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Wrestlemania 20
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Wrestlemania 20
This year’s mega-event from World Wrestling Entertainment had the tagline “Where it all begins…again”, of which I can make no sense, but there were hints towards one interesting development. Larger men, brawler[…]

Not to rob Mr Sinker of propriatorial ownership on stories about If…
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Not to rob Mr Sinker of propriatorial ownership on stories about If… (What will happen to the world if he claims copyright on this hypotheticval opener), a stumbled across article on Lindsay Anderson’s lost film about Wham! in China. Biza[…]

Lack of updates from me has been due to awful computer crisis
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This has relegated me to blogging on something straight out of the seventies, with a keyboard not dissimilar to the early Tandy micro-computers. This of course is thoroughly apt for a short piece about Starsky & Hutch. Not just because my compute[…]

What happened to Doomlord’s mask?
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What happened to Doomlord’s mask?
(Dez Skinn is too harsh on photo-stories here I feel. If anyone wants to see a full-on feature on the 80s Eagle revival with its photo-strips, just let me know… or it might happen anyway…)[…]

Read Misty online!!
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Read Misty online!! – lovingly detailed site dedicated to Misty including reproductions of the original issues! Even if you don’t have time to look at the reprints at least check out the cover gallery.[…]

Girls’ Comics
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Girls’ Comics: Dragged screaming from the K-Punk comments box, this link leads to an excellent essay by Miriam Hurst on the British girls’ comics of the 1970s. Hurst makes intelligent points though you can’t go far wrong in this ter[…]

This is amazing.
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This is amazing.: lovingly compiled piece about the computer games included free on various 80s British records (eg the Shakin’ Stevens game), with links to the actual games in playable form! Also if I remember rightly Kempa.com is an AMERICAN […]

New every Tuesday
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New every Tuesday and this week’s is esp. hilarious. Don’t read the archived strips at work or the boss will ask you what all the howling’s about.[…]

Recommended
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Recommended: picked up a Dancehall mix CD in Berwick Street on the way to the pub last night – Timeport Episode III. I don’t know if this is at all typical of dancehall CDs but the mixing is very fast – 68 tracks on one CD and 94 on[…]

K-Punk on Marvel UK
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K-Punk on Marvel UK: K-Punk’s had quite a bit of comics content lately – good stuff; it’s nice to find someone else who thinks that the mid-80s British Invasion wasn’t an unambiguous Good Thing. Anyway now he’s onto UK c[…]

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