Everything I really needed to know I learned from comic books

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I imagine that when the great and never enough lamented Rene' Goscinny had Caesar's architect say, in The Mansions of the Gods, that "The forest will be cut down and replaced with a nature reserve", he meant no more than to launch one of the fireworks of jokes with which he decorated his masterpieces. However, have a look at this (bear in mind that it is Government spin, and so bound to be mendacious): http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/newecotownscould