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Pat Ditton
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Posted: 26 December 2007 at 11:50am \| IP Logged \| 1

This one is good for seeing TWO faces (images):

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Steven McCauley
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Posted: 26 December 2007 at 12:20pm \| IP Logged \| 2

First thing I thought of when I saw the chalice/faces was the old Electric Company bit of the two faces forming words B - ITE BITE.

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Greg Kirkman
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Posted: 26 December 2007 at 3:13pm \| IP Logged \| 3

It pleases me to know that I'm not the only one who had trouble with that panel.

As I said before, JB's version (the correct interpretation, obviously) was a contender in my mind from time to time, but I was never really sure.

I can't help but wonder if the head-on "skull" image is so horrific and tragic that many people, myself included, subconsciously rejected it and began looking for less painful interpretations of that panel.

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 26 December 2007 at 3:36pm \| IP Logged \| 4

Then there's the final page with an image of what I read as a portion of Mac's smoldering skull.....

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Posted: 26 December 2007 at 4:10pm \| IP Logged \| 5

Having taken another look at the issue, I don't see a skull there. Just a pile of smoldering ash.

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Dana Smith
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 12:40am \| IP Logged \| 6

I was very disturbed by this issue. Even though Mac wasn't one of my favorite Alphans, His death had a very real impact on me as a child. I loved this team and I thought this was the end....It's too bad Mac didn't stay dead (not counting his "return" by JB).

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