All right, kiddies, I hope you’ve been enjoying the “Real Time.” It’s been strange new world of political comedy writing, to say the least. But at least there’s been no shortage of idiots outside of the White House. They’re America’s most reliable renewable resource.
Me, well, the moonlighting has come to fruition. On April 1st, “Skrull Kill Krew #1″ hits the stores. Learn about it here.
Pretty, ain’t it? My editor has also passed on this handy resource, for those of you who, like me, would have little idea how to find your local comic purveyor.
And, as a special bonus, I’m told there will be special collector’s edition covers of all five issues. Here, then, exclusively, is a peek at the first. I give you… a cow dressed as Thor.
I promise that this all makes a kind of sense.
Fanny Roborat
61 comments
SpottedDog
March 22, 2009 at 11:48 pm
1Well, this is a surprise. Nice job. I’ll look for it at my local shop.
M. Moskowitz
March 23, 2009 at 3:54 am
2$3.99?? Oy, I used to buy comic books for 25 cents! Nice racket, Adam! (I wonder how I can get a piece of this?) By the way, Adam, your “editor” gave the name of your fine novel as Schrodinger’s Cat.
Wait! That’s it! Buy a bunch of these comic books, cut out one of the pages, replace it with a photo-copied page of a Nancy and Rollo panel from 1953, and sell it as a rare 1st edition misprint. That will go for at least $499.95 - easy. Heh, heh. Where do all of these brilliant ideas come from??!!!
Harold
March 23, 2009 at 6:16 am
3Skrullburgers, baby! Cows firing energy beams out of their eyes!
Damn this economy! I might just have to hang out at the spinner rack until the shopkeeper chases me away with a broom.
Mary
March 23, 2009 at 8:06 am
4Very cool drawings. I just might check it out at my local comic vendor - Vault of Midnight. Fits doesn’t it?
So, anyone miss me out there? It has been 2 years since last I lurked around here. The short of it- I am now a licensed veterinary technician working odd hours at a companion animal clinic. Changing careers in one’s 50s is no stranger than incubating eggs in one’s bra.
(From a veterianry health view point- I don’t see any reason it shouldn’t work.)
Concetta
March 23, 2009 at 8:42 am
5Mary, of course we remember you. Welcome back! Two years ago I was still lurking in the lounge, so I may be a new name to you. So how was school anyway? Going back to school at 50+ must have been a challenge. Not that I’m anywhere near that age myself, unless you call 50 years plus 43 days = 50+. I guess it technically does, but I’m not ready to concede that point just yet.
What has happened in the last two years? becca and brian are back in the world and have settled in Portland, OR. A little hatchling of their own is expected any day now. Dale got her PhD in Spanish Inquisition Technology or something like that and now teaches the historically correct administering of thumb screws and waterboarding techniques at Columbia University!!!! We’re all so very proud of her. Adam is writing for Real Time these days, as well as the above moonlighting excursion (which in the end, will probably pay off more than all his TV work combined.)
madbard
March 23, 2009 at 8:51 am
6oh you sad sad thing. there are always idiots INSIDE the white house as well depending on how you look at it. i don’t get HBO (yeah yeah commie hippie me) but surely geithner has gotta be good for a New Rule or two.
Oh-oh. I said something bad about Obama. What’s that giant shadow overhead? OMG Oprah-saurus GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!
Chadwyke
March 23, 2009 at 3:49 pm
7I hope everyone here celebrated along with me when the Cassini spacecraft passed it’s original 4 year time line for service and got an extension from NASA. My head is still throbbing.
The beauty of robotic space exploration is that you can stop loss the machines and keep the mission going as long as it’s productive. And nobody whines, or says they’re lonely or they have to go to the bathroom or suffering from radiation exposure or this just isn’t fair. The American government can be infuriating, hapless, totally incompetent and corrupt, but, by Jesus, we can still build a spacecraft. Hoorah!!
mr mu
March 23, 2009 at 4:41 pm
8It’s nice to reach a point where you don’t have to sell ad space on your back.
Mary
March 23, 2009 at 5:19 pm
9Madbard - not having HBO makes me a commie?? Heck, I thought it just meant I was poor and uncool
But then, I have always been a big fan of NPR and NASA. (That’s liberal with a capital L , thank you.) We all need some vices in our lives.
cooper
March 23, 2009 at 5:48 pm
10Welcome back, Mary. We’ve missed you. I’m glad you had good success at the university. A vet tech, huh? One of my cats keeps getting his butt kicked by a non-neutered neighborhood tom. Okay to use Neosporin on his scrapes & scratches, as long as he can’t lick it off? Don’t answer if you’re going to charge me $70.00 for a consultation.
Ann
March 23, 2009 at 6:24 pm
11Skrulls? You’re writing comic books now??
There’s nothing that man can’t do! (Except, apparently, maintain his blog. Sigh.) I’ll be buying a couple of copies. Any chance I can get them autographed?
I’m hoping that’s a bull in that Thor costume. Otherwise, the cross-dressing is just wrong.
Harold
March 23, 2009 at 7:11 pm
12Ann, Thor WAS a woman for a while, at least in the Universe X timeline. And now Loki is a woman.
At first I thought that was a seriously off-model Beta Ray Bill. But I do love the Thor Cow!
Adam, when are you going to have a major write-up and/or interview in Wizard magazine? My subscription runs out in a few issues, so maybe I’ll have to re-up!
Ann
March 23, 2009 at 7:54 pm
13Sorry, Harold. You know what an old-fashioned gal I am! Dr. Donald Blake is the only Thor I’ll ever acknowledge.
SeattleDan
March 23, 2009 at 8:55 pm
14I’m thinking a new book report at the General’s on this one. Something I can read in an hour or two. But I have to wait till next week? Geez, can’t I get an advance review copy?
Mary
March 24, 2009 at 7:17 am
15Cooper- Neosporin is fine. It shouldn’t hurt your cat if he does lick it. May I suggest you try keeping your cats inside? An infection from a cat bite gets nasty in a hurry. Worse, your cat could contract other diseases- the worst being rabies and FIV. Neither one is curable.
Charge you $70? No way! a) I’m a tech, not a DVM; 2) $70 is too much. Especially in this economy.
As for Thor and Loki, this is all SO confusing. Things sure have changed since I took mythology.
David
March 24, 2009 at 7:42 am
16I remember the Dewey decimel system, in which all bibles were shelved under mythology. What’s most confusing for me is the inability of so many people to distinguish myth from reality.
Regarding Cassini - I participated in the protest against its launch (and I am a big fan of space exploration) - something about plutonium as the energy source and Oh, don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe. Happy nothing went awry and that Cassini is performing above and beyond. Still not happy about launching plutonium.
SeattleDan
March 24, 2009 at 10:23 am
17David, I think launching plutonium into space is exactly what Klaatu was warning us against doing.
dee
March 24, 2009 at 1:35 pm
18I expect — no I demand pictures of Baz diving into his first birthday cake, an occasion which will be celebrated quite soon. And the beccaandbrian Baby Watch continues. Any day now…
Dale
March 24, 2009 at 5:34 pm
19This reminds me of an art history lecture in college–a professor with a strong French accent talking about this very abstract painting and about “the cows,” and for the life of me I could not see the cows, or understand why there would be cows, or even abstract allusions to cows. I dropped the class, despondent about my ability to understand modern art. Later someone told me it was how the prof pronounced “chaos.”
Linkmeister
March 24, 2009 at 10:49 pm
20Ha! Dale, I was carrying some books into the Century City Marriott one time; the outermost book’s title was “Chaos of Crime” (a Luis Mendoza police procedural by Dell Shannon).
The valet parker remarked upon it: “Chowse of Crime?” he said.
Vinnie
March 25, 2009 at 5:39 am
21(Yo, Adam. Look pal, I t’ink ya shood be lissenin’ ta da girls here an’ come up wit’ uh photo or two ov da little tyke. I don’t know ’bout Concetta (dat is such uh beautiful Italyon name; I bet she’s uh real sweetheart.), but dee I got some ‘xperience wit’. Bettuh come up wit’ some pictures really quick, pisan.)
It's Pat!
March 25, 2009 at 8:46 am
22Two days before ice fishing trip. Went golfing last weekend. This is a weird place to live. No skrulls though. Hmm.
Can anyone explain who my senator is (besides Klobuchar)? And how in the heck did Bachmann get re-elected?
These are questions with no answers.
Cotton Mather
March 25, 2009 at 3:54 pm
23Many letters from mine father hath arrived these past 5 months, each beseeching me more to returneth with much haste to his hearth. Ship after ship doth sail into Boston Harbor each day and Pops doth implore me to return to help in the winning of these wretched sailors’ souls.
Alas, the balmy climate of Charleston, SC appealeth to me more. That, plus I hath smelled wretched sailors before. I greatly prefer the lavender odor that wafts from the beauteous BettyJo, who doth live in the house which adjourns my school chum Ethan’s plantation house, where I am a most grateful guest. She works in the mansion as a housekeeper and cleaneth the bookshelves each time I stop by the library to picketh out a book. As I sitteth down to read, BettyJo willst invariably walk by, coyly brushing her feather duster against mine hair, turn and smile a captivating smile as she doth continue her walk out of the room. Prithee, she has a memorable way of walking as well, which I hath never noticed in any of my female relatives. I studyeth her movements closely, but with the utmost of respect, I assure you. For it is a sin to covet a single, healthy, blue eyed, blond, tan, curvaceous, remarkably outgoing and friendly 18 year old commoner. Oh, my.
cooper
March 25, 2009 at 6:18 pm
24Dale, no kidding! I thought those sorts of linguistic faux pas only happened to southerns when we listened to yankees. I had a distinct advantage over the guys at my high school - my mom grew up in Massachusetts (my dad was a native), so I was often pressed into service as a translator for the occasional Roman Catholic from PA who got transferred to our small town.
Jerry, The King of Comedy!!!
March 25, 2009 at 6:26 pm
25As if this isn’t true…
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/03/24/tomo/index.html
cooper
March 27, 2009 at 5:52 am
26Mary, no can bring the cats into the house. The little lady is allergic to cat dander, et al. Plus, we have 5 cats now and just imagine the smell! Thanks for the tip though.
Good luck with your landing employment in this economy. The unemployment rate in Charlotte is now 10.5%. Word has gotten out that NC is the land of milk and honey and 10’s of thousands of people have moved down here looking for work. There is none. And the 2 big banks in town (BOA and Wells Fargo) are this year laying off up to 60,000 employees between the two of them. Hard times indeed. Everyone cross your fingers for our country.
David
March 27, 2009 at 3:36 pm
27Jeebus, cooper, 10.5%? South Carolina/Michigan numbers. Cross your fingers for Obama. He is the quarterback, and there will be no next season if he loses. At this point I’m thinking Zen and the Art of de-Debacling the Global Economic Debacle. We can neuter the bastards who are responsible later.
cooper
March 28, 2009 at 4:57 am
28David, I’m of the same mind. But let’s do make sure that deserving butts eventually get spanked for all their misbehavior.
Yeah, I find the 10.5% unemployment rate to be rather shocking, but I was thinking today, it could be worse. I could live in Fargo, ND in the middle the winter, in the middle of this recession, with maxed out credit cards and with my house currently being destroyed by mounting flood waters, as I watch helplessly. Plus, I could have a serious bronchial infection and three smashed, possibly broken, fingers, from four frigid days of pointlessly filling and carrying sand bags in the brisk Canadian arctic wind - with no job and no health insurance. Yeah …… it could be worse.
Roger
March 28, 2009 at 10:55 am
29Cooper, I bet at least a hundred people in Fargo fit that description at this very minute.
David
March 30, 2009 at 8:59 am
30Best I can tell, this didn’t take the first try. Hope this doesn’t wind up as a double post.
cooper,
Perspective never goes out of style, nor should it. It never makes a wrong right, but it goes a long way toward keeping us grounded.
One thing that has always stuck with me is the fact that because I am white, I was not considered an expendable in American society. Having grown up in the apartheid South, I knew what expendable meant, as we were reminded with horrifying clarity by Katrina.
I cannot help but now wonder if for the uberrich, the rest of us are all considered expendables, or at least externalities, even though logic tells us that that mindset will ultimately take everyone down.
Chris Harlan
March 31, 2009 at 12:48 am
31Dale, I’m thinking a band; either “Cows of Chaos” or “The Chaos Cows,” though, perhaps, “Udder Confusion” will do. Ahhh, that old chestnut! “What happened when the cow tried to jump the barb wire fence, you ask? Why, udder destruction, of course.”
Cooper, David. Wow, I’ve been working so hard that I worked right through Hotel Paradise without getting a chance to see it. Many long hours. And I’m very grateful. Unemployment’s high here, and Industry conditions never fully recovered after the WGA strike, though they are quite a bit better than hey were this time last year. We’re also double digit, and there are places around the state that are very high double digit. El Centro is like 24%, but some of that is the nature of El Centro.
And David, I don’t think you need to wonder. There has been plenty of evidence recently that predator class firmly believes we are nothing more than another commodity. All of the bonuses, all of the parties; that whole class of people has psychologically separated themselves from us. They have those parties and hand out those bonuses–and I’m not talking just about AIG–not because they think we won’t notice, but frankly, because they don’t care if we notice.
Chris Harlan
March 31, 2009 at 12:50 am
32PS Dale, I just caught up with the Thor cow, and I think something magic is happening here.
waterfowler
March 31, 2009 at 10:59 am
33Mr. Coop & David, and the rest of y’all.
Sincerely, how do y’all feel about these bailouts and mortgaging our grandchildrens’ future?
I voted against Cornyn for voting for the original bailout last year.
It’s just disturbing to me. The auto’s aught to go into bankruptcy. As well as any bank or insurance co. that can’t pay it’s bills. That’s what we would have to do. But the way the dems are moving is to make sure our posterity will eventually pay the price.
I know how the rednecks think on this, I’m just curious as to what the lefties are thinking.
David
March 31, 2009 at 1:33 pm
34A failed economy is a far greater problem than deficits, and deficit spending when the private sector has failed on an incredibly massive scale is the only rational course of action. Remember, it was when FDR followed the advice of his conservative advisor and tried to reduce the deficit too soon that the second recession set in, and that the reason WWII got us out of the Great Depression was that it was forced Keynesianism, but sadly the least productive variety, namely military Keynesianism.
I don’t pretend to know exactly what should be done, but I do know that Keynesianism is what saved our asses last time around, and an updated version of the New Deal, incorporating what worked and avoiding what didn’t, is our best bet. My guess is that because he understands the Great Depression and the New Deal so well, Ben Bernanke is the best horse to bet on, which is what I think Obama and Geithner are doing.
And where was the outrage when W was committing the US to about $2 trillion in total debt for the Iraq War, again debt that benefits no one but folks like Halliburton, but certainly does nothing to advance the general economic well being of America or the rest of the world. And the idea that W was keeping us safe from terrorism by invading Iraq is way, way beyond laughable. It was not only a war crime, it was the stupidest decision any American president has ever made, and there have been some stupid ones, including LBJ’s decision to escalate the Viet Nam Debacle.
Hoover was trapped in a misguided Republican fiscal ideology, but he did not visit the kind of death and destruction on another country that LBJ/RMN (of course, it all started under DDE and JFD because of the decision to side with France and their desire to re-colonize Indo-China, I imagine on behalf of Michelin) and GB/DC have. It is in his Iraq and Af-Pak policies that Obama might listen to the wrong advisers and make matters worse instead of systematically, wisely ending those colossal foreign policy clusterf@#&%s. On the economic clusterf@#&% left behind by GB/DC (remember, DC said that RR proved that deficits don’t matter) Obama is doing as well as any president could, especially because he is a non-ideological pragmatist, he is knowledgeable, and he is intelligent, much to the apparent surprise of the CEO of Bank of America.
Also, there is no real parallel between a family budget and the federal budget - even my Dems got this wrong. And there is no longer any such thing as an independent national budget, if there ever was. Obama gets that as well. Yes, the US, China, Japan, India, the EU, Russia, and everybody else had better talk to and co-operate with each other.
There is a much bigger world than generally occurs to rednecks, with whom I will hunt, drink beer, and trust with my life in moments of specific danger - I grew up with and know the good things about rednecks. But I also know, including because of teaching at a high school and then a community college that served redneck populations, the limits of conventional redneck thinking. But I applaud Howard Dean for reminding the Democratic Party that rednecks are Americans, too, and we are all in this together. And the quicker we start talking to, instead of yelling at, each other, the better. I think Toby Keith has already made that transition, probably because of his close friendship with Willie Nelson.
And glad you checked back in. Like I said before, the FA neighborhood is incomplete when you stay away. Also, eat more mullet - they aren’t just for bait…
It's Pat!
March 31, 2009 at 2:01 pm
35Cooper #28: For what it’s worth, if you can look past this flood, Fargo (and ND overall) is doing really well right now. Mostly due to the oil drilling going on, but also because they have always had a stable population, they don’t spend money frivolously, and invest a lot in education. If it didn’t suck to live there, people would flock.
Nice recap David. I agree with most of what you say, but I don’t think we have ever gone Keynesian to the extent BHO wants to go, which unnerves me.
Ice fishing was good, by the way. Caught a pile of perch. Saw bald eagles picking fish off the ice, and great big white tail deer hanging out by the road like a bunch of bored teenagers. Pretty cool.
Aunt Sam
March 31, 2009 at 5:41 pm
36This is why I love FanAp. Started as a discussion about comic books and evolved into Keynesian economic theory.
School is going well, although I think I made one of my professors cry today. But in a good way.
cooper
March 31, 2009 at 7:13 pm
37Hey waterfowler. Our economic system is in new territory, maybe Injun territory, who knows? Chrysler and GM will both be in bankruptcy after their time runs out in the next two months. If the banks had been allowed to fail, the consensus is that the whole global house of cards would have come down and a worldwide depression would have settled in for a generation or more. Either way, you, me, our children, our grandchildren and their children will be paying the price.
This whole recovery effort is too complex for me to thoroughly grasp. Nobel Prize for Economics winner Paul Krugman is jumping up and down saying Obama isn’t pouring enough money into the system to fix the problem. The Republicans are screaming that these bailouts will be the end of rapacious capitalism as they know and love it. From my standpoint at least, that’s a good thing.
I’m pretty steamed about this whole mess. I really hate that the corporate greed heads who caused much of the problem get to hop on their yatchs and sail off to the Caymans, instead of breaking rocks in the Big House. I guess the lefties and rednecks can at least agree that lower and middle class Americans really got screwed on this one. (BTW, I’m not technically a far left lefty. Maybe an ardent, bleeding heart progressive is more like it.)
SeattleTammy
April 1, 2009 at 7:15 am
38I just got an email!
We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of our daughter Kai Nida Davis to the world. Born March 31, 2009 @ 10:58pm, weighing 8 lbs and 21 3/4 inches in length, Kai is a baby ready to tackle the world. Kai and Becca are resting and doing well. Dad on the other hand is a nervy mess
Congrats Becca(and Brian)! What a cutie!
SeattleTammy
April 1, 2009 at 8:37 am
39I should have added, go here to see a picture:
http://www.beccabrian.com/
Ron Mwangaguhunga
April 1, 2009 at 9:19 am
40Adam: Are you a Skrull? I ask because this blog post is a little “Skrully.”
dee
April 1, 2009 at 9:29 am
41Isn’t she lovely?
Isn’t she wonderful?
Stupid work got in the way of my checking email/website every ten minutes to see if Baby Davis had arrived. She’s already proven her intelligence by being born 1 hour and two minutes BEFORE April Fool’s Day. Congratulations to the happy parents. She’s adorable!
Dale
April 1, 2009 at 10:26 am
42Azaleas, chickies, baby Davises, baseball!! They can take away our 401Ks but we’ll always have SPRING!!!
It's Pat!
April 1, 2009 at 2:03 pm
43B&B: beautiful beautiful, beautiful girl!
gsny
April 1, 2009 at 2:33 pm
44Popping in from the lurkers’ lounge to add congrats and felicitations to B&B! (Phew, a couple more bourbon toasts and I never would have managed felisi. . , fleci. . . , oh, look, pretty baby pic!)
Chris Harlan
April 1, 2009 at 2:42 pm
45Ahh! Best birthday in the world! I know this personally, because I too was born just a few hours shy of April Fools Day.
On behalf of the rest of the 3/31ers: Welcome Kai Nida! Happy Birthday!
Aunt Sam
April 1, 2009 at 3:09 pm
46B&B~ She’s beautiful! I love it when babies are born with a full head of hair. Prepare for more work & more fun than you thought possible in the next few weeks.
Chris Harlan~ Happy birthday, and many joyous returns of the day.
B. Reynolds
April 1, 2009 at 3:42 pm
47Congratulations becca & brian! “Now…you..play….the game!” - for several decades. (That was my best line from “Deliverance”, but Jon Voight always said I over-acted the rest of that scene. Of course Jon was always such a schmuck. But even though he said that about me, I love him like a brother - no, really, I do! Like my oldest brother, who used to kick my butt and steal my lunch money everyday on the way to school. I love Jon like that brother. But enough about me.) Best of luck to you three. Start saving for college……….now would be a good time.
Dale
April 1, 2009 at 5:38 pm
48KAI–The first couple of weeks are tough, but you’ll get used to it. Nothing beats the womb, but it looks like you picked a pretty good pair of parents to be born to. If things get really stressful, you’ve got a great relaxation aid right there on the end of your hands.
cooper
April 1, 2009 at 5:38 pm
49Pat’s right. Beautiful, beautiful baby girl! Congratulations! The noise meter in your house will be pegged at 11 from time to time, but that’s part of the charm. I’m really happy for you and be sure to get some rest whenever you can during the next little while.
your pal, cooper
David
April 1, 2009 at 6:16 pm
50Way, way, way cool, B&B, or more properly BB&K, which maybe qualifies you for TARP funds…just thinking out loud.
SallyMutant
April 1, 2009 at 8:51 pm
51Oh! BB&K (I like it, David)! Congratulations on your most amazing, charming, whatta gorgeous gal, adventure of all.
And, thanks, Ma & Pa, for blogging about it.
Ann
April 1, 2009 at 9:47 pm
52Oh, she’s absolutely beautiful! Congratulations, Becca and Brian. Another wonderful adventure for our intrepid world travelers!
Dr R. Westheimer
April 2, 2009 at 4:04 am
53Vell, I tell you vas ist wrong mit dis blog here; you all havink postpartum election blues! You are not used to vinnink. I t’ink you all go home, haf vigorous sex, und you all be much better. Come to my haus und haf vigorous sex und I vill be much better! Oh boy, vill I!
Jerry, The King of Comedy!!!
April 2, 2009 at 5:51 pm
54Good thing the professional money changers are in charge now. This high stakes financial shell game that is our economy these days is just too much for me. I wonder what’s on TV tonight.
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/03/31/tomo/index.html
Jack Back in Iraq
April 3, 2009 at 6:03 pm
55Great news, becca and brian! Great news. The baby girl is beautiful. Be sure to tell her that you love her every day. More than once.
I’ve been lurking from time to time, but haven’t felt a need to offer anything up. It looks like Adam has a full plate these days. Good for him.
I will give you one bit of incite into how the war is being conducted. The Pentagon finally hired an engineering company to go into all the buildings that KBR wired so haphazardly and fix the problems, so that friendly electrons don’t kill more of our grunts than the Hajis do. When I heard that much welcomed news, I began hoping my tour might be ending soon. No such luck. It looks like another hideously steamy summer in Iraq for our squad. Well, somebody has to do it. I guess.
Oh, did I tell you the name of the engineering company that won the contract and is taking over the rewiring effort? It’s KBR. Maybe you’ve heard of them.
SeattleTammy
April 3, 2009 at 10:35 pm
56I heard about that Jack. I’m sorry you’re stuck over there longer and not back home. I hope that happens soon.
Off Topic Blog-hoing: tomorrow’s book report will feature a comic book. Just sayin.
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
Chris Harlan
April 4, 2009 at 1:47 pm
57April Fools from 1985. Murdoch to buy NPR. Trip down memory lane.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/murdoch_to_buy_npr_1.html
D. Quayle
April 4, 2009 at 1:48 pm
58“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
What???? Why are you laughing? We were talking about newborns here, right?
hedera
April 4, 2009 at 8:01 pm
59Double congratulations to becca and brian - AND kai!
David
April 5, 2009 at 9:35 am
60And the beat goes on, Jack. Just be safe from all who do harm in Iraq, whether intentional or because of greedhead incompetence or indifference.
xaos
April 24, 2009 at 2:11 pm
61I must thank you in the strongest terms possible for fulfilling my lifelong dream of hearing the word “Skrull” said repeatedly on NPR.