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From: ctatro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher D Tatro)
Subject: Re: LSH: Evacuating the Earth (& a tirade on writers/whiners)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:40:32 GMT

     Does anyone know ehat the population of the Earth was at the time of
destruction?  I seem to remember a number of 15 BILLION (a number far too
large, in my opinion, to be supported on this dustball). If this is true then
2 billion left behind isn't so bad a job. Especially when one considers that
most of those saved were saved by two hundred year old stuff, probably designed
to rescue a smaller population than existed in 2995.
     Yes, the GLC (or whatever sorcerors are left, or 4 Daxamites plus whatever
other Legion folk) *should* have been able to do the job completely, IF this
were the Legion of the 60s and 70s.  That sort of camp-o-rama that we all loved
with its happy ending every time is gone, replaced by a grittier, more
realistic (if that word can really be applied) Legion.  Hey, at least half the
team didn't die, as I though they would.  The issue IMHO is fine as stands.  I
would have had much less faith in the writers if some deus ex Oa/Daxam/Brainy
had saved the entire population at the last minute.
     If I may digress on the topic of writers briefly...the way I see it you
have three options if you don't like the book:
               1) shut up and drop it (and stop writing about it on the net)
               2) shut up and accept it
               3)start submitting scripts (pure folly at best)
Personally, I have seen better times for the Legion than under Tom & Mary, but
dammit it's still the Legion, and I would gladly read it even if Stan Lee
were writing it!  Either you love the Legion for what it is or you don't. I
suggest those of you who feel a need to incessantly whine "this isn't like the
old Legion" seroiusly reconsider buying the title any longer.  If you really
don't like it, then get out.  (If enough people do this, even DC will get the
hint) If you're whining just to see yourself on the net, stop wasting our time
and bandwidth!
     Proudly a Legion fanboy!
               kristoff
From: fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman Synopsis
Date: 8 Nov 1992 19:33:31 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy)
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In a previous article, cliffr@pyuxf.uucp (25347-roberts) says:

>I know it sounds like alot, but could someone who is a regular reader
>of sandman please give the new readers a brief synopsis of the character
>and what story line the book is trying to tell.  Some origins would help.

Does a net.file exist to this effect?  A 
 brief synopsis of the characters + stories?

Neil Gaiman,
the artists,
the Endless,
supporting cast,
each book,
each issue,
stories to come.
-- 
Francis A. Uy			Program Director, WUMD
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Re: JLE #45 & Rocket Reds
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:05:57 GMT

Possible explanation for the Apokoliptian RR armor:  I seem to recall that the 
remaining old-style RR's all got whacked by the Extremists or some other menace
(it's bad when the plots on a DC book start to flow together in memory...)
     Therefore, when they rebuilt the corps, they had two options:  more of the
same style, or get Dmitri to come back to Russia/Ukraine so they could copy 
his infinitely-more-boss suit.  However, whoever was in charge of the 
rebuilding must have found some way to mind-control the wearers (for all we 
know he simply found the function built into the suit for that purpose...this 
*is* a suit from Apokolips after all).
     Dave Van Domelen, "Anti-Matter-Vomiting Lad"? EWWWWWW!!!!!!
From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: What's up with Suicide Squid t-shirts ?
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:43:03 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

I certainly hope nothing bad happened to the shirts...Netlurker and I already 
sent in our money....
     Dave Van Domelen, T-shirt Lad
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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (St. Elmo's Fire)
Subject: DC: Quarterlies, and Dusty Abell
Organization: Man in Motion
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:26:16 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
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	I just read JLIQ #9 and GLCQ #3 (or whatever).
	The superhero anthology is really back, and I really like it.
Kudos to DC for their quarterly program.  The anthology format allows a place
for new talent to develop, and for the odd little stories to get told--
particularly the ones which don't readily stretch out to six-issue arcs
or megacrossovers.
	Finally, Dusty Abell (who has stories in both) has come a long way from
the awful pinup in LSH 25.  He looks very sharp now--excellent on clothing and
backgrounds, good on anatomy.  And while he seems to only have one female and
one male face, it's a -very-good- face.  I'll be watching this guy's work.
	(And in a final, final note, on the Crimson Fox story in JLIQ:  
I assume Asylum Studios is Bart Sears' group?  I wouldn't have believed 
inking styles could be reproduced so exactly....
-- 
"We want playmates we can own."--Jules Feiffer on marriage                     
  
elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
From: pml3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Paul Michael Lewis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: HELP!  I need addresses for theses comic companies!  <----
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:32:06 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I need addresses for the following companies, and I would appreciate ANY help
you could provide...  Please e-mail to keep down the bandwith...

THANKS!


AC Comics
Adventure Comics
Alpha Productions
Antarctic Press
Arrow Comics
Bantam
Blackbird Comics
Broken Arrow Publishing
Bullet Comics
Comic Company A
Comico (may have changed recently)
Cult Press
Eternity
Harris Comics
Hero                 }___ Same company?
Heroic Publishing    }
Highland Graphics
Maverick Publishing
Millenium Publications
Neotek Iconography
New England Comics
Nozone
Prophesy Comics
Slave Labor Graphics
Tragedy Strikes Press
Universal Comics
Warp Graphics


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From: mre@kepler.unh.edu (Michael R Escutia)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: I asked for it...(Was: Comics I'm thinking of trying)...yup, I did.
Date: 9 Nov 1992 22:20:43 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu

In article <1992Nov9.203152.5349@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER 2099) writes:
>>Sandman: After only two issues--#44 and #41, respectively--I'm hooked.  With
>>Christmas on the way, I know what's going to be on my list!  (Hint: TP)
>And people say the merchandising for X-Men has gotten out of hand!  Sandman
>toliet paper!?!  C'mon, the shirts and poster's are nice.  The statue and mug
>are cute.  But enough already.
>----SCAVENGER 2099 ---only the silliness is the same!

No, Scavenger, not Toilet Paper...Trade Paperback.

Somehow, I don't want to know what you think GN stands for....:)
		
				--MikE 2099
				  --Stan Lee eat your heart out
				    ...and your lungs...and your stomach...

-- 
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           Vote Archer & Armstrong for Pres and VP in '92.
                 We can have a Prez with a ponytail
         and a VP who's outlived Dan Quayle millions of times!
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		      Campaign Coordinator,
              The Archer For President Organization
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From: mason
Subject: Alan Davis
Organization: Rice University  
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:09:52 GMT

Alan Davis has worked on the following titles, that I am
aware of:
 
Artist
  Excalibur 1-7, 9, 12-17, 23-24
  Miracle Man ??
  New Mutants Annual 2
  Uncanny X-Men 213, 215, Annual 11
 
Writer/Artist
  Captain Britain 1-14
  Excalibur 42-50, 54-56
  Wolverine Bloodlust
 
Can anyone think of any that I missed?
 
-- mason
From: stdeprie@eos.ncsu.edu (SHAWN TEMPLE DEPRIEST)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Comics & Discounts/Deals
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:22:45 GMT
Reply-To: stdeprie@eos.ncsu.edu (SHAWN TEMPLE DEPRIEST)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Originator: stdeprie@c00521-118rd.eos.ncsu.edu


I get a 20% discount for all new comics I buy from my local comics specialty
store.  In addition, I have a subscription with them so that they hold my
comics I am signed up for for me until I can get them. It helps to avoid the 
rush of getting to the shop and hoping my favorite comic has not sold out.

for example:  Superman 75 polybagged issue, I have requested they hold me
              one and thus I will get one no matter what as a subscriber
              etc.

I only subscribe to 11 comics titles, but if you subscribe to more than 30
titles you get a 25% discount.  It should be noted I buy more than 11 titles
however.  I just did not subscribe because I was making it easy on myself if
I decide to drop some stuff that I don't collect religiously due to perhaps
a monetary shortage.  Oh well, I've babbled long enough.



							Cheers,

								Shawn
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From: castle@cs.dal.ca (JULIAN GUTHRIE CASTLE)
Subject: Re: HELLBLAZER dream artist
Cc: castle
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:38:37 GMT

In article <3NOV199214063637@summa.tamu.edu>, a0v6282@summa.tamu.edu (VELASQUEZ, ARTHUR) writes:
|> tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes...
|> >It's gotta be Tim Bradstreet.

|>      Hmmmmm.  Interesting choice, maybe even appropriate for Hellblazer.
|> I'd love to see it, based on his work in RPG suppliments (Shadowrun,
|> Twilight: 2000).
|>      But I've never seen him in any comic book.  Has anyone else?

He's got a (monthly?) comic THE RETALIATOR being published by
F/X Comics (sub imprint of some company)  I saw #2 in stores 3
weeks ago.      It's about a vigilant quoting Nietchesche(sp?)
and other philosophers while killing child-abusers.

He did panels for the original short story in Hard Looks (#1?)


small question.  What's the proper term for a ink drawing that
complements the text of a short story or novel?  (please e-mail)

Yours Sincerely,
	Julian Castle
////
o-O/
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From: marcs@yang.earlham.edu (Marc Seebass(Thunderbolt))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Casting and X-Men movie
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:55:31 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <1992Nov8.032216.5697@eskimo.celestial.com>, ntprlr@eskimo.celestial.com (NightProwler) writes:
> Marc Seebass(Thunderbolt) (marcs@yang.earlham.edu) wrote:
> : 
> : Shadowcat  - Need ideas
> 
> Hm.  I recall that about a year ago there was a huge debate over this one.
> I believe someone suggested Winowna Ryder.  I could almost see this...

Thought  about that, but she just doesn't fit the part.
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From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Books of Magic, book IV
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 06:19:58 GMT

In article <1d7rduINNklt@agate.berkeley.edu> goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) writes:
>In article <lf9h6tINN1ok@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> khale@camilla.Eng.Sun.COM (Abhijit Khale) writes:
>)Colossal Boy and Yera ? To someone with E's prejudices, that would count
>)as miscegenation.
>
I was under the impresion that the "miscegenation" was a refrence to the 
TWILIGHT L.S.  Humans and robots and genecticly engineered animal-people 
were presented as (as Walt Simonson would put it) "snuggling".

----SCAVENGER
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    But it helps!!!                             |         -Crow T. Robot (MST3K)
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From: lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: I'VE SEEN THE FUTURE.....
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:34:31 GMT

In <1992Nov6.221517.28346@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER) writes:

>I've seen the future and it scares me.

>Evan Dorkin (of Bill&Ted) has a new book coming out.  HeroMan might be the 
name. I don't remember.

FightMan. He'll have a series of sidekicks. The first is something like
Kid Vicious, then Kid Not as Vicious as Kid Vicious and so on. I think
FightMan first appeared in the Bill and Ted book. 

>Mike"I let Tom&Mary do whatever they want" Eury WILL be takeing over SHE-HULK 
>with 51.  50 (Byrne's last) Will have super gimmicks galore.

They described him as "funny man, Mike Eury." Ugh. I'm dropping that title so
fast...

Hey! You didn't mention Sam and Max!
--
   Lance "RainDog" Smith     |   "Outrageous, alarming, courageous, charming.
    (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)      |    Oh, who would think a boy and bear 
   Still waiting for the     |    could be well accepted everywhere
    Great Leap Forward.      |    It's just amazing how fair people can be."
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: terry@garfield.Stanford.EDU (Terry Wong)
Subject: Re: LSH: Evacuating the Earth
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 00:03:24 GMT

In article <8eyvqTC00WDKA5muUo@andrew.cmu.edu>, Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

|> Actually, unless I'm mistaken, you're wrong here. Superman and
|> Kryptonians are less powerful post-Crisis, but Daxamites have retained
|> their pre-Crisis power level.
|> 

No, you are wrong.  Daxamites have been retconned to have approximately
the same power level as Kryptonians.  For example, see the Eclipso
series in which Superman takes on the Daxamite Valor(Lar Gand).  Superman
had a difficult time but beat up Lar Gand to the point where he had to
be put in the hospital.   There are two abilities that Daxamites have
that Superman does not.  One is the ability to live without oxygen.
Two is the ability to travel interstellar distances.  In terms of strength,
invulnerability, speed, etc., they are about the same.

				terry@garfield.Stanford.EDU

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,alt.destroy.the.earth
From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: LSH #38. Earth bites it.
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:36:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.043859.10575@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:

>>Page 17: Two billion people are left to die.  The Earth's population is
>>several billion.  This means that once again, the evacuation capacity 
>>is _just_ _exactly_, to within an order of magnitude, what they actually 
>>need to evacuate the planet before it does the big firework.  What a large 
>>coincidence.
>Just exactly to within an order of magnitude?  That's another way of
>saying that Earth was suffering from Titanic Syndrome:  They had an
>escape mechanism, but because nobody took it seriously, it only had
>a fraction of the capacity it needed.  The fraction would have been
>lower had several billion people not just died from Triple Strike.

The method used for getting all the people off the Earth was to put them in
spaceships, and later to take anyone who could be taken in the 480 cities.
The latter method was designed for escape during wartime--not for destruction
of the planet.

Almost any makeshift method for evacuating the whole planet would have a
capacity that would either vastly overdo or vastly underdo what was necessary.
It's silly for the evacuation capacity to be anywhere near the evacuation need,
given that it was totally makeshift.
--
"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of."  -- K. Eric Drexler

Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
     INTERNET: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
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From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
Subject: Re: lsh back issues
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Distribution: rec
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:01:55 GMT

Get the issues with Steve Lightle! He's the best Legion artist ever.
Around the start of the Baxter series.

And the earlier ones are good, like the ones a green arrow writer
used to draw. (Wish he'd draw GA, or write LSH now!!!)

But, once you get a taste of the real Legion, the stuff they're
publishing using that name now will nauseate you!

Scott

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: josh_f@lsa.lan.mcgill.ca (JOSH FIREMAN)
Subject: Re: Curiosity:  what kind of deals do y'all get?
Organization: Law Student's Association, Mcgill University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:17:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.001415.5177@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  ) writes:

>I don't think I'm getting quite as good a deal as some of the other
>posts that i have been reading. I like these guys, but maybe it is time
>that I renegotiate.

>First, i have a reserve box where they put my comics as soon as they
>come in. It is done in numerical order and since I am number 6, if it
>comes in and i want it, I'' most likely get it.

>Next, i receive a 10% discount because I buy more than thirty titles a
>month. i can also hold stuff in my box until it goes on sale an then
>purchase it. they don't always like it, but they let me get away with
>it. Also, the store absorbs the GST (Gouge and Screw tax) so that is
>another 7% I save. Of course, I do have to pay a 12% provincial sales
>tax:-( 

>Finally, I get a lot of the periodicals and fan magazines free like CSN
>and What's New, the preview magazine and occasionally some of the promo
>posters. 

>Not a bad deal over all, but I certainly wouldn't mind the 20-30%
>discount that other people have been talking about.

>-------------------------------------------------------------------------

>cwelsh@morgan.ucs.ca.  I'm still working on my new sig. SOME of us have
>papers due.


I collect around 50 titles a month from various publishers and receive a 20% 
discount off the Canadian cover price.  Unfortunately, I still have to pay 
the damn GST.

In addition to this, I get free bags and boards with all my purchases, and 
strike good deals on non-traditional items like GNs (soft and hard cover), 
boxes, cards, etc.

I also have a priority reserve.  So, I get all of my reserved books, all #
1s, and anything else that the store thinks I may have overlooked but might 
suit my tastes (I don't have to take that stuff if I don't like it).  On top 
of this, if I have a damages book or a missing issue, I can usually get it 
replaced, even if it means that the store has to buy a new one or take it 
out of some fanboy's reserve.
From: kiemschies@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Superman and Elvis seen together!!!!
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:41:49 EST

Yep, I saw them at a Burger King in Columbus, Ohio (they were dressed as lawn
furniture salesmen, but they didn't fool me). They were no doubt on the way
home to the condo they share with JFK and Marilyn Monroe.

                              ---Ollie
                                 with a view of things to come
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Interlac
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:40:17 GMT

Hey, if ya don't use it ya lose it. }->  I haven't gotten any more back issues 
of the Levitz Legion (that's what I call v3) in a while, and this month may be 
the first major appearance of interlac characters in some time in v4.
     Dave Van Domelen, got LOTS of practice back when Alan would send me 
letters printed out in Interlac....
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From: rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney)
Subject: SANDMAN: Preludes and Nocturnes TPB
Summary: art alterations
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:14:31 GMT

	While browsing in the TPB edition of the first SANDMAN arc,
I noticed that the layout and art in part 4 ("A Hope in Hell") had
been redone at the point wherein Dream encounters Lucifer in the 
infernal palace.  The art is clearly not the work of Kieth -- its
either Dringenberg or McKean.  Can anyone give the reason this
sequence was altered?

Cordially,

Michael S. Rooney
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Re: The Current Status of the Five (IMHO) Major Comic Distributors
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:25:28 GMT

Scott says that A: the X-books need better writers, but B: New Warriors is 
great writing.  Considering that Nicieza does half the X-books already and is 
he great writer of NW, and that PAD does one of the other X-books, you tend to 
contradict yourself.  Of course, IMO Lobdell is also a good writer (poor 
plotter, great scripter, it averages out), so the X-books have good *writers* 
on them.  However, being tied to the plots of the Lee/Liefeld issues keeps the 
books from having the kind of *writing* we'd like to see.  X-song does seem to 
be slowly weaning the X-books from some of their more annoying tendencies, but 
you can't mess with fanboy success too much when you're Marvel.
     In fact, this holds true in general.  Even if Image got real writers on a 
more regular basis (yes, I know Claremont is doing a mini), the writing would 
still be sub-par because it would be locked into the "Fan Fave Artist" loop.
     Dave Van Domelen, annoying the net by saying Lobdell is good
Organization: Masters student, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:45:44 -0500 
From: Anatole Wilson <aw3a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: SUPERHEROES FREEZE OFF THEIR BUMS!

>	Okay, recently I was perusing a copy of Spiderman.  Now, I noticed
>that he went out late in the evening to see if everything was okay.  Suddenly,
>a thought hit me (OUCH!).  What are these costumes made out of to keep these
>guys from freezing their super-nipples off?  I mean, it would have to be
>something that's REALLY warm, not just something that keeps off a mild chill?
>I go to school in Illinois and at night it gets C-O-L-D!!!!!!!  I don't want
>to hear crap about some "scientifically advanced" adamantium insulator or
>anything.  I want the real deal here!

Naturally, it depends on the hero. It's been well established since 1966
that batman wears his Bat-thermal underwear, especially when he's
fighting Mr. Freeze. 
    I suppose Spider-Man makes thermal underwear with his webbing (it
can do just about everything else.) Or maybe thoughts of Mary Jane keep
him warm.
    Actually, I think the only sensible hero is 'MAZING MAN (The hero's
hero), who's the only one smart enough to wear ear muffs out in the cold.
   The big question is how women with scanty costumes, like Wonder Woamn
or Black Canary make it through the winter. Or maybe I don't want to
know...

One big :) for the group
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