Epix #1/1987 (33)

In a playful twist on urban fishing, a man in Stockholm tries his luck by the city's stream, hoping to land a salmon—only to find himself in a comically unexpected situation. This lighthearted one-pager from Epix #1/1987 captures the absurd charm of city life and the quirks of a hobby gone slightly off track.

In Hong Kong, 1949, the last ship *Torquemada* is attacked by pirates, its crew murdered, and the vessel drifts into Repulse Bay. When the young Chinese woman Alix is thrown into the sea by gangsters, she’s rescued by Tim, Tony, and Mac. As the authorities close in, overste Lychee plots to eliminate Alix and a surviving crewman—ensuring no witnesses remain to expose the raid. With police officers Oswald and Wilbur on the scene and the mysterious Tjifen and the pig Raoul adding to the chaos, the survivors must stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the bay.

In a moment charged with quiet tension, Honey finds herself drawn to the invisible man’s growing intensity, her resistance slipping. But Beatrice, the sharp-tongued star dancer, steps in to disrupt the moment—just as the air between them thickens.

In "Locas," Izzy Ortiz’s reckless promise to give her old car to Maggie Chascarillo ends in a crash into Spookey the Smokey’s wall, sparking a chain of events that pulls the group together. With Izzy’s car totaled and Maggie determined to make it right, she enlists Speedy Ortiz to help her get to Maddog’s, where Hopey’s band, La Llorona, is about to perform — a night that feels both urgent and inevitable.