"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
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