A long time ago, in an Archie Comics feature far, far away, someone made up some book titles with author punchlines. The only one I remember from that feature was Over the Cliff by Hugo First. Slightly later (and at least one of these will be edited for television) and on the 4th grade playground, I learned of Antlers in the Treetops by Hoogoost the Moose, Under the Grandstands by Seymour Kiesters, Mad Dash to the Bathroom by Willie Maekit (illustrated by Betty Doant), and Revenge of the Tiger by Claude Nads. My own modest contributions to the genre include Worm Capture by Earl E. Byrd, Psychosis Geological by Sedda Mental, and FAIL Fail by Noah Vail. All of these helped bring to being the above character, whose full name includes two red herrings and whose book-jacket moniker is P. R. Angster. The book might be called You Talking to Me, Punk’d?
Priscilla Rubella Angster, Improbable Author
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