Hour Of The Polls 30 Dec 2014 Just a last reminder - we are running two exciting POLLS this year, for the best tracks and best comics of 2014. You can still vote in them both! And,…
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today Sgt Loki Taught The Band To Play 31 Jan 2013 Another in our series of posts on Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's Young Avengers comic. The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” came out in August 1963, started building radio play, then…
The Freaky Trigger Comics Poll 2015 18 Dec 2015 Back by popular demand! (Kat asked) As last year, we are running a COMICS POLL. This was an intimate occasion in 2014 with a small but magnificent body of voters,…
WHAM! POW! Polls Aren't Just For Pop Anymore! 11 Dec 2014 As well as the Freaky Trigger pop poll, masterminded by Kat, I thought I'd try something else - a Freaky Trigger COMICS POLL. This will work in exactly the same…
10 reasons it's okay to not like The Wicked and The Divine #1 18 Jun 2014 Coronations are dull things You read enough Vertigo comics in your youth (or, last week) and you have had sufficient for the next decade of ingénue audience identification figures having…
Alterna-kids 31 Jul 2013 Marvel comics exist as part of a very extensive meta-verse, a plethora of multiplicities which, in canon, play out many scenarios and worlds. It's extensive, pervasive mechanic to the way…
Marvel Comics: A Character Guide 10 Feb 2015 Marvel Comics' famed innovation in the 1960s was introducing characters who were "human" with "relatable flaws" as opposed to the super-icons of rivals DC. These relatable flaws gave each Marvel…
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28 Jun 2013
We are now firmly into the BRITPOP YEARS on Popular, oh yes, so it’s time to consider its musical legacy in the only language we truly understand, viz. a ticky-box poll. We have selected 32 bands who someone, somewhere, might possibly have once described as Britpop. Tick all the ones you like and by science […]
9 Jan 2004
Independence Day. Isn’t it marvellous? Hurrah hurrah let’s kill the stripper and those hippies! That’s the kind of morals I WANT from my films! Until the aliens bugger up by deciding just to kill EVERYBODY. Where’s the subtlety, the art, the je ne sais quoi indeed about that? Who cares when we have plucky heroes […]
14 Apr 2007
Plenty of words have been written about the seminal Sex Pistols’ seminal gig at the seminal Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1976. There has even been a whole book about it! Everyone knows that the gig was really very important indeed and that everyone who attended became a very extremely important person. HOWEVER does everyone know exactly […]
20 Aug 2004
How Old Is Superman? One of the seemingly undefined aspect of the Superman mythos is that of his ageing. Those who fall on the side of his omnipotence in everything (the superhearing, superbreath, superhair bunch) probably think as a preternatural godhead he will live forever. Look, he has been banging around in the comics for […]
28 Nov 2004
i. shepherd’s/cottage pie ii. cheese flan/pizza iii. scotch egg iv. boiled egg actually i am not going to bother you w.all the ins and outs of the GREBT PIE DEBATE, as i wz not in on its inception, and besides the militia are now formed and a stiff crackdown ordered on heretics and dissidents. Hunting […]
26 Apr 1999
The mode of the music changes, the city quakes, or at least those blocks of primer-than-thou office space quake that house the HQs of worldwide record companies. The reason, apparently, is MP3 technology, which you all know about and most of you use, and which has been the subject of acres of ruminative, pessimistic music […]
21 May 2012
Huge weepy thanks to Bob, Pete and Sarah for immortalising us in song. And thanks to commenters past and present for making it worth immortalising.
17 Jun 2010
Finally, the moment of ABSOLUTE POP TRUTH is upon us! And my goodness, what a nail-biter of a contest this has been. Halfway through the voting, two decades broke decisively ahead of the pack, establishing a lead that proved impossible to catch up with. Although one of them looked to have the edge, its rival […]
