Have you ever wondered where the villains and heroes of all those corny comic books, B-movies and fine television programs dredge up all those obscure factoids that narrowly keep the plot from plunging headlong into the abyss (if not clumsily sliding sidelong into that same chasm)? It's a little known fact of science (in the Lucy Van Pelt tradition) that the scholars of Sirius U. have spent uncounted eons combing the galaxy and recording all manner of tidbits, trivia and info-morsels, ultimately to catalog them in the Unabridged Sirian Encyclopaedia of Plot-Expediting Facts. As you might have guessed, this entire compendium in print would occupy a library roughly the size of Europe. Fortunately, the technological capabilities of the Sirans have long included massive data compression, free, unrestrained and reliable TCP/IP via satellite and really, really large-capacity data storage. Thus, the Encyclopaedia became readily available to all with the technology to access it. Of course, hardware to support that kind of access is far beyond the meager and primitive technologies of our world, and thus the cost of accessing it would bankrupt Bill Gates, but remember that money in our understanding of the word is inconsequential to your average superhero or supervillain.

Now, through an amazing technological breakthrough, you too can have access to the same material! Of course, the entire Encyclopaedia cannot be made available. First, The Phoenix Organization won't allocate me that much disk space. Secondly, if this stuff was common knowledge, the results would be catastrophic. We would never regard in the same awe the likes of Socrates, Confucius, Nostradamus, Albert Einstein, or Henry Kissinger, all of whom have had access to this wondrous font of knowledge. And third, most of the Sirian scholars involved in the project were trained as technical writers, so about 99.99% of material is so vampirically dry that it is classified by Galactic authorities as a hazard to sentient life. That is why Earthrise Comics has entered into a special arrangment with Sirius University to carry the Abridged Sirian Encyclopaedia of Plot-Expediting Facts, to present those articles relevant to Wonder 'Zoi's adventures. From time to time, as the schedules of the archivists permit, new entries will be presented and biographical and geographical information will be updated for existing entries as well.

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