Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg for June 29, 2009

I’m willing to bet Punjab & Asp are not gone…….this is where we are going to see them shortly.

I sincerly hope that you two are right.

Rich foreign power? Could it be Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan?

“Rich foreign power” well we know that AINT the USA.

It has already been mentioned, but is worth repeating, Xaxos is qualified to write for Dick Tracy.

Unfortunately, i must agree with LordDogmore.

This is where Robot Sandy’s trainer tells the sub crew to press Xaxos’s cntrl, alt, delete buttons.

Thar ya go, Chikuku.

Rich foreign power… probably not the US, but wouldn’t the two henchmen also refer to anywhere besides their own country as foreign? For all we know, it could be France!

Why would the US hire two losers instead of sending their own Black Ops to retrieve Xaxos?

About the language issue: My theory is that the foreign henchmen ARE speaking their own language. The comic’s writers are being very considerate to us English-speaking readers by providing us the translation. This often comes out sounding stilted and weird – each language has its own syntax conventions and dialects, word ordering, sentence structure, slang, etc, that doesn’t cross cleanly into other languages, especially if you’re just doing a quick-and-dirty word-for-word translation.

Morning, Anniephans!