Dan Shires
@vertigowooyay.bsky.social
Meeja hor, comics obsessive, sometime idiot. Old.
I’ve not been on Twitter for months, and I’m not going to look now, so I’m just going to assume a lot of people there are absolutely losing their shit over this.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I’ve not been on Twitter for months, and I’m not going to look now, so I’m just going to assume a lot of people there are absolutely losing their shit over this.
Am sure I remember reading something about the making of Yellowbeard, that mentioned he smoked about 60 a day.
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Am sure I remember reading something about the making of Yellowbeard, that mentioned he smoked about 60 a day.
And if prominent Democrats are also in the files…. yup, they can all get hurled into the sun as well.
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
And if prominent Democrats are also in the files…. yup, they can all get hurled into the sun as well.
My first encounter with Dan Dare was the 70’s 2000AD reboot, which is vastly different to the original (and which, admittedly, eventually became increasingly dumb) but I still love it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My first encounter with Dan Dare was the 70’s 2000AD reboot, which is vastly different to the original (and which, admittedly, eventually became increasingly dumb) but I still love it.
True, but the point is more that people forget/wipe some monumentally shitty parts of their own lifetime.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
True, but the point is more that people forget/wipe some monumentally shitty parts of their own lifetime.
“Environment was cleaner”.
Ok, photo from 1978, not ‘75 but I think we’re splitting hairs there.
Ok, photo from 1978, not ‘75 but I think we’re splitting hairs there.
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“Environment was cleaner”.
Ok, photo from 1978, not ‘75 but I think we’re splitting hairs there.
Ok, photo from 1978, not ‘75 but I think we’re splitting hairs there.
Absolutely. I was 5 in 1975, so my memories of it are wallowing in nothing more than childhood nostalgia.
I certainly didn’t notice negative things at the time - like my mum in tears because we’d run out of toothpaste too late in the month and it was too expensive to get more until payday.
I certainly didn’t notice negative things at the time - like my mum in tears because we’d run out of toothpaste too late in the month and it was too expensive to get more until payday.
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Absolutely. I was 5 in 1975, so my memories of it are wallowing in nothing more than childhood nostalgia.
I certainly didn’t notice negative things at the time - like my mum in tears because we’d run out of toothpaste too late in the month and it was too expensive to get more until payday.
I certainly didn’t notice negative things at the time - like my mum in tears because we’d run out of toothpaste too late in the month and it was too expensive to get more until payday.
And in amongst all that, if you sift through like you’re panning for gold, there’s A Gentleman In Moscow, which I absolutely loved (and, again, was left thinking it should have been a BBC drama but, y’know, budgets).
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
And in amongst all that, if you sift through like you’re panning for gold, there’s A Gentleman In Moscow, which I absolutely loved (and, again, was left thinking it should have been a BBC drama but, y’know, budgets).
Conversely, if you want Indian restaurant lime pickle at home, Fudco brand Lime & Chilli pickle is exactly what you’re looking for
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Conversely, if you want Indian restaurant lime pickle at home, Fudco brand Lime & Chilli pickle is exactly what you’re looking for
Why does he have this fucking anti-beard obsession?
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Why does he have this fucking anti-beard obsession?
It was so simple in the old days where the Republic serial hero was very, very definitely in the car as it sped over the cliff, only for the next episode to open with him jumping out in time and an empty car hurtles into oblivion.
Old fashioned? Day Of The Jackal on Sky absolutely did this. Twice.
Old fashioned? Day Of The Jackal on Sky absolutely did this. Twice.
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It was so simple in the old days where the Republic serial hero was very, very definitely in the car as it sped over the cliff, only for the next episode to open with him jumping out in time and an empty car hurtles into oblivion.
Old fashioned? Day Of The Jackal on Sky absolutely did this. Twice.
Old fashioned? Day Of The Jackal on Sky absolutely did this. Twice.
Are these people
A) racist and very stupid
or
B) racist, not stupid, are fully aware *none of this will ever happen* and are just lying grifters trying to foment hatred and violence from A)
A) racist and very stupid
or
B) racist, not stupid, are fully aware *none of this will ever happen* and are just lying grifters trying to foment hatred and violence from A)
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Are these people
A) racist and very stupid
or
B) racist, not stupid, are fully aware *none of this will ever happen* and are just lying grifters trying to foment hatred and violence from A)
A) racist and very stupid
or
B) racist, not stupid, are fully aware *none of this will ever happen* and are just lying grifters trying to foment hatred and violence from A)
So… Republican who then votes for the ex-Democrat instead of the *actual* Republican candidate is blaming the *actual* Republican candidate of betrayal?
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So… Republican who then votes for the ex-Democrat instead of the *actual* Republican candidate is blaming the *actual* Republican candidate of betrayal?
The ‘aunties’ line was a perfect jab with a surgical needle.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The ‘aunties’ line was a perfect jab with a surgical needle.
Pretty sure that’s AI based on the drunk-at-the-time prompt of ‘create a football stadium based on The Avengers Tower’.
October 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Pretty sure that’s AI based on the drunk-at-the-time prompt of ‘create a football stadium based on The Avengers Tower’.
Oh ffs, not again.
October 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Oh ffs, not again.
“When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go… uptoown”
You can always go… uptoown”
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go… uptoown”
You can always go… uptoown”
If nothing else, the ideas for how to use it are so very shit.
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If nothing else, the ideas for how to use it are so very shit.
Also, comics. I love comics, I have an awful lot of them. But people who get comics slabbed - graded and then locked forever in a plastic case - drive me nuts. Something made to be read (and re-read) now unable to fulfill its very purpose.
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Also, comics. I love comics, I have an awful lot of them. But people who get comics slabbed - graded and then locked forever in a plastic case - drive me nuts. Something made to be read (and re-read) now unable to fulfill its very purpose.
Is this really classifying ICE as an ‘emergency service’?
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Is this really classifying ICE as an ‘emergency service’?
Yes, absolutely. There are large parts of Sandman I’ll never be able to read again - Calliope in particular. Maybe that means I’ll never read any of it again. I certainly haven’t picked it up since the accusations or his indefensible reaction to them.
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Yes, absolutely. There are large parts of Sandman I’ll never be able to read again - Calliope in particular. Maybe that means I’ll never read any of it again. I certainly haven’t picked it up since the accusations or his indefensible reaction to them.