Horsenburger turns a corner in this collection, picking up line art for the first time on a regular basis in basically 30 years, representing extensively with specimens from his recent "Space Misadventurer" daily drawing challenge. But leaving even him in the dust we have the very cream of literally hundreds of original works on SF themes minted by Blippypixel like some kind of malfunctioning replicator. I don't need to emphasise these works here, because if you threw an astro-dart blindly into the pack, you'd hit one. You may think that this gallery of speculative vistas is sprawling, but you have no idea how many were omitted in a cold, calculated Darwinian bid to play God and engineer a superior artpack. (Speaking of which, hats off to LDA, not only for turning up in a big way this month, but specifically for taking my half-baked leftover concept from last year and turning it into a very credible FILE_ID.DIZ -- and memberlist header!) A compelling subset to Blippypixel's works featured this month include a series of cosmic captioned travelogues, presented almost like scenes from an 8-bit adventure game or an intergalactic travel brochure found in the seatback pocket in front of your assigned spot on the solar sail shuttlecraft. Other housekeeping notes for home viewers might include a tip of the hat to Mist Classic alunus reNM8r for making a cameo reappearance as Hungryeye, and to his CDIS colleague Onyx, whose vaults were plundered here for a few pieces of unreleased tracker music dating up to a quarter century of age. I've been sitting on some of those songs longer than many of you have been alive! Do keep an eye open for Horsenburger's turn at the teletext mill in the latest Blocktronics artpack, where he shares some screens on pro-wrestling themes, and while you're browsing other groups' artpacks, take a look at what Arlequin has done with Publius Emeritus II's ASCII art logos from MIST0220 in the latest Impure collection! Though we had aspirations to mount a big project next month in celebration of Pride, all the turmoil of world events put that plan on profoundly uncertain foundations. Someday we hope to get around to it -- our heart's in the right right place, just not our calendar. In the meantime, our upcoming June artpack is scheduled to be unthemed, so if any of you have come up with creative works you'd like to share, we're ready to handle all takers. And on that happy note, I wrap this missive from the mothership. Stay home, make art, flatten the curve, and you just may get a chance to live long and prosper. - Cthulu Mistigris founder May 3, 2020 SAUCE00MIST0520 infofile CoaXCable / Cthulu Mistigris 20200503>tPzIBM VGA