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JULIA & ROEM Part Four
Stop fretting, Julia… it was either them or us.

I’m not fretting… I’m just

subduing my nightmares.

your dad made the decision, you know.

you aren’t here for nothing, he put
his own first. it’s only natural...

Buckle up,
we’re landing.
I don’t know how he can even
look at himself in the mirror.

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not bad, right? You’re worse
than a kept
woman getting
all dolled up…

Think of it as collateral damage from the

Coup de Sang and a bit of compensation…
at the very least, a tip.

I saw a spa two floors up. It’s got a reservoir

for an entire fleet, but access is prohibited.

Tybb should
have the key…

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 At sunset, everyone finds themselves in the drawing room least contaminated by the stench of petrol,
as if by force of habit...
Everyone except Jojo, who I reimmersed into a recuperative slumber.

The daughter was the last to arrive…

I present you
to Julia… julia? Is there a
problem?

Not in the least! Quite the contrary, all is in perfect What brother?
harmony. My name is Lawrence, like “The Brother”…

The brother of the same name.

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survival, we are leaving behind all traces of the world before the Bloody
Coup to begin life anew. We’ll catch up with you later... if necessary.

you may rest here before hitting the road again tomorrow.
to be honest, we don’t wish to keep you any longer than that.

How helpful that you are so transparent.

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I’ve encountered this sort of behavior before. The sudden disappearance of social codes, and everything that goes with them
(including money), provokes a rise in paranoia in some people, leading to mistrust, aggression and isolationism.

I was a shrink by trade in my prior life,

but we will not talk about our respective
situations… and I will not tell you that I
have been amongst others...

… Or that my daughter, Julia,

is about to turn eighteen years
old, and that my new wife here
has rubbed shoulders with the
upper crust of contemporary
art and cinema.
I cannot deny that our only
son, Tybb, is enraptured by the
same fads demonstrated by your
two young companions; nor that
we are not acutely aware that
we owe our lives to kyle --
Kyle, who I can’t be certain is
a mercenary pilot or not.

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fair in I’m not even sure myself whether I
war... was a military chaplain for the
terrorists or the mercenaries; nor
whether my two young companions,
as compared to me, feel any sympathy
towards those who would shoot down
birds flying free in the sky.

... Nevertheless, I propose

a toast to the ephemeral
crossing of our respecti ve
paths. I have some very good
bourbon in my Ferrari...

The unlikely mixture made for a very singular evening. Avoiding references to the past provided much needed
respite from the devastation wrought by the Bloody Coup upon nature and geography, disturbing Cartesian
spirits, mine included!

As if to better mark the occasion, the night sky had superimposed layers, a bottomless open mouth to
suck up the clods of earth raised by the winds. The clouds themselves carried a smell of oil. That night,
they were refiners...

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alone…. hydrocarbon…

Other clouds gather over the butted heads of Merkt and Tybb… I down the last dregs of my bottle,
saluting the health of the surviving youth and the future they are destined to design...

Don’t be idiots!

With that, I fell into a heap.

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Art: J.K. Woodward
Lettering:
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 by BARRY IRA GELLER

LORD OF LIGHT
* “Hologram” in physics is defined as “wave front reconstruction,” also meaning “whole picture.”
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 “d id You See Errol Morris’ New
What spy? What show?
It was early in the year 2000, many months before people were worried that more planes would fall from the sky or the U.S. electric grids
would collapse. Roz Kirby had passed away a few years earlier, and Jack a few years before that. In my own world, I was really missing
them both, when on March 22, I got a mysterious email from a researcher of an unnamed Bravo TV production. It said:

Hi Barry. I’m conducting research for a Bravo cable TV series. We’re considering doing something related to Jack Kirby. I came across the
Lord of Light sketches, which are amazing. I’m wondering if these are available in color? Also, does the screenplay for Lord of Light exist?

A bit later we’d negotiated a price for two Jack Kirby Lord of Light drawings to be shown on an as-yet undisclosed TV show, but which
one? Who’s show? In what context would the images be shown? When? No answers were forthcoming and I almost completely forgot
about it once I received the check.

A few months later the phone calls started: “Did you see Errol Morris’ new interview show with that CIA spy?” What spy? What show?
“There’s this CIA guy, Mendez, holding up one of the Kirby drawings saying he ‘stole the script from Lord of Light’ and said he used
the Lord of Light script and production images as a disguise, a phony production company doing a ‘fake film’ - which was the real CIA
mission to get those hostages out of Iran in 1979. The mission was called… Argo.” What? What?!

This is the true story of how it all started, 38 years ago. I’m going to take you deep into the wormhole, to the real story of how Jack Kirby
and I, Ray Bradbury and John Chambers were putting together an actual film called Lord of Light, and a real Sci-Fi theme park called
Science Fiction Land - almost at the same time the CIA was looking for ways to save those people in Iran. Our paths crossed and we
altered the history of the future! In 2007, Wired magazine described the tale of the CIA’s story fairly accurately. In 2012, a Hollywood
film came out with the same name as the mission - but you already know that story. Here’s what really happened...

In 1977 I wasn’t in the comic book field at all. country - and all of our work together was aimed
I never worked for Marvel, DC, or any comics at getting production drawings which could be
publisher. I wasn’t an assistant to Jack, or to used to promote both the film and science park.
anyone else in the business. Nothing. There are To me at the time, Jack Kirby was a genius, but part
many great people who’ve worked on Jack’s of a team of geniuses of his peers I’d put together
characters for him or other publishers. I never was - and whom I was looking at making everything
one of them, either. I was just a fan, came from possible with. But it all started with Jack, as many,
being a fan, ever since I was a kid reading and many things often did - and still do today.
collecting JK stuff off a newsstand in the Bronx,
from 1953, six or seven years old, on through to While Lord of Light dealt with creating the greatest
Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man, and FF’s Galactus Gods of the universe, it never occurred to me
in 1962 (which literally changed my conscious- this was the exact film property Jack Kirby was
ness of Life itself - although I did not realize it waiting for all that time, what he had always been
at the time). It was Jack who gave me such an trying to do all his life. Although I’d not read any
AWESOME vision as a child - the astounding comics since I was 15, I knew very quickly he was
life-changing moment when I was reading FF and the right man to actually give expression to all the
saw that incredible montage in an FF centerfold. visions I had about Science Fiction Land and the
I was done for it. Totally. film Lord of Light!

As a teen, I got into science and won city-wide Working with Jack was like simultaneously watch-
science fairs because of Jack’s stories. And when ing and mutually participating in an exploding
my well-meaning but book-toting father made me star being sucked into a black hole, then emerg-
sell all my comics so as not to “destroy my mind,” ing out from another dimension into another whole
I was afraid to tell him that my mind, thanks to starlit universe of a trillion other galaxies, all in
Jack Kirby, was already gone. Jack’s influence fluid three-dimensional and fourth-dimensional mo-
grew on me for the next 14 years, inspiring me tion - and everything imaginable! Jack Kirby was
to get into physics, have visions of other worlds, a very aggressive creative development partner
other cultures, other dimensions, and the future and sometimes it felt like we were fighting side
possibilities of new technology. by side under General Patton (which he did do in
WWII) or were battling strange alien creatures as
I went on my own life’s adventures, culminating in Gods of Asgard, with Odin leading the charge
1977 when I decided to become a film producer (which he also did!).
and bought the rights to Roger Zelazny’s Hugo
Award-winning novel, Lord of Light. I knew no I came with ideas. I came with my LoL screenplay,
one in comics; all I remembered was Fantastic looking for visions. I came with plans to turn his
Four and Thor from my teenage years. I’d gone to drawings into actual buildings (several of which
several artists, asking them to “do something like made my engineers nearly have heart attacks).
Jack Kirby,” but the results never made me happy. I may have been utterly out of mind at the
Then I came to that light bulb moment to call up moment, but I do not think there was any other
Jack himself. way to have approached JK at that time, and so
I became his creative partner. He grasped my vi-
The novel Lord of Light is full of the Gods of the sionary illumination of an actual Sci-Fi Disneyland
Hindu Pantheon; originally ordinary people from (as I called it) beyond what I thought any other
a destroyed planet, they used technology to turn man or artist capable to envision. I completely
themselves into Gods of Earth and set up the took it for granted that my dreams and visions
planet accordingly to live by their rule. When I were wholly understood by this loving man who
came to Jack it was as a young film producer just also taught me about honor - not realizing that
30 years old; I was collaborator, partner, son, what I was presenting to him as a reality - a full
co-visionary, but also boss. I had vast visions of architectural and modern reality - was what he
building a theme park called Science Fiction Land was dreaming about all along, for years. A better
to finance the film, which also entailed me bringing marriage of childish madness could not have been
in some of the greatest creative talent in the better made. That I found this similar conformity

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interview show with that cia spy
Artwork by JACK KIRBY • Coloring by MARK ENGLERT
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of minds, imagination, and madness with Ray Bradbury, John Chambers, Working with JK was partnering in a form of creative consciousness,
Paolo Soleri, Don Broadbent, and the amazing Buckminster Fuller was which we planned to imbue into everyone on the world. The whole Idea
just something I expected - because of my experience with Jack. It was was that people, after seeing the Film, would realize THEY were Gods,
Jack Kirby who paved the way to make it all real! He was the model of with psychic powers of their own - themes which had never before been
unconditional imagination that I brought to each other man. When I went properly depicted in film or elsewhere. I’d kind of like stumbled into
to scientist and holographer Donald Broadbent, I just expected him to the whole situation. The beauty of that man was he just took it in stride.
invent stuff like Holographic Film Projection Systems for the movie, and Honestly, I didn’t really know how incredible the guy really was up to that
100-foot holograms for the Theme Park - I mean, why not? And it didn’t point - until I sat down and started telling him what my plans really were,
faze Don at all. Nor was anyone of the highest imaginative caliber fazed at our first meeting, in the summer of 1977. And then my world totally
by making Jack’s drawings into reality - it was the way we all saw things changed, once again. Later I told Jack, Roz, and Ray that in 30 years,
to begin with! technology would create a totally new consciousness. And that was our
plan, to change the imagination of the children of the future, through
So many of my conversations with JK, which preceded every drawing, Science Fiction.
were about civilizations that we both felt really existed in some universe
- which I often discovered JK had already well thought out. It was as if Transformation of Reality was our Reason for doing Lord of Light - and
he was already living in each dimension, just waiting for each drawing that got communicated to Jack, Ray, John, and Paolo Soleri - the Goal
commission, each discussion, each possibility to get expressed. And then was to transform Reality. We are talking about 1978 here - there were
I discovered the real Jack Kirby: the set of drawings I designed with him no computers, or social media, or email, or anything - just figments
took him outside the world of comics, which he’d already changed, and of our collective imaginations - our individual imaginations - Ideas of
into changing another world - the one we call Earth. robots, ideas of teleportation, telepathy, telekinesis, and embedding

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 emotions into objects - I mean, what was a God? How did we express The brilliance was we worked FOR each other as well as WITH each
it? We saw that by mental powers, helping to transform different mental other. Because we were Partners in Illumination. Partners in Concepts.
abilities (which I called “psychic abilities” at the time - I think I talked Partners in the possibility that what we were doing would possibly alter
about psychic abilities of the Gods being akin to the recognition of other the course of Mankind and the current culture. That was what we were all
beings existing on other planets - on a galaxy far, far away - which, doing. The Lord of Light Kirby/Geller drawings represent all of this. So
incidentally, had just come out), we could alter reality. Jack was totally then it came down to, well, what kind of technology DID Heaven have?
into changing the consciousness of the world, outside the confines of What were the streets like? How did these guys do what they did? How
comics. We were aware that no one realized what was going on yet; was life organized? What was the construction of Heaven’s culture, their
no one really understood anything about what we were doing yet - no morays, their operative communication and values? That’s the essence of
one understood the Star Wars of Psychic Reality just yet. So I promoted, each drawing: We wanted to Alter Life on this Planet - no less. NO LESS!
“Why not just do it? WHY NOT? Why can’t we just do it?” There was
no question about being able to do it. There was no issue with disbelief. These were the topics of conversation Jack and I spent hours together
So I began raising appropriate funds. Let’s just build a theme park! But charging through. We had an interesting aspect here with advanced
of course, you cannot just build a Theme Park out of the blue. All this technology being a focal point, just as it was in the brilliant novel Lord
stuff went from designing the Film into well, creating the Science Fiction of Light by Roger Zelazny, which was FULL of technology everywhere.
Land Theme Park - which was also part of the idea that was allowing The Gods that came from this other planet called Urth were masquerad-
me to raise money, to talk to bankers and other financial types. I didn’t ing under the trappings of the Hindu Pantheon - but all the technology
even have to change my pitch - the excitement generated by showing was there all the time, just not easily perceived by the population.
the drawings that transformed life itself was contagious! And generated
tons of money! So you have a premise of intentionally keeping the population ignorant
of technology - giving them the impression that the levitating Raga
Wheel, the Hover Craft, the Video-TV screens, etc., were there by the

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 God’s power. So if you take away the cognizance - take away the universal cognizance of technology - that becomes the introduction of magic - the
introduction of Heavenly Powers of the Gods - the introduction of Sam, Mahasamatman. And Roger’s novel, Lord of Light. And then enters Jack <drum
roll> Kirby, who had been toying with all these worlds of god-like powers for years before I met him, where you have a man, who was just a man - but
from the might of Honor and Justice, the man becomes like a God.

So Jack Kirby sees Lord of Light as an extension of himself, as what he had always wanted to do. As an expression of his life! And Science Fiction Land
as the proper vehicle to see his ideas formed in the physical world! Consultants Bradbury, Fuller, and Soleri are there to make it so, and everyone is in
complete agreement with one another. So all of this - we are making up all of these designs, these drawings - and we are CHANGING THE WORLD.
This is what no one has understood about Jack Kirby, past and present. Being an artist working on Lord of Light, he was back again with Patton, with
Odin, making the world better, freer, safer, and more real.

On www.lordoflight.com you can see all the drawings and read vignettes of how each was created. One is “Brahma’s Supremacy,” - Massive! After
initial discussion regarding the exterior of the Temple of Brahma, Jack’s first idea was to display the consciousness and omnipotence of the god Brahma
himself, where all beings are part of His Awareness! Another is ”Brahma’s Pavilions of Joy” where I was inspired by a single line in Roger’s novel,
where Kali wants to save Sam’s life and Brahma says, “Come to my Pavilion of Joys (my sweet darling), for the weekend (dear Goddess), and let us
pray together” - LOL! This drawing was to show a street in Science Fiction Land, of God’s Statues, where each building was dedicated to restaurants of
different countries (to pay for the film - the Producer’s idea), but with galactic euphoria imagined by Jack Kirby!

Another example is the double-paneled “Planetary Control Room,” inked by Mike Royer, and so brilliantly depicted by Tom Kraft for JK Fine Arts, and by
Mark Englert for Heavy Metal. I was originally inspired by Zelazny’s idea of Sam as Prince Siddhartha coming to town and using the “Celestial” Video
Telephone to talk to God in a Temple of Brahma! I envisioned a giant video screen, where he went to Temple to “Pray” - which the attending Priests con-
sidered to be Holy Communion. Zelazny depicted a small Temple room, but I came up with the idea of floating robot-priests, holograms, a stadium-sized
Control Room, Cube of Earth, Raga Wheel of Life, and all the rest. Were we crazy?

“I believe that this

film and the way
we are conceiving it
could contribute to
saving the world.”
Jack gave life to everything, created the awesomeness of the total presentation with every
explosive drawing, so literally no description is needed further! It was his way of telling a
story, which he considered his best talent, even better than his actual drawing.

My publicist interviewed Jack in the summer of 1979, where he said, “I’m a concept
man. I can get to the nut of a story. My way of looking at things and the way I develop
is exactly what this film needs. That’s my background.

“The film will have a tremendous impact in the world, it will show enormous strength.
It will allow Eastern man and Western man to relate to each other. I believe that this film
and the way we are conceiving it could contribute to saving the world.

“I had to be involved… and I most definitely am.”

In the past few years, it’s become known that the CIA used the Kirby/Geller Lord of Light
drawings and my screenplay to get the hostages out of Iran during the 1979 Hostage
Crisis, which the film Argo was loosely based upon. What has not been known, and was
just told to me recently by the editor of the French-Iranian avant-garde magazine Zaman,
is it was actually Jack’s drawing called “Terminal of the Gods” that made the Iranian
revolutionaries believe the CIA’s film studio was legitimate (as opposed to the stick figures
used in the film Argo), because it signaled to them the leaving of the oppressive Shah
and the Return of the True Gods of their sacred religion. Can you imagine that?

Jack Kirby’s work with Lord of Light really DID change the world! Jack’s stuff works on a
cross-cultural level of multi-consciousness, with many integrated dimensions, more than
any other artist in our world, Comics or otherwise, has previously achieved.

Barry Ira Geller

Producer, Lord of Light
July 28, 2015

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 Too Much Fantasy On MotherFlower by Massimiliano Frezzato

my name is frida.

If I wasn’t a lazy Lounge Lizard, I

would have already blown a gasket…

or at least be railing against

the creator and all of creation...

Yes!

If I hadn’t discovered who I really am…

If I hadn’t read all of

the pages that I’ve read…
I could just let
it all go… And sing
out loud...

like I really
Should!

yep.

but I wouldn’t be here...

sitting on my shell...

As a stagehand on the borders of this page...

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 But we’re beginning at the end… let’s begin with the beginning…

It’s raining on the palace of G.O.D.

global
Oppressive
Dictator
It rains...

On the capital
city and the
entire planet!

just Like it did in

film noir from the
20th century…

It’s been raining

for the past
50 years...

It will rain forever on this sad page of humanity

Someone said it all began with a little storm in seattle…

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 the penthouse suite is impeccable…

The weather is warm… perfectly warm…

and everything is clear. perfectly clear.

The furniture is invisible (as is all

the rage for the leisure class).

And everything is enwrapped

in a musical mantle...

a most perfect veil of music!

the imperial prince

lorenzo smiles...

... he understands!

He introduces a
mega-phyon into his
brain...

and in a few moments,

the entire universe
becomes a reflection
of his desires.

With grave
consequences
for us all.

He’s so taken by his vision that he doesn’t even pay attention

to the enormous pencil sitting right beside him, threatening to
steal the limelight and ruin the outline of his dreams...

This is the
moment of truth!

and he knows it!!

He is one
naughty little boy!

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designs will come to
fruition...

...and doesn’t even

bother to reach... ... for an eraser...

…or notice the

“Browning 7000”
that’s pointed
directly at him
by the other’s
eerily steady
hand…

the other...
Pay no attention to the robot…

And pay no attention to his condition...

Who knows what he had to face

in order to get this far?

Simply try
not to
forget:

He’s the hero,

the righteous one!

The only hope for

us all!

And right now is the

exact moment when he
will achieve...

But remember, this

is the future… and all
this has not yet come
to pass...
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“The Arrival of a Baby Always Turns Things Upside Down...”

At the time, rocco

was a simple sexual robotic
operative in
pleasure Robot on coitus &
MotherFlower, cunnilingus.
a mining Space Station
run exclusively
by women...

For better
or worse, Rocco’s
charm had slowly
worn thin as the
miners, who he
called “Baby Dolls”,
slowly but surely
lost interest
in him...
fuck!

He no longer pleased them...

…And had been set aside

by the ladies in exchange
for the latest Robotic Sex
models, complete with
anti-virus software,
adjustable Attachments,
automatic devices...
all that stuff.

... Early retirement!

kisses!

Like the
Like in a Prince turned
child’s fairy into a frog...
tale…

He missed the kisses...

and yet he yearned to be free... from all bondage... by the Baby Dolls and humanity in general.

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long strings of “o”s and “1”s, this hadn’t hindered him
(with a certain satisfaction) from sabotaging the expeditions
of the replacement robots sent to MotherFlower…

16 robots had arrived… ... There was a Rotomix,

a Rhinowash, A Rockingchair,
a Rotopodor, etc. etc.
etc…

All dropped
into the
basket
disintegrator.

Not a single
worthy replacement
had survived! thus...
robotoad

if they refused him,

they weren’t going
to get anyone else!!!
everything was going
just fine, the Baby
dolls never seemed A decidedly
suspicious why macho dude,
the shipments had that Rocco!

never arrived…

... however …

rocco worried
that his plot
had worn thin...

so lately, when a new

robot was ordered, he’d
hack the system and change
the model number... risky
business that created
for our stalwart rascal...

...A mild state of anxiety...

... A whisper of
cyber-
apprehension...

Mothert Flower
to armored baby
6620-07...

Don’t be impatient -
wait in line for your
docking coordinates!

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At the time, I found myself stationed as a non-commissioned fancazzista officer…

It goes without saying that my duties were rather limited.

…Roger,
that,
Mother…

... There must

... We’ll have
be some kind of
to disengage
trouble with
and continue
Panda Pilot...
manually…

FRiDA!
prepare
for rescue
ops!
Power
down the
shields...

All systems
on standby.

~ whimper ~

... The work paid well...

And allowed me to do the thing I like best… after sleeping and smoking….
 sing moon river

Transmitting lullabye...

...frida?!
ok!

too much
turbulence

ok.

Red
alert!
red
Alert!

focus
your
attention,
baby!

...roger...

disengaged!

ready to
disengage
... but this pacifier...
is difficult...
you’re docking
us during
nap time!

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 The baby’s next generation shields made this an unusual procedure...

If I had stopped singing at

that moment, the “crybaby”
would have powered up its
shields, mimicking the resonance
field of another space shuttle...

Releasing an ultra-hypersonic pulse that

would have destroyed the entire quadrant...

…and have cre-

ated serious
problems for
the sequel to
this story...

finito!

I hate
when that
happens…

fuel
supply
is at
97.2%...

pacifier?
...

ok.

I
You want
can
captain! to go to the assure
cargo hold, don’t as
you wish, you...
Captain... tell me
what what I captain, but
is it, as a class “a”
think,
umma! telepath...
umma...
that’s
exactly
what you
think!
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 Captain Jolly had this same exact problem at every docking station...

The Baby dolls’

monthly ovulations
always left them
craving fulfillment, so
much so that they would
abandon their posts
to obtain satisfaction...

that’s him?

It ... the package! I

can’t can’t
believe
be!!! it!

they screwed
I up again!
want to
cry
...

those
assholes on
earth are
really taking
the piss outta the
us! label
says...

aye!

robotic
operative of lilting
loquaciousness

Hello?
what
model
is this
one?
It
looks to
me like he
was used in
rome to
please the
asexual
elite...

hey!

look
at this -- he
doesn’t even
have a
ding-a-ling!
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 what?
no way!
what did
you’re I tell you
kidding me! about leaving
your posts?!
damn you!

uh oh...
she’s here.

what is this
as you hmph. thing? a robotic chia
can see... pet space heater made
they... uh... for camping out on
hiya, they sent Santorini?
cap’n...
um...
us the
well... wrong
uh... model...
again!

captain!
Nah!

in!!!
capta
it’s
a robo-
priest!

frida! a spy, I get it!

fine! get
out of my
who?
captain! way - and all
of you get
s back to
what’s up?
p work!!!

y
And
don’t
forget -
we’re
still at
what?! war!!!

there’s
a spy
on board, fuck!

captain!

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 Chapter 2
“The War...”

In the beginning, the relationship

between alien and human cultures didn’t
differ very much from the relationship
between humans and the rest of the
species on earth:

eat or be eaten...

... or
destroy and
catalog...

naturally, These procedures stuck with them when they arrived at Planet BlorgH!

... Inhabited by
horrible creatures
(who refuse to
reveal their faces)
and whose chief
characteristics
rendered them...
indestructible In fact, each time that a Blorgh would die, two little Blorghs
& inedible! immediately sprung from its corpse…very jumpy and ready to bite!!!

After a year of
fruitless battle,
The troops were
ordered to
withdraw… ancient
“cruel weapons”
were used...
a chink in their
and the planet armor that was
was decreed a well exploited.

trash dump

Let’s
red leader
to gold try not to
leader... scatter this shit
all over the
stratosphere,
OK?!
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 ... But the Blorghs
prayed very hard ...

... And just like that, one

fine day they succeeded in
capturing an earth bound
shuttle…
... in the
beginning,
they
resigned
themselves ...
to endure it ... and By
sh
this base copying its
insult... design, they built
themselves their
very own fleet
but Then... they of starships...
began to nourish
themselves on
our garbage…

... And left

their home
planet...

determined

to

Eradicate

Especially the
nuclear waste!
The human race

and they mutated... From the galaxy

yes

... They became forever!!!

intelligent!!! ... yes yes!

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 Chapter 3
“The Spy”

... How sHe was

did she hidden
get in? aboard a
pacifier. that’s
very

Embar-
rassing.

sHe
took
the pilot
hostage and
demanded to
talk to
you...
We’ve sent in three gorillas.

With
orders not
to shoot.

good.

Emergency!
Someone help!
I’m under
attack! may
day! may
day!!!

I am
Captain
I am
Jolly. Show Captain
Calm
yourself Roger.
and state down, my
your sister.
demands!

And
in the name
of Space Law,
I demand
asylum!

You’ll
see, the
Captain will
do everything
in her power
to keep you
Safe…
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 But Captain Jolly thought differently...

Space
Law has
no court
on this
station!

kill her!

now...

frankly - I never saw

the robo-gorillas as
the supreme weapons
that the rest of the
world brags about...

... apart
from
the “big
booms” ...

which,
after
launching,
are very
slow to
retrieve.

... they have

very limited
vision.

a
factors to
u add those that was
so when yo g off ic er
And the h a rankin ...
face off wit ghter”... well
reaction
Heidi’s grandpa’
s so a “M as ter Swordfi
time of al
St. Bernard
hercules...

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 It quickly became clear that the likelihood for victory was… unlikely... at best...

which the rest of us

She was more interested were oblivious to...
e
in observing the strang
... But Captain phenomenon that had
Jolly didn’t begun to occur…
seem to be
bothered...

a slow but
inexorable
loss of the
brilliant
color that
we had been
baptized in...
incoming!!!
The hope that a similar effect
might distract the intruder was
the best weapon that we wielded.

There had been a

moment in time when
her warrior spirit
seemed to... vacillate.

tic!
tak! ringo!
toe!
you
know what
to do!
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 I say “seemed”... Because we
soon discovered
that in addition
to being a Master
Swordfighter...

she was also

an expert in...

attack!

combat roboading balls!

alley ok!
oop!

yay!
go
team,
we
go!
will break
them! pull,
cap’n!
pull!

finito.

got
it right
on the
first
... the gorillas had try!!!
lost in 26 panels!

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 ... the roboading balls cheered their victory...

look
yeah, awesome, yes! who’s
tic! tak! but don’t talking!
let your
strings
sag!

In
order to
end up at
captain allow me the ass end of
jolly... to explain.
the cosmos only
to find myself
I traveled transformed into
15 Parsecs a fucking black
with a panda and white
pilot between drawing...
seated
my thighs...
on a flower
cushion full of
piss, searching for
the devil knows
what...
I left behind my
entire life, a beautiful
home, good friends, my
family... everything...
gone...

all that
because an old
friend, who I’d
thought was dead,
what’s asked me for
more, I’m help...
worked to
death and
would kill for
a bath...

so,
what are
we doing
here?

excuse me,
roger...

your
skills are quite
impressive. our
actions were
necessary to
assess the
situation.

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 AND THEN WE discovered THAT WHAT THE “spy” did wasn’t really unwelcome,
and that the actions of the captain herself were rather... questionable...

Welcome
to MOTHER-
FLOWER, my
pretty!

excuse me!

you have severely

damaged a federation
pacifier shuttle!!!

and I am
part of a
protected
species - and
you have left
me in serious
danger…
moreover

It very well relax,

may be that my anthro-
I’ll remain in pomorphic
a state of shock brother.
for the rest of
the year - and
that sure won’t
help my libido!
IT’S YOUR fault! You’ll see -
you... you everything will
pricks! be fine!

We’re
going to
regain our color;
and you, if you’re
a good boy, you
can play with the
Captain’s yoyo and
stuff yourself
with mulberries…
doesn’t that
sound relaxing?

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 Chapter 4
“Captain Jolly’s Problem”

How
do you
feel?

better,
thanks.

so
spill the
beans!
what’s
the
problem?

calm
down. you’ve got
your color
back.

... it’s simple...

which
is used
to
as fuel for
summarize... the FEDERATiON
MOTHERFLOWER warships...
is a mining
station managed
exclusively by
women. we
synthesize the mind
Mega-Phyon you...
material...
For all
of the
Federation’s
warships.

so...

Before
long, we
discovered some
anomalies in the
production... not a big
deal, around .0002%, but every
the problem puzzled business
us... it indicated accepts
there was a thief these kind
among my of losses.
crew...
I
don’t get
there it...
is a
thief!

well...

so
why don’t
you?

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 perhaps
I haven’t
explained
it very
well...

But
believe me,
on my word
of honor, it is
imperative that not
even a single atom
of Mega-Phyon gets
out of here
illegally…

tell me...
what
do you right
see? Now it’s a
mushroom, but
a in a half hour, It’s
mushroom. it could be a every-
butterfly, or
where
a croissant,
or a pencil here.
sharpener...

What
you see
is the
Mega-
Phyon!

Here,
the food is
always exactly
what you want All
to eat. of this
is the
result of
Even the Mega-
The the air Phyon...
temperature... smells
perfect... good! I realize
that this seems
We have unbelievable… but I
lodgings that guarantee you that
change according everything will be
to our whims… perfect throughout
your entire visit...
absolutely

perfect!
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 Chapter 5
“I Want to Tell You a Story!”

5 years ago… ... in this exact same spot we are now... Doctor Julia
Rawberts XXXIII made
a revolutionary
discovery…

The story is told

that in order to
fight boredom, she
demanded that her
assistant, Doctor
Brav Tipp XXIX, do a
rendition of a
Gloria Gaynor
disco song...

out...

in space...

in a thong.

no problem!

... said dr. tipp.

he had his reasons

then...

tipp recalled a visit he’d

paid to a hotel in las
vegas, where he had
dated a show girl
and just like that -
piof! he disappeared into
thin air (or thin vacuum,
as the case may be).

can you blame

him?

he had teleported to that

same hotel, and Apart from the
shock, had arrived in good spirits.

... And he wore a broad smile ...

… but something that created more than

a bit of anxiety for him was the smell of
tapenade emanating from his trousers…

After an examination, Dr. Tipp’s family jewels were declared gourmet and he was committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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 Taken aback by this curiosity, Doctor Rawberts called upon new assistants
(who weren’t of the mind to wear thongs), but they all disappeared, too!

Dr. Rambow XXII Dr. Colucci XV Dr. M. Curie XX

materialized out was found in a was discovered in
of thin air at the drunken stupor at a fit of compul-
Knar Revolt, just in the grand annual sive shopping on
time to be flat- drinking contest astro-carrefour
tened by a tank... of Pantagruel V... in orbit around
Venus...

but
both of the men presented the same the each of them had simply materialized
symptomatic family jewels as those of oddest precisely at the spot where they
Doctor Tipp, and colucci also found himself thing had desired to be at that moment
committed... while curie was unharmed. was... ...

Dr. Rawberts then decided

to take matters into her
own hands… and so -

just
She purchased
the
the rights
to exploit the
males!
entire quadrant…

And
formed a
research
team of
the most
brilliant
women...

That was how

she succeeded in
synthesizing the
Mega-Phyon!

a unique particle...

Created
solely in
this specific
quadrant
of space...

That would
allow for a
new type of
travel That
had no
boundaries of
space or time!!!

Thus was born the propulsion of desire!

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 think of all
those ships traveling
like tiny pieces of
confetti throughout
the galaxies!

any time there was an

accident, the tragic

what a nuisance!!! loss of lives... not to

mention the horrific
expense having to
rebuild the starcraft!

speaking of horrible
expenses... imagine
all of the resources
wasted digging up
the fossil fuels to
power the ships!

all finito!

no longer necessary!

Who would ever

the blorghs!
travel again using
super unleaded gas who else?
when you could take
the Desire Train?

their ships are

still powered by
the outmoded
fossil fuels!

had you not wondered why the tides of war had turned
so favorably in humanity’s direction in recent years?

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 You under-
stand... Now there
nice is a federation, The
page G.O.D. Prince Lorenzo and
his ministers of war… we’re
ruled by those nincompoops
and they’re waiting, quite
impatiently, for us to commit
a single error so that they
can suspend our license
to operate on Mother
Flower...

so
I can’t risk
our independence
just because one
of our scientists
is stealing some of
to be frank, the mega-phyon.
I simply cannot allow
the personal shenanigans
of one of our staff
members to fuck over
the entire crew!

hmm. so
what’s the
deal with
sex?

Bah!
It’s just a
theory…

pft --
absurd!

but
it appears
that the
concentration
of mega-phyon
here is quite
dangerous for
human males... hey!
mind the let’s go
bollocks! play in yeah!
the frog
pound! let’s
it’ll fire him
be up and
fun!
give ‘im
a go!

calm down,
ladies… calm down

!!!
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 Chapter 6
“Pumping!”

... finally ...

as You may
have noticed, from time
to time, there’s been an odd
bleaching phenomenon taking
place. the events of our color-
ful world become bereft of their
vibrant hues... turning our rich,
multifaceted universe into
issues of simplistic
black & white.... a sign that
something isn’t
quite right!

hey!
nice
job!
Have you
finished
inflating
it?!

... much
The Mega- like human
Phyon is a desire... ... no one
very unstable can master
particle... it!

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 mind you,
most of the
women had no
access to its
production...

thus The list

of suspects is
limited to a dozen
officers and petty
officers...

hold
on!

I’ve
prepared a
list for
you...

what?!

What can you

tell me about
the lizard?

who?
frida?!

that would be
very strange... apart from
the fact that she’s
a lazy lounge lizard, no, no.
who also happens to not frida.
be a comic strip no way.
character... she
couldn’t-- she but
wouldn’t-- then
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 god... whatta when
pain! will it get
here?!

my son, you must be patient.

this is required if you want to stay here with me in

calm down... the realm of nothingness to wait things out…

a mastermind?
huh?
is this what we’ve been
waiting for?!!

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 ... this is nothing like
what I asked for...

well...
let’s go...

we’ll have to search...

nothing no. but I’m

here... stronger!

still hey! there’s

looking... something in
here!

feel anything?
it’s big!

leave
it to
me...

I
am

more

suited
to

here’s

something.

I think it’s
broken...

dammit. bring me your we’ll have to

piece... repair them...

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 awww...
they
match!

hey!

put them
together!

I can
see that!

are you ready, son?

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93
 ... the awakening was tense acidic
like someone had hurled me into another person’s life, a life that was in tatters...
... and then a horrible creature began screaming…

get
up!!!
you
Worthless,
lazy
slug!
the
frog
pound
has
begun!
and
you’re
taking me
there!

I beg we’re
your gonna have a
pardon?
night to
remember!

damn the
expenses!

th--
thelma?
... today,
louise!

c’mon! she’s the old ex-marine

we’ll hop Schizophrenic who was
given refuge by Captain
on that Jolly... don’t ask.
jalopy!

she’s bad news...

... I do not
like to be seen
in her company...

... But this morning I was too out of it to give a fuck...

y!

... so let’s have a truce...

az
cr

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 just so you know... I’ve visited the creator more than once… during
which time I could indulge in my secret personal stash of MEGA-PHYON...

but I’ve never seen

anything like this!

I never wanted to
be seen in a comic
strip like this!

oh my!
look at
him... he’s
... everything is fuzzy... I just can’t wrap my brain around it... gorgeous!

yowza!

... this guy

rivals my own
deep procilivity
for laziness...

...and all
the girls
are going
gaga over
him
!

so I focused...

and woke up!

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 Chapter 8
“The Frog Pound”

the rules

the first team that

there are Four teams, touches the ball becomes
the first round is the attackers, the other
called “Ball-in” and we three squads defend.
play to “basket drop.”

... then
the basket
disintegrator
is raised...

And the second round begins...

One point per shot

and thirty points
(more or less) when
you score a basket.

it’s a passionate sport.

and it always concludes

with the same inevitable,
preordained outcome...
The disintegration
of the ball and
its occupant!

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got it? now let’s take
a second to revisit
page 4 of this tale...

... as you may recall, it

was the moment when
rocco, our hero, was
about to save us all...

now let’s compare

those events to our
current scene...

and tell me...

... what you think...

what is the possibility that we

could arrive there, seeing what I’m
you’re seeing here?! telling you,
something
is very
wrong!!!
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 BUT LET’S RETURN TO THE FACTS !
I
knew that
sooner or ... would occur...
later the
right
“SPOK”

... it’s The shot

that goes
straight into
the basket...

yes

The one that would have

put an end to our hero...

in an

electric blaze...

I had to
act fast!

Even if it was
very risky...

Even if it was contrary

to my philosophy…

and this time...

there was
no room for
error! hey...
little
sister?

you
look
a little
this time... pale...

I had to...

... get something

accomplished!

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 Chapter 9
“The Creator”

99
100
 beat it!

shit...
go!

and
don’t come
back!

hey, son --
what the hell
is that?!

... shit ...

101
 I’ve we give
got no it a
what
idea. do you
taste?
say

I’ll
bust it no! don’t,
open! robin!!!

see?

let me
do it. ... it’s
not...

him...

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 c--
r...
... creato

.
it’s him... excuse me

I’m afraid
that it’s rather
urgent, sir!

... thank heavens ...

um... Of
course we
have a seriously
I’ve found paradoxical
Hem
him! I have narrative
a little problem...
request... creator!

... it’s he’s

hopeless. cooked...
finito!

... time
stands
still...

... I think we may

be going too far I warned him
astray using these not to take
photocopies ... the bike!

... shit ... I see!

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 ... I finally understand everything now ...

all the
anomalies associated
with motherflower
are revealed...

the
creator
is dead!

... And all

the pages of
my world…

... lie dormant at my feet ...

Like fresh corpses from a battle already forgotten...

I don’t
even know y !
if I have a
world to
he
return to
...

wake
up!!!

... what a rip-off!

no...

this is ridiculous! we you

A guy that’s dead sure would’ve
can’t be the creator! had liked
alot them.
of
ideas but
... this comic
reeked of
bad luck
from the
very
start
...

bah!

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 If I wasn’t a lazy Lounge Lizard, I would have already blown a gasket!

... or at least be railing against the creator and all of creation ...

dammit!

For once I’m

written into a beautiful
story, comprehensible,
commercial, well-designed -
with heroes, villians, hotties,
robots, and awesome
special effects!

no way!
no!

what
the hell?! and he had to - die!

... One leaves life

what
coward!
am I
as one begins it …
going to
do with
myself
now?

I wasn’t
given enough
time to develop
my potential and yet
...

in the end ... I come to terms that I am just a lazy Lounge Lizard…

And I am sure that all the world’s a comic

strip, and we all are merely characters...

... yes ...

I know it...

and despite of that, dear reader, I do not regret a single thing...

Who spends 8 bucks on a comic and expects it to be a good investment?
105
 actually, I do have one regret.

You’ll never get

to hear me sing
moon river!

so instead...

I leave you with

a victory cry!

AND SO YOU KNOW... to ensure that this comic

would be A success, they resurrected my creator...

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