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

[cleome45]

Useless Fact: 36 pounds = 56 U.S. dollars (rounded up), if one of those online converters is to be believed.

Hey, I'm on Unemployment myself. Of course I had to look.

[jlroberson]

56 dollars can't be much to live on in England.

[deleonjh]

Actually in 1993 according to the chicanery of inflation it was $76.97, still pretty piss poor.

By the way, I keep that website handy for watching Mad Men.

[cleome45]

It's not exactly high living in the U.S., either. Though it might have gone a tad further when this comic first appeared. As I've said before, I'd have been on the street 2-3 years ago if I didn't have family helping me out-- as best they can.

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.