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Dang! I thought my clue was more subtle than that. However, it's not strictly speaking from Marvelman ... although that was his name when he first appeared in the 1950s, legal snarlups with Marvel comics following his 1980s revival (and total re-imagining) resulted in a name-change to Miracleman.
Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
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Only if I were to travel forty odd miles and visit a friend who still has all the old comics.Disembodied wrote:Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Imaginary phone conversation:Disembodied wrote:What, he doesn't have a phone?
Me:
“Hi… could you struggle up to your loft, fight your way through a lifetimes junk, find those boxes with the old superhero comics in,
dig out the Marvelman comics and tell me the name of the evil genius, please.”
Reply:
“Why don’t you Google it?”
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Oh, there's more...snork wrote:I tried, but all I could come up with is a non-SF novel linking a Pink Floyd song to Equatorial Guinea. (The Dogs of War)
Look here for a debate about whether it was Pink Floyd or a single by FSOL named Papua New Guinea accidentally invented Techno.
And then there is the track Mudmen on Obscured By Clouds, which seems to have something to do with Papua New Guinea.
Unfortunately none of this so far has anything to do with a classic SF-novel.
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