Grant Morrison's BIG DAVE: Monarchy in the UK(1993) and How It Must Have Assured Him the MBE

[jlroberson]

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.)

Comments

[icon_uk]

I'd forgotten all about Big Dave... and I was happy that way for the most part. It's hardly... subtle, is it?

[rordulum]

Then you've probably forgotten about the other story, where he was sent into Iraq to kill Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqis used a secret weapon that turned everyone into "shirtlifting poofs", except Dave. Because he was so manly and tough. He did beat the crap out of his friend though, for hitting on him while under the influence of said weapon.

[jlroberson]

For a BIG DAVE story, that IS subtle.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, THANKS for that reminder...

[jlroberson]

Hey, last time I only posted the introduction.

And I didn't even get to where John Major threatened to get very cross. Very cross INDEED.