Colin Smith 💙 🇺🇦 #Xdissentersさんのイラストまとめ

Four fine American comics on sale in November 2005. It was but fifteen years ago. Apparently.

And so tea, in the company of Al Ewing & PJ Holden’s Dead Signal, a strip I’ve shamefully never encountered before. Still, that’s easily put right ...

Top-notch 80s LPs regretfully not on Spotify UK.

6. Neo Geo by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

With its Iggy Pop collaboration Risky; https://t.co/HKlSiDBTEW

Four fine comics from 2005, just a mere 15 years.

Current listening: Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Neo Geo'. My favourite RS LP. So many gems, including this smouldering, and all too often over-looked, collaboration with Iggy Pop;

https://t.co/GrwY32wru5

That doesn't mean I'm saying those stories were always, or even often, successful. (I'm looking at the 'Lady Liberators' here in particular.) But the relevancy trend had a considerable effect upon my young mind, &, coming from a less-than-radical background, I'm grateful for that

So it's here, Ships Of Battlestar Galactica, & I get to read myself to sleep in its company, safe in the knowledge that at least one of the fantastical franchise fictions I loved as a 14 year old still retains all the absurd wonder that it once did, long ago. #onlyAdamacanjudgeme

And always, with unbelievable creativity & consistency, week after week after week, John Wagner's scripts, whether alone or with his laudable writing partner Alan Grant, once Pat Mills had moved on after his own brilliant stint on JD. It's all so ludicrously splendid.

Some of others I think I can work out. Is that p'haps @seanpphillips - it was his cover! - & @mccreaman? Then (2) Alan McKenzie & Graham Higgins, (3) Dave King, and is (4) Steve Pugh?

I wonder who Vicki was? I do genuinely hope she enjoyed the book.

I do love 1970's US rock mags. Their pop culture take was so unlike the UK music papers I grew up devouring. eg 1977's Circus 169, where you could almost believe the UK & USA weren't so much different nations as seperate planets. Still, there were some common points of reference: