Soon, Dane is seeing the city with different eyes - literally. Tom O'Bedlam, as he further explains himself, claims to be the world's most powerful living magician, and out of disbelieving cussedness and fascination, Dane deigns to follow him around for a while. So, Dane reasons, something interesting's going on with this Tom fellow. The bobbie questions Tom about Dane's whereabouts, gets no sensible answer, and moves on - while Dane stands beside Tom in plain view for the entire exchange. Later that same day, Tom snatches Dane as he runs from the police, and pulls him into an alley. Dane is getting by on shoplifted snacks and has made a couple of nice gutter-punk friends, who tell him Tom's harmless but annoying, and can be safely ignored. Mad Tom is a beggar, looking every bit the part with his army-surplus gear and wizardly grey beard, muttering a pastiche of literature and rhythmic chant. He hauls Dane the hell out of there and barely has time to explain that he's the leader of a cell within the secret society known as the Invisibles and Dane is their newest recruit, before he disappears, leaving Dane alone and homeless on the streets of London. He tears into Harmony House, its staff, and finally its headmaster, with handguns and your basic contemporary-action-hero kung fu. King Mob is a fury in shock white hair, a curious diving-mask thing, and an even more curious black vinyl jacket that looks like it's had little black-vinyl Dixie cups glued to it all over. Nothing short of an armed rescue team could save Dane now. He alludes repeatedly that he may have a changed sort of sight, and with Dane cornered and his establishment caught red-handed, he prophesies what Dane will become, like himself: "smooth between the ears, smooth between the legs". Gelt, a corpulent ghoul in a dark suit and darker glasses. An alarm sounds, and he's caught by the headmaster, Mr. Dane, of course, goes sneaking around and finds some rather nasty remnants of the House's former clients. The folks who run Harmony House claim openly that they will turn their charges into hollow shells who will thank Harmony House for teaching them what authority really means. He's in the midst of the latter when he's apprehended, and sent to a very strange correctional facility for boys, called Harmony House. And much has been left out of this summary.)ĭane McGowan is a long-haired blond kid from Liverpool whose interests include stealing cars and running them into ditches, and setting his school building on fire with various crude explosives. They are the wind that blows newspapers down a gutter on a windy night and sweeps the gutter clean.(Spoilers of the first four issues below, but the first four issues really don't spoil much of anything, themselves acting as a kind of preview. You may have looked at them, but you did not see them. Some critics have seen clear homoerotic overtones in this episode. Overtones of both "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Invasion Of The Body Sounding creatures are the highlight of somewhat rambling plot, with Neil HamiltonĪnd Richard Dawson costar as co-conspirators. Spain must find a way to stop them, which wont be easy. Positions of government in order to take over the country's leaders. That need human men as hosts so that they can be placed near high Taken over by ages-old, parasitic, tick-like creatures from outer space State governor named Hillerman (played by George Macready), who has been Organization called the Invisibles, which turns out to be run by the Who, along with other men just like him, are recruited to join a secret The aliens are monstrous parasites born in the darkness between the stars who puppeteer human hosts.ĭon Gordon stars as Luis Spain, a seemingly friendless, disaffected man PlotĪ Government Intelligence Agency (G.I.A.) agent is sent to infiltrate a fascist organization, which is actually the cover for an alien invasion. I almost said the human race, and that would have been a half-truth, for the race they are joining today is only half human. They will come a little closer to their unrealistic dreams of power and glory. They have never experienced love or friendship, or formed any lasting or constructive relationship, but today, at last, they will become a part of something. For reasons both sociological and psychological, these three have never joined or been invited to join society. They are newspapers blowing down a gutter on a windy night.
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