Aside from the obvious, Wayne was showing me a side of himself that he probably doesn't reveal to many people. He is a cloistered man driven by gigantic -- almost supernatural forces, not simply greed as I always thought. [...] That night I began to appreciate Wayne's misanthropy. To him, everyone was an enemy of one kind or another. His partners, his competitors, his lawyer, the cops, and even his girlfriend... He was the classic paranoid that everyone actually was after! Maybe being Batman made sense in his world. "I had to do it as someone else -- something else," he'd said.

Batman: Nine Lives (2002) #1

(Dean Motter, Michael Lark)

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."

Terminal City #3

by Dean Motter,Michael Lark ; Rick Taylor and Willie Schubert

DC/Vertigo and Dark Horse

Dean Motter The Watcher Album Cover Illustration Original Art (Attic, 1985) 

The Compleat Terminal City ( 2012) (digital) ( Son Of Ultron Empire) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Dark Horse and Yoe Books will publish Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America. This graphic novel anthology by Rafael Medoff and Dean Motter tells the true stories of four heroes who “risked everything to expose the horrors of the Holocaust.”

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Elseworlds Batman by Michael Lark

House ad for the 1988 The Prisoner mini-series by Dean Motter

Terminal City #1 & 2 (1996) by Vertigo / DC Comics

Written by Dean Motter. Art by Michael Lark. Cover by Mark Chiarello.

Exclusive: Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America tells the true story of four heroes who risked it all to expose the horrors of the Holocaust

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We have the exclusive reveal of the next title from Dark Horse Books and Yoe Books‘ publishing partnership. Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America is a graphic novel anthology which tells the riveting true stories of four heroes who risked everything to expose the horrors of the Holocaust. Whistleblowersis written by Holocaust scholar Dr. Rafael Medoff, with art and…

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Shift Volume Two - Issue 5, out in newsagents in September

A sneak peek at the next issue of SHIFT, from GetMyComics, on sale next month

Shift Volume Two – Issue 5, on sale next month, is an End of Summer Special that will feature the start of two new stories. Running to a bumper 116 pages, this special issue features the final part of “Shifter”, the second and closing chapter of Stewart Kenneth Moore’s “Thrawn Janet” (more from Stewart soon) and the last of the current run of “Elephantmen – War Toys”. Two new strips also join…

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The frontier between the jungle and the savanna is a mathematical one. It is the gap between the wheel and the axle. It is the interval. The lead in a stained-glass window. The tidal brine on the beach. The moment between inhaling and exhaling. Friction... and action.

Terminal City (1996) #5

(Dean Motter, Michael Lark)

Why did all my Star Wars girlies (Aayla, Aurra & Asajj) have some degree of history of slavery in either their Legends or Canon origin story...

Terminal City #1

by Dean Motter, Michael Lark, Rick Taylor and Willie Schubert

DC/Vertigo and Dark Horse

After you've watched "The Prisoner," you might be interested in the 1988 comic book sequel by Dean Motter, SHATTERED VISAGE, in which the publication of a heavily censored tell-all memoir by a former Number Two (Leon McKern) raises the question: What happened to Number Six? Titan reprinted it in 2019, which I like to think was an apology for their 2018 THE PRISONER: THE UNCERTAINTY MACHINE, which is vile (totally wrong tonally, mean-spirited, and very violent, which McGoohan would have *hated*).

That sounds intriguing, though hopefully it doesn’t explain too much? I do love that the series raises more questions than answers (and tend to prefer that in that kind of thing, it’s nice rotating a story in my head for days).

Congrats to Lorraine Tallman - Phoenix Biz Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business

Congratulations to Lorraine Tallman on being recognized as one of the Phoenix Business Journal's 2023 Outstanding Women in Business honorees! A round of applause for all the incredible 2023 Outstanding Women in Business awardees: Deepika Bhalla, Owner, Chateau Luxe Sue Breding, Executive Communications Officer, City of Glendale Marina Carpenter, General Counsel/Compliance Officer; Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Arizona Coyotes Lauren Carr, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, Microchip Heidi Coupland, Vice President of Development, Fresh Start Women's Foundation Cheryl Covert, Assistant Director Economic Development, City of Avondale Ritta Fagain, CEO, WHYFOR, Board Chair of St. Joseph the Worker Georgia Harris, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, The Excel Center Arizona, Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona Delma Herrera, Vice President of Field Services, West Region, Cox Communications Julie Johnson, Executive Vice President, Colliers International Inna Korenzvit, Founder, CEO, and Principal Accountant, KORE Accounting Solutions Anne Landers, Vice President, Strategic Impact, Junior Achievement of Arizona Allison Mason, Interim Dean, Colangelo College of Business, Grand Canyon University Tamala McBath, CEO, Dress for Success Phoenix Mary Mitchell, Co-CEO, Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine Council Leslie Motter, CEO, Make-A-Wish America Christina Noble Kalbfleisch, Chief Growth Officer, Sonora Quest Laboratories Renee Parsons, President & Executive Creative Director, PXG Apparel, and Co-Founder, The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation Michele Rebeor, Founding Partner, Synergy Philanthropy, LLC Nonprofit Strategy Consultants Terra Schaad, Executive Director, Hunkapi Programs, Inc. Torrie Taj, Child Crisis Arizona Lorraine Tallman, CEO, Amanda Hope Rainbow Angels Sandra Torre, CFO and Executive Vice President, LAVIDGE Jennifer Villalobos, Sharp Construction Kathey Wagner, CEO, EPS Group Ann Wheat, Executive Director, Duet: Partners in Health & Aging Read the full article