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A First Time for Everything, Pg 37

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      It occurred to me way back when I was still actually doing all this as a daily comic that Doc is the only one of our major characters whose parents are still alive and who also gets along with them. Howlett and his father reconciled near the end of our 12th storyline, " Holiday ," but his mother died when he was very young. Mrs. Teasdale reached a rather tentative detente with her parents during the course of our 38th storyline, " The Old Country ," but it kind of hinges on her not seeing them very often. Tharka's parents died when he was young more than a hundred years ago - we saw him watch his mother's death way back near the beginning of our 4th storyline, " Dust Bunny ," and Jo visited her parents in Hell as the climax of our 48th storyline, " Hierogamia ." So, yeah, no one's exactly getting the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" around here...

Terebinth, Page 1,895: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Ah, Kestrel. He used to be the star around here, and now? He's the "meanwhile" guy up in the corner of the page.      Oh, well. As Cory pointed out back on page 1,752 , once you live happily ever after, you stop being interesting enough to show up in the comic...

A First Time for Everything, Pg 36

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Ah, what a touching reunion...

A First Time for Everything, Pg 35

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      The scene Ariadne's recalling at the end there took place in the middle of our 98th storyline, " Jurisprudence ," about eight months before our current melodrama. And now we all know!

A First Time for Everything, Pg 34

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Princess Drusilla first showed up in the comic along with the other nine princesses near the beginning of our 24th storyline, " A Long, Long Trail A-Winding ." But ever since they came to power in the Airborne Web near the end of our 72nd storyline, " Crash Positions ," Drusilla's become something of a foreign mininster/spy chief to her older sister Postuma's Queen of the Night. So many spiders!

Terebinth, Page 1,894: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Ah, some nice, relaxing haiku: if only we had any here...