Other than a spate of strips in the early 1980s, Tharg rarely appears in stories, but instead purports to be the comic's editor.

In one episode, a Tharg suit in the comic's office was explained as a skin that Tharg had shed.

However, the popularity of the series with 2000AD's readers caused it to be revived, the explanation being that Ace passed through a dimensional rift in the star, and ended up being discovered by his counterpart in another universe, but not before a brief detour in the offices of Tharg the Mighty in a drawer filled with other characters that had been killed off over time.

** Tharg the Mighty ( David Bishop ) nominated for the Eagle Awards: Favourite Comics Editor

Tharg speaks mostly in English, but with various pithy Betelgusian aphorisms thrown in for colour.

* His abuse of the " droids " ( robots which reportedly write and draw the comic, depicted as mechanical caricatures of the actual staff ), who work long hours for little reward, and are summarily disintegrated should Tharg become displeased with them.

Tharg uses the Dictators as convenient scapegoats whom he can blame for printing errors and plot holes.

When a reader question the continuity clash in 1738, the editor ( as Tharg the Mighty ) said he would made " an emerald executive decision " that the Hondo story did not count, because nobody had paid any attention to it since ; in 1741 he had say he would " rather forget the idea was ever mooted ", viewing it a mistake.

Robert Hillyer, the poet, writes in his introduction to this brief animal fable that Mr. Burman ought to win a Nobel Prize for the Catfish Bend series.

In the introduction to A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume writes "' Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, more or less, to human nature ...

In his introduction, Blevins writes, " Since the time of F. C. Baur, very few scholars have doubted the Pauline authorship of the letter.

In an introduction to anime and manga, Jon Courtenay Grimwood writes:

The Dean of New Testament at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Gail R O ' Day, writes in her introduction to the Gospel in the New Revised Standard Translation of the Bible "... a date of 75-80 CE as the earliest possible date of composition for this Gospel ".

In the introduction to her own translation, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, writes that Burton " managed to get a rough approximation of the text published in English in 1883, nasty bits and all ".

In the introduction to The World of O. Henry: Roads of Destiny and Other Stories ( Hodder & Stoughton, 1973 ), William Trevor writes that when Porter was in the Ohio State Penitentiary " there was a prison guard named Orrin Henry, whom William Sydney Porter.

" On the Professor, Vivekananda himself writes " He urged upon me the necessity of going to the Parliament of Religions, which he thought would give an introduction to the nation.

It also appears in his Expanded Universe in 1980, but this version is the way it appeared in Astounding without the modifications: " I now see, as a result of the enormous increase in the art in 33 years, more errors in the ' 46 version than I spotted in the ' 40s version when I checked it in ' 46 ," he writes in the introduction to the story.

In the introduction to later editions of Hapgood's 1973 book, Mystery in Acambaro, David Hatcher Childress writes that Hapgood was convinced that they were authentic ancient artifacts which indicated that men and dinosaurs had cohabited together in the recent past, and that dinosaurs had not become extinct many millions of years ago.

Despite these problems, however, the novella's length provides unique advantages ; in the introduction to a novella anthology titled Sailing to Byzantium, Robert Silverberg writes:

According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp ", while John J. Collins writes that while the civil war between Jewish leaders led to the king's new policies, it is wrong to see the revolt as simply a conflict between Hellenism and Judaism, since " The revolt was not provoked by the introduction of Greek customs ( typified by the building of a gymnasium ) but by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.

In his introduction to Al-Ghazālī ’ s The Decisive Criterion of Distinction Between Unbelief and Masked Infidelity, Sherman Jackson writes:

As Irina Ratushinskaya writes in the introduction to that work: " Abandoning everything, he travelled to the distant island of Sakhalin, the most feared place of exile and forced labour in Russia at that time.

Thus, in an introduction writtern by Gifford to the Black Lizard editions of Jim Thompson's novels in 1984, Gifford writes: " The French seem to appreciate best Thompson's brand of terror.

" Every snapshot is a recollection, a remembrance ," he writes in the introduction, " and nothing can sensitise us more to the fragility of time, to its impermanent and fleeting naturethan photography.

In his 1983 introduction to Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising, Israel Regardie writes, " Once I was even so presumptuous as to warn ( Wilson ) in a letter that his humor was much too good to waste on hoi polloi who generally speaking would not understand it and might even resent it.

( November 27, 2632 A. D .) – Anthony Meredith of Ardis writes the introduction and notes to the newly discovered Everhard Manuscript

In many cases, a composer comes up with a chorus or a theme first and writes the preceding verse, introduction and exposition to match.

Masao Abe writes in his introduction to a new English translation of Nishida's magnum opus, that if one thinks of philosophy in terms of Kant or Hegel, then there is no philosophy taking place in Japan.

In the introduction of Wyness ( 1968 ) the author, writing about Deeside, puts the northern-edge of the Grampians at the River Dee when he writes:

In his introduction, Eric Chappell writes: “ When I decided to publish the scripts of Rising Damp my first thought was, did I have them all?

Jon B. Daniels writes the following in his introduction in The Complete Gospels:

Although drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontario, Leacock writes in the introduction:

" A proper name a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about " writes John Stuart Mill in A System of Logic ( 1. ii.

" He is also often asked why he writes such terrifying stories and he answers with another question: " Why do you assume I have a choice?

In the column, she answers etiquette questions contributed by her readers and writes short essays on problems of manners, or clarifies the essential qualities of politeness.

Michael Vasey writes: " Scripture is, of course, full of lament – and devotes its finest literary creation to warning the godly against quick and easy answers.

In “ The Tide ”, the final section of Evening Train, Levertov writes about accepting faith and that not knowing answers is tolerable.

As he writes in the preface to Testimony, Volkov's interviews with Shostakovich consisted of questions to which the composer provided " brief " and " reluctant " answers, and which Volkov compiled in a " mound of shorthand notes.

In an author's note at the close of the book, DeLillo writes that he has " made no attempt to furnish factual answers to any questions raised by the assassination.

Plutarch writes Roman Questions as a series of questions and answers.

Each person eventually gets their desired test score without the answers: Kyle's dream of becoming an architect is still alive by attending Syracuse University, Desmond ends up going to St. John's, Matty becomes an actor, Francesca writes a novel ( which is about six kids who conspire to steal the answers to the SAT ), and Anna decides to travel Europe for awhile before starting college.

He writes answers to questions about partying, restaurants and celebrities in the Finnish City magazine.