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From: petonak@chem.psu.edu (Paul Petonak)
Subject: Re: XMEN: Forge is not an inventor
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:06:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.160055.13150@news.columbia.edu>, kps@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Karthik P Sheka) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul28.093258.1@skcla.monsanto.com> jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
|> 
|> >What other marketable inventions are being ignored by the superhero populace?
|> 
|> There are a lot of them in the Marvel Universe:
|> 	The von Doom time cube
|> 	Reed Richard's unstable molecule "cloth"

Just what the hell is an unstable molecule anyway. Why don't these suits decay
and give 'em cancer? How 'bout at least dreaming up some reasoning.

|> 	The Iron Man armor
|> 	The Multiple Man's unbreakable Mayo jar
|> 	Adamantium
|> 	Vibranium
|> 	Force Fields
|> 	Antigravity
|> 	Cloaking devices
|> 	Mach 4+ jets
|> 	Mutant inhibitor fields
|> 	growth/shrink formulas
|> 	artificial intelligence
|> 	personal jet packs
|> 	phasing ability
|>
From: albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Booster Gold
Date: 21 Jul 1992 20:47:17 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx

In article <76323@ut-emx.uucp> danfrank@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel Frank) writes:
>The conversation on the net about Booster being a DC character
>reminds me of something that bugs me on occasion. If Booster Gold
>is from the 25th century, how did his museum get access to a Legion
>flight ring (assumably from the 30th century)? 
>(Don't tell me it was L.E.G.I.O.N., Booster was created in 1985.)

	Here it is from Booster's prospective:
25?? - Booster steals a Legion flight ring and force field and stuff from	
	the Space Museum and hotwires one of Rip Hunter's Time Machines
	to go to the 1980's to save Reagan from an assassination attempt
	he read about in history class.

198? - Booster tries to save the present, but is hindered in this attempt
	by three time travellers from the future (Brainiac 5, Ultra Boy
	and Chameleon Boy), who found the remains of Rip Hunter's time
	machine, with pieces of B-5's force field equipment in it, in the
	30th century.  They convince each other that Ronnie is in danger,
	and team up to save him.  B-5 gives his force field belt and flight
	ring to the President as part of the rescue.  Since it seems that
	Booster belongs in the present, B-5 leaves the belt and ring with
	the prez, where it will go into some box, and eventually be 
	displayed in the Space Museum for Booster to steal.

	A nice little time loop, if I do say so.
-- 
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"Hmmmm, this sounds like *another* job for Stupendous Man!" - Calvin
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From: branwen@tony.ccc.amdahl.com (Karen Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Ride needed to San Diego Comic Con
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:38:59 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

One of my friends would like to carpool down from the South Bay Area
to San Diego for the Comic Con. She can leave Thursday after noon and 
return Sunday. If you're interested, call Morwenna McKinley at 408-246-1329.
--
                                          Karen Williams
                                          branwen@cerebus.ras.amdahl.com
"Don't whine. Warrior women speak in a husky whisper."
  -- Brat Pack #3
From: danfrank@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel Frank)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re:Shaloman
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:08:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: danfrank@bashful.cc.utexas.edu

David Lowenstern asks if Shaloman is pronounced "shallow-man". No,
it's pronounced "Shalom-Man" as in the traditional Jewish greeting.


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From: mbvg9741@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (plain)
Subject: impact comics line
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:55:02 GMT

 Hi, I have just picked up a couple issues of Impact comics, namely
 Black Conder #1 and The Comet #14 (I think that's the right number)
 I'm not sure what I think of the Black Conder, but I liked the Comet,
 it reminded me of the old (original) Nova series from Marvel, at
 least as much as one issue can.

So, I'm just curious how you all out in net land feel about this line
of comics (I've been known to be swayed briefly by a pretty face)

Also, how about some info on the Impact universe and stuff like
which was their first title(s).

-Vincent
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:07:53 -0400 
From: "David M. Pahnos" <dp0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: LSH #33 -- spoilers
	<1992Jul30.054317.2499@reed.edu>

The Asian kid is new to the series.  Crystal Kid was in a pod, so he's  
probably a clone or something.

I thought the asian kid was Karate Kid II at first.  Crystal Kid was an
Academy student, so probably very young at the time.  How long he was in
the pod is also a mystery.  The pods may prevent aging (they can
accellerate it, why not reverse it?)


michael j pastor iii
guest on davids account
From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (The Jack Elmo Society Black Book)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: FOR SALE MESSAGES - DO NOT POST THEM HERE!
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:24:03 GMT
Organization: Okefenokee Glee and Purloo Union
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul23.145420.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>, ia92@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
> This is a reminder to everyone out there who has posted a forsale message,
> or is thinking about it.
> 
> It was decided some time ago that rec.arts.comics (and now r.a.comics.misc)
> are inappropriate places to post for sale or wanted messages.

	If I recall netiquette right (and I'm a comparative newbie),
rec.arts.comics is open to all comics-related messages, including forsale
notices (albeit not for cars :-), until it's rmgrouped, at least since the 
creation of rac.misc.  Something about ambiguity and umbrella groups mumble
mumble hand-wave.
-- 
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee.  For Hate's sake, 
I spit my last breath at thee, thou damned whale!"
--Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_

elmo (morrow@fnal.fnal.gov,morrow@physics.rice.edu)
From: Ed.Almasy@f99.n121.z1.FidoNet.Org (Ed Almasy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: query...
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:53:48 GMT

On Jul 24, Glen wrote to All:
 ->does anyone know whatever happened to Roachmill (one of Dark Horse's 
 ->titles)?

It was cancelled due to lack of creator time and/or lack of reader interest (depending on who you listen to on the subject).


 ->does anyone have any issues of the same title when it was with 
 ->Blackthorne? (i believe that's the right publisher)

Yes.  There were six Blackthorne issues, the first three of which were collected into a trade paperback volume.  There was supposed to be a volume collecting the second three, but I don't know if it ever came out.


 * Origin: NineJackNine / 608-256-5697 / Madison WI / (1:121/99.0)
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From: vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco)
Subject: Re: Infinity War...Geez...
Reply-To: vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:38:00 GMT


In a previous article, jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) says:

>I write:
>
>>goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) writes:
>
>
>>>	Hm. Perhaps the Watcher? I don't believe we've seen him yet,
>>>which is a bit odd considering how cosmic it's all been getting.
>
>>Maybe, perhaps... it's Franklin ;)
>
>No... I got it... the old Thor :)

No way!  It's Captain Ultra!  /:-)
- 
-- 
Virgilio "Dean" Velasco Jr., grad student & roboticist-in-training, CWRU

"If God does not judge the United States, then He owes |    My boss is a 
 an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah."   - Billy Graham   |  Jewish carpenter.
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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Animated "For Better . . . " Coming On Disney Channel
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 01:18:48 GMT

The latest Disney magazine for cable subscribers lists a 25-minute animated
"For Better or For Worse" feature playing in August and September.  No info
as to animator, etc.  They show one still which looks quite faithful to
Johnsons drawings, and say it's the first of six features based on FBFW.

No, I will *not* make tapes of it for you.  :-)
-- 
"There's a very fine line  between a groove and a rut.
 Fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts."
	-- Christine Lavin, "Prisoners Of Their Hairdos"
From: an26@sol.acs.unt.edu (Dave Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Far Side 7/22 or 7/23
Keywords: Far Side
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:02:15 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas

I read in the paper on either Wednesday or Thursday a Far Side I didn't 
quite get.  It's the one where a stagecoach thunders out of control
towards a cliff, and the stagecoach driver says to a rabbit "Go ahead..."
etc.  Was the incongruity of the rabbit the joke, or was there something
I missed?

I ask because usually Larsen's jokes are a little deeper than that.
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From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Comic Strips that acknowlege they're a comic strip...
Date: 25 Jul 92 22:02:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.mcirvin.712101775
Distribution: rec

davidv@sco.COM (Uncle David) writes:

>one of the things i really really really like in comic strips is when
>they acknowledge they are simply that.

It's a common device, but it nearly always amuses me too.  The
Robotman strips that ran a few days ago were a particularly 
masterful example.  Robotman builds a "quantum disrupter" capable
of bursting the boundaries of reality.  When turned on, it 
produces a nifty effect like a ghostly drill bit which causes
the edges of the comic-strip frames to dissolve.  This allows
Robotman to read the copyright notice, and to identify what he
sees above him as "possibly Cathy [did I get that right?] or
Funky Winkerbean."  (In the Boston Globe, it was actually
Spiderman; I thought that was amusing.)

Finally Robotman climbs out of the top of the frame (shrunken to
half-height to accomodate this action).  He returns in great
agitation, saying that "there's a giant mutant out there
watching my every move!"

>the funny page(s) is/are the first thing i generally read when i
>read the paper. i figure that you gotta start the day off with a 
>laugh or two. 

To me, it's the only essential part of the paper.  I grew up
in a household that got the Washington Post, which is the
true comic strip freak's paper:  three pages of comics on
weekdays!  Sometimes they even print weekday comics in a
separate section.  Sunday comics come in two sections.
How New York Times readers survive, I don't know.

-- 
Matt McIrvin  mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu 
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From: merlyn@digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy)
Subject: Re: Ripping on the Family Circus
Organization: DigiBoard Incorporated, Eden Prairie, MN
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:08:16 GMT

In article <Br4KsC.Eoz@apollo.hp.com> betsyp@apollo.hp.com (Betsy Perry) writes:
>What does *The Family Circus* have to offer?  Perpetual sweetness-n-light,
>and a series of pointless puns.  I LIKE puns, and the "Billy gives
>Daddy a Rest" Sunday strips make me break out in hives.  (I got
>better....)

I've always wanted to see Billy doing the strip showing a bunch of
stick-figures conducting a funeral, and a caption "My daddy died
today, so it's me from now on..."

---
Merlyn LeRoy
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The literate Calvin and Hobbes (& mom)
Keywords: Saturday's C&H
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:53:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.mcirvin.712021981
 <1992Jul22.134429.14786@rsg1.er.usgs.gov> <1992Jul24.203032.1487@craycos.com>

jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:

>I didn't understand the "cop show" reference (but then again I don't watch
>much TV these days).  Was there some significance to this?  Is there a
>cop show these days where the characters talk like medieval knights?

I think he meant that he'd *rather* be watching a cop show than what
Mom was watching, which was presumably a Shakespeare play or something
similar.

-- 
Matt McIrvin   mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu   Long live short .sigs
From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Popeye bites the dust
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:06:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: QueerNet

In article <8hkmb3+@lynx.unm.edu> lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:
>
>> I just saw that the artist who is drawing the current incarnation of
>> Popeye has been fired by his syndicate because he had Olive Oyl voice an
>> opinion on abortion rights. 
>None of the articles I've seen have mentioned it -- was this Bobby London?

Yes, it was.
-- 
ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-ARFF
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                                                                   -- J. Foster
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From: garrem@vccsouth27.its.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips that acknowlege they're a comic strip...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: rec
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 20:29:29 GMT

I remember in one old PEANUTS strip, Charlie Brown got discouraged about
something (how surprising!) and his punchline was "I think I'll put in for
a transfer to another strip!" or something along those lines. Anyone
remember the specifics?
-- 
Matt Garretson                       :-)                          garrem@rpi.edu
From: carruthers@brandonu.ca (Kai'ckul)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: MORE Comix that acknowledge they're comix
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:14:05 GMT
 <1992Jul26.210135.1570@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <lis.712192959@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Jul27.134546.24524@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

One of the examples of this which I just remembered, and found highly
amusing at the time...  At our student newspaper, we receive tons of 
different papers from around the country.  One of them (it was the 
University of Alberta paper, I think...) had two long-running strips in
it, which I tried to follow regularly.

One issue, I opened up to the comics page, and the two guys who did the
separate strips got together.  Final result... characters in the one strip
are going on normally, but all of a sudden an explosion happens in the 
strip below (which was ALSO going on normally up until that point).  The
borders between the two strips was shredded, and the characters wandered 
into each others' strips in the last panel.  I laughed so hard I thought
I'd die...

Sean
carruthers@tkm.BrandonU.ca
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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: Far Sign Help Needed
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:54:43 GMT

In article <BrpsIM.2s8@cs.psu.edu> plu@math.psu.edu (T. Andrew Simpson) writes:
>In article <1992Jul15.092942.15061@jyu.fi> mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano) writes:
>
>   In article <92195.140859PMONGEAU@MIAMIU.BITNET> <PMONGEAU@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>   >Is there any way to track down a particular Far Sign cartoon>?  I saw it on
>						--------
>
>     You mean "Far Side".  
>
>   (Stuff deleted)
>
>   > 
>   >The cartoon depicts an empty biology/scientific lab (test tubes, bunson (sp?)
>   >burners, scales, clipboards, etc.) and no one inside.  Out the window, you see
>   >several lab-coated scientists running after the ice-cream truck.
>   > 
>   >I don't know.  I like it. Anybody seen it?  Am I hallucinating?  Hello?
>   > 
>   >paul Mongeau
>   (stuff deleted)
>
>I was rereading The Far Side Gallery 2 the other night and I came
>across it there.  Also, a professor here in the math department has it
>attached to his door.  So it's not a hallucination....
>

  Right.  Far Side Gallery 2, ISBN 0-7088-4352-2, on page 155.  But the 
  scientists are still in the lab, and just about to rush out.  The ice-
  cream truck is seen through the lab window.  But that is irrelevant :)
  
- Mika


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From: williamsk@gtephx.UUCP (Kevin W. Williams)
Subject: Re: current "Curtis"
Organization: gte
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:22:09 GMT

In article <rlcarr.04m6@animato.network23.com>, rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro) writes:
> Anyone have any idea what the author is trying to say?  I know it's a dream
> sequence, but is he trying to tell smokers how bad they are, or is he 
> hammering the fanatic anti-smoking prudes?  In any case, drawing a
> rather obvious parallel between smokers and Jews is rather in bad taste,
> IMHO.

I cannot speak for the humor in the Curtis strip, as none of the papers
around here carry it, but I have made the parallel myself. I fully
expect that my days will end in jail or a concentration camp. I think
that the fat people of the world should be getting a message from the
events surrounding the anti-smoker campaigns, somewhat akin to the
old saying of "When they came for the Jews, I didn't speak out, because
I wasn't a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I didn't speak out,
because I wasn't a Catholic. When they came for me, no one was left
to speak out for me."


Kevin Wayne Williams
     UUCP : ...!ames!ncar!noao!enuucp!gtephx!williamsk

               Remember : Brute force has an elegance all its own.
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From: ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Re: The literate Calvin and Hobbes (& mom)
Keywords: Saturday's C&H
Organization: Why?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:44:29 GMT

In article <BrqsL9.1D4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ziauddin@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Tasneem Ziauddin) writes:
>>> [Discussion about Saturday's Calvin & Hobbes]
>
>>I don't think they were quotes; just Calvin & Mom talking in Shakespearian.
>>I loved it!
>
>
>I missed this cartoon and this discussion has made me incredibly curious.
>Could someone please print the discussion between Calvin and his mother?

Here goes:

Panel 1- [Mom holding door, with Calvin about to walk outside]
         Mom: "Whither goest thou, young rogue? Can there yet remain
           some villany thou hast not committed?"

Panel 2- [Calvin in his standard speech pose]
         Calvin: "Thou dost wrong me! Faith, I know not where I wander.
           Methinks the most capricious zephyr hath more design than I.
           But lo: Do not detain me, for I am resolv'd to quit this
           place forthwith."

Panel 3- [Calvin outside on doorstep, with mom holding door open]
         Mom: "Ay, but hear you this, I'll soon know thy business.
           Get thee gone, wastrel!"
         Calvin: "By my troth, I am off."

Panel 4- [Calvin (with disgusted look on face) and mom on couch 
         watching TV.]
         Calvin: "Holy schlaMOLY, isn't there a cop show on where
           they talk like real people?"
         Mom:  "Shhh"

Steve
From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Comic Strips that acknowlege they're a comic strip...
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:20:13 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cray Computer Corporation

Frank and Ernest had a good example of this once: 
    Frank: "Make me a hamburger, Ernie."

    Ernie: "OK"
    (Ernie waves his hands, and Frank turns into a hamburger)

    Frank the hamburger: "I wonder if it's possible to get transferred to
                         one of those realistic strips?"
From: mcirvin@husc10.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Comic Strips that acknowlege they're a comic strip...
Date: 26 Jul 92 20:12:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.mcirvin.712181524
Distribution: rec

marx@remus.rutgers.edu (Mitchell Marx) writes:

>I know there are lots more, but those are the ones that stick out.

...And the classic Far Side cartoon in which the panel is filled with
a disordered pile of cows, dinosaurs, kids with glasses, women with
beehive hairdos, and other Far Side regulars, in front of which is
taped a sign reading "Out of order."

-- 
Matt McIrvin  mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu 
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From: bovik@eecs.nwu.edu (James Salsman)
Subject: Re: Comics controversies?
Summary: King Features trying to censor Popeye
Keywords: popeye
Organization: BRI
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:04:10 GMT


I just heard that Popeye was pulled by the syndicate (!) because
they didn't think it was appropriate.

At issue was Olyve Oyl (I've probably spelled the name of Popeye's
girlfriend wrong) who was tricking a priest into thinking that she
was having an abortion, when in fact she was not even pregnant.

This was reported a few minutes ago on WMAQ news (Chicago);
ironically, I don't think Popeye has been running in the two major
Chicagoland papers (Tribune and Sun-Times.)

Has anyone seen the strip in question?


-- 
:James Salsman
::Bovik Research
From: davis@gauss.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Comic Strips Faxed to Newspapers?
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:34:56 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Jul29.081324.1642@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, dylan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes...
>Opening today's Philadelphia Inquirer I noticed something strange:
> 
>Several of the daily strips were kind of fuzzy, not as crisp and
>clear as they usually are.  They look like they were faxed to
>the Inquirer.
>	<stuff deleted>

I've seen this in the Boston Globe several times.  I think what happens is the
newspaper misplaces (or spills coffee on or whatever) their copies of the
strips, and the syndicate has to fax them replacement copies in a hurry.  Just
a hunch, though.  It could also be that the syndicate is making a last minute
change in the strips, but with different strips from different syndicates,
this is unlikely.

                   /
                  /
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       /  /  /  /				davis@3d.enet.dec.com
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips that acknowlege they're a comic strip...
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:53:51 GMT

One self-aware strip comes to my mind.  Anyone else in here read "Maxwell
the Magic Cat"?  (From Great Britain)  The strip was written and drawn
(under the pseudonym "Jill de Ray") by Alan Moore, who later went on to
greater fame writing comic books.  There were four volumes collecting the
strip out from Acme Press about a year or three (or maybe four) back . . . 

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