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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: cerebus
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Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 03:55:29 EST
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> From:	dartvax!mwm

> in regards to the request for the posting on cerebus main characters:

There's a couple of things to add to your comments:

> Elrod the albino- parody of Elric of Melbourne by Micheal Moorhead...

That's Elric of Melnibone' by Michael Moorcock.
 
> [Adam] Weishaupt...

It should be noted that the source for this character is a real person,
the founder of the Bavarian Illuminati in the late 1700's. It is said
(though I don't know how true it is) that the real Weishaupt was a
double for George Washington --- which is why Sim drew him as he did ---
and in Shea & Wilson's novels about the Illuminati, they "claim" that
for at least part of Washington's presidency, it was actually Weishaupt
that ran our country and not Washington.

> the bug - ...hasn't been seen in quite
>     some time , and we're still wondering where he is.

Not nowadays. ("I can't tell you. They're *secret* Sacred Wars.")

> henrot the magician - father of red sophia...

Henrot is a characiture of Frank Thorne, former principal artist on the
Red Sonja strip. Thorne used to appear at conventions as Henrot (an anagram
of Thorne) with Wendy Pini as Sonja.
 

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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