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Manky Toy Monday: Footsie for Boys & Girls

932 days ago – back when Manky Toy Monday first announced itself to an awed & agog interweb – the world was a radically...

God is nothing but a big stupid over-sensitive man with a beard that lives on a cloud

Of all the many wild 'n' wacky notions entertained and promoted by orgainsed religions, few can be as amusingly bonkos as the idea...

Pissing on Bishops: 21st Century Obscenity & the State of the Nation

Obscenity. Profanity. Transgression. All these lovely things have been much on my mind of late. Not entirely sure why. It may have...

Things I Saved From a Skip: 2 – Debbie For Girls 1981

Ever since the humourless, ancient overlords of patriarchy (Boo!) first set traditional gender roles in stone, there have been heroic...

Things I Saved From a Skip: 1 – Jinty Annual 1981

Given the (rather amusing) collapse of the global financial system, 2009 should prove a big year for rummaging through skips. While...

Zero Tolerance & Infinite Justice: The Nick O’Teen Story

A recent discussion on the dubious "pleasures" of EU/Swiss propagandic comics set the memory banks whizzing, fizzing and grinding....

Museum of Cultural Waste: In the Land That Invented the Future

A week or two ago, while she sat diligently at her desk attending to her many labours, my wife's gaze passed over an object that instantly...

Batmangled

Was in HMV the other day and noticed that Batman: The Movie (a full-length theatrical spin-off of the '60s series) has undergone something...

Manky Toy Monday: Rapid, Fighter, Apex

I've mentioned (somewhere) before that I, like most children, was more than happy to mix, match and mash together toy worlds and universes...

Return of the Rocket: The Titan Interview

With the sad passing of Euro 2008 (and the resultant football famine) some of you may have slipped (wailing and gnashing your teeth)...

Twinkle Twirl… you’re wonderful…!!!!!

I As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from...

I Defy You, Groot!!

The naming of those fantastic (and hideous) creatures that routinely crawl from the earth's dark chasms or slither from the depths...

B-But I’m N-Not Bonnie!

What does one do on a miserable Sunday such as this (a Sunday dragged straight from the depths of Satan's arse)? Watch DVDs? Check....

Manky Toy Monday: Phantasms and Maniac Bellows

A Manky Toy double-bill for you on this glorious Monday (glorious because the sun has his/her hat on and I'm off work). Through no...

FIZZOO!! A Comic Bomb Fizzles…

Update 23/01/08 – I've emailed a few people who've shown (or casually expressed) interest in FIZZOO! to discuss format, structure,...

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