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NINA not missed here

With Al Hirschfeld gone, where will TV Guide turn for amazingly hideous portraits?

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new at ogre.nu

My newest page is a list of links to my favorite comic strips.

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so near and so far

Culture clash comics.

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. . and fish

Practical ontology

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bagboys get the chicks?

Who knew?

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superhero rays

In the Spiderman movie that appeared a year ago, one striking departure from canon was to have a bio-engineered spider, rather than a radioactive one, bite Peter Parker. (Makes more sense anyway.) I wondered at the time, would Daredevil make … Continue reading

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can immortals be said to have a life-cycle?

On reading The Silmarillion I was mildly bothered that, in a story mainly about Elves, Elvish children are never mentioned. (Half-Elf children appear in a couple of episodes, as baggage.) Children are relatively scarce among immortals (because they spend a … Continue reading

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