
Plus a comedy robot, Optimus Gazza and a massive poster.
All in my look at ISSUE 309!
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![]() This week, a surprisingly deft look at reactions to mental illness and how often they're inappropriate and wrong. Plus a comedy robot, Optimus Gazza and a massive poster. All in my look at ISSUE 309!
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Simon Hall
13/4/2018 08:19:07 pm
I strongly remember the cover to this issue - not because I was reading at the time; (I was in Secondary School and trying to be terribly grown up) but because a lad in my class had this very issue and I was fascinated by it (and liked the bookmark). Can't recall readign it at the time, so I guess for whatever reason I mustn't have asked.
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Ryan F
13/4/2018 10:54:30 pm
Yah boo sucks for calling ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’ obscure... It might not be required listening to young’uns nowadays but Court of the Crimson King is one of the best and most important Prog Rock albums ever made, in the days when Prog Rock was actually popular and cool.
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Harry
13/4/2018 11:12:10 pm
I'd suggest that '21st Century Schizoid Man' might be King Crimson's best known song. It's certainly the only song I know from their earlier prog days, though I admit a soft spot for the 'two Bowie guitarists in one band' 1980s line-up.
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Gareth
13/4/2018 11:31:36 pm
Gavin Fearnley of Leighton Buzzard must have been a long-term fan - he previously had a letter published in #81.
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My gran used to get our TF comic reserved at her newsagent, but around the time of the Flame/Zombies arc it became clear that my brother and I were more interested in the comic than our gran, and that (combined with the fact I was suddenly obsessed with drawing desiccated robot corpses) led to them cancelling the subscription. I barely saw another issue for years until finding this one - and it blew my mind. The detailed, expressive art, the mature storytelling, and the damn scale of the thing. I struggled to find a handful of further issues before the series ended, so this one retains a special place in my mind. And I still have that bookmark! It’s got me through a lot of good novels over the years - it’s currently punctuating chapters in Infinite Jest. I’m fairly sure it’s three original (although obviously similar) Wildman pieces stacked together.
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Tetsuryu
14/4/2018 07:27:41 am
It's hard for me to remember that time period - I was like five years old back then - but there was a time when I only had two Transformers comics. One was a special that collected about half of the Robot Master arc into a single isssue.
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18/4/2018 03:13:50 pm
Way back in 1991 I wondered if the paper screw-up was unique to my copy (although logically that didn't make sense). It's nice to finally have confirmation they were all like this.
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