Smash! #[164]

When the Clogpool Wanderers—11 international seamen stranded in the Suez Canal—arrive in Yorkshire, they bring more than just foreign flair to the local football scene. Millionaire Harry Kraft, coach of the struggling fourth-division club, sees an unexpected chance to reshape the team’s fate.

In a quiet corner of a wartime research facility, Professor Nutt and Captain 'Lightning' Bolt oversee the secretive development of experimental weapons at W.H.E.E.Z.E., where innovation meets the edge of the unknown. With no clear mission beyond their assignment, the tension between duty and the unpredictable nature of their work begins to stir.

In the shadowed halls of Hemlock Hall, Jonas Clarke flees with a body that defies limits, aided by a mysterious mentor named Largo. Under his new guise as Janus Stark, he learns to bend reality itself—mastering illusion and escape in a world where nothing is quite as it seems.