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Something Sad and Depressing and Horrible that Has Vaguely to Do with Thundercats


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?From Comic Book Resources:

Police in Florida are searching for ailing ThunderCats
writer Stephen Perry, who disappeared from his Zephyrhills home under
suspicious, and possibly ghastly, circumstances.

His van was found Sunday abandoned in a motel parking lot. Nearby,
FOX 13 reports, was a man’s severed arm. More remains were
discovered at a gas-station dumpster two miles away from Perry’s home,
which had been ransacked.

Perry, 56, is best known for his work on the mid-1980s animated
series ThunderCats and SilverHawks, both developed by
Rankin/Bass. However, he also wrote comics like Timespirits and
Psi-Force for Marvel and Wally Wood’s THUNDER Agents
for Deluxe.

Unfortunately, this just the tip of the iceberg of awfulness. Perry had bladder cancer but was helped financially by the wonderful Hero Initiative after living in a van with his young son for a year; they also helped him afford an apartment. But Perry’s two roommates — currently under arrest for various crimes — appear to be the two prime suspects in his disappearance. Oh, and while the police haven’t ruled the Perry case a homicide officially — he’s still just a missing person — in interviews, but Perry’s child and the kid’s mother are both speaking of him in the past tense. There is nothing about this that isn’t totally, tragically awful.