Sharkey’s pledge to impale President Bush, he makes clear, will only come into effect if he is actually elected to office.

The real oddity in Rabelais is the almost total absence of women. He’s surprisingly coy, too, about what to call their genitals, settling usually on “thingummy” or private parts - on one troubling occasion, “that monstrous solution of continuity”.

He moved without his usual sluggishness and I saw that he had also acquired a companion.  At his feet sat the cutest monster you ever saw, a three-headed hound, its back covered with snakeheads and the tail of a perfect little dragon.

Who was this Dust, who spoke to her through the mechanical parasite that has grafted itself to the severed scars of her wings?  Who was he to demand her hand in marriage?

The dualist religious philosophy of this belief framework worsens Elvis’ mental illness; as a Valentinian gnostic, his core religious beliefs are not based on messianic criteria as are those of orthodox Christianity, and he is horrified at the demand of DryCo that he become a virtual messiah that they can use to manipulate the Elvisian faith.

On first impression Doctor Schadenfreude appears to be slightly nuts, but is actually merely awkward and socially inept.

Personally, I would have liked to see squirrel Nietzsche appear to her and convince her to conquer the decadent and corrupt world presented in this story.

My normal Vulcan equanimity is perturbed, causing me to raise one supercilious eyebrow an alarming inch and a quarter up my otherwise unwrinkled forehead by anyone who claims that I and mine are not ‘real’ fans because our participation in fandom is somehow insufficient or politically incorrect.

The sculptor responsible for the “frightening” Lucille Ball statue that’s been terrorizing local residents is now offering to fix it for free, admitting it is “by far my most unsettling sculpture.”

Sehhff'hhihhnei'ithhhssshweihh – to the cat-wizards, Ith for short – is a saurian wizard who also becomes instrumental in the team’s mission.