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As you might know if you’ve been on Bluesky, I’m counting down EVERY COMICS EVENT* *(that I’ve read) from worst to best and writing a little paragraph on each.

This is a post in Discourse 2000, the year-by-year, story-by-story look at 2000AD.

This is a part of Discourse 2000, a year-by-year, story-by-story look at 2000AD.

This is part of Discourse 2000, a year-by-year, story-by-story blog about 2000AD.

Tuesday, 30th December 2025 is the 25th (sort of) Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl and we have decided to make a rare foray out of Zone 1 to HACKNEY.

This is an entry in my year-by-year, story-by-story series about 2000AD, Discourse 2000.

This is an entry in Discourse 2000, my story-by-story, year-by-year look at 2000AD.

This is an entry in Discourse 2000, my year-by-year, story-by-story analysis of 2000AD strips.

This is a post in the Discourse 2000 series, looking at 2000AD story by story, year by year.

This is a post in the series Discourse 2000, exploring 2000AD year by year and story by story.

Previously on Discourse 2000: After successfully helping launch war comic Battle, editor Pat Mills had the opportunity to launch a new kind of boys’ comic at publishers IPC – Action, a title which turned the violence and grittiness of typical boys genres…

My attitude to creative writing projects is best contextualised by misquoting Zapp Brannigan’s take on pick-up lines: write as many of them as you can, as fast as you can.

Omar Rodríguez-López’s most recent solo album Is It the Clouds?

As much as this idea totally whips, sadly, Sworn Virgins isn’t a concept album centred around the priestesses of Vesta, although it did inspire me to draft a fantasy longlist of musicians I’d like to see approach such a project.* As the very first record…

Hooray for me!

The Jeopardy!

I’m inclined to think of Omar Rodriguez as the first official ORL solo record, even though that’s not technically correct.

Labelling music as ‘psychedelic’ is about as useful as labelling it as ‘progressive’.

Friends, this year is going to be a doozy, one which will require mental fortitude on par with the strength of Hercules combined with the flexibility of Gumby.

In the ancient times, when I was old enough to know better but young enough to believe it didn’t matter, when LiveJournal was the central focus of my socialisation, at this time of year my reading feed was dominated by a popular end-of-year survey.

Sunday, 29th December 2024I marks the 25th anniversary of the first Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl and so we are heading to Southwark to sample some pubs with fascinating architecture, maybe have a drink (alcohol optional) and then at clo…

Last year I wrote up some trends in the way British people listen to Christmas music now – as expressed via the medium of the streaming-era Christmas charts, which offer a fairly accurate barometer of passive festive listening.

This is not my best-loved time of year: it’s cold, dark and tainted by too many unhappy holiday memories.

The UncoolTwo50 is over – well, the voting phase is – but the posting continues.

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If I really wanted to – and I don’t – I could fall down a rabbit hole reading various essays and blog posts about the death of the album.

Re-rewind!

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Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo shares many similarities with A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume I in that both are atmospheric, mostly instrumental filmic albums.

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A third instalment of tracks which didn’t make my #UncoolTwo50 list – which starts TOMORROW; there is still time to enter, all you need is a list of 50 singles from 1977-1999.

A second set of songs from the #UncoolTwo50 project, launching on Monday night/Tuesday on Bluesky – have you finalised your 50 tracks yet?

The #UncoolTwo50 is a simple exercise of daunting scope.

This is the final entry in Season 1 of Discourse 2000, a story-by-story look at 2000AD.

This is part of Discourse 2000, a story-by-story (in this case lots of little stories) exploration of 2000AD.

This is part of Discourse 2000, a story-by-story exploration of UK weekly comic 2000AD.

This is part of Discourse 2000, a story-by-story exploration of the weekly comic 2000AD.

Readers’ first sight of Dredd, bike cannons blazing.

A post in the Discourse 2000 series, covering 2000AD story-by-story.

This is another episode of DISCOURSE 2000, my story-by-story blog about British comic 2000AD.

Despite being six years into this project, I have yet to review A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One, Omar Rodríguez-López’s debut solo album, which was released twenty years ago today (no Sergeant references: denied).

This is a part of Discourse 2000, a blog looking at 2000AD story-by-story.

This is a part of Discourse 2000, a blog looking at 2000AD story-by-story.