Active
Tied up
Tied up adjective - Kept occupied or engaged.
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Both terms in one sentence
- In the first Sam and Max comic, they're tied up on top of an active volcano and a husky cult leader intends to kill them.
Source: Reality Ensues / Comic Books -
After Ghost Rider was abruptly canceled in 1998, Danny Ketch made a single appearance in Peter Parker, Spider-Man, where the dangling plotlines from his own book were tied up in a very quick and unsatisfactory fashion, but leaving him still active within the Marvel Universe.
Source: Exiled from Continuity
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