Fictionally, though. They started writing, coming up with a series of events that would lead up to their meeting. They called the story Wrath of the Administrator.
It was huge.
Really huge.
About 500K. Over 150 pages when printed out. It was their first story, too. Only Retcon Hour has ever exceeded it.
Since the creation of rec.arts.comics.creative, the NTB has largely moved to there, but many of the NTB writers continue to crosspost to alt.comics.lnh. NTB stories take place inside the Looniverse just like LNH stories do. Kid Anarky is a member of both organizations, and the Legion of Occult Heroes has a lot of close ties with the NTB.
:retcon: /ret'kon/ [short for `retroactive continuity', from the USENET newsgroup rec.arts.comics] 1. n. The common situation in pulp fiction (esp. comics or soap operas) where a new story `reveals' things about events in previous stories, usually leaving the `facts' the same (thus preserving continuity) while completely changing their interpretation. For example, revealing that a whole season of "Dallas" was a dream was a retcon. 2. vt. To write such a story about a character or fictitious object. "Byrne has retconned Superman's cape so that it is no longer unbreakable." "Marvelman's old adventures were retconned into synthetic dreams." "Swamp Thing was retconned from a transformed person into a sentient vegetable." "Darth Vader was retconned into Luke Skywalker's father in "The Empire Strikes Back"".
Beige Noon was one of these (actually the biggest) of these untold horrors, which caused much of history to be changed. Some of these changes were the creation of L.E.G.I.O.N., the Crossover Queen coming into existence (possibly), and the changing of the planet H'yddee'uz's name to H'yyydde'uz.
Basically, Dekay and Diskolor, the Bryttle Brothers, found the Looniverse and started altering it to their whims. The LNH and 4-Color Kid were able to defeat them, but the changes they wrought still remain. See Lurk of Faith by Scavenger for more details.
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