The history of comic strips also includes series that are not humorous, but tell an ongoing dramatic story.

The initial story arc of the Superman / Batman ongoing series depicts the fall of Luthor's reign as U. S. President.

The company later released a second three-issue miniseries, continuing the story of the first, but the series didn't gain enough sales to warrant an ongoing series.

Crimes such as kidnapping, rape, and even murder may go unpunished if the perpetrator is to be retained in the ongoing story.

Frequently these characters are isolated to one of the ongoing story threads to allow a fan to ignore them if they do not like that element.

After the first couple of seasons all three shows changed their story format to that of a pure soap opera with interwoven ongoing narratives that ran over several episodes.

Creative settings also often call for broader story arcs than is often found in mainstream television, requiring science fiction shows many episodes to resolve an ongoing major conflict.

Gary Myers's story, " What Rough Beast ," casts Shub-Niggurath as the mother of all the gods, and her children as the chapters of her ongoing revelation.

After the success of the short story in the House of Secrets comic, the original creators were asked to write an ongoing series, depicting a more heroic, more contemporary creature.

Daredevil No. 158 ( May 1979 ), Miller's debut on that title, was the finale of an ongoing story written by Roger McKenzie.

National news media covered the ongoing story of " Too Many Santas.

The title was replaced by a Batman and Robin series following the Battle for the Cowl mini-series, as well as an ongoing Red Robin monthly which continues the story of Tim Drake.

* Ross appears prominently in Dave Sim's Melmoth ( ISBN 0-919359-10-8 ), a graphic novel " short story " ( as Sim described it ) related to but tangential to his ongoing 6000 page work Cerebus the Aardvark.

It is as if the presentation of relationships takes the place of story structure, and her work is best understood as an ongoing series of observations of the life she made for herself.

The episode storylines focus on the family's efforts to survive and find a way back to their own world, but the exploration of the exotic inhabitants of the Land of the Lost is also an ongoing part of the story.

Many early episodes were largely self-contained, with few plot-lines mentioned again, but the show developed a story arc and an ongoing episodic dimension.

Shawn: The most stable of the four main characters, Shawn has an ongoing sexual relationship with his girlfriend's mother Rhonda throughout the story.

As John Ney Rieber began the ongoing series, he used the stories to focus on telling Tim's story: he summed up his run later by saying " The Books of Magic aren't about Cool.

In keeping with the episodic format of such series in the 1960s, there are no ongoing story arcs and there is no reference made to Drake's NATO adventures in the later M9 episodes.

On October 25, 2008 in an interview with the Hezbollah owned Al-Manar channel, Nasrallah denied the assassination attempt, accusing the Israelis and Americans of fabricating the story and considering it as part of the ongoing psychological war against Hezbollah that aimed to imply that the party was suffering from internal disputes and assassination plots.

The story is still ongoing as of June 2012.

The series was noted for the fact that, unusually for an animation, it had ongoing story arcs and characters who developed and aged in real time.

The story centres on Bond's ongoing search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident ; thorough contact with the College of Arms in London Bond finds Blofeld based in Switzerland.

The relationship of Big Finish's productions in to the ongoing story of the television series is unclear, despite some of them now being broadcast by the BBC.

) While on tour in Europe in 1997, McDaniels ongoing battle with substance abuse led to a bout of severe depression, which spurred an addiction to prescription drugs.

During his time on the station, Odo is involved in an ongoing battle of wits with the Ferengi, Quark.

They are in fact part of the Prussian Army, for Grouchy, currently near Wavre, has chosen to obey the letter of Napoleon's orders to pursue the Prussians east, rather than the standing instructions to " march to the sound of the guns " and join in any ongoing battle.

Christian tradition gave him a distinctively Christian perspective, seeing in David's battle with Goliath the victory of God's King over the enemies of God's helpless people as a prefiguring of Jesus ' victory over sin on the Cross and the Church's ongoing struggle against Satan.

An ongoing battle for " generational ownership " has motivated a handful of marketing mavens and cultural commentators to coin and / or promote their own terms for sub-segments of the baby-boom generation.

He always tries to get around the rules in an ongoing battle of wills with security chief Nathan Ramsey.

Other executive branch offices have largely moved elsewhere, in Juneau or elsewhere in the state, in the ongoing battle between branches for space in the building, as well as the decades-long capital move issue.

As the commander of the White Squadron, Rupert fought at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665, breaking through the enemy defences at a critical moment ; Rupert's leg was injured in the battle, an injury that caused him ongoing pain.

Austrian General Rosenberg displayed serious concern when he realized that Davout's troops were not moving to account for the ongoing battle, and rightly assumed that more French troops were on the way.

Hoskins announced his retirement from acting entirely on 8 August 2012, due to his ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease.

In preparation to the band's official reunion show, Rhodes suffered a meltdown due to his ongoing battle with alcohol.

There has been a long ongoing battle between communities and environmentalists versus governments and corporations about how strict and how fairly the regulations and laws are written and enforced.

While the band worked on their fifth album, vocalist Cleanhead Gimura lost his ongoing battle with brain cancer and died.

In addition to working tedious hours making plutonium fuel rods for nuclear reactors and dealing with the constant threat of exposure to radiation, her time is consumed by an ongoing battle waged against her former common law husband in an effort to have more time with their three children.

Site C has been the center of a protracted and ongoing environmental battle since the 1970s, and a decision has not yet been reached as to whether or not to build the dam.

They have been receiving wide interest in the media with the ongoing custody battle over their daughters.

The battle was the culmination of an ongoing struggle between King Edward II and his most powerful earl, Thomas of Lancaster.

The PIRA engaged in an ongoing battle to gain the upper hand in electronic warfare with remote controlled devices.

For several years the Democratic Party fought an ongoing battle against the new bars and restaurants in the area, and also against formal adoption of the name " Soho ", preferring instead the descriptive " Staunton / Elgin Street Themed Dining Area " so as not to associate the area with alcohol consumption.

It featured a special task force featuring an array of characters, led by Matt Trakker, with transforming vehicles engaged in an ongoing battle against the criminal organization V. E. N. O. M.

Plans made by both sides were upset by ongoing battle and the Axis forces launched another assault on the US position on the morning of the 22nd.

Rob Kidd wrote an ongoing book series entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, following a teenage Sparrow and his crew on the Barnacle as they battle sirens, mermaids and adult pirates while looking for various treasures.

The narrow margin resulted in an ongoing judicial recount battle, and O ' Connor resigned as mayor on March 28, 2011.

In describing coverage of raid on Fallujah General Hospital he stated that The New York Times, " accurately recorded the battle of Fallujah but it was celebrated ... it was a celebration of ongoing war crimes ".