Oh, I only read this one and then the occasional story in The Phantom magazine while waiting for the dentist's (for some reason dentists carry The Phantom in their waiting rooms) and it was like "Okay, what the fuck happened in this comic!?" I was always kind of curious how we got from "The Archers" (which is *relatively* realistic in that sense) to the abovementioned weirdness.
Which reminds me, I need to scan some good Phantom stuff.