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All the Nazis are melted or zapped by lightning when the Ark is opened.

Shelley Winters swims under the obstruction and attaches a line at the other end. But the exertion takes its toll and she dies of a heart attack.

They switch the talking chimp baby with the one from Ricaldo Montalban's travelling circus.

A dalek drives straight over the fuse wire, setting off the explosives anyway.

The king dies, and so does Cordelia.

Can you give us any more than that to go on, Floyd?

[Swamp Thing #76]

According to what I could glean from the Interweb, Tefe's conception seems to have occurred in

Swamp Thing #76 "L'Adoration de La Terre",

...with a bit of a cameo from Swamp Thing in
Hellblazer #9 "Shot to Hell" which precedes it.

Then there are consequences for Constantine in Hellblazer #10 "Sex and Death", and more repercussions in Swamp Thing #77 "Infernal Triangles".

Tefe's heritage is made a central plot point in a story set mostly in Hell, round about the issue #96 mark of Swamp Thing.

Hi, Trout. I read it! Longtime Swamp Thing fan, here.

Tefe's conception was a great moment in DC crossover continuity. She has a very mixed bloodline (human, elemental and diabolic).

I suppose she would have aged more or less naturally (being a toddler round about 1990). But she has an elemental's control over her body, so she could look like anything.

Don't know what happened in her series. I'm collecting it, but haven't read it yet.

Why she went centre stage is because Swamp Thing became too powerful for his own title, and because Tefe was being installed as a potential successor to her dad anyway.

Maybe Vertigo's editor thought there'd be some mileage in the character to appeal to a different audience of teenagers/girls/spooky kids?

Yeah, I thought that too. Weren't we talking about Prog 1393, and not 1394?

I can swallow the Volgans storing their files in paper form. What seemed odd to me was Bill Savage, having gone to great lengths to convince the Volgans he's dead, burning the file that effectively concludes "yup, Bill Savage is definitely dead".

I think the best way to enjoy Savage is just to disengage your brain first. As long as dodgy politics are kept out of the way it's quite good fun to read.

My experience of Newbury was limited to the big Friends of the Earth day of action, which was important in its own way in terms of showing widespread support, but wasn't exactly manning the barricades.

I gave a radio interview before setting out from Cardiff, and wrote a student newspaper article for it when I got back, but the editor shortened it by taking out every other sentence to make it fit between an article about how sad it was that Take That had split up and one about Why I Love Chocolate.

Student scum.

I largely agree with Slips on this. You can only fight the power for so long. I don't think you ever need to turn your back on your youthful political leanings, it's just that life sooner or later gets in the way of politics, or at least political activism.

I could have camped out in the woods at Newbury to slow down the destruction of the common and woods to build the bypass, but I was busy with a Master's degree, I had no money, I had a private tenancy to keep up and rent to pay, and I had my entire life's collection of possessions with me and nowhere else to store them.

I could have been radical as hell if my home and everything in it had gone up in smoke, but the more you have to protect, the less time and energy you have available to you to go out and right the wrongs of the world.

Whilst policing is by definition a conservative idea, I don't think it is necessarily a right-wing one. It's just necessary for the maintenance of civil society. I suppose there are alternative ways of running things, but nothing is going to take the place of a specialised category of citizen whose job is to keep order any time soon.

Medical experiments on animals are not a matter of being left or right, it's a matter of right or wrong.

Abortion, too, is either right or it's wrong. You cannot make exceptions and say it's okay for this reason but not for that. You may disagree with me here, but where abortion is concerned, I think the only two criteria should be a) a woman is pregnant, and b) she does not want to have the baby. Either a woman has a right to choose or she doesn't.

There is nothing inconsistent about being right wing and giving to charity. Any real socialist will tell you that charity would be unnecessary if everyone is provided for according to his or her needs.

Conservatives love charity because it means you don't have to give anything if you don't want to, you can pick and choose who benefits from your generosity, and charity picks up the pieces where statutory services are inadequate. This allows you to reduce taxes and cut back on welfare spending because a few philanthropic citizens will step into the breach to plug the gaps, allowing those whose taxes remain low to spend more on their holidays and buy flashier cars.

Logan, you forget to add "...I'll get me coat".

There are right-wingers on the board, but not many of them. I can just imagine this thread filling up with their declarations immediately. I mean, you'd be falling over yourself to shout "ooh - me ! me !", wouldn't you?