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The Foibles of Marc and Merg
by Jeremy Otters
The inside back cover of each issue of ELotH:TES Magazine (ELotH:TESM) features a Foibles of Marc and Merg comic.
This is a very popular (although necessarily highly non-canonical) comic set in the ELotH:TES universe, which often breaks the fourth wall and includes references to language, in-jokes, and happenings in the fan culture.
Usually set during The Rise Of The Elemenstors period, there are one-off comics that place Marc and Merg throughout the timeline of Battal. One particularly memorable series of strips ran from Mar '02 to Sept '02 telling a story arc of the misadventures of the two during The Longest Moment.
In the strips, Marc is a goateed Air Elemenstor (Marc takes no end of grief from Merg for his selection of Air) with an uptight arrogance that plays beautifully against the slovenly petty thief and used hat merchant of Merg.
As described in the first three comics to appear in ELotH:TESM, Marc and Merg have been magically fate bound by an impish Chronosorcellor named Imagia (she makes occasional appearances in the strip).
As of late, Marc and Merg are often accompanied by Zonik T Hegehaug's loser cousin, Steve the Quilp, and Stabby the Electric Rat - an electrified rodent that speaks and acts like a 1940's gangster.
Strips
Discussion
| Does anybody know if Marc and Merg are also a Ken Nordris creation? I think I may have read that somewhere.. |
| No, I distinctly remember Ken Nordris criticizing M&M for not being serious enough, and for not feauturing enough pictures of depressed underage girls to appease his shoujo-lust. M&M is actually drawn by Jeremy Otters, a Cube-phonics programmer and art contributor. |
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