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friend, who aspires to be a children's book author), Dr. Lawrence
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Chicken ("Fish" for short) fights a continuing battle against weird monsters and cultural brain death. Notably, he has battled the mind control attempts of Vortoxians (a malevolent race of alien
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was a 1998 anthology comic in which
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