It was just an essay, but it meant so much more.

A four-panel comic strip shows a boy presenting a fantasy essay titled 'Gollum's Trip Thru Mirkwood' to his teacher, Miss Wormwood. He describes the journey as arduous with 'live babies left alone in their cribs' as food. The teacher, shocked, asks what she's doing there, and the boy realizes it's a parent-teacher conference. The teacher responds that 'nobody appreciates good fantasy anymore.'

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