In Dragon Magazine #29 Wormy returned from a hiatus. Dave Trampier drew a recap of the story to date, which was a helpful guide to those who'd missed earlier issues.
What I find most interesting about this is how Dave summarized the story in a very digestible form, and it helps to wrap your head around the Weird World of Wormy. If you try to read Wormy, especially when you were a kid, it often seems a little esoteric, like there is some kind of inside joke you are missing out on. There was indeed some subtle political subtext that can be easily missed. Dave said Walt Kelley's classic strip Pogo was a big inspiration for Wormy, and Pogo was very political. So it makes sense. But that is not all there was to Wormy, it was a strange and imaginative world that Dave had created and which sadly faded into D&D history as Dave left the gaming world after bitter disappointment with TSR, which is a whole story itself.
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