As part of my restless and apparently endless set of experiments with media and genres I am today beginning yet another experiment, this one combining comics panels with light-verse captions. The illustrations are by Dark Vasili and the light verse is by me. The story begins with three introductory stanzas. The first illustration will appear tomorrow.

In a book are written down

So many secrets dark and lewd

That were its contents to be known

The global order would be screwed.

A supervillain made this tome,

Writing all without distortion.

He keeps it in his gothic home,

A tool for planet-wide extortion.

The guardians of order hatch

Their plan to lay the villain low.

A secret agent they dispatch

to strike him with a smiting blow.

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