The Sassy assassins appear

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• A raucous, comic-toned page packed with grotesque, exaggerated characters trading insults and blows in a chaotic brawl. In the top panels, a battered figure with a bandaged, half-destroyed face threatens a bloody good fisting while another dopey-looking character in a green helmet gets knocked flying in a burst of comic-book Bash lettering. The larger lower panel introduces the Sassy Assassins themselves, a leering, green-skinned woman with wild orange pigtails and an enormous exposed chest lounges provocatively while shouting come give us a cuddle, luv, as a battered, muscle-bound brawler below trades insults with a pink-skinned figure amid a pile of severed heads and dismembered limbs. The colour work leans into sickly greens and browns, giving the whole scene a swampy, grotesque comedy-horror feel rather than straightforward menace, matching the crude, gag-driven dialogue running throughout the panels. This kind of broad, near-pornographic slapstick violence, characters trading crude one-liners while literally tearing each other apart, is characteristic of the more anarchic, adults-only strips Bisley contributed to across his career in British small-press and creator-owned comics, a looser, more comedic register than his mythic Slaine or Lobo work. The dense layout, packing multiple beats of dialogue and action into a single busy page, shows Bisley working as a full sequential storyteller rather than purely as a cover or pin-up painter.
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