What an amazing coincidence.... I knew the material in #118 was familiar......
Ripper: Well, I ah, I ... I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Mandrake: [sighs fearfully]
Ripper: Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.
Mandrake: Yes...
Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women... women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
Gen. Ripper: I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.