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The MatchmanLove is a superpower

The would-be king

The Beefeater & HAL

An aspiring restorer of the British Empire pursues power with the help of HAL, a sentient halberd.

This biography includes story developments and endings

The Beefeater & HAL

In comic 6 the Beefeater kidnaps the Duchess of Dorking, intending to use her royal lineage for his own ascent. Political vanity takes an absurd supervillain form, but his threat is real: the first confrontation leaves Matchman badly defeated and without his memory.

HAL is an active accomplice rather than a silent weapon. Supplementary author notes associate the halberd with an escape from X Block at Wormwood Scrubbs, while leaving some circumstances at the level of reports and rumours. Matchman’s return with the DoubleSign Twins leads to a confrontation in Parliament and the Duchess’s release.

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