Gherkin 🥒
@thelastgherkin.bsky.social
I'm Gherkin, a visibly queer discontent creator and unique vegetable entity in the sphere of toy robots. He/him/his but not a man.
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Rantsona designed by @maiaf.bsky.social!
LINKUS: https://thelastgherkin.tumblr.com/links
Happy Doctor Who day! Did you know that, despite the Doctor and/or the TARDIS appearing on eight covers of The Marvel Bumper Comic, the contents of those comics are practically unknown? That's where YOU come in!
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happy Doctor Who day! Did you know that, despite the Doctor and/or the TARDIS appearing on eight covers of The Marvel Bumper Comic, the contents of those comics are practically unknown? That's where YOU come in!
A lesser concern is the contents of The Real Ghostbusters Collected Comics. I'd assumed, like Combat Colin, the title could never reprint the story involving the Gwanzulums, until I ran into a 2005 Titan omnibus in Stourbridge library and there it was clear as day
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A lesser concern is the contents of The Real Ghostbusters Collected Comics. I'd assumed, like Combat Colin, the title could never reprint the story involving the Gwanzulums, until I ran into a 2005 Titan omnibus in Stourbridge library and there it was clear as day
Transformers was never reprinted in the Marvel Bumper Comic (that we know of), but Galvatron cameoed on the front of issue 9, where a voice warns him that Combat Colin and Steve might try to gatecrash their 200th issue celebrations
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Transformers was never reprinted in the Marvel Bumper Comic (that we know of), but Galvatron cameoed on the front of issue 9, where a voice warns him that Combat Colin and Steve might try to gatecrash their 200th issue celebrations
Me latest white whale is the Marvel Bumper Comic. A Marvel UK monthly anthology title that ran for 31 issues plus a special. We know what all the covers look like but the contents are an enigma. There could be all sorts of Combat Colin reprints in them. And I'd buy 'em myself but, well,
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Me latest white whale is the Marvel Bumper Comic. A Marvel UK monthly anthology title that ran for 31 issues plus a special. We know what all the covers look like but the contents are an enigma. There could be all sorts of Combat Colin reprints in them. And I'd buy 'em myself but, well,
THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE TRUTH which is why I unearthed this unedited photo from before you added the parachute in to obfuscate the fact you've mastered self propulsion
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE TRUTH which is why I unearthed this unedited photo from before you added the parachute in to obfuscate the fact you've mastered self propulsion
What about Scopedog Red Shoulder Custom
October 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
What about Scopedog Red Shoulder Custom
Ahem
AUTOBOTS RAISE THEIR CATTLE TO D—
AUTOBOTS RAISE THEIR CATTLE TO D—
October 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ahem
AUTOBOTS RAISE THEIR CATTLE TO D—
AUTOBOTS RAISE THEIR CATTLE TO D—
I made this about Velma originally but
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I made this about Velma originally but
The long and short of it is that we can rest safe in the knowledge that Britt and Black Plum do not exist in the same universe
October 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The long and short of it is that we can rest safe in the knowledge that Britt and Black Plum do not exist in the same universe
So if Infestation represents the regular-ass zombies from ZVR coming through a portal into the CVO universe... where did the Undermind come from???? That isn't from ZVR??????
October 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So if Infestation represents the regular-ass zombies from ZVR coming through a portal into the CVO universe... where did the Undermind come from???? That isn't from ZVR??????
And sure enough, you follow both spin-off sequels, and ZVR takes place in a zombie apocalypse where the world has almost fallen, and Outbreak... doesn't
October 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
And sure enough, you follow both spin-off sequels, and ZVR takes place in a zombie apocalypse where the world has almost fallen, and Outbreak... doesn't
At this point you're forced to conclude that the ZVR stuff in Infestation is parallel to actual ZVR, and that there are two Kirtlands in two universes, both with interdimensional spacetime portals and both with a basement full of robots
October 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
At this point you're forced to conclude that the ZVR stuff in Infestation is parallel to actual ZVR, and that there are two Kirtlands in two universes, both with interdimensional spacetime portals and both with a basement full of robots
Then you hit the end of issue 2, and the resulting spin-offs insist that the Zombies vs Robots continuity *is* Dimension Z, separate from CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations (the other part of this crossover) despite everything above showing CVO co-existing with ZVR elements
October 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Then you hit the end of issue 2, and the resulting spin-offs insist that the Zombies vs Robots continuity *is* Dimension Z, separate from CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations (the other part of this crossover) despite everything above showing CVO co-existing with ZVR elements
Infestation is barely compatible with ITSELF. In issue 1, the zombies are untethered from the Undermind hive intelligence and the infestation is contained to one facility in New Mexico. In the second issue, they've overrun the country and threatening the pres in the big white house
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Infestation is barely compatible with ITSELF. In issue 1, the zombies are untethered from the Undermind hive intelligence and the infestation is contained to one facility in New Mexico. In the second issue, they've overrun the country and threatening the pres in the big white house
Infestation brings back Sgt Wade! He was a key figure in the early days of the zombie war in ZVR: Aventure. Except in Infestation he gets glomped by zompies before the war even starts. Neither story is fully compatible with the other
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Infestation brings back Sgt Wade! He was a key figure in the early days of the zombie war in ZVR: Aventure. Except in Infestation he gets glomped by zompies before the war even starts. Neither story is fully compatible with the other
In ZvR the zombie war starts when a scientist brings zombies through a trans-dimensional portal from his own future. In Infestation that same portal in the same lab leads to Dimension Z, a whole zombo universee
October 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
In ZvR the zombie war starts when a scientist brings zombies through a trans-dimensional portal from his own future. In Infestation that same portal in the same lab leads to Dimension Z, a whole zombo universee
Reading up on Infestation (you know, the IDW crossover) and the miniseries it spawned and y'know, zombie media isn't for me, whatever, but now I'm just sitting here with the shock ending twist that Zombies vs Robots' unseen POTUS is Burgess Meredith Off Of Twilight Zone
October 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reading up on Infestation (you know, the IDW crossover) and the miniseries it spawned and y'know, zombie media isn't for me, whatever, but now I'm just sitting here with the shock ending twist that Zombies vs Robots' unseen POTUS is Burgess Meredith Off Of Twilight Zone
There's two things I love – mixing and men
September 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
There's two things I love – mixing and men
Oh I would recognise that THE MOVIE *anywhere*
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh I would recognise that THE MOVIE *anywhere*
Woobly-doobly-doobly
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Woobly-doobly-doobly
![Meme reading "I would go to school if"
This was the teacher [close up image of Rob Zombie in full cadaver make-up]
This was the uniform [two guitarists in alt/goth fashion; most importantly, they are rendered extremely tall by a funhouse mirror effect elongating everything below their shoulders and above their knees]
This was the bus [image of the Munsters Koach, a hearse-themed dragster
This was the campus [black and white image of the unusual mansion used as a set in The Munsters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t3eeevp4vexy4uo4pxksuppk/bafkreigmswsb6a7pj7xf2c5vkazb77gjiklhkyxpoy7vfvh2bgtj3vetre@jpeg)
TWO YEARS AGO TODAY! – the launch of The Transformers UK Appendix, or tfuk.app! Charting the history of Marvel UK's unexpected bestseller through a lens of The Transformers' back-up material, enter a universe that is more, much more than meets the eye!
September 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
TWO YEARS AGO TODAY! – the launch of The Transformers UK Appendix, or tfuk.app! Charting the history of Marvel UK's unexpected bestseller through a lens of The Transformers' back-up material, enter a universe that is more, much more than meets the eye!