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Summary
King Mob and Ragged Robin are in the Philadelphia church where John A'Dreams
disappeared. King Mob is convinced that John has gone over to the enemy
and that he is in the church trying to kill them. Robin doesn't believe
that he is there. John is in fact not there, instead the enemy are testing
Scorpio, the virtual assassin. On a plane, Boy and Jack are getting to
know each other a bit better, while Jolly Roger collects Jim Crow from
a club in Chicago. Meanwhile Robin and King Mob have been driven to distraction
and paranoia by Scorpio, and even when they realise what is going on they
still start to wonder - is there really a conspiracy, or is one of the
richest men in the world (Mason) creating the whole thing?
Characters
o Mason Lang
o Ragged Robin
o King Mob
o Colonel Friday
o Quimper
o The Blind Chessman
o Lord Fanny
o Jack Frost
o Boy
o Lord Fanny
o Jim Crow
o Jolly Roger
Analysis
o Jung, Carl
o Philadelphia Experiment, The
o Hallucinogens
o Voodoo
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Annotations
The cover, as several people have pointed out shows King Mob is crossing
his fingers in the cover image... [JB] KM's pose and clothes (jacket)
clearly ape ads for "The Full Monty". I'll not venture as to what this
means. [GG]
o [pages 1-5] More brother-sister incest implications with Mason
and Kathryn -- reminiscent of Cornelius bks and King Mob in 1.16-18
[Doc 26/JWB] One way or another Mason namechecks Takashi, John (-a-Dreams?),
(Colonel?) Friday and (Sir) Miles (Delacourt?). If we assume "John"
is John-a-Dreams, and that even though that isn't him chasing KM and
Robin he has gone over to the Outer Church, has he got access to seeing
all time simultaneously? Is that what Mason is talking about in Page
2, Panels 3-5, namely what will happen at the end of time? If so this
is the second time it has been hinted that the Invisibles may not win
after all (the first being Issue 2.12) at the end. [L] Re: page 2, panels
3-5 : I assumed Mason was talking about the ending of "Starship Troopers"
here, rather than the end of time. For those who haven't seen it, the
film doesn't end with the humans defeating the 'mindless' insects. Instead
they capture a brain bug, which they plan to 'examine' in order to learn
how the insects think and therefore to fight more productively in the
future. [GML]
o [page 11] [panels 3-5] In Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian,"
the Judge -- a nameless wanderer, possibly a demon of some kind -- keeps
a sketchbook; he sketches various interesting things as he encounters
them, and once he's satisfied with the drawing, he destroys the original.
In general, having images of yourself made by a magician is not a good
sign, so this portrait may not bode well for Quimper. [EB]
o [page 12] [panel 4] A bit Joseph Campbell. [Flossy]
o [page 19] [panel 6] It's 23:05 or I'm in need of glasses...
[TRI]
o [page 20] Presumably it's King Mob's use of the line "It's
like a stupid film" that makes Robin think of Mason. [L] King Mob shoots
at a door behind which is a brick wall with his name spray-painted on
it. Perhaps this is an allusion to him destroying himself? Ye olde,
"live by the gun, die by the gun". It ties in with the cover, where
we see King Mob showing a smoking finger, wearing the Mod-target shirt,
which is bullet-ridden. This also ties in to 2.01, page 14, where we
see him "shooting himself" again. [FF]
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