Shattered Visage

[intro music] Hi, I'm Ralph, and this is a Fixplasm short episode, part of a series covering The Prisoner.

I'm not gonna cover The Prisoner itself, but rather the content that surrounds it, including episode guides, graphic novels, and other bits and pieces.

This time around, I'm talking about Shattered Visage, the 1988 four-part graphic novel published by DC and written by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith and illustrated by Motter.

Uh, this is a sequel to The Prisoner, and note the timing.

Of the ephemera I'm talking about, it's probably only predated by Max Horror's books from the mid-'80s.

It's set 20 years after the series, where a woman who is an agent of some kind and recently divorced from her husband, also an agent, takes a holiday by sailing her catamaran single-handedly on an historic voyage in unspecified waters using only state-of-the-art computer navigation.

Predictably, she's wrecked on the beach of the Village, where she encounters the former Number Six, who has lived here ever since the events of Fall Out, growing his beard to fully occupy a hermit role.

And note at this point that unlike the people around her, the woman isn't named, and the text takes pains to cleverly avoid revealing her identity in any dialogue.