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Friday 29 June 2018
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Thursday 21 June 2018
A Chronicle Of Doom....
"Laugh it up, fuzzball!" Er, waitaminnit, isn't that the wrong franchise! Then again, with the whole 'wurld' in supposed thrall to another type of 'fuzzball' then what better time to visit Our Man In Pester Wails, a man more than capable of naming every Avengers starting eleven. And so it was on 'Chewsday' that Agent Rob made a welcome return to Ice Station, braving the long journey from Bear Island HQ to join Agent Johnny in a long overdue 'view to a swill'. In fact, it was very nearly an own-goal, but thanks to Agent Austin's canny managerial strategy our two Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. managed to scramble it off the line (and thus head in happily over their heels together)....
With the guest's chair cleared of a 'stack of books' it was then time to sit down, crank open the swill and 'dock' the 'music box' (after a mild pause for panic while issue #2 of the recent Captain Condor reprints was successfully located). Agent Johnny seemed particularly taken with last week's screening of Orson Welles's'The Trial' and this 'fillum freakery' dominated much of the 'dafternoon's contented chuntering, before the conversation settled into a general SF orbit, incorporating the Planet of The Apes fillums, Arthur C. Clarke and 'Nova' by Samuel R. Delaney....
And just when you thought the afternoon could not get any more jammed it turned out Agent Johnny was power-packing the pencils for a mighty MARVEL-esque cover for the (proposed) John Stark: Secret Agent comic, as well as suitably eclectic takes on both (eternal favourite) Batman and (current favourite) Daredevil, events which saw Agent Rob gingerly leafing his way through some of our man's prized 1960's originals. Add to that two story roughs for strips featuring The (UK) Avengers and a vintage Ghostman strip salvaged from 1972(!) and you have what can only be described (at great volume) as a rip-roaring success! (Mind, you can expect the finished inks some time in 2020....) Of course, the volume was not nearly as deafening over and out at Deadhead Comics as Agents Austin and Rob peeked over the wall in deathly silence, watching as Poland stumbled, fumbled and finally fell to Senegal....
Grateful Dead - Death Don't Have No Mercy, live 24/08/1968
Wednesday 20 June 2018
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Tuesday 12 June 2018
MMM: "By The Quantum Leaps!" - Ulysses 33
On and on we travel, drifting lifeless as stone through the second half of the first (and quite possibly the most consistent in terms of story quality) disc....
EPISODE 6
The Odyssey approaches a hospital planet belonging to a (long vanished) advanced civilisation....
While Ulysses and Telemachus investigate Yumi and Nono naturally take matters into their own hands and attempt to make use of the facilities to revive the lifeless Numinor (with predictably risky results)....
EPISODE 7
The Odyssey encounters "electromagnetic turbulence" and as such the companions of Ulysses are revived. Of course, they're under the will of the gods and only Yumi's calming connection with the awakened Numinor seems able to save them from crashing into The Reefs Of Space....
An episode notable for some surprisingly moody rendering of the revived crew's faces as well as a plethora of FX - lightsabers, Artoo Detoo and blaster sounds - nabbed wholesale (and somewhat surprisingly surviving to this release) from Star Wars....
EPISODE 8
Another great episode, as the Odyssey - I think a distinct pattern is emerging here! - is drawn to the planet of the Sphinx where Ulysses must solve a riddle to ensure our heroes successful release....
Unfortunately Hermione, the daughter of the Sphinx, has other ideas - boy does she want Ulysses for herself, and the gods are only too happy to nudge her along the way! - and tricks 'the children' into entering the door that leads to The Mirror That Always Speaks The Truth. Angered at the news of their (unwitting) intrusion the Sphinx allows her to subject Ulysses to her own challenge - perhaps seeing her true face reflected will help resolve matters....
Some nice atmospheric scene setting in this episode - the leery lizard strolling through the palace of the Sphinx - and the design of the Sphinx himself, being particular highlights....
EPISODE 9
"It's time that's the fatal trap, the sure way to death."
The very best of them all? The Odyssey comes under attack from Trident spaceships and it seems there is nothing can be done to avoid destruction.... Only Cronus, exiled from Olympus by the gods, intervenes, transporting our heroes to The Kingdom Of Time, hoping to use Ulysses to bargain for his eventual freedom.....
'The children' are first placed in The Timelock then escape (accidentally) to the The Chamber Of Seasons, where they begin to age rapidly. It's up to Ulysses to save both them and the lives of their companions from the ravages of accelerated time....
I first saw the latter half of this episode as a youngster and remember vividly the scenes of Ulysses scaling the great clock tower and, particularly, the looming, gloomy (and catchy) theme that accompanied it....
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