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Chapter names of books?

  • The names of the various issues have traditionally been chapter names of famous books.

The only issue I know of that corresponds to a book or chapter name is Through the Looking Glass. Along Came a Spider was a movie with Morgan Freeman, I think, but otherwise, I think it's just a reference to the old Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme. I've never heard of any of the others in relation to books or chapters.

Am I missing something? If not, we should probably remove this note since it was just the one the referred to a book.

--TonyV 14:32, 22 March 2006 (PST)

  • "Through the looking glass" - Chapter 1 of Alice in Wonderland
  • "A shadow of the past" - Chapter 2 of The Two Towers
  • "A Council of War" - Chapter 12 of Treasure Island
  • "The Colosseum" - Chapter 34 of The Count of Monte Cristo
All I've found so far. I will continue the search. - Snorii 14:55, 22 March 2006 (PST)
No worries, I just honestly didn't know. I thought they just made up cool-sounding names for each issue. --TonyV 16:37, 22 March 2006 (PST)
I sent a pm to Statesman asking for more info and this is his response.
"Yes. They're named after chapters in books. Can't say more than that...;-)" - Snorii 11:33, 23 March 2006 (PST)
Also confirmed by Manticore awhile ago. My search-fu on "Along came a spider" isn't coming up with much, thanks to the movie with Morgan Freeman and the book by James Patterson. User:StarGeek/sig 12:27, 23 March 2006 (PST)
Had anyone come up with the rest of them in the last year? Or at least Issues 8-10? TayJK 01:22, 25 July 2007 (EDT)
Just a few searches tonight turned up the following possiblities (no guarantees that any of them are correct, though.)
Forest of Dread
Along Came a Spider
  • Chapter 5 of The Science of Superheroes
Forest of Dread
To Protect and Serve
  • Chapter 10 of Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0 (Seriously, I'd laugh if that was it. Smilies smile.gif)
Breakthrough
  • Chapter 2 of A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China since 1972
  • Chapter 6 of Agassi and Ecstasy: Turbulent Life of Andre Agassi
  • Chapter 9 of 47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster
  • Chapter 10 of The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel
  • Chapter 10 of On Armor
  • Chapter 13 of Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
Invasion
  • Chapter 2 of Nibiru and Wormwood: An E-Book About Alien Invasion
  • Chapter 3 of Hostages to Freedom: The Fall of Rabaul
  • Chapter 4 of Strike and return : Flying from Iwo Jima
  • Chapter 21 of On War
(There's a list started on the Ingame References page, too.)
--Eabrace 04:08, 25 July 2007 (EDT)