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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.

Description
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.