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George (COMIC: Nula! Naked and Alone!) Wimberly, (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress, etc.) also spelled Wimberley, (COMIC: Nula! Naked and Alone!) was the assistant to Commissioner Smedley Hopkirk in Buranda.
Description
Physical appearance
Wimberly was a tall, skinny young man with blond hair, pae gray eyes and glasses. Like the Commissioner, he was usually seen wearing safari gear. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress) However, he could dress up when the occasion called for it, being seen to wear a white smoking jacket and black bowtie when he attended a dinner party at the Adventurers Club. (COMIC: Ruthless Ro-Man)
Personality
When he first came to Buranda, Wimberly was a somewhat timid individual — much embarrassed by the nudism of Kaza and Gwenna and generally baffled by the eccentricities of his new life. However, he was, even then, good in a crisis. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
Powers & abilities
Wimberly was a fine shot. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
Biography
First adventure in Buranda
Shortly after being assigned to be the Commissioner's assistant, Wimberly had to assist him with a major crisis, the resurgence of the murderous Serpent Cult who had spread terror on the area ten years prior, now under the leadership of the original Serpent Priest's vengeful daughter Nerlana. After the Commissioner sent an email to Kaza and Gwenna to apprise them of the situation, he headed to the kraal near Buranda Pass with Wimberly; there, they were nearly assassinated by one of the Serpent Cultists, but saved at the last moment by Gwenna's intervention.
The captured cultist let slip that Kaza, who'd headed directly to the Temple of the Serpent God, was walking into a trap. Taking the Commissioner's jeep, the three got reinforcements at the Natari village before getting to the Temple in time for the nightly ceremony where Nerlana intended to sacrifice Kaza to Nerkash, their “Serpent God”, who proved to be a very real (but not actually supernatural) giant snake that Nerlana psychically controlled using a magical tiara, as her father had before her. The day ended up being saved with much less bloodshed than anticipated when Wimberly reflexively shot at the beast; the sight of their “god” bleeding caused the cultists to scatter, while the snake, breaking free from Nerlana's control in its panic, ended up eating her, a denouement which the Commissioner wryly noted would give him “five times the paperwork”.
Some days later, an extremely amused Commissioner had to help the still-demure Wimberly deal with the embarrassing position his spur-of-the-moments heroics had netted him, namely that several women of the Natari village — many of whose men had been wiped out during the Cult's original reign of terror — now wanted to bear his children. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
Return of Ro-Man
Some time later, Wimberly drove Kaza and Gwenna to the Adventurers Club, being relieved that they had dressed up for the occasion. The evening soon turned chaotic as the Club was attacked by Ro-Man, an extraterrestrial in whose defeat the jungle-heroes had assisted some years prior. Ro-Man abducted Gwenna's friend Deena Hancock and escaped into the jungle; while Kaza tracked him directly, Gwenna used her technological know-how to locate the alien's flying saucer through satellite imagery, whereupon Wimberly and the Commissioner accompanied her, as well as Deena's husband Fred. When they got to the saucer and found that it was guarded by a giant lizard-creature brought by Ro-Man, Wimberly and the Commissioner tried shooting it only to find that it was bullet-proof, and they were ultimately saved by Dynamo. With his help, the heroes eventually managed to capture Ro-Man and foil his plans for revenge. (COMIC: Ruthless Ro-Man)
The Solomon's Diamond affair
Over six months later, (COMIC: A Matter of Image) Wimberly accompanied Commissioner Smedley in welcoming Lady Catherine Maxwell to Buranda at the airstrip. He was startled to learn that she had once been Nula the Jungle Queen, and even moreso to realise that the Commissioner had a hidden romantic side and had been carrying a torch for Nula/Catherine for thirty years. He then had tea with her, the Commissioner, Kaza and Gwenna at their treehouse. (COMIC: The Danger, the Diamonr, and the Dowager)
After the village was set on fire by the Skull's men as part of their plot to steal Solomon's Diamond, which Nula had returned to Buranda to return to the Koravi, Wimberly set out with the now-pregnant Kiana to get a group of survivors to the nearby Koravi village. On the way, they met up with Nula, only for them all to be ambushed from above by the Skull's airships, captured, and taken to the “old Kaitaran Temple” where the villains had made their lair. (COMIC: Nula! Naked and Alone!)