LNH: Cover Gallery #36i

[Drew Perron]

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The cover is split diagonally. On one side, in the background, Bad-Poetry Boy,
Winter Droid, and the Crimson @venger are wearing old-timey basketball
uniforms and attempting to play defense against Cauliflower, who's leaping
over their heads with a basketball in his jaws. James Naismith stands in the
foreground.

NAISMITH: There's no rule that says a dog can't play basketball!

Foreshadowing Lad straddles the line between the two sides.

FL: But if you don't write one--

The other side is a mass of vines, with a basketball hoop bent down by their
weight and the concrete of the court cracked by flowers growing up through it.
A giant pink flowerbud hangs down into the hoop.

FL: --GIANT PLANTS will DRINK the OXYGEN from EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE!

CAPTION: [Why must a Christmas charity basketball game be erased from history?
How was the humble fir tree overthrown - by the AIRLESS BUD??]

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Author's Note: This one's more Bronze Age than most I do. I imagine it drawn
by Neal Adams.

Drew "Merry Slightly After Christmas!" Perron