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scans_daily2012-06-16 10:21 pm
jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily2012-06-16 10:21 pm
Grant Morrison's BIG DAVE: Monarchy in the UK(1993) and How It Must Have Assured Him the MBE
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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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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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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