My original tumblr post was here. I posted this image with the explanatory text “A page from The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist, written by Michael O’Donoghue and illustrated by Frank Springer. Phoebe’s in trouble, as always.”
Tumblr favorite #2658: Why would anybody want to buy me?
Oh, I remember reading about this.
That girl can’t ever win for losing….
And despite being highly trained in unarmed combat, she’s usually unable to utilise said training due to some incapacity. Same deal with her clothes.
The clothes she doesn’t wear after she gets stripped by a nazi right at the start, right?
That’s correct. And she was captured by the Nazi by being slipped a drugged pousse-café. She even references this fact to explain her inability to defend herself, in spite of her supposed martial arts prowess. Her thought-balloon “Normally I would disembowel this man with a few Oriental combat maneuvers, but the drug has left me weakened, powerless to resist.”
And yet she retains the dexterity and balance needed to undress….