Today's subplot is, "Sergio Aragonés could get it."

I watched the brief TV show in 1987 (with Rene Russo!) and an issue of the book was one of the first I bought from an actual comic book store. Too bad it wasn't this issue! From 1986, Jon Sable, Freelance #33, "Cave of the Half-Pints" Story and art by Mike Grell and Sergio Aragonés.

Along with his mercenary activities, Jon Sable also wrote children's books, under the alias B.B. Flemm. While his partner and agent were in on his "secret identity," he hated having to play as "a wimp in the Flemm suit," but today figured it wouldn't be that bad, as they were just meeting a cartoonist with storyboards for an animated adaptation of his book. "Flemm" jokingly assumes the cartoonist will be some kind of dweeb, but instead they get the dashing and handsome Sergio--er, Sucio Eroganes.

The bulk of the issue is the adaptation of Flemm's leprechaun stories: during the potato famine in Ireland, three troublemakers are kicked out of their colony and immigrate to America. They set up shop in what would become Central Park, with a wee bit of encouragement given to the city planners with a drop of the drink. Jon and Myke love it, but then notice Eden had disappeared with Sucio, ending up in his hot tub!

I know I have a bunch of issues of this from the quarter bins--I don't love it anywhere near as much as Grell's Warlord, but still, and this issue seems like he was still having fun with it. Sergio is of course, the coolest.