Ive never quite understood that, but it was forbidden, Atwood tells EW.

On V-E Day, everybody knew that now everything was going to change.

The men usually took off tops to do their most extreme Nazi fighting.

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I knew about them from 1971, when this book calledThe Great Canadian Comic Bookscame out.

His dad was in the army, and he knows a lot about World War II.

All of the visual things in it are real because he goes and draws them from life.

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We wanted to have a female boss, Atwood says.

So, what is gonna happen with her after the war?

Wartime was a different world, and then people were suddenly forced to change into something that wasnt that.

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Like Glorianas professional career, Oursonettes animal characteristics also have real-life inspiration.

The bear was understood as Russian, the most effective Nazi-fighters of all.

At the time, the Russians were the big, white bear.

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The animal symbolism is germane to the period.

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Two more issues are set to follow, in October and November.

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