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I love the way the tv series introduces Smiley by showing him running away from Nigel Stock and then getting bullied into going to lunch with him, before slowly revealing this hidden flintiness - Oldman too obviously a hardman from the start for that sort of thing to work
January 12, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I love the way the tv series introduces Smiley by showing him running away from Nigel Stock and then getting bullied into going to lunch with him, before slowly revealing this hidden flintiness - Oldman too obviously a hardman from the start for that sort of thing to work
I think in the early years there would also sometimes be competitions or promotional features that would be supposedly written by Ro-Jaws, in the same way that Tharg wrote the editorials
January 7, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I think in the early years there would also sometimes be competitions or promotional features that would be supposedly written by Ro-Jaws, in the same way that Tharg wrote the editorials
Mek-Quake seemed to exist in the same 'universe' as Tharg and the 2000ad script/art/etc droids iirc? I think I remember readers writing in to point out continuity errors and Tharg replying to say that the droid responsible had been sent to Mek-Quake as punishment.
January 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Mek-Quake seemed to exist in the same 'universe' as Tharg and the 2000ad script/art/etc droids iirc? I think I remember readers writing in to point out continuity errors and Tharg replying to say that the droid responsible had been sent to Mek-Quake as punishment.
than freeze him again
January 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
than freeze him again
also they both have the survivor of the old world frozen in a coffin like device being tended to by three robots, but in The Last American the president has got someone else to carry the can and deal with the mess he left, which I guess connects to Dredd's decision to sentence Booth to 'life' rather
January 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
also they both have the survivor of the old world frozen in a coffin like device being tended to by three robots, but in The Last American the president has got someone else to carry the can and deal with the mess he left, which I guess connects to Dredd's decision to sentence Booth to 'life' rather
(The Last American is interesting to compare to the Cursed Earth as another Mike McMahon drawn strip depicting a post-apocalyptic America, but is a very different visual style, claustrophobic and eerily deserted in contrast to all the mad activity and space of The Cursed Earth)
January 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
(The Last American is interesting to compare to the Cursed Earth as another Mike McMahon drawn strip depicting a post-apocalyptic America, but is a very different visual style, claustrophobic and eerily deserted in contrast to all the mad activity and space of The Cursed Earth)
the Last American is about an American who finds himself separated from all other Americans and the America he knew, adjusting to this strange landscape, accompanied by a robot that only knows of America via the tv and pop culture it has consumed
January 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
the Last American is about an American who finds himself separated from all other Americans and the America he knew, adjusting to this strange landscape, accompanied by a robot that only knows of America via the tv and pop culture it has consumed
feel like a lot of stuff Wagner wrote makes sense in this context - The Bogie Man is about (a guy who thinks he's) an American having an adventure in America, but is actually/incongruously in Scotland, and his version of America is from movies
January 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
feel like a lot of stuff Wagner wrote makes sense in this context - The Bogie Man is about (a guy who thinks he's) an American having an adventure in America, but is actually/incongruously in Scotland, and his version of America is from movies
iirc Dredd creator John Wagner is the son of an American father and a Scottish mother, was raised in the US until he was 12 and then moved to Scotland, always figured that this must have had a big effect on Dredd and Mega City One, Wagner having both an insider and outsider's perspective
January 5, 2026 at 11:01 AM
iirc Dredd creator John Wagner is the son of an American father and a Scottish mother, was raised in the US until he was 12 and then moved to Scotland, always figured that this must have had a big effect on Dredd and Mega City One, Wagner having both an insider and outsider's perspective
according to this reddit post buzz is stuff like Staind and Puddle of Mudd, which is very much not the future I was promised
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January 1, 2026 at 6:12 PM
according to this reddit post buzz is stuff like Staind and Puddle of Mudd, which is very much not the future I was promised
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though I am grudgingly impressed by how much they've managed to make the Anthony Michael Hall one look like Anthony Michael Hall
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
though I am grudgingly impressed by how much they've managed to make the Anthony Michael Hall one look like Anthony Michael Hall
don't want to become the kind of person who thinks everything used to be better in the old day, but my late grandmother used to collect these pig figurines and it's hard to feel like there hasn't been a decline over the last 30 years
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
don't want to become the kind of person who thinks everything used to be better in the old day, but my late grandmother used to collect these pig figurines and it's hard to feel like there hasn't been a decline over the last 30 years
It's true that Brian Bolland is best known for visually stunning single images, but I think my favourite thing he ever did was his Mr Mamoulian strips (obviously a very different style of single page gag cartooning than the Beano/Buster type stuff Walter the Wobot was harking after, but still)
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It's true that Brian Bolland is best known for visually stunning single images, but I think my favourite thing he ever did was his Mr Mamoulian strips (obviously a very different style of single page gag cartooning than the Beano/Buster type stuff Walter the Wobot was harking after, but still)
thought for a moment this was a recent prog with Henry Flint doing a retro-style cover
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
thought for a moment this was a recent prog with Henry Flint doing a retro-style cover
there are always going to be a good number of guys who are fucking losers though, just saying "skill issue" isn't going to change that. imo what we really need are more positive models of how to live a good and useful life as a fucking loser
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
there are always going to be a good number of guys who are fucking losers though, just saying "skill issue" isn't going to change that. imo what we really need are more positive models of how to live a good and useful life as a fucking loser
amazing that is somehow even more of a nothingburger than I first thought lol
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
amazing that is somehow even more of a nothingburger than I first thought lol
so Reeves did win the girls-only competition, and the complaint is that she was being misleading when she described herself as the 'girls champion' on the basis that the 'girls champion' should properly refer to the highest placing girl in the mixed competition, not the winner of the girls comp?
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
so Reeves did win the girls-only competition, and the complaint is that she was being misleading when she described herself as the 'girls champion' on the basis that the 'girls champion' should properly refer to the highest placing girl in the mixed competition, not the winner of the girls comp?
isn't the point (to the extent that you can call it a point) that Reeves was the highest placing girl in the mixed competition, as opposed to taking part in the girls competition
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
isn't the point (to the extent that you can call it a point) that Reeves was the highest placing girl in the mixed competition, as opposed to taking part in the girls competition
I think it scratches the same itch as when a work of fiction contains within it extracts from another work of fiction that exists within the diegesis and may or may not also exist in the real world
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I think it scratches the same itch as when a work of fiction contains within it extracts from another work of fiction that exists within the diegesis and may or may not also exist in the real world
I enjoy reading best song lists that are mostly or entirely made up of songs and artists I've never heard of and that could potentially be made up, far more evocative than best song lists made up of stuff I have heard of.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I enjoy reading best song lists that are mostly or entirely made up of songs and artists I've never heard of and that could potentially be made up, far more evocative than best song lists made up of stuff I have heard of.
Looks weirdly like one of the Terry Gilliam animations from Monty Python
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Looks weirdly like one of the Terry Gilliam animations from Monty Python
first time I became aware of him was seeing him address the Socialist party summer school in 2006 or 2007, advocating that young socialists should join the Labour party to back John McDonnell's leadership campaign, by 2015 I think he was used to being the least left-wing person in the room sometimes
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
first time I became aware of him was seeing him address the Socialist party summer school in 2006 or 2007, advocating that young socialists should join the Labour party to back John McDonnell's leadership campaign, by 2015 I think he was used to being the least left-wing person in the room sometimes
I don't think this can have actually come as a crippling realisation? By the time Corbyn became leader OJ already had close to a decade's experience of getting shouted at by people to his left, both on the internet and in person
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I don't think this can have actually come as a crippling realisation? By the time Corbyn became leader OJ already had close to a decade's experience of getting shouted at by people to his left, both on the internet and in person
sitcom about several 1970s/80s light-entertainment ventriloquists who die and go to hell because of historic sex crimes they committed, but their puppets all go to heaven, the show follows the two groups as they adjust to life without each other
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
sitcom about several 1970s/80s light-entertainment ventriloquists who die and go to hell because of historic sex crimes they committed, but their puppets all go to heaven, the show follows the two groups as they adjust to life without each other
yes, Simon Furman definitely took advantage of the thing Tom brings up in his article about how 2000ad could get away with the kind of spectacular violence that got Action into trouble due to the fact that it's protagonists were robots
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
yes, Simon Furman definitely took advantage of the thing Tom brings up in his article about how 2000ad could get away with the kind of spectacular violence that got Action into trouble due to the fact that it's protagonists were robots