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Content Warning: Not really NSFW, but - THIS IS A "BIG DAVE" STRIP.
You begged, you screamed, and yet after all this time here he comes again: BIG DAVE, the obscure 2000AD creation of Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, and Steve Parkhouse, and the second least likely Grant Morrison work to be reprinted after NEW ADVENTURES OF HITLER.
Grant Morrison, you may have heard, received an MBE today. I'm really confused as to how I should react, but congrats to him, and I suppose that's good for comics, and I AM a Morrison fan of long standing but...still odd.
What I do know is that surely the patriotism he showed in this BIG DAVE story all those years ago(as well as this, shown at Bleeding Cool, plus much of THE INVISIBLES and Diana as depicted therein, which is to say she's raped by an interdimensional royal monster) must have played a crucial part.
Here are the highlights of everyone's favorite typical NEWS OF THE WORLD reader's defense of the nation.
Note: I have spared you a full splash page of Dave on the toilet, drawn in a most graphic and unsanitary way. I won't ask your thanks, it was only the need to edit.
(c)Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, and Steve Parkhouse.
PS if interested: LULU book 1 is now complete and you can read chapters 2-3 online free here.)
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Date: 2012-06-17 08:22 am (UTC)Um.. What? I'm not sure what I dislike more, the destruction of poor Postman Pat or the implication of the nature of people who are unemployed. I get that it's meant to be satirical, but.. I just don't get it.
It's not even genuinely funny like Moore and Davis doing DR and Quinch and riffing on Apocalypse Now and the nature of Hollywood.
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Date: 2012-06-17 08:27 am (UTC)PS
Date: 2012-06-17 08:28 am (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 08:36 am (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 08:46 am (UTC)In an ideal world, of course, Murdoch would have the book thrown at him and his shitty papers shut down. Of course, we can guarantee that, in the end, he might lose another paper, but all he'll really get is a slap on the wrist.
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:55 am (UTC)I think his defining moment was when we found out he'd had an affair whilst Prime Minister, almost a moment where you thought begrudgingly "I never knew he had it in him", and then to find out the affair was with, of all people, Edwina Curry. Oy vey....
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Date: 2012-06-17 04:11 pm (UTC)You know, when Terry Pratchett had a character in "Making Money" who ran a bank while secretly having been trained to be a clown, I just assumed he had made it up. I didn't realize that such a person actually existed.
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:54 am (UTC)He has us under Fox here. At least let us think he can be harmed.
I'm assuming the Daily Mail reader's POV is also applicable here? I know less about its style except it's traditionally reactionary. I've heard.
Your press is freaky, by the way. At least you've never been under any illusion it's unbiased.
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:56 am (UTC)Big Dave very definitely isn't the Daily Mail approach. The News of the World is working class, the Daily Mail aims at more of a slice of VERY Conservative middle England (or Britain come to that) which bemoans the state of the world as it is, loathes change, wants the return of approximately the 1960's when people "knew their place" (and by people I mean women, foreigners, young people, non-whites and... well, you can see where it's going) and the power of the bobby on the street to give people a clip round the ear for scrumping apples etc...
Russell Howard has a really fun routine about the British press, which summarises a lot of this stuff.
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:59 am (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 01:13 pm (UTC)The News of the World, was basically the Sunday edition of "The Sun" and should always be considered in that light. The fact we got a "Sun on Sunday" so soon after the NotW closed is one of the more cynical aspects of an already desperately cynical (and deservedly so) business.
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Date: 2012-06-17 06:34 pm (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 11:57 am (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 10:21 pm (UTC)But better than what we might have otherwise.
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Date: 2012-06-17 10:37 pm (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 10:47 pm (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 08:44 am (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-06-17 11:52 am (UTC)Think of Ruben Bolling's "Lucky Ducky" strips in TOM THE DANCING BUG for a less extreme example. Or in Millar's case, remember Chester's issue, a few years after this, of his SWAMP THING run, when Chester suddenly converts to a Newt Gingrich-style conservative. All very straight-faced about it.
I don't know what the stereotypes are at play as far as Manchester at the time but I'm sure that has some relevance to Dave here.
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Date: 2012-06-17 12:06 pm (UTC)We also wore onions on our belts, because it was the fashion.
PS to PS
Date: 2012-07-10 01:12 am (UTC)http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/caphurr.htm
By the way: Postman Pat
Date: 2012-06-17 11:55 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMQvVZyf-1A
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Date: 2012-06-17 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 11:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 12:02 pm (UTC)And I didn't even get to where John Major threatened to get very cross. Very cross INDEED.
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Date: 2012-06-17 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 03:40 pm (UTC)What can I say, I was a product of my environment!
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Date: 2012-06-18 05:37 am (UTC)*listens to the Thin Lizzy version of Whisky in the Jar* OK, I think I can imagine the pronunciations being similar.
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Date: 2012-06-18 08:02 am (UTC)It does sound pretty similar when Phil Lynott sings it. Also 'giro' was a real word I recognised (and you might use it to pay for a bottle of whiskey when it arrives, so it makes sense in context), while 'jar...o' really wasn't.
But remember, if you're not a Brit, or even if you just grew up in a different region from me, then the boundaries between what you consider to be one vowel sound and another are going to be massively different from mine!
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Date: 2012-06-17 06:39 pm (UTC)Hey, I'm on Unemployment myself. Of course I had to look.
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 11:44 pm (UTC)By the way, I keep that website handy for watching Mad Men.
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Date: 2012-06-17 11:56 pm (UTC)My post-tax Unemployment when I'm on is $144 a week. I'm still sporadically finding wage work, but as the current trickle of shit jobs is only in the 8.80-9.00/hr range, my Unemployment will decrease in the next quarter because my earning power has decreased.
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.