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A tribute to Charley Bourne
Today 100 years ago – 2 June 1916 – the fictional character Charley Bourne wrote his first letter home from the western front. It wasn’t as bad as they say he told his father. He was created by Pat...
View ArticleDredd in the Seattle Review of Books
Judge Dredd would knock Dan Dare from his preeminent sci-fi icon pedestal, establish ‘Dredd’ as a buzzword for authoritarian policing, and herald a future for 2000 AD that would extend far beyond the...
View ArticleRussia and Europe
As some of you have realised I’m off conferencing in Russia and Belgium. I have long wanted to visit Russia – St. Petersburg particularly, but Moscow is good too. On the other hand, I’ve never...
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Question for comic lovers
While we spend a lot of time discussing things such as geo-politics, economic policy, the uselessness of the centre-right and so on, from time to time I like to discuss important issues. As comic...
View ArticleLatest on the Fermi paradox
“Where are they?” famously asked Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s. By “they,” he meant space aliens. Fermi figured that if the galaxy contained space-faring civilizations it would only take...
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While you are in an isocube …
I was recently asked what I would take to read if isolated for the duration of the Covid-19 outbreak. Well I suppose there is Human Action, but I decided on the (so-far) 34 volume Dredd Files. Anyway...
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