Graphic Content: The Big Comics Chat
Attention fellow nerds. Should any of you be heading to Stradbally, Co. Laois for this year's Electric Picnic feel very free to pop...
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Follow the White Rabbit (A World Cup Special)
Several years back, during yet another of the many football tournaments in which England have bowed out like whimpering dogs covered...
Glamorous Teacher
Back when I was a seething pubescent pool of bubbling 'n' boiling hormones, I frequently (and guiltily) dragged (female) teachers into...
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…!!!!!
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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...
