Despite their name, comic books are not necessarily humorous in tone ; modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres.

Despite its many successes, this picture is not sufficient to explain the variety of structure we see in galaxies.

Despite its aridity, the Kalahari supports a variety of fauna and flora.

Despite the crackdown by Interpol on traffic and illicit manufacture of temazepam, the country has also become a major exporter of illicit temazepam of the " jelly " variety, trafficking it to the United Kingdom and other European nations.

Despite the wide variety among Christian liturgies, texts from the New Testament play a role in almost all forms of Christian worship.

Despite the complexities, contemporary political science has progressed by adopting a variety of methods and theoretical approaches to understanding politics and methodological pluralism is a defining feature of contemporary political science.

Despite this variety of forms, some game forms such as trading card games and wargames that are related to role-playing games may not be included.

Despite being more famous for its Sauvignon blanc production, Chardonnay was New Zealand's most widely planted grape variety from 1990 till 2002 when Sauvignon blanc finally surpassed it.

Despite its prominence in the industry, the grape is a relatively new variety, the product of a chance crossing between Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc during the 17th century in southwestern France.

Despite the suburban environment, a variety of wildlife inhabits the University's central park, open fields, and wetlands.

Despite their continued success, a variety of tensions emerged within the band to threaten their split.

Despite its success and positive critical review the only commercial single released was in Australia ; however, a variety of promotional singles were released across the world.

Despite this, Willandra is important habitat for many native species, including the emu, the threatened Plains-wanderer, red and grey kangaroos, echindas and a variety of reptiles, such as Gould's Sand Goanna and the Mulga Brown Snake.

Despite the variety of Bries, the French government officially certifies only two types of cheese to be sold under that name: Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun.

Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it — not entirely approvingly — " Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films.

Despite this multi-media campaign having had mixed results in terms of overall success, the Saltire continues to appear on a variety of Army recruiting media used in Scotland.

Despite the success of his reign, it is clear that after his death, his " loosely hung " empire splintered into a variety of Indo-Greek successor kingdoms, of various size and stability.

" Despite this he always made a point of responding to all letters delivered to his house, and he sent a variety of standard replies to all letters asking basic questions, as well as those from conspiracy theorists, proponents of hunting and ' cranks '.

" Despite the wide variety of philosophical thought, despite all the contradictions and mutually exclusive claims to truth, there is in all philosophy a One, which no man possesses but about which all serious efforts have at all times gravitated: the one eternal philosophy, the philosophia perennis.

Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village ( now Danvers ), Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town.

Despite the rump ’ s lack of distinctiveness, there were a variety of reasons why people wanted to be a part of the Rump Parliament.

Despite a similar name, the grape Malbec argenté is not Malbec, but rather a variety of the southwestern French grape Abouriou.

Despite its small size, Eel Pie Island has a wide variety of building styles.

Despite the averages, a variety of players fit " tweener " roles which finds them in the small forward and / or center position depending upon matchups and coaching decisions.

Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

Despite this, several individuals in modern times have claimed that they have rediscovered the methods in which the original Damascus steel was produced.

Despite the popularization of these five events, there is no fine line separating them from other extinction events ; indeed, using different methods of calculating an extinction's impact can lead to other events featuring in the top five.

Despite some similarities in their phenomenology and induction methods, EEG studies do not suggest an equivalence between OBEs and lucid dreams.

Despite their university-days acquaintance, their personalities and working methods contrasted enormously in almost every respect.

Despite their similarity, psychological and sociological researchers tend to differ in their goals, approaches, methods, and terminology.

Despite appearing to be bumbling and clumsy as usual, Clouseau once again displays surprising cleverness through his unorthodox methods.

Despite the fact that the Assassins probably only existed up until the late 14th century or early 15th century at most ( under Taqq ' iya ), content within Assassin's Creed, such as assassination targets, methods of assassination, symbolism, and Templar enemies, does not coincide with the factual history of the Assassins.

Despite this both camps often incorporate aspects of the other's methods.

Despite condemning Canning ’ s methods, the Royal Commission exonerated Canning and his men of all charges.

Despite his authoritarian methods, Balaguer had far less power than Trujillo, and his rule was much milder.

Despite the lack of distinction, this period of his life gave him a good working knowledge of continental war methods and strategies, even if most of his own experience was limited to defensive operations.

Despite these setbacks, in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farming methods to raise rice and barley.

Despite the critics clamoring for " maximum efficiency " rather than revolutionary methods, anarchist collectives often produced more than before the collectivization.

Despite his advocacy for modern methods of organization, including crews of soldiers doing the bulk of a family's illegal work under the supervision of a capo, at bottom Maranzano was a " Mustache Pete " — an old-school mafioso too steeped in Old World ways.

Despite this rather negative and villainous attitude, the malandro is often depicted as a hero because, in contrast to his methods, he does not use his cunning for true harm and malice.

Despite the new ' scientific ' methods, the torture of choice remained the traditional bastinado used to beat soles of the feet.

Despite the fact that Ellis ' approach emphasized cognitive, emotive, and behavioral methods, his strong cognitive emphasis provoked the psychotherapeutic establishment with the possible exception of the followers of Adler.

Despite a rule in the Democratic Party that delegates are to be allocated proportionally rather than winner takes all, some individual caucus groups decide for themselves how to allocate their group's delegates — for instance, by using a majority vote to determine which of the two methods to select.

Despite this, many of pseudoarchaeology's proponents claim that they reached their conclusions using scientific techniques and methods, even when it is demonstratable that they have not.

Despite the success of his methods, he does not often receive many assignments and therefore cannot pay rent or repair his battered 1970s Chevrolet Monte Carlo ; whereas his eccentricities make him the laughingstock of the Miami-Dade Police Department.