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

[whitesycamore]

When I was very young I used to think that the Thin Lizzy song was actually called 'Whisky and the Giro.' It made sense to me.

What can I say, I was a product of my environment!

[kamino_neko]

OK, now I'm trying to figure out how 'giro' is pronounced.

*listens to the Thin Lizzy version of Whisky in the Jar* OK, I think I can imagine the pronunciations being similar.

[whitesycamore]

Soft g, then eye-row. I really need to learn IPA.

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!