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No, not those Avengers. The other ones.
A few years ago I decided to try out an episode or two of the classic British series "The Avengers." In short time I had devoured the entire run from the Emma Peel years (played by Diana Rigg) and most of the Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) and Tara King (Linda Thorson) episodes. It's hard to say why it connected with me so well. I'm a James Bond fan and was familiar with the actors from several of those movies (Patrick Macnee was in "A View to a Kill," Blackman had a memorable turn as Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger," and Rigg was possibly the most important Bond Girl in 007's history in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"), so it's possible that that was a gateway for me. I'm a sucker for 1960s British spies.
Which reminds me, I should think about doing a piece on "The Prisoner." Yeah, my to-do list isn't getting any smaller.
"The Avengers" was a unique series to say the least. Smart, sexy, kooky, unexpected... a lot of descriptors work for this show. And it was hard to replicate as evidenced by the thoroughly awful and thankfully little seen big-screen remake a decade ago. This piece, ironically enough, came about when a conversation with incogvito [link] on my Black Widow piece a few weeks back [link] led to a discussion about pop culture's most memorable leather-catsuit enthusiasts. I thought that piece looked a bit like Uma Thurman in the Emma Peel role. If I had to say something nice about that movie, it's that Thurman rocked that look (*wolf whistles*).
Pigma Micron and PITT Pens. Drawn in two pieces, assembled and colored in Photoshop.
A few years ago I decided to try out an episode or two of the classic British series "The Avengers." In short time I had devoured the entire run from the Emma Peel years (played by Diana Rigg) and most of the Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) and Tara King (Linda Thorson) episodes. It's hard to say why it connected with me so well. I'm a James Bond fan and was familiar with the actors from several of those movies (Patrick Macnee was in "A View to a Kill," Blackman had a memorable turn as Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger," and Rigg was possibly the most important Bond Girl in 007's history in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"), so it's possible that that was a gateway for me. I'm a sucker for 1960s British spies.
Which reminds me, I should think about doing a piece on "The Prisoner." Yeah, my to-do list isn't getting any smaller.
"The Avengers" was a unique series to say the least. Smart, sexy, kooky, unexpected... a lot of descriptors work for this show. And it was hard to replicate as evidenced by the thoroughly awful and thankfully little seen big-screen remake a decade ago. This piece, ironically enough, came about when a conversation with incogvito [link] on my Black Widow piece a few weeks back [link] led to a discussion about pop culture's most memorable leather-catsuit enthusiasts. I thought that piece looked a bit like Uma Thurman in the Emma Peel role. If I had to say something nice about that movie, it's that Thurman rocked that look (*wolf whistles*).
Pigma Micron and PITT Pens. Drawn in two pieces, assembled and colored in Photoshop.
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Here's something I came up with in 2014. I had James Bond ally himself with "The Avengers"(Not voluntarily, 007 was ordered to do so by M.) in an adventure I set in 1973, shortly after the events of "Colonel Sun". The information about the adventure I've forgotten, but I recall that I had Bond taken aback by the resemblance between Emma Peel an his late wife Tracy. Well, tell me your opinion of this adventure and should I redo it or continue it?