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[evilhorse]

Someone’s been at my Oreo cookies.

[cantsayidont]

From THE PRISONER: SHATTERED VISAGE (1988), by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith, the authorized sequel to the 1967–1968 TV show about surveillance and social coercion.

[comicarthistory]

Page from The Prisoner Book A. 1988. Art by Dean Motter.

[cantsayidont]

December 1988. Power returns to the Village, in the authorized comics sequel to THE PRISONER (collected as THE PRISONER: SHATTERED VISAGE), by Mark Askwith and Dean Motter. A female British intelligence officer, recently resigned, leaves on a solo round-the-world sailing trip, only to find herself in the now seemingly abandoned Village, caught in a final deadly game of cat and mouse between the mysterious Number Six and the man once known as Number Two.

Meanwhile, the nameless heroine's estranged husband, MI5 officer Thomas Drake, confronts a mysterious conspiracy within his agency, which may be connected to the former Number Two and his recently published, heavily censored tell-all memoir, The Village Idiot.

An intriguing if necessarily oblique story, SHATTERED VISAGE loses the element of social coercion that's such an important component of THE PRISONER TV show in favor of modern John le Carré wilderness-of-mirrors espionage drama. However, it manages the difficult feat of moving the game on without undoing (or really explaining) what's gone before, and the ways it deploys familiar imagery and themes of the show are pleasingly clever. In particular, it captures the mordant wit and sharp-edged wordplay that characterize the show's best episodes. THE PRISONER creator Patrick McGoohan, notoriously curmudgeonly, reportedly said he "didn't hate it."

[evilhorse]

Gentlemen—drastic times call for drastic measures.

[evilhorse]

And if that doesn’t work, you can be Suzy Homemaker—and I’ll be Madame Miracle!

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SDCC 2018: Titan To Re-Publish Out Of Print The Prisoner Series From DC Comics

SDCC 2018: Titan To Re-Publish Out Of Print The Prisoner Series From DC Comics

Titan are currently publishing a very successful sequel of sorts to The Prisoner cult TV show, but it’s not the first time this show has been attempted in comic book form. Back in 1988, DC Comics published a prestige format mini-series called Shattered Visage telling the story of former secret agent Alice Drake, whose round-the-world solo voyage is interrupted when she is accidentally…

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Titan to bring ‘The Prisoner: Shattered Visage’ back into print

Motter and Askwith’s comic book sequel to The Prisoner returns to print for the first time in decades.