04/16/04: In case you're wondering, Jess is my little brother's nickname, his real name is John. How that came to be? Why, it's a long, long story, that I won't go into right now. Key, The Metal Idol has been one of those series that has lasted through the years and I replaced it with DVD a couple of weeks ago, through a clearance at Half Price Books. They didn't have another collection of DVDs when I bought mine, so my bro was off without one, but now that they had it, I called him up immediately, and, well, the strip speaks for itself... ---Tom Lin