#28 You can t keep a good thing down Yes it is true That font above sprouts the same familiar 5 letters that #28 has graciously pounded out month after month after month It says those same 5 letters that you have loved hated loved hated and then witnessed die Or did they Of course not! Anyone who thinks that we would call it quits after a year and a half of hard honest work from the ground up is silly! Quitting Nah man we haven t even thought about it only the opposite! Complete revival reunion if you will pardon the pun a complete rebirth of talent friendship fun and domination Who are we We are Union That is all that matters What we do we do for ourselves and for our friends and that is how we run Some of us are new some of us are old some are both and some are inbetween but the fact remains that we have joined in common pursuit of a goal so sweet being a team Whether you remember us as Union of 613 Union with Neurotic the wannabe-a-vga artist Union of b0rg (as some so fondly knighted us) or any other title we are what we were only stronger closer and a lot more witty ) Unparalleled in our ability for gayness we did what no other group would ever consider letalone carry out we faked our own death(fo0d) Yeah call us Captain Shakespeare call us stupid call us zany it doesn t matter because we laugh constantly at you your groups ourselves and each other We don t get fazed because there are only successes to be created from failure and only fun to be had the whole way along Yes you will once again have to put up with our up-front attitudes our inside jokes our sEKRIT kOUNZILs our k-rad plans to takeover the world! oh m0o! That was for next month! If M C Hammer was still hip we d have to put in a voc of a remix called Union Time Would that be too egotistical Maybe but then you look at our 1 7 megs of unzipped art and say oh my god! that s the funky shit! Hannibal Lecter has a big jpeg collection Union business! On approximately July 15th Operation k0w will complete it s final stages of execution and prove to the international art scene that once again we will be a pain in the ass Through our secret execution of this highly confidential plan (out- -lined in Operationk0w txt NOT operatio txt which incidently has nothing to do with felatio ) we will have proven to ourselves that we could do it we could make it once again what we had to begin with And so fellow artists musicians couriers sysops internet freaks coders and observers I present to you Union 08 95! Alright! To the nitty gritty we have expanded like CRAZY pulling clout from all corners of the scene It seems our fake death has created a huge wave of chaos in the scene resulting somewhat in leading to Shiver s death Spastic s transfer of power and ESPECIALLY to the creation of Twilight- Versus- Legend (but not the warez group legend of course ) Yeah we didn t exactly expect it but Operation k0w started alot of the silliness we ve seen in the last month But without further adue let me introduce to you those members who we call brothers Starting out with Nailz the founder and creator of our beloved Union he spends his time rollerblading with a laptop in hand as to never miss a drawing oportunity Nailz we all fear you Moving down the staff we come to me ) I would like to call myself the total mastermind of Operation k0w but I must give respect to my fellow Admiral of the Union Navy - #28 Yes #28 s k0w in the pasture has inspired our team to new heights! Nothing like milk from the tap! Of course we cannot forget our loyal and best friends who have been by our side through both thick and thin unlike some people (coughdiscocough) These guys are truly cool we d keep them around regardless of whether or not they drew because they make the days fly by and the long nights on IRC end too quickly We greet Black Lightning Blenderhed Dive Galahad GodSpeed Kool Krypton K-Spiff M(idunnohowtospellhishandle)p Neurosis Point Blank Spell Binder Stone Chapel(sole assassin) The Beholder and of course Twitch! But Union isn t complete We searched out the kind of guys who we would want to talk to and hang out with and then made sure they weren t thedraw-handicapped and we found our new friends Devine Stylers joins the k0w from Spastic with his hilarious toons and sTYLIN antics Greater Evil is one of the many RELiC guys we found floating the net and his coding is only surpassed by his elite ethernet connection to the net Hunchback GE s RELiC brother was found in Rival and was receptive to the heavy m0oing he heard on his fone Kid Krylon inventor of KY Jelly decided along with Stone Amnesia(merlin) and St Sinner that Rival had been fun but that is was time to move on As Krylon reports it was a natural move to join a group of close knit guys like Union Rival was a nearly 100% area code 909 group (except that silly guy ss ) and they have found Union to be a mere extention in their tight circle of friends Along with Rival we have found Fear and Turmoil s natural ability to do 60k bins and be cool all without breaking a sweat! Magnus from ex-TRiBE and iCE was found doodling under the direct command of Qur an but with no home Bad Mascot! ) I had to set Magnus Motel 6 empire straight and get him onto our team all that s left is a vmb what s a vmb ) We moved to logo collies now but #28 s stuff wasn t in one That would have meant loading up aciddraw at 2 00am again Sorry deal Finding their way into the Union k0w Patty was long time scene member and protagonist HOOPTiE He is currently coding an ansi editor titled ARTWORX which is currently at 70beta The editor includes intuitive key placement vga styled commands for drawing and a host of other great features We are proud to sponsor it as our official drawing program Just a note at first it seems lame because all of the keys are changed around don t worry if you get used to it the editor makes a LOT of sense and is easy to use! Off a tip by Lieutenant HOOPTiE we picked up a vga artist named Dataless Information beyond this is classified at this time VGA news NOT classifed however is that Quisling and Formic Acid return home this month and bring with them some nice artwork Quisling has moved towards real world photography edited on a computer whereas Formic still draws the hottie chicks ) Our 714 AC is always a pain in the ass to get ahold of Those guys have more of a life than the rest of us put together! Welcoming them back again is an honor and we greet Kool Stone Chapel AKA Sole Assassin and Streaker All three are excellent artists and great guys to talk to Just never never EVER go over to Kools house Guarenteed you pee your pants ask Stone Chapel! muahah Back this month is Sharp Edge from Motion staff he returns with his euro humor and his insane cartoons! Point Blank looks like he is home again thankfully We just need to talk to the guy once in awhile to make sure he didn t get swallowed by the earth ) Also home amazingly was Galahad who made it back in one piece from Camp WallawallawallaWashington still with the forefingers to draw silly In addition Replay should be with us still but his fone line was disconnected so who knows what got him eh ) As the uni-0795 zip info file stated our musicdisk is on the slate for release within the next week Populus is the coordinating musician and from what I ve heard in sample this disk will be worth the two disk download! If nothing else you have Lord Pegabagle s BOWLING FOR FISH tune What more could you want out of a musicdisk I m taping it for my car stereo word Other members of our music are Ded Silence (hey! the OTHER local scene guy! yes!) and Future Assassin (anyone awake in there ) word to them all Before I misplace this list Forego joins with his mad ansi skills and amazingly reliabe telecom skills (uhh yeah ) Fear him for he lives for fear I heard he does ansi s if you ll just fear him alot ) I want to mention Psyber Rape who didn t make an appearance in pack but is still an outstanding guy and a greatly improving artist by leaps and bounds and who we are glad to consider part of our team Unfortunately Black Lightning and Lord Jazz s dual ansi still has integrity plastered all over it but as you can see BL is back with us as the official Union Storm Trooper Why a storm trooper I guess he just doesn t like Naval Rank ) Running a close second is Hunchback who wants to be boba fett In addition - regarding member boards We are REALLY sorry because we KNOW everyone didn t get listed We are working to have a GOOD SOLID list of our members boards and will hopefully have a near complete version by the time the next pack swings around on the 1st of September (Yes we are not releasing in 15 days we are waiting a month and a half deal ) Probably the most awaited news in the Union circle currently is the new staff appointments We purposely went after young artists who have the coordination knack so that Union s staff will be strong for months to come However we have not decided wholly on the placement yet The staff is still incomplete as Nailz and myself have not had the opportunity to fully look over each person However based on merit throughout the duration of Operation k0w we are hereby promoting former Rival senior Kid Krylon to a coordinator He spends even more time than I do on IRC and he s a cool guy to boot two qualities that can make any guy amiable I looked to Stone Amnesia as well however he works more and isn t around the kind of hours that KY is nothing personal a little matter of time is all I would like to say that Terminally Nothing and Shadow Hawk are still with us and continue to be important members on the Union team They have been moved to a new division called public relations which means they help out and tell me what to do but don t take up so much damn room on the coordinator s list with their huge friggin handles ) Props to these guys who have been instrumental as well as providing abom and I with anime gifs ) We would like to thank #28 Peak Velocity and #28 for being simply wonderful members of a totally powerless advice council which served us well in our time of need ) Please note that we have a couple info files We just couldn t do it all with one Well I suppose we could But I would have had to reformat all of the text in the operationk0w txt file and that would be far too tedious of a task at this point Suffer I think I have just about covered it all from head to toe and the end point is blunt and simple abom! U N I O N F O R E V E R -Mass Delusion Union Senior -massd@voyager elec shasta cc ca us -md on irc in #union -find Union on any board in the list please read the included rivalnfo txt in our zip - re rival prod