People in the town centre are advised to listen out for Mrs. Tachyon, a bag lady who has been in the town for over seventy years, and has appeared sixty throughout them.
It features the voice acting of Bruce Campbell as main character Jake Logan in a 3-D space simulator.
Too late to capture Blaise and Kelly, the girl occupying Tachyon's body, Turtle flies at top speed to the warehouse containing the doctor's ship.
In January 2006 the BBC aired a three-part television adaptation of Johnny and the Bomb, starring George MacKay as Johnny, Zoë Wanamaker as Mrs Tachyon, Frank Finlay as Johnny's granddad Tom, and Keith Barron as Sir Walter.
Others who work for Kien include a reptilian joker called Wyrm who can track people by their taste, the brain-eating ace Deadhead, drug designer Quinn the Eskimo, a minor ace mercenary named Christian, Tachyon's grandson Blaise Andrieux during his brief stint as leader of the Jumpers, and a small army of crooked cops and politicians who are on the take.
Tachyon Farflung's main interest is to steal Scrooge McDuck's money bin, thereby making him the greatest criminal in the known Universe.