Agent Rob wasn't the only thing to make a triumphant return to Ice Station Zebra on 'Woden'sday', as at last 'The Archives Of Doom' (rekkids, books, papers, comics, tbps. etc) have been reinstated! Well, assuming reinstated means hastily dumping a shitload of heavy boxes haphazardly in and aboot the hall and not even bothering yir bahookie to help Wir Man In Pester Wails put his stuff back in the order of chaos. Thankfully Agent Rob (AKA 'Mr Puniverse') put his back in (and perhaps out) to it and heaved the mighty boxes around sufficiently enough to restore slow shipping lanes fer to satisfactorily accommodate Agent Johnny's increasingly wide berth....
During all this 'back in action traction' our Agent wiz sat contentedly 'wrapping up' a(nother) Fireball XL5 short story, so the swilling took something of a back seat until such a time as that task wiz concluded (taking longer than expected as wir Agent was continually gigglin' to himself). This bizarre 6-pager, titled 'The Last Colonizers' wiz soon joined by a 2-pager (produced from 'The Drawers Of Doom') known as 'A Welter Of Gore'. It's unsure as to whether Agent Johnny expects Agent Rob to jam these into the 'long-time-printed-yet-not-yet-released' Unearthly Science Fiction anthology - perhaps this signals the beginning of Issue #2...?
Long time readers of this blog will know what happened next, the 'music box' - updated ter add something of a new soundtrack ter the proceedings - wiz mugdocked and the swill was cranked duly open! As well as Agent Johnny brandishing his 2 completed stories Agent Rob wiz also treated to a rough fer old Lanark pal Ron Harris 'fer to draw', a 'leery space comic' to do with the planet 'Polaris'. Glasgog's Calderpark Zoo wiz the source of much contented chuntering, with Philip K. Dick and Robert Silverberg muscling in on proceedings too (where wiz their combined might when 'hing's needed shifting?)....
No doubt that great excitement wiz generated by the news that from Monday the 13th March the True Entertainment Channel will be repeating the seldom-seen-super-cult-favourite The Prisoner, something that has even jolted Agent Rob out of his increasingly jaded and apathetic reverie. Of course, the 9-11 'pee-emm' timeslot time means Agent Johnny will have to rapidly reset his counter-clock world - if just fer the 2 weeks it'll take 'fer to show' all 17 episodes - ter be able to catch this. Here's to raising a glass to daytime repeats thereafter. Unfortunately Our Agents tuned in to Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers on 'Fillum Four' too late - another abject failure of timekeeping - and Agent Rob had to slip oot 'fer to catch' the bus into town during the adverts. Following a quick Rumble pick up at Deadhead Comics Rob then concluded his awayday by meeting New British Comics Karol Wisniewski ('veesh-nyev-ski', pronunciation fans) for a final swill before being crated and shipped back to Glasgog....
Sounds: Live 1966, "The Royal Albert Hall Concert" by Bob Dylan: Time Of Ye Life/Born For Nothing/Paranoid Arm Of Narcoleptic Empire by Crippled Black Phoenix (a Hope Street Studios 'Day In The Attic' classic): Flood Bank by The Lines and Obscured By Clouds by Pink Floyd (and about an hour's worth of Tartan Techno at full blast from the defk*nt through the wall)....
Visions: Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers....
Crippled Black Phoenix - Time Of Ye Life/Born For Nothing
/Paranoid Arm Of Narcoleptic Empire....
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