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3 unusual facts about This Modern World


This Modern World

The first panel of a comic featuring I.H.O.T.F.M-Man is usually a parody of the cover of Action Comics 1.

I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man is an ardent defender of Adam Smith's invisible hand metaphor, and usually intervenes in situations where the purity of free market economics is in jeopardy.

Invisible Hand of the Free Market Man (abbreviated I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man in dialog in the strip) is a superhero character, wearing what is basically a Superman costume, with an I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man logo (a hand with the IHOTF in each finger, and M in the palm) where the Superman logo would be.


Salt Lake City Weekly

It also carries syndicated columns "News Quirks" by Roland Sweet and the Straight Dope, by Chicago-based Cecil Adams, Free Will Astrology and comics such as Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World, and Keith Knight's K Chronicles.


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Philadelphia City Paper

Other regular features include I Love You I Hate You, a section where readers submit short anonymous messages to anyone person or group; Tom Tomorrow's weekly political comic strip This Modern World; and Emily Flake's comic Lulu Eightball.