Subject: Re: Cooper's sister in
From: swede@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Date: 1992-06-06, 21:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Jun5.074323.28541@engage.pko.dec.com>, boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The Man from Another Place) writes:
> > I haven't been reading X-FACTOR, so I have no idea what Peter David is
> > trying to do concerning this "relationship", but there has been a US
> > government agent (worked for the NSA, if I recall correctly) named
> > Valerie Cooper who's appeared in the Marvel Mutant books for years,
> > long before TWIN PEAKS came on the tube.

That's the same character.

> > If Peter's trying to suggest that she is Dale Cooper's sister, then it's
> > his invention, no one else's.

Also true.  Peter David is very given to inserting "in-jokes" in his writings,
and this is one of them.

Gary W. Olson                    "It's not true unless it makes you laugh,
SWEDE@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU      but it's not true unlesss it makes you
suddenly and without warning      cry."                   ("Illuminatus!")