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“Oh God, they’re Belgians!”

Jack of Fables #8, April 2007

Writers: Matthews Sturges* & Bill Willingham

Artists: Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy, Lee Loughridge,

Letterer: Todd Klein

🎵 Having been given mind that’s a sieve

🎵 Makes life so easy to liiiive

“I desperately want to believe that things can be otherwise.”

“I think of where these words will find purchase in several weeks’ time, reproduced a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand times.

Who will read them? What effect will they have?

An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter.

A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself.

Who’s the better writer?”

“You must not torture yourself with pointless guilt. If there is someone that you love, then tell them.”

Saga of the Swamp Thing #34, Rite of Spring, March 1985

Saga of the Swamp Thing #25, June 1984

Writer: Alan Moore, Artists: Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben, Tatjana Wood

Saga of the Swamp Thing #24, May 1984

Bones: “Great. My sickbay is filled with people doing shots of fish-people juice.”

Asaroth, Grand-Duke of the Infernal Regions: “What's all the noise about?” Mammon: “It is the boy. He has eaten the pancake.”

“That's interesting. No matter how hard you hit, them horses don't usually explode...”

Hellboy: Wake the Devil chapter 5, October 1996

“We've been jerked!”

“Don't worry about it. You guys are from an effed-up time.”

“We're terrified.”