Karma Komedy II: Top Cop Arrives

Inspired by Wes Wood

Just hours ago the Adventure Team received a mysterious transmission with coordinates, and a message which simply said: "This is a Priority Package! - W.W." Joe dusted off the aging MSV and is currently speeding to the specified grid location. "It's around here somewhere."

Once he nears the specific location, Joe checks his map of the area. "GPS says it's within 20 meters."

Using his GPS position unit, Joe homes in on the coordinates in the transmission.

"Whatever it is I'm looking for, it seems to be within this mound of dirt." Joe prepares to dig through the mound.

He begins digging, making immediate progress. The dirt is soft like it had recently been disturbed. "Hope this isn't a wild goose chase, like that pygmy gorilla that we never did find!"

"Paydirt!" Joe shovels the earth away to reveal an oddly engraved sarcophagus buried in the mound.

"Wow!" Joe exclaims. "It's a mummy! I've wanted to find one of these since the early 70s!"

"It's a little larger than the standard mummy... they're normally impossibly small. This one's full scale."

"I wonder what he's like underneath the wrappings?" Joe prepares to remove the mummy's bindings, like a good archaeologist.

"It's not a mummy! It's a man! And he's still alive!"

Jake: "I am alive... thanks... to you... stranger. Call me Jake. Top Cop."
Joe: "Don't speak. Drink this Gatorade. It's blue, so it must be good for you."

"Jake, I'm Joe. GI Joe. Good to see you're ok!"

Joe: "Here, put these on."
Jake: "Thanks! I'm freezing my copyright notice off here!"

Joe: "Well, I'm glad you arrived. We have need of your body right away. Action Man's preserved Eagle Eye head has been waiting in the lab for some weeks now."

Joe: "So it's off with your head right away."

Jake: "What???"

Joe: "Yeah, we have to submerge your head in boiling water for ten minutes..."

Jake: "Are you talking about my head???"

Joe: "Yeah, why? You're not using it are you?"

Jake: "Could you please bury me back in that mound of dirt until someone else comes along?"

Joe: "Ahhh, nothin' to worry about it's a simple procedure."

Jake: "But, but, but..."

Joe: "Nothin' to it. Relax..."

Jake: "I have a bad feeling about this..."

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With great thanks and respect to Wes Wood for sending me a Top Cop figure when I needed a nice vintage-like body onto which I could pop a wonderful eagle-eyed Action Man head. Wes volunteered a Top Cop body as Karma. It arrived wrapped up like a mummy, and a note saying he had no idea why he did that, just a spur of the moment thing. I did the very same thing (sort of) when I Karma'd off a Captain Action a few months ago. I sent the nude figure with tape binding his wrists and ankles, and tape over his mouth and eyes. Here are pics of his rescue.

But instead of tearing off the wrapping, I thought to myself, why not do a photo story? So I took about an hour to storyboard it and get the gear together. The shoot took less than an hour. Probably about 40 minutes. It's a short story, and was put together in just a couple of hours. Imagine how nice my Aliens story is going to be. 60 pictures and months of planning, and a real camera and photographer!

Again, thanks, Wes! And the shoulder holster was a pleasant surprise! I saw it for the first time when Joe unwrapped Jake in the shot above!