Samurai #16

Samurai #16 Aircel, 1987, b&w.

1 Samurai #16 cover Art: Keown
SYNOPSIS
Kamakazi brings the short swordñDaito, the spirit of the Samurai to Velvet and Homer. Homer doesn't believe her that Toshiro is alive and goes to Archie to commiserate, thinking Kamakazi is up to something. In the meantime, the boysñSimon, Yue, Alex, and Lee go to a pool hall to play pool and pinball. Yue knows something is going down and is wrong but Alex feels he would know it. Simon backs this up by saying Alex has ESP. Suddenly they are wearing uniforms and look like teenagers! Prof. Stringfellow believes Kamakazi may be here to do business with Yukusa, an Oriental crime boss who rules Ontario. From contacts, Homer knows she is going to haul a truck to deliver something to a warehouse on Bantree Road. A boss meets Kamakazi at a vacant industrial park. He knows of her dealing with the Triads, the Tong, and the Hmong. She does not have a network in North America. Opening the truck, Toshiro is standing there. He belly swords one of the dagger wielding henchmen and kills the others. Kamakazi tells him she knew he would comeññit is his way, his code, "Yet, you've changed," she says. His answer, "I died." Arch and Homer arrive and Kamakazi tells them she was attacked by the criminals. "A girl's got to defend herself. And CUT OUT the competition." She leaves in a white car. Homer feels he and Archie should get drunk. The last shot is of pulling away from the warehouse, the ground, and finally the Earth.

Backup story: "Splinters part 1"

SHADOWS OVER AGINCOURT:
Written and Illustrated by Marty Pahls
STORY: Yue, Alex, Lee, and Simon are called the Littlest Splinters but "don't tell them we called 'em that!" At an enormous estate in Ottawa's exclusive Rockcliff Park section stands Agincourt Preparatory School for Young Gentlemen. Prof. Stringfellow arranges it with Dr. Vokra to bring the four Splinter boys there. Stringfellow feels he remembers Vokra from somewhere. Vokra thinks about Dr. Arkoffóóone and the same as Vokra? The four boys are skating, free, wearing what they want, doing what they want. The four find suits and ties in their bedroom. They change into them. Homer, at dinner when the boys are told about the prep school, makes fun of the accents, "It's teddibly English, y'know. Cricket 'n' all that rot." The four arrive in a Rolls Royce. Other boys watch them arrive and hope they brought tapes, comics, and candy. Simon always used a mainframe to do math (on the Naganata). Chen is to translate Omnia Gallia (THE TOMORROW PEOPLEóA MUCH NEEDED HOLIDAY). One of the boys has to find the bathroomóthe head, the lav, the can. Lee bounces a soccer ball off the head of Corleyóa bullyóand beats him down. In the showers, the boys get a different reception. They meet Guppy, Bjorn, Jareth, and the younger, shy Cuffy. Vokra has an electric paddling machine. Alex likes Jareth but makes friends with Cuffy, giving him a candy bar. Alex gets weird feelings, a creepy one when he walked past the headmaster's office. Dr. Vokra is planning on something evil. NOTES: The boys curse and use expressions like "jerkóoff" and criticize the food. REVIEW
Issue 16 opens with a story involving Kamakazi, the Japanese crime mistress. She has a meeting with Homer Bentley, says she has reformed, and tells him that Toshiro is alive. Homer doesn't believe anything she says. There is some rehashing of the events leading up to Toshiro's supposed death. Very little plot. (Note: Kamakazi will later join the "good guys" and this is her first step in that direction.)

This issue also starts a back up story called Splinters. The story is this: it's becoming inconvenient to keep Simon, Lee, Alex and Yué at Splinter headquarters so Prof. Stringfellow enrolls them in the Agincourt Preparatory School for Young Gentlemen. He notices something strangely familiar while talking to the headmaster, Dr. Vokra, but can't quite put his finger on it. We, of course, recognize in Vokra the villainous Doctor Arkoff!

The four unsuspecting boys return from a day of shredding (skateboard riding) to find the school uniforms laid out on their beds. These uniforms consist of a dress shirt, tie, blazer, and a pair of shorts. Rather short shorts. The rest of the installment covers their rocky first day at Agincourt..

The Samurai art is all by Dale Keown. The Splinters story has artwork by Marty Pahls, it is amateurish but quite good, the story is humourous and well plotted.

	Samurai #16	Aircel, 1987, b&w.
1		Art: Keown SYNOPSIS Kamakazi brings the short swordñDaito, the spirit of the Samurai to Velvet and Homer. Homer doesn't believe her that Toshiro is alive and goes to Archie to commiserate, thinking Kamakazi is up to something. In the meantime, the boysñSimon, Yue, Alex, and Lee go to a pool hall to play pool and pinball. Yue knows something is going down and is wrong but Alex feels he would know it. Simon backs this up by saying Alex has ESP. Suddenly they are wearing uniforms and look like teenagers! Prof. Stringfellow believes Kamakazi may be here to do business with Yukusa, an Oriental crime boss who rules Ontario. From contacts, Homer knows she is going to haul a truck to deliver something to a warehouse on Bantree Road. A boss meets Kamakazi at a vacant industrial park. He knows of her dealing with the Triads, the Tong, and the Hmong. She does not have a network in North America. Opening the truck, Toshiro is standing there. He belly swords one of the dagger wielding henchmen and kills the others. Kamakazi tells him she knew he would comeññit is his way, his code, "Yet, you've changed," she says. His answer, "I died." Arch and Homer arrive and Kamakazi tells them she was attacked by the criminals. "A girl's got to defend herself. And CUT OUT the competition." She leaves in a white car. Homer feels he and Archie should get drunk. The last shot is of pulling away from the warehouse, the ground, and finally the Earth.
	Backup story: "Splinters part 1" SHADOWS OVER AGINCOURT: Written and Illustrated by Marty Pahls STORY: Yue, Alex, Lee, and Simon are called the Littlest Splinters but "don't tell them we called 'em that!" At an enormous estate in Ottawa's exclusive Rockcliff Park section stands Agincourt Preparatory School for Young Gentlemen. Prof. Stringfellow arranges it with Dr. Vokra to bring the four Splinter boys there. Stringfellow feels he remembers Vokra from somewhere. Vokra thinks about Dr. Arkoffóóone and the same as Vokra? The four boys are skating, free, wearing what they want, doing what they want. The four find suits and ties in their bedroom. They change into them. Homer, at dinner when the boys are told about the prep school, makes fun of the accents, "It's teddibly English, y'know. Cricket 'n' all that rot." The four arrive in a Rolls Royce. Other boys watch them arrive and hope they brought tapes, comics, and candy. Simon always used a mainframe to do math (on the Naganata). Chen is to translate Omnia Gallia (THE TOMORROW PEOPLEóA MUCH NEEDED HOLIDAY). One of the boys has to find the bathroomóthe head, the lav, the can. Lee bounces a soccer ball off the head of Corleyóa bullyóand beats him down. In the showers, the boys get a different reception. They meet Guppy, Bjorn, Jareth, and the younger, shy Cuffy. Vokra has an electric paddling machine. Alex likes Jareth but makes friends with Cuffy, giving him a candy bar. Alex gets weird feelings, a creepy one when he walked past the headmaster's office. Dr. Vokra is planning on something evil. NOTES: The boys curse and use expressions like "jerkóoff" and criticize the food.	REVIEW Issue 16 opens with a story involving Kamakazi, the Japanese crime mistress. She has a meeting with Homer Bentley, says she has reformed, and tells him that Toshiro is alive. Homer doesn't believe anything she says. There is some rehashing of the events leading up to Toshiro's supposed death. Very little plot. (Note: Kamakazi will later join the "good guys" and this is her first step in that direction.) This issue also starts a back up story called Splinters. The story is this: it's becoming inconvenient to keep Simon, Lee, Alex and Yué at Splinter headquarters so Prof. Stringfellow enrolls them in the Agincourt Preparatory School for Young Gentlemen. He notices something strangely familiar while talking to the headmaster, Dr. Vokra, but can't quite put his finger on it. We, of course, recognize in Vokra the villainous Doctor Arkoff! The four unsuspecting boys return from a day of shredding (skateboard riding) to find the school uniforms laid out on their beds. These uniforms consist of a dress shirt, tie, blazer, and a pair of shorts. Rather short shorts. The rest of the installment covers their rocky first day at Agincourt.. The Samurai art is all by Dale Keown. The Splinters story has artwork by Marty Pahls, it is amateurish but quite good, the story is humourous and well plotted.