Welcome. The primary mission of the ICA is to ensure that all covert intelligence operations and operatives remain classified through disposal of all potential security leaks. This can include disposal of the bodies of henchmen, bodyguards, rogue military forces, evacuation and removal of facilities, documentation and people in covert action areas. Each of our agents has an Assigned Secret Agent (ASA) and follows this agent and removes all critical materials that could expose the covert operation and/or operatives.
Due to a series of calamitous events that occurred between [identity classified until eventual comic release - J.H.Shepard] and field operative Eben07 and his team, the I.C.A. fell under microscope of congressional oversight and in a draft of the Patriot Act, we were mandated to give full disclosure of the I.C.A.s involvement in these events.
Frequently Asked Questions
-How do you say Eben07?
Ebb-en Oh Seven. Agent Eben07’s codename is his real first name and his operative number.
Why do you declassify secret government files as a webcomic?
Our agency is founded on protecting the public from knowing too much. When the congressional oversight committee sneaked in a secret clause to the Patriot Act to the declassify our agencies records to the public, they neglected to specify how. Agent Eben07 came up with what at the time sounded like a crazy idea to declassify the documents as a syndicated cartoon show. Without the budget or the connections in Korea, the ICA hired a court room illustrator and cartoonist – D. Bethel – to illustrate key segments of our agency’s work.
- How often do you declassify a comic?
A: Mondays.
- One day the comic is short, the next it’s huge, what’s going on?
A: In the beginning the ICA brass decided there would be declassifications twice a week, the ICA is required to meet viewer quotas monthly. The analysts felt that readers would not wait so long for two short comics, so Shepard decided that Fridays would be our equivalent of a Sunday newspaper comic strip, all big and open format. Some Fridays it could be a series of small panels, or it could end up as just a single, giant panel. Who’s to say, it’s up to the D. Bethel and how he interprets the material he is given by J. Herman Shepard. The format is now always planned to be weekly and single giant panel now.
- The ICA? Is that for real?
A: Yes, but [further explanation redacted - J.H.S. - 10/25/2007]
-Can I see the secret clause that forced the ICA to declassify?
Sure! Glad you asked here it is: [further explanation redacted - J.H.S. - 10/25/2007]
-Why does the comic follow Eben07?
Eben07 is the ACA (Assigned Cleaner Agent) for one of the most elite operatives of the British intelligence services. Due to his high profile assignment and recommendations for the declassification to be a “cartoon” his codename has also become synonymous with the declassification process.
-Why do the ICA agents seem so inept sometimes?
Every ICA operation takes careful planning a tremendous amount of skill. The ICA has deliberately chosen
not to reveal too much about our organizations sources and methods for intelligence cleaning operations.
The agents that appear in these declassifications are highly trained and in most cases just as lethal,
resourceful and cunning as their ASA (Assigned Secret Agent). Remember each declassification you see is
only the information the ICA wants the public to see.
Who draws the webcomic?
We hired D. Bethel to do all of our declassifications. Contact him at dbethel -at- eben07.com
