Every child has a subject that, if school were centered around, they would excel. When I was a kid, if you’d quizzed me on the finer aspects of the Mario and Zelda games, as well as the correct order of power balance in Mega Man 3, I would’ve aced it. I also located every hidden room in Sonic 2 as well as Sonic and Knuckles, and had half of the Sonic 3 hidden rooms located (although I didn’t own that particular game).

…just so long as I wasn’t quizzed on Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, because that would have caused a relapse and I would’ve curled into a ball whimpering something about speeder-bikes. That blasted level literally had me screaming with frustration. (Like every other eight or nine year old that was trying to play a game that required split-second timing and pattern recognition, really. You had half a second to determine if you needed to jump, boost, or jump AND boost, and if you got it wrong, you had to start at the beginning of it. Lose all your lives, and you had to start AT THE START OF THE PREVIOUS LEVEL.)

…freakin’ Battletoads.

…is it wrong to say that Ereshkigal looks cute in that last panel when she’s frustrated at Thor?

Well, now Zeus’s recruitment of Xarenia and Arazel becomes more clear: they’re ringers

Thor seems to be finding that school may not be so bad after all, though Ereshkigal seems to be finding that school may be worse than the underworld. . . .

I found this two days ago via QC and just caught up! It is great, I did a classics degree and love the references.
Also, it is an excellent way to pass the time while off work with flu…