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Each issue features two main stories, plus several onepage sketches, all created by peyo. How many of us who grew up in the 1960s and early 70s were. If todays generation y and zers accuse us baby boomers of being cynical and distrustful, well, i for one blame it all on comic books. Morrison has said he was actually commissioned to do the comic book back in 1999 and finished 25 pages before apple pulled the plug.
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