“His name was Toby Bell and he was entirely alone in his criminal contemplations. No evil genius controlled him, no paymaster, provocateur or sinister manipulator armed with an attaché case stuffed with hundred-dollar bills was waiting round the corner, no activist in a ski mask. He was in that sense the most feared creature of our contemporary world: a solitary decider.”

                     --John le Carré, A Delicate Truth, 2013

“THEN, MINUTES LATER, CENTURIUS’ ORBITING COLONIZER PLUMMETS FROM THE HEAVENS LIKE A HELLBORN COMET OF DOOM ON A MISSION OF GALACTIC RETALIATION…PLOWING INEXORABLY INTO THE MOUTH OF THE VOLCANO…AS THOUGH IN RETRIBUTION FOR BREAKING THE LAWS OF NATURE IN THE UNIVERSE…TURNING THE UNNATURAL GARDEN OF EDEN INTO A PAROXYSM OF SEARING ANNIHILATION….”

             --Jim Steranko, NICK FURY, AGENT OF SHIELD, Vol. 1, No. 2, 
                             "So Shall Ye Reap...Death!" 1968