Is there a place in war for the class system?
OK,
Lord Lougley's not
quite that bad...
It's
1941 in
Hong Kong, and our lord is living the high class life!
Ah, what an upper class twit!!
Jarvis?? Hey, if you squint just right, you can pretend he's
Marvel's Jarvis, before he came into the
Starks' service!
"
M'Lord" has an interesting theory on citizenship!!
Lougley soon gets the point, however, as his dinner is interrupted by the
rude Japanese!
Well, there's only one recourse for a
Knight of the Bath and Garter--a chickenhawk lecture tour!
"
Caste feeling." Whatta maroon!
Anyway, the time comes for civilian evacuation, and guess who Lougley runs into?
This will go well.
Soon enough, they have to stop and take out an enemy gun emplacement that's threatening the evacuation!
Jarvis survived. But what happened to Lougley?
So, wait...becoming a servant for
someone else just means you've rotated seats of the class system, not eliminated it!
You haven't really learned anything at all?!?
Still, this is likely the only comic story you'll see this week with
Lord Mountbatten naked, so I guess that's a victory!!
From Military Comics #33 (1944)
So this is sort of a comics rehashing of The Admirable Crichton? It works though.
ReplyDeleteOh, you'll love this, Snell! The last panel posted gets the terminology wrong. An enlisted-man servant to an officer in the British army was referred to as a BATMAN, rather than an orderly.
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