Devil Gambit.
3 out of 5
Too many Nimrods. Kill the future.
3.5 out of 5
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Stolen sperm son time plot bad.
3 out of 5
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Got my Jailbait back.
3 out of 5
Fight or get my axe in the head fatboy.
3.5 out of 5
Except it isn’t.
2.5 out of 5
Going to be late, dear.
3.5 out of 5
All holodecked but the human.
3 out of 5
Could really use a doctor. And a few less bad guys with swords.
3.5 out of 5
Pity our enemies won’t kill each other. The red ones win.
3 out of 5
Dying like lions. Tasty.
3.5 out of 5
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What’s this world then?
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about DV8 – Gods and Monsters 1 The Day I Tried To Live
Modesty is helping out with a local village fete, including with the bottle fruit stall. This surprises Tarrant rather a lot, but he pitches in.
If you are hoping for Blaise and Garvin to not stumble onto your operation, then don’t do this :-
Run a con involving Merlin and hence someone Modesty named herself after, [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 44 Brethren of Blaise
An otherwise amiable enough billionaire has a loopy vision of a supervirus doomsday – and wants Blaise and Garvin as the couple who will repopulate the planet. After inviting them for dinner he suckers them and transports them to an African Eden with desert on all sides.
At the moment, people are still alive, though, [...]
Tarrant tells Blaise and Garvin Jack Fraser is missing, and the postcards from him are fake.
They immediately suspect Salamander Four, and snatch a local leader who doesn’t like to get seasick. He blames a rival organisation, and offers to help get Fraser back.
He was lying, and Fraser is being held by a combat superwoman [...]
And those Atlas guys are real it seems.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Atlas – 1 The Return of the Three Dimensional Man
A Black Widow? Bad? Nah.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Black Widow – 02 The Name of the Rose 2
And a Reverse Flash Task Force and an apartment rebuild.
3 out of 5
Continue reading about Flash – 02 The Dastardly Death of the Rogues
A couple of Tamarans, a new planet.
3.5 out of 5
Hawk-Dove add White Canary file threat.
4 out of 5
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Yeah, we Authority too.
2 out of 5
Working for a church sucks. So do big satanic monsters.
3 out of 5
Team-up no good – try Lobo, no puking.
4 out of 5
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Catman kid kill revenge.
3.5 out of 5
Bad Rag sister showdown.
3.5 out of 5
A panel from this strip.
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise: Uncle Happy 672 – Jim Holdaway
Willie is wandering Yellstone National Park by himself for a few days while Modesty spends time with John Dall, and is to join him later.
A few dodgy looking types ask him if he is planning on hanging around. When he says yes they eventually decide to get rid of him, and managed to take [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 41 Yellowstone Booty
The Golden Frog is a token in the possession of the worlds greatest unarmed combat master. He took Modesty on as a student when she impressed him with her raw versatility – and she earned the Frog sobriquet by basically being really good at jumping around and booting people.
A Khmer leader that The Network [...]
Willie spots an entertaining tv show – a guru that claims he can make money materialise – and realises that it is their old friend the con artist Idaho George in disguise, along with his partner Maisie.
Unfortunately for him a psychopathic gangster is also watching – of the gullible superstitious variety, and she believes him.
She [...]
Atmosphere fixing, spying, and sped up gestation soldier breeding.
3.5 out of 5
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Just the old planet saving plan again.
3 out of 5
Terraforming bleed rejection suicide mission.
3 out of 5
Dead ship Aegean.
3 out of 5
Future want list.
4 out of 5
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Modesty is holidaying with a naturalist boyfriend, and being nice to spiders. Unfortunately an Eastern European spymaster just shown up by Tarrant decides to use her for revenge – by killing the naturalist in a nasty manner using an assassin.
To honor his dislike of aggression she forgoes infiltration and assassination of her own, until the [...]
Bored at a really dull party, Modesty and Willie make a bet for a bottle of Bolly – that one can beat the other on the Trail, complete with mule.
Willie stumbles into a coup and is jailed as a spy, and Modesty comes across a teacher trying to escape with the overthrown president’s children.
So two [...]
A stinking rich playboy Modesty rebuffed wants revenge. Now terminally ill with weeks to live, he decides to set up a Roman entertainment as his last party, complete with gladiatorial combat to the death.
He snatches a bunch of world leading combat experts, including Garvin. After one of his gladiators refuses to play and [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 34 Those About To Die
An old Network forger gets into trouble and ends up in prison. He asks Modesty for help, but not what she expects.
He knows where some loot is, and has a relative in trouble with drugs. He wants to set up a fund to help people like that.
Which leads Modesty and Willie to Stutely [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 33 The Greenwood Maid
Modesty is asked for a favour by a CIA head, and the job is a dirty one. Looking after his 15 year old niece for a while.
The kid is a peacenik, and apart from keeping her from being alone too long with the local youthful Lotharios, she has to endure lectures on violence [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 32 The Reluctant Chaperon
Tarrant wants to manoeuvre Modesty into talking a friend of theirs into helping him He is a mathematical genius who used to be a codebreaker, but is now happily living with his wife in Lapland, moving with the reindeer, helping out, and working on the Unfied Field Theory.
Tarrant’s story of KGB agents after the [...]
Modesty is holidaying with a doctor who is monomaniacal about fly fishing. You’d have to be, to ignore her and her stirring – and he gives plenty back, both to her and Willie, which is rather funny.
While down at a river, they see a woman get thrown over the falls with hands tied, and [...]
Tarrant asks Modesty and Willie to accompany him on a strange caper. One of the hardes-headed sceptic scientists in the world has been convinced by some on an island site that aliens may just have landed on Earth.
Taking the two most versatile and flexible people he knows with him open minds, they go to [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 29 Take Me To Your Leader
His Krypto is just miles ahead of the rest.
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Willie is helping out a friend in New Guinea, when Modesty comes to visit. After some plane trouble they discover a local girl on the run – and find out that she has been trained as a nurse, so speaks English as part of a bridging program.
After her are the not so educated, who [...]
Maude Tiller helps to capture a spy. Said woman’s employers want her back, so they hire Salamander Four to snatch Maude.
When Modesty and Willie realise the government aren’t going to agree to a swap for such a junior agent they go into action, and have to scam all sides to get Maude out of [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 27 The Wicked Gnomes
It is Mardi Gras for Willie and Modesty – but the trouble magnets run across a hanging. Not to mention Steve Taylor, who is there to handle a threat to drown the city of New Orleans if they don’t pay a ransom.
So it is costumes and hanging for Modesty Blaise, as a married couple [...]
If an actual director and film company with a clue had the rights to the movie when a certain actress was in her prime, we might have had tie-in editions like this :-
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – What Might Have Been
A Bluebeard in this sense is a male black widow, not a pirate, as you might think.
This particularly variety goes after rich wallflowers, and after an appropriate length of time, gets rid of them with the help of his two creepy daughters.
When a relative of Rene’s is the next target, Modesty decides to investigate.
She [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 25 The Bluebeard Affair
Willie is rather amused when a teenaged jewel thief breaks in and leaves Modesty roses in their safe. He is a big fan – and also the nephew of Brookie of Scotland CID. Not one for cradle snatching, Modesty has to provide this young man with a lesson that life isn’t really like [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 24 With Love From Rufus
This time it is Modesty an old enemy tries attacking mentally – he has hired a psychologist to give her amnesia and then convince her that Willie Garvin is a deadly enemy. A problem keeping a strong personality like this under control, however, before a chairlift confrontation, with an assist from Maude Tiller.
4 out [...]
Modesty is holidaying in Sydney – with an eccentric Australian scientist, while Willie goes opal hunting on camel near Andamooka.
An old criminal acquaintance is disturbed to learn she is town when he has a nickel scam planned. Blaise and Garvin don’t mind scams – but they take a ruthlessly dim view of hostage taking. [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 22 The Stone Age Caper
A couple of hippies stumble across an anachronistic manhunt, and Willie and Modesty stumble across them.
An agent of Tarrant’s had infiltrated a bizarre medieval re-enactment setup run by some ex-commandos. So now Blaise and Garvin fancy being the rich guests the next time. Swords and axes it is.
4 out of 5
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 21 Death of a Jester
Back to an unstable little Central American town for Modesty – where she has found a new boyfriend.
The woman of whom he was the old boyfriend does not take this too kindly, and she is the daughter of the British envoy. She is also soon a hostage as the local terrorist group who wants [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 20 The Green-Eyed Monster
A sheikh of the progressive kind has become enamored of gambling with Modesty – and he is useless, so she is sick of winning all the time, even for matchsticks.
An opening to divert him appears in the form of a troupe of dancer whose manager has done a runner – and the sheik offers to [...]
These are the Japanese variety. When a martial arts master friend of Blaise and Garvin’s granddaughter is knifed because she learned that Phoenix existed, they decided to investigate.
Little did they realise the War-lords want them to work for them – training their army of post-apocalyptic readiness as two of the best combat specialists in [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 18 The War-lords of Phoenix
The mafia decide they’d like to move in and take over the heterogeneous British criminal underworld, in efficient ruthless style. They use a film studio as a cover – and a good place to practise crimes.
Brookie mentions the problem to Modesty – who promptly tells him she isn’t Batman, and doesn’t go looking for [...]
A Russian defector who is a consultant to the CIA and former seller of information to Modesty’s Network is actually not what he seems.
He is actually playing a double game. Along with some underlings, he snatches Garvin, and drugs him into hallucinatory terror to try and get Blaise to do what he wants.
They have [...]
Modesty is romancing a young Italian architect in Vienna – who is restoring an old building for a wealthy client. He comes across a letter in the process, belonging to an ancestor of a rival who takes his lineage very seriously. Two young street urchins get in the way, to Modesty’s amusement – [...]
Modesty and Willie are taking a holiday with a wealthy friend who owns a nice boat. Unfortunately he has a bunch of others along for the ride who are snobby rich bitches, as Modesty puts it, and they give the cockney Garvin a very hard time. So the pair decide to bail out [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 14 The Galley Slaves
Willie saves a drugged out hippie chick from breaking her neck – and given the pair’s hatred of drugs, they decide to do some investigating, after getting some advice from a friend in the police.
Sometimes it is the little old ladies who are the evil bad guys in this, the most dated of the stories. [...]
Secretaries of Death, that is what Gabriel is up to. Running a normal looking secretarial school, but looking to find the occasional woman bent enough to work for him to steal secrets, kill people, that sort of thing.
When Tarrant is involved and mentions this, Blaise and Garvin certainly smell a Gabriel-sized rat. However, [...]
Cover of a Dynamite comic :-
A criminal named Bellman that Blaise and Garvin hounded to exhaustion snatches them for revenge – he has aged badly, and suffered multiple heart attacks, and wants to see them suffer in a rigged death trap manhunt before he expires.
Seems some people don’t learn, as in the case of this pair they definitely are The [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 14A The Killing Ground
Modesty has decided to take some time off, and go native in a small Central American town, staying with a blind sculptor.
Things turn for the worse when the local president no longer rules, and a low-rent crimelord decides to have some of the local women taken for his use.
Blaise and friends take a dim view [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 12 The Jericho Caper
Willie Garvin accidentally blowing the cover on a French agent and old girlfriend leads them to tangle with a highly professional gang out to hit a train. How do they plan to carry out their heavy gold loot? An exoskeleton.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 11 The Magnified Man
When a beetle in amber disappears, Modesty Blaise knows it is time to repay a debt – to an old guru that helped her in the past.
A Himalayan bear is supposed to point the way to an important reincarnation, so their task is to escort it to safety – with the help of some rebels, [...]
Willie is spending time with a girlfriend who definitely likes a drink – and comes across an odd business. Tarrant has too, and Modesty Blaise then takes an interest.
Said operation is one of Gabriel’s – a health spa that uses hypnosis to extract information of financial and intelligence interest from a gullible wealthy clientele.
Gabriel [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 03 The Gabriel Set-up
Both the Russians and the Americans want to get their hands on a scientist who has made a breakthrough in laser technology – or kill him if they have to so the other side won’t get him.
He appears to be in the hands of a wealthy third party ship owner, which means Modesty and Willie [...]
Tarrant and Fraser have done their homework on Modesty Blaise – knowing she is bored, they come to her armed with dossiers, a stick, and a demonstration.
Tarrant has discovered that her marriage to get British citizenry was bigamous – but he destroys the evidence to leave her in his debt.
He wants her help in taking [...]
The backstory, briefly, of Modesty’s survival as a young orphan, introduction into The Network, and rise to power with Willie Garvin.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 08A In the Beginning
Modesty is taking a holiday – when she runs across an underwater camerman by ruining hsi shot while spear fishing.
Despite this, they hit it off and he invites her to Vegas – where they each realise the other is not the run of the mill tourist, and agree to part.
A rich man that runs a [...]
A girlfriend having to work leads Willie Garvin to filling in for a director friend as a stuntman – on a ’space opera’ movie. Some of the Martians whoever are thugs of the The Junk Men, three crimelords who control the trade in the region.
They’ve just lost a plane load of base chemicals for [...]
Tarrant suspects a psychic is a recruiter for a subversion organisation – and puts a junior agent undercover in their secretarial training school. A woman who happens to be a friend of Modesty Blaise, and whose father, now blind, was an ex spy.
Time for tragedy, and a thrilling chase at the circus.
4.5 out of [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 05 The Mind of Mrs. Drake
Modesty and Willie run into some people from the Network days. An adversary, and a young ex-employee who couldn’t cut it, and was pensioned off.
The latter has gotten himself into trouble with a gang who take the whole Norse ancestry thing rather too literally.
The boy’s wealthy father berates them and asks for help – [...]
Gerald Tarrant has gone missing, and suspicions are that he might have turned. Something that Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin don’t believe for a second. Neither does Jack Fraser. That leaves two of the top intelligence types as suspects.
Modesty asks a would be lover for help to run a scam [...]
Modesty has taken on the upkeep of a young man named Weng, now a university student. When he learns that his sister has joined the Viet Cong he goes to a drug lord for money, rather than ask Blaise for help.
This means some drug dealing and disguise for Modesty and Willie, and a foray [...]
Dolores, a member of the circus that Willie is a part owner of turns up screaming about a missing sister and Arab slave traders – and Willie and Modesty are currently being wined, dined and bored by a sheikh friend of theirs.
A progressive bloke as it turns out, as he offers to help. Modesty [...]
Continue reading about Modesty Blaise – 36 The Vanishing Dollybirds
“Here’s a couple of the finished illustrations along with the initial pencil sketches. Ted knew he wanted a watercolour look right from the start and I figured it would be fun to do these traditionally ie; real paint. That idea got the kibosh due to deadlines, the need for multiple variations, global warming and the [...]
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3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Legion of Future Past – John Byrne and Terry Austin
” Now, Then: When TCU was started to post this particular Blog post sometime last month, the 1st question was, which one was MB’s 1st ever appearance in Tamil and who is going to take credit for introducing such an iconic character in Tamil Language. Definitely not in Lion Comics (1st Issue) and also not [...]
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From a Secret World Chronicle Gallery.
4.5 out of 5
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“Title : Research – Astronomy and space – A sculpture entitled “Symbol of Woomera” on display at the NASA deep space tracking station in Woomera Village, South Australia, 1967
Date : 1967″
3.5 out of 5
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An Air Force helicopter disturbs a kangaroo on the rocket range near Woomera, SA [photographic image] / photographer, W Brindle. 1 photographic negative: b&w, acetate
Date : 1956
3 out of 5
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4 out of 5
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4 out of 5
A new one on me, anyone read these?
4 out of 5
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“Darren, Scott and Paul discuss the state of the DCU post-Blackest Night. What’s working for them, and what’s not quite hitting the mark?
What’s YOUR State of the DCU?
Also, Scott and Paul had a chance to meet up with artist-extraordinaire Barry Kitson, in Toronto, and discuss his history with the Legion, and L.E.G.I.O.N.”
4 out of 5
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Continue reading about Legion of Substitute Podcasters Episode 87 – State of the DCU
Blackmailing creep.
3.5 out of 5
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Nasty l’il bastard block.
3.5 out of 5
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Embarrassing droids.
3.5 out of 5
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Old estate.
3 out of 5
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“Paul Levitz joins the Subs for an in depth discussion of Legion of Super Heroes #1. Then keep listening to learn more about what’s coming up in Adventure Comics, and Legion of Super Heroes as Paul discusses his very busy schedule, some thoughts on the digital revolution, and the advantages of playing baseball at [...]
“Paul Levitz return to the Legion is finally here! Join Darren, Matt, Scott and Paul as they discuss the issue in detail, and then stick around for some general comic book chatter!”
4 out of 5
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Adventure Comics #12 Variant Edition
3.5 out of 5
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“We left you on a cliffhanger last week, but fear not, because this week, we have the Legion Chain Gang, from Adventure Comics #360. Before we get to that, Matt has an interview with artist Chris Sprouse. All this and the giddy anticipation of a new Legion comic!”
4 out of 5
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Continue reading about Legion of Substitute Podcasters Episode 84 – Back On The Chain Gang
Luthor’s lair, spies and Universo family.
4 out of 5
Continue reading about Legion of Super-Heroes – Adventure Comics 360 The Legion Chain Gang
Titan time bomb new Mogo, Earth-Man.
4 out of 5
Continue reading about Legion of Super-Heroes – 01 The Scream Heard ‘Cross the Universe
“This week in On Shelves Now we look at X-Factor 204: Revelations, X-Men Legacy 235, X-Force 26, Uncanny X-Men 524, and New Mutants 13.
We then do a X-Men as G.I. Joe characters Casting Call.
And in Retro Reviews we go forward with Fall of the Mutants, reviewing New Mutants 59 – 61, and X-Factor 24.
And after [...]
Continue reading about Uncanny X-Cast – Episode 88: Minivans Midler Cosplay and the Cosmos
Magneto boss Illyana, X-Men gone.
3 out of 5