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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><loonystart>Vol. 
                2, Issue 2<br>
                November 15, 1999<br>
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              <h5 align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Under 
                Cover :<br>
                </font><font color="#904C10" size="6">J.D. &quot;Illiad&quot; 
                Frazer </font><font color="#904C10" size="3"> </font></i></font></b></h5>

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                  <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
                  Rowan &quot;<a href="mailto:sumaleth@frag.com">Sumaleth</a>&quot; 
                  Crawford<br>
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                <p align="left"><img src="../../images/letters_new/i.jpg" width="10" height="39" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">lliad 
                  will be a name very familiar to regular readers of loonygames, 
                  well, it should be! Apart from doing the cover for <a href="../../1.29/index.html">issue 
                  1.29</a>, Illiad's ISP-inspired kinda-sitcom-stype comic series, 
                  <a href="http://www.userfriendly.org">User Friendly</a>, has 
                  been featured inside the hallowed pages of loonygames every 
                  day since <a href="../../1.12/index.html">issue 1.12</a>!</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But 
                  first things first. Illiad? What sort of name is that? It certainly 
                  had me pondering that question for a long time - was it his 
                  real name? If not, what does it mean? How is it pronounced? 
                  Was it Egyptian maybe? Can it be used to hurt people? The truth 
                  behind the name is actually related to one of Illiad's personal 
                  interests - poetry - and stems from one of his favorite poems; 
                  Homer's epic, The Iliad.</font></p>
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                      <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.2/uc/images/illiad_userfriendlybook.gif&amp;w=410&amp;h=475&amp;back=/content/2.2/uc/index.php&amp;name=Under%20Cover"><img src="images/illiad_userfriendlybook_sml.gif" width="92" height="107" border="0" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                      <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                        <ignoreme>The cover image from Illiad's new book (73k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">OK, 
                  I guess if I had known something about poetry then the name 
                  wouldn't have been quite so enigmatic, but the additional 'l' 
                  really threw me off the track! (And who'd have guessed that, 
                  as well as working in the atomic power industry, Homer was also 
                  a poet? Not I!)</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So we 
                  know that it's not his real name now, but the name, Illiad (pronounced; 
                  ILL-EE-ADD), is mentioned everywhere, including on his new book 
                  (discussed below) with no mention ever of his real name. So 
                  what is his real name? Well (I feel a bit like Shaggy at the 
                  end of an episode of Scooby Doo, just about to tear off the 
                  mask and reveal the true identity of this weeks baddie!), Illiad's 
                  real name is J.D. Frazer!</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ooh, 
                  initials! There's still some mystery after all!</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Regardless 
                  of whether you want to call him Illiad or J.D., history will 
                  record him as the creator of the incredibly popular comic strip, 
                  User Friendly, a project that started innocently enough, with 
                  Illiad drawing a few of his work mates, but it was quickly to 
                  become a success that even now is still growing, with plenty 
                  of fans in high places. &quot;Eric S. Raymond? Jerry Pournelle? 
                  John Carmack? There are others, take your pick!&quot;</font></p>
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                      <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.2/uc/images/illiad_matrix.gif&amp;w=720&amp;h=529&amp;back=/content/2.2/uc/index.php&amp;name=Under%20Cover"><img src="images/illiad_matrix_sml.gif" width="107" height="84" border="0" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                      <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                        <ignoreme>Illiad does the Matrix (88k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our 
                  Editor loonyboi, is also a huge fan of User Friendly and its 
                  little group of strange inhabitants. I asked him why he approached 
                  Illiad about running UF daily on loonygames. &quot;Because the 
                  strip rules. If Dilbert were remotely funny, it still wouldn't 
                  be half as entertaining as User Friendly.&quot; Actually, the 
                  Dilbert reference also comes up in Amazon.com's glowing review 
                  of the book:</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;User 
                  Friendly is to the open-source world what Dilbert is to swarming 
                  hives of Windows cubicles.&quot; [<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565926730/o/qid=942617182/sr=8-1/002-5684527-8618825">Amazon.com</a>]</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Illiad 
                  has a seriously wide-ranging background, seemingly happy to 
                  give anything a bit of a go. Take his university career for 
                  example. &quot;A year of criminology, two years of geology/planet 
                  science, and about two years of classical studies and literature. 
                  Never graduated.&quot; If nothing else, he could probably write 
                  a really interesting book about industrial companies that illegally 
                  dump toxins into the atmosphere (!).</font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Cover illustration 
  &copy; 1999 Illiad. Under Cover is &copy; 1999 Rowan Crawford. All other content 
  is &copy; 1999 loonyboi productions. Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited, 
  you cartoonish villian, you.</font></i></p>
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