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Day 3 of our celebration of the 21st anniversary of The Screaming Tomato BBS and, whew, we’re storming our way through a tremendous pile of artwork. We blitzed through the material created by the SysOps and the stuff that celebrated the board’s nightshade mascot; that just leaves us… the rest. Here we open with pictures by Prisonernumberone of ACiD (starting in Fire and briefly passing through Mist on his way up after the 0395 merger between the two groups) and Cannibal Corpse (of Integrity, this piece was slurped right out of the Mistigris artpack submissions directory and retooled for release in the pack of our more distinguished local competition.)

The next row sees a prestigious piece by Cat(bones) of ACiD who was at that time overturning the rigid, demoscene-dictated pixelart/raytrace school of artscene high resolution artwork by introducing his soulful tattoo flash lowbrow comix sensibilities into this group of uptight nerds (always wished the side panels had contained more art and not just orange static) … it’s accompanied by a smallscale piece by Halaster, FiRE founder, released in a Relic pack for some reason – Hal perhaps adrift in the wilderness following the undoing of its merger into Mist (an if you ask me disproportionate trade to Nitnatsnoc for the second of his two pieces for Hal’s BBS The Regency) – and a somewhat abstract piece (the letter “t” floating in a punch bowl?) by Handiboy of Mistigris.

Next row! Two more works from Mist alumni in Integrity – an anime babe by Questor and a goth-y monster by Inquisitor, who had another piece in the same pack we felt would have been a much better fit for our board, oh well! And then the next row – two pieces of high resolution artwork, the first by Questor again and the second by Smokescreen of Mist, an adaptation of promotional artwork for an Itchy and Scratchy video game. And the coup de grace, an epic scroller (goes on for page after page at 80x25), again by the unique Prisonernumberone.

If I’d really been thinking I would have noted which packs all these artworks were sourced from, so I could have presented them in chronological order and allowed them to be viewed in their proper context. Alas! Apologies, historians, I’ve taken all of these relics out of their proper strata and put them on the same shelf. Sorry!