You know, reading http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=97846 got me thinking: what’s the current status of The Onion’s beloved patriarch, T. Herman Zweibel? I recall that there was some sort of cliffhanger in his last Letter from the Publisher, but don’t recall what. Is he coming back any time soon? How fares his battle with Black Scarlet and the elusive Mr. Tin?
I think he is hurtling away from Earth at near-light speed.
He’ll still be an old man when he returns.
I don’t think he’s coming back. I know that a lot of Onion readers didn’t like him. He was kind of a one-joke wonder and the writers might have just gotten tired of rehashing it, but he might reappear someday – but on his time.
T. Herman Zweibel is hilarious. The way he would re-gale us with his weekly word-plays near-ly made my tin heart-pump give out with feelings of tender-ness.
-N. Aeschylus