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In an effort to temporarily escape the nonsense of thin-skinned liars, right-wing drunkards and assorted mouth-breathers, I recently took to reading magazines that pre-dated even Paul Staines’ 1986 adventures with the BNP… but I was a fool to think that this would shield me from the freaky underworld of absurd demands and retractions.
Take a look at this massive half-page item from the April 23, 1983 issue of Eagle that addresses a great injustice done in the single frame of an earlier issue where a fictional superhuman robot manages to pick a domestic door lock:
Incidentally, ASSA ABLOY no longer sell locks. Instead – stand by to tip the Eye – they offer ‘door solutions’. They even claim to be “the global leader in door opening solutions”.
:o)
(I kid you not; see here and here.)
Note – Nothing on any of the ASSA fleet of websites indicates how resilient their current products are to the efforts of robots, zombies, robot zombies, or lock-picking pixies… so be warned and do keep a shotgun handy.
By Wolf Solent January 5, 2009 - 10:26 pm
The other great example of this was when 2000AD was obliged to run a one-off (and presumably non-canonical) half-page Judge Dredd strip about what a thoroughly nice chap the Green Giant was, after the legendary 'Cursed Earth' story about homicidal genetically-engineered corporate mascots.
By Manic January 5, 2009 - 11:03 pm
Ahahahahahaha! That saga in summary and in full:http://io9.com/349965/fast-food-is-bad-for-comics…http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/1810/dreddb…Consider me officialy amazed that the Garth Ennis Muzak Killer stories didn't lead to similar action.
By Bartholomew January 6, 2009 - 9:52 am
I remember the revived 1980s Eagle went in for those naff photo stories, until the novelty wore off (any "before they were famous" models, I wonder?). Particularly memorable were the gruesome special effects that showed bodies being dismembered and disintegrated (i.e. faded out) by "Doomlord".I also remember the subtle moral lesson of a story (I think in issue 1) in which a father and son go fishing at a place where it says "No fishing". Worse, one of them catches a small fish that they discard on the bank rather than putting back in the water. Naturally, they themselves soon end up being "fished" by a passing UFO, and the son is squashed by an alien for being too small, while the father is eaten.
By Manic January 6, 2009 - 10:56 am
Ha! That'll learn 'em. Dog bless The Collector.My favourite tale so far is from the 1983 annual, about a reviving miracle fluid called Farancide. I'll prob. scan it at some stage, so I won't spoil the ending for you now.