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There Ain’t No Cure For My Somers Town Blues
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— 28 Aug 2008 Pete Baran 15 comments

A Daily Mail reading of Somers Town:
-London is full of yobs and foreigners: The only characters in Somers Town from London are the three (white) kids who mug Tommo, the café owner and Graham the spiv. And you can see this clearly in the way that Gr[…]

Comics: A Beginner’s Guide: Adventure Comics
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— 28 Aug 2008 Martin Skidmore 5 comments

Who is the greatest comic artist ever? Obviously that is unanswerable, but my top choice would be Alex Toth. This is partly because he was magnificent in every style he used, and he did it all – superheroes, romance, horror, funny animals, war,[…]

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