Spanking New Toon – Ma Saves the Day

The old adage that “there’s no problem that can’t be solved by a red bottom”, proves unerringly accurate as Ma Morton is forced to step in and save the day in the concluding installment of this three-part toon.

Having been ‘Formally Flunked for Discipline’ Debs Morton is forced to face a special hearing of the covert agency known only as the System.

The System was originally established by the government to distract the Great Unwashed from its woeful record of political ineptitude and fiscal buffoonery (Okay, okay I know you’ve never heard of a government like that, but this is a work of fiction). The Dark Agents were dispatched to target successful young women who had shown a predilection for letting their hair-down and dancing on tables at the hottest night-spots around the world. Branding them as ‘Extreme Ladettes’ the Dark Agents conspire to stir the Great Unwashed into an anti-Ladette frenzy with a media campaign of scurrilous and inaccurate reporting.

In a series of high-profile arrests known as ‘the Purge of the Ladettes’ dozens of young women are brought before kangaroo courts and summarily sentenced to spend seven years in social rehabilitation programs at the newly established Back to School Units, without the possibility of parole. The various purges generally coincide with expensive government mishaps such as failed attempts to oust African despots, the misguided sponsorship of the installation of dictatorships on the unsuspecting populations of various Caribbean islands, or generally poking their noses in Balkan affairs where they had no business poking. The Great Unwashed are generally a fickle bunch and a good celebrity arrest was a great distraction from having to listen to semi-literate politicians making excuses for government chicanery. The enormous bounties paid to the Dark Agents were somehow overlooked in the reports by the government’s puppet press.

The public arrest of Debs Morton on the center court of Wimbledon and her subsequent vilification in the skank-sheets was a major coup for the System and a million squid pay-day for the Dark Agents.

While she remains incarcerated at the Woody Back to School Unit Debs is largely a forgotten figure and is forbidden from speaking to the press under the terms of her sentence. During her tennis career Deborah had a reputation as an articulate spokesperson for player’s rights and was often fined for making disparaging remarks about the governing bodies and their supercilious attitude towards the players whose grueling efforts paid their wages.

There had already been rumblings around the corridors of the headquarters of the System that once she was released and returned to the spotlight Debs Morton might take the opportunity to garner considerable public sympathy, and quite possibly even outcry, with regard to her ludicrous arrest and imprisonment.

When they learn that she has been formally flunked the Dark Agents see an opportunity to prolong her silence. Ms Lawton’s application recommends that Deborah is only required to repeat the fifth year of her sentence, but the Dark Agents have other ideas. They are about to rule that Debs must restart her sentence when Ma intervenes.

The full story surrounding this episode can be found in the FREE volumes of the Woody Back to School Unit already available for download. For the sake of good order I have posted all three toons in sequence for your enjoyment … I think you’ll agree that Dave Ell has done a fantastic job at illustrating this complex story … Bottoms Up! … RH

 

 

 

 

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