Bettie Page: The Alien Agenda #3 leads to another mystery in an ancient setting which has Bettie, Sofia, and Young-Ja following clues to the alien stockpile! When we last left model and paranormal investigator, Bettie Page, her team was at the Pyramid of Djoser where she uncovered a clue leading to Greece! The variant cover features the issue’s writer, Ani Mia, in jungle bikini! The regular cover by Joseph Michael Linser, has Bettie in front of ruins at sunset! This thrilling adventure is by the creative duo of Ani-Mia and artist, Celor! We return to Bettie Page looking out the airplane window at the lights from “Crete, Greece”! Her team member, Young-Ja is asleep in her seat. Over breakfast at a hotel in the morning. Bettie tells Sofia that she knows where to begin the search. Young-Ja has regained her appetite. They reach a stone disk on a wall which Sofia notes is like the Disk of Phaistos.
There are a number of ruins in Greece; The Palace of Knossos, Malia Palace, and Apollonia amoung many others. Sofia notices something strange about the center and Bettie pushes it to eject a hexagonal stone with a flower pattern! There is writing on the back, Young-Ja translates it as, “Start at the center, find us to enter, enter to find us.” The mysterious aliens have written in modern Greek! A recent clue? We see a full page from their book of the disk with two insert panels. Sofia notes they have to push three stones in the circular maze pattern. This is Young-Ja’s specialty. I like the working out of clues in this mystery. The center stone was pushed, Young-Ja works out “us” in the riddle may mean the two figures on the upper right of the disc. This reveals a set of stairs underneath the disc! Sofia notes that they should take the center stone.
They enter a massive room that contains a gold sphinx statue with an Egyptian headdress. Young-Ja touches the paw of the sphinx and suddenly, it roars! Then, of course it poses a riddle with three guesses to pass into a gate. It speaks about a vessel that goes to the stars, “your heart”, and can last or is temporary. Sofia guesses aorta, but the sphinx sends red blasts at them! The trio works out the answer and then Young-Ja guesses friendship. There is another zap and then Sofia asks Young-Ja what is the word for friendship in ancient Greek. She replies and then the sphinx’s eyes glow blue, it sends out lasers from its eyes to carve out a passageway. It explodes and then they continue on. In the dark passage, they carry lanterns to light their way, Young-Ja’s stomach grumbles, but she has brought along four boxes of souvlaki from her backpack.
Sofia asks Bettie why she is on the adventure. She replies she is compelled by the mystery. Sofia answers that she wants to make a discovery to stand out at her school. Nice character moments. Young-Ja notes they have been walking for two hours and will reach the coastline in an hour. There is a nice establishing shot as the ladies continue on and we see them walk further as the darkness surrounds them. Later, Young-Ja thinks they are under the Aegan Sea. They reach a semi-circular mural of a red haired woman offering a turtle some leaves. This is above another room with chess-like tiles and a glowing pedestal at the end! Flashbacks to Dragon’s Lair (1986) arcade game with the black knight at the end. They take the first step and feel sick from acceleration. Young-Ja gets sick, but then they continue again. There are still tiles in this blank walled room.
Sofia works out the mural was a clue and says it is Zeno’s paradox, motion is an illusion.
They return back to the beginning and split up to find clues. Bettie finds an opening in a wall. Sofia works out the flower in the mural and Bettie places the sigil stone into the opening. It crackles and the tiles are gone with only the gold pedestal there. Another clue leads to the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico. A second pyramid that may contain the alien stockpile that is the McGuffin of the story! Another counter-clockwise world journey awaits in the next chapter! The alien mysteries hidden in the ancient past are tackled by Bettie and friends in this perilous installment of Bettie Page: The Alien Agenda #3!
Four Flying Saucers out of Five!
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