Aha, and so we come to the first, long overdue, Chronicle of Doom of 2023, Agent Rob booking himself a most welcome 'awayday' to visit Agent Johnny - the cartoonist that Broken Frontier just recently called "A dizzyingly brilliant genre unto himself" - at Ice Station Zebra. It's about now (in every sense) Rob can insert his obligatory 'what a pair of April fools' gag....
Actually there was nothing remotely amusin' about Johnny's sudden spike in pencillin' productivity, with several new startling pages on the go as well as several stunners in various stages of inking - a sight for Rob's increasingly screen sore eyes! Why, if anything should merit kicking back, kracking open the Karmi and kranking up The Dead's Europe 72 then....
There followed an interestin' conversation about the nature of true personal freedom - can ye honestly 'beat the system' or merely hope to 'bend the system', existing in it as best ye can, ploughing your own individual furrow but within the lines? This was followed by Johnny tall tailing a dim and distant past encounter whereby he wiz pinned to the ground by a loin, only to be passed up by the pride....
Thereafter topics ranged from the Honey West tv show, thru Philip K. Dick - via fellow sci-fi authors Robert Heinlein, Brian Aldiss and Clifford D. Simak - and on to Batman RIP and (current Agent obsession) Captain America. Not that any of this could stop the clocks ticking ever forward and soon it wiz time to hit the road, Rob contentedly train truckin' his way back to Glasgog....
Sounds: Europe '72 and the "Beautiful Jam" from '71 by Grateful Dead....
Grateful Dead - Truckin' (Live in London 1972)
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