As I was in the middle of my Famous Mutants in History class this afternoon, one lone green hand rose up from the back row. I stopped my dissertation on Richard Nixon and his amazing powers of paranoia and called on the student. He was a new boy so I had to check the seating chart to get his name.

"Yes, Scrub, what is it?" I asked.

"Yeah . . that stuff on Nixon is like, real interesting and all, but I was wondering if mutants ever do anything cool."

"Cool? What do you mean?"

"You know, like cartoons and stuff."

"Well actually, I myself made an animated short once. I did it in with a good human friend of mine, Tana Lee Alves. Would you like to see it?"

"Yeah dude!"

"Okay then, here you go . . "