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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In terms of the influence going in the opposite direction, Death's Head always felt very 2000ad to me, particularly the way he'd show up in the middle of other people's narratives and not care at all about whatever things that were motivating the other characters, the ostensible stakes of the story

the proposals are bad but Mahmood isn't incorrect when she talks about the level of cynicism and resentment relating to this issue

isn't part of the problem that a lot of the public are mad about years of politicians talking 'tough' on immigration but then not following through? "promise to do evil things but don't do them" seems like a strategy designed to make that situation even worse

(other formative shows encountered via Sci-fi channel around the same time: MSK 3000, Lexx and Twilight Zone) Blue Velvet had a UK cinema rerelease in 2001 and I think was the first 18 rated movie I saw in theatres

my parents got satellite tv some time in the late 90s which fortunately for me was shortly before the Sci-Fi channel started showing the series in full and I became obsessed with it from the first episode (I think I was aged about 13-14)