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Ong has no quarrel with the old-style comic like Mr. & Mrs., The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, and he seems to have a sneak ing admiration for Li'l Abner ("sexy and synthetic pastoralism" done with "manifest cleverness.") But, he says, "there seems to be nothing in the good comics...
Holy Serpents! Backed by the blessings of the gods and the winds of the spring equinox, the Argonauts set sail. On the Island of Lemnos, which was peopled solely by women, the Argonauts generously stopped off to help out with the spring sowing. Nine months later, 200 children were born...
On the Island of Samothrace, the Argonauts were initiated into the sacred mysteries. The Goddess of All Being mated with the Serpent Priapus, and was delivered of a bull. Then the sacred nymphs leapt on the Argonauts and scratched and bit them until even Hercules passed out. Thereafter, the Argonauts...
The Argonauts boldly pushed on through the dangerous Hellespont and entered the Black Sea. To their dismay, Hercules deserted, was later summoned home to perform another of his mighty labors. "Holy Serpents!" he growled. "Tell me what [it is] this time?" The job-cleaning the Augean Stables-didn't...
The Argonauts went on without Hercules. But when they reached Colchis, it was the goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the...