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Cool! Had to look them up and definitely gonna use Sidney Sime for handouts. Re Polly Wilson: She's got this style that is this strange mixture of naive, weird, experimental, accomplished, scrawny, and somehow constant all at the same time - hard to pin down and that is always a good thing IMHO.

Quite! Probably also right up there with the best of them for the most disconcerting illustrations of ever in D&D. Done by Polly Wilson, who did a lot of terrific monster illustrations for WD. Not to detract from the artwork in the FF, but I've always considered it a bit of a shame that some of...

:ROFLMAO: Always wondered about that myself. Didn't stop me from having lots of fun with it over the years, though.

Don't forget the Warlock Cat! It became the Hellcat and was later planescapified as the... [can't bring myself to say it].

Not the best of scans, but here you go:

FYI, the Chaoticus Symbioticus and the Whirler also made it into the Fiend Folio. They became the Symbiotic Jelly and the Vortex, respectively. And, um... the original carbuncle rules!

Which, if anything, the (editor's?) explanation of the name only seems to corroborate. :) Rather makes you wonder what "tirapheg" is an anagram of.

Communique: Approach Spiral, from: Michael Shrieve, Transfer Station Blue

So, not looking to resurrect this thread (well, not per se anyway), it's just that I happened to stumble upon it while looking for info on the IffanbuT and I now know more about it than that it's just a name. And then I accidentally brutally noticed that the thread had been killed off at the...

Today, perhaps. But they used to be quite a handful back in the day! :)

Actually...:

Don't you mean Alarums & Excursions? There certainly was one in A&E #10, which only ate... purple people.

Not sure I understand the question. Is there a resaon why they shouldn't be?