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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...
Jun 2, 20227 min read


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...
Feb 11, 20228 min read


'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...
Oct 18, 20217 min read


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...
Aug 23, 202112 min read


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,...
Apr 19, 20217 min read


'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...
Apr 1, 20218 min read


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...
Dec 31, 20209 min read


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...
Dec 24, 202010 min read


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...
Dec 17, 202010 min read


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...
Nov 24, 20206 min read


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...
Aug 7, 20206 min read


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...
Aug 4, 20205 min read


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...
Jul 24, 202017 min read


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...
Jul 10, 202015 min read


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,...
Jun 26, 202015 min read


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...
Jun 12, 202014 min read


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...
May 29, 202014 min read


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...
May 16, 202012 min read


Respect Authority
By Charles EP Murphy Jenny Sparks, electric spirit of the 20th century; Jack Hawksmoor, engineered to command cities; the Engineer,...
May 1, 202012 min read


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...
Apr 15, 20208 min read
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