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la lutta continua!
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how many materazzis can the zidane er “confront“?[…]

an old Watchmen interview of mine…
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Long ago I edited a comics fanzine called FA. In 1988 a few of us got round a table with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons for a long discussion about Watchmen. Last month someone put it on the web, and it still looks a pretty good piece to me. Don’t[…]

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Showcase Presents so far
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I wrote a recommendation of the ten best of Marvel’s Essential volumes a long time ago. Finally DC picked up the baton and are putting out similar volumes – over 500 B&W pages of vintage comic reprints on cheap paper for around £11 […]

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the aztec for marmite!
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two christmases ago my mum’s present was the money to buy a nice casserole dish, but the one i chose at john lewis was sold out by the time i went in to get it, and then never in stock — anyway i found it in habitat a month or so back, an[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Seven
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Tracks:
In Yer Face – 808 State
Gravity’s Rainbow – Klaxons (Van She Remix)
Vans – The Pack
Roscoe – Midlake
Knock ‘Em Out – Lily Allen
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Ridin&#8[…]

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“Out of control” theme park ride out of control
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Best wishes for the injured. Always taken as read in a story like this one of an accident on a theme park roller-coaster. But the question of the fun value of roller-coasters and fairground rides rears its head. Because we instinctively feel the fear[…]

TANYA’S NEWSWATCH: Suffer Little Children
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On the surface this story should make me happy. After all, one less performance of “Imagine” in the world is something to celebrate – a drop in the ocean but a tiny step forward towards the world Lennon dreamed of. “Imagine a[…]

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Sandi Thom’s Tooting
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Sandi Thom’s Tooting. Tanya could not have said it better herself. From the mighty Popjustice.[…]

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IHM Lyric Watch: Lily Allen – Smile
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“When you first left me
I was wanting more
But you were fucking that girl next door
What did you do that for?”
As a girl, you would think that I would sympathise with Ms Allen’s plight here. But my sympathies are squarely with this[…]

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Making A Dog King
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Finally saw Dead Man’s Chest last night. Enjoyed on the whole the loud, whizzy nonsense whilst walking out with a car load of issues. These are not issues which are going to overly concern me, but – daer raeder – if you can answer a[…]

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  2. "Dave Sim sticks the landing." That is my feeling too. As frustrating and borderline unreadable as the last 50 issues…

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