I have gone on record with my Falcophilia previously, but this is his first appearance in an actual strip. For those as of yet unfamiliar with the world-stopping coolness of Falco, here is a pretty good place to start. Let’s face it, if you had the opportunity to stroll through a music video wearing a Napoleon suit, wouldn’t you take it?
This might be an exaggeration of the number of distinct Karajan Beethoven symphony cycles available on cd. There might in fact be only five.
Elton John’s Too Low For Zero was the third cd I ever bought. Of course, it came out in 1983, and I bought it in 1995, but still, you know…
– Count Dolby von Luckner
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Well, Geoff is away laying waste to the East Coast for a couple of weeks, so we take a break from the riveting storyline of two-headed Transcendentalists, robot beavers, and ludicrously unwell Poes to check up on an old friend and learn an important lesson about what Albert Einstein called The Most Powerful Force in the Universe. So tune in, you fine friends of a feather, to The First Battle in NAPOLEON’S LAST CAMPAIGN!!
– The Count and Geoff
Oh, the 80s… was there anything scarring divorce COULDN’T solve back then?
Anyway, one of the most enduring memories I have of my junior high math classes was a problem along the lines of “An Indian Tribe received $40 for Manhattan four hundred years ago. If they had invested that money at 7 percent interest, compounded monthly, how much would it be worth today?” The answer, of course, was something like Iggledy Biggledy Jillions of Dollars, which was intended to reinforce either that compound interest is rad or that the Native Americans had poor financial counsel.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
