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Product Description The first book of Polyglot and Spleen (Gothic Dreams or How I Met My Spleen part 1) introduces us to our title characters in a fantastical trip through 1600s England, 1800s London, dreams, whimsical cinemas, the Minotaur's labyrinth, a performance by a most magnificent violinist and a run down an alleyway that leaves Polyglot wondering whether or not the shadowy figure that has haunted him all these years, might be the most beautiful girl he has ever met. Polyglot & Spleen is another Goth comic. Two kids, who dress in a lot of black (with splashes of purple and red and gasp white), in Victorian clothing and fishnet and face paint - with imaginations that border upon the creation of reality. They go out into the world and talk to people, find adventure, learn something about themselves. They begin to realize that there is so much more to the world than what they had been taught, and as much as their desirous imaginations demanded and dreamed. They have friends with names like Norbert Phinneas (named after the Knickerbocker School writer N.P. Willis) and Franston (who is, happily, named after nobody). Polyglot has moments of being a computer technician. Spleen works in her Uncle Grumble s bakery. Wait a moment...reconsidering, this doesn t sound like a Goth comic at all. Where is all the angst and gnurl? The tower and the gor(e)y? (Where is all of the merchandise without even having a story yet told?) Uh...Spleen likes to bake cookies in the shape of bats. For every holiday. Green bats in March. Red bats in February. Of course, orange bats for Halloween. Polyglot helps people understand the un-understandable world of computers. He isn t sarcastic about it either. You may even find him on the other end of your frantic call for help. They begin to see that all of their actions, chance encounters, no-such-thing-as-coincidences, are leading toward...that which they cannot (quite yet) put into words...and if I did, would give away the