Somewhere, in an alternate universe very, very, very, very, very far away . . .

Image credit goes to Beavis and Butthead: Reading Sucks. I feel dirty now. The bad kind of dirty. It was worth it, though.

As ours is an animation fandom, it is worth a tip of the hat to a famous figure whose birthday was today: Walter Lantz, creator of Woody Woodpecker and company. While acting as the live host for his cartoon TV show in the late 1950s and beyond, he demonstrated the techniques of how animation is done, which was an eye-opener for many young viewers of the time. I remember seeing these episodes myself. Though it is a source of frustration for Quinn Morgendorffer to know that she was not the first famous redhead in animation (Woody probably was), at least she's the cutest. Unless you count Kim Possible. Or Daphne Blake. Or Mary Jane Watson. Oh, Jean Grey, yeah, for sure. And there were some others. . . .

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• Stacy Rowe, Seeker (Part II) (continued): [groans] Okay, I was not expecting that.