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    Vignette: The Quiet Max
    • Jun 2
    • 7 min

    Vignette: The Quiet Max

    By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
    Prime Minister Boris, and other things that ... happened?
    • Feb 11
    • 8 min

    Prime Minister Boris, and other things that ... happened?

    By Charles E.P. Murphy Duncan Brack and Iain Dale’s recurring collections of That Never Happened articles are some of the more...
    'Dark Rose' review
    • Oct 18, 2021
    • 7 min

    'Dark Rose' review

    By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...
    Media Musing Counter Factuals: Power Rangers Turbo and the changeover that wasn't
    • Aug 23, 2021
    • 12 min

    Media Musing Counter Factuals: Power Rangers Turbo and the changeover that wasn't

    By Charles EP Murphy By the time of 1997's Power Rangers Turbo, the show had been running for almost four years. Ratings were on the way...
    Comic review - Sentinels
    • Apr 19, 2021
    • 7 min

    Comic review - Sentinels

    By Charles EP Murphy Spanning 101 issues in the late 1970s, Misty is one of the most fondly remembered girls’ comics of its time,...
    'JLA: The Nail' Review
    • Apr 1, 2021
    • 8 min

    'JLA: The Nail' Review

    By Charles EP Murphy Superhero comics are infamous for the unchanging status quos and parts of the canon that are absolute. That means...
    Media Musing Counterfactuals: The White Ranger vs VR Troopers
    • Dec 31, 2020
    • 9 min

    Media Musing Counterfactuals: The White Ranger vs VR Troopers

    By Charles EP Murphy Probably the biggest character in Power Rangers history is Tommy Oliver, as played by Jason David Frank. He’s famous...
    Media Musing Counter Factuals: Pilot Rangers
    • Dec 24, 2020
    • 10 min

    Media Musing Counter Factuals: Pilot Rangers

    By Charles EP Murphy The initial plot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is summed up in the title sequence. The space witch Rita Repulsa is...
    Media Musing Counter Factuals: Power Rangers and the Eighties
    • Dec 17, 2020
    • 10 min

    Media Musing Counter Factuals: Power Rangers and the Eighties

    By Charles EP Murphy Power Rangers is a franchise that has lasted for almost thirty years: a team of youths transforming into...
    The End of Service?
    • Nov 24, 2020
    • 6 min

    The End of Service?

    By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
    Splendid Americans
    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 6 min

    Splendid Americans

    By Charles EP Murphy As we’ve seen, the fate of comics – who makes them, what shape they take, where they sell – is subject to random...
    Never Mind The Bollocks
    • Aug 4, 2020
    • 5 min

    Never Mind The Bollocks

    By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
    Buy Misty For Me
    • Jul 24, 2020
    • 17 min

    Buy Misty For Me

    By Charles EP Murphy In our discussion on girls’ comics – indeed, in anyone’s discussion of British girls’ comics – the gothic horror...
    The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part Three
    • Jul 10, 2020
    • 15 min

    The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part Three

    By Charles EP Murphy Girls comics once dominated the UK market for almost three decades – and then died, for various reasons both unique...
    The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part Two
    • Jun 26, 2020
    • 15 min

    The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part Two

    By Charles EP Murphy The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part Two Girls comics, as discussed in the previous article,...
    The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part One
    • Jun 12, 2020
    • 14 min

    The Rise and Fall (And Possible Rise?) Of Girls Comics, Part One

    By Charles EP Murphy In the beginning, there were just “comics”. Then, from the 1950s onwards, British publishers decided girls might buy...
    Archie joins the Crusades (Part Two)
    • May 29, 2020
    • 14 min

    Archie joins the Crusades (Part Two)

    By Charles EP Murphy Last time, we looked at the chaotic history of the Archie Comics superheroes. The early days as pioneering Golden...
    Archie Joins The Crusades (Part 1)
    • May 16, 2020
    • 12 min

    Archie Joins The Crusades (Part 1)

    By Charles EP Murphy Comic history is littered with short-lived runs and characters that, due to capturing a fan-turned-pro’s imagination...
    Respect Authority
    • May 1, 2020
    • 12 min

    Respect Authority

    By Charles EP Murphy Jenny Sparks, electric spirit of the 20th century; Jack Hawksmoor, engineered to command cities; the Engineer,...
    SCREAM MORE
    • Apr 15, 2020
    • 8 min

    SCREAM MORE

    By Charles EP Murphy Scream! was that increasingly rare thing, a new British comic made in the 1980s with no licensed property to hang...
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