Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. How desperate are you to see really small things If you’re inescapably desperate to do it, the rd of March in was the happiest day of your life.You guessed it. It was the day...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. The past is once more beckoning us to join it.And who are we to spurn a good beckoning A brand new comic arrives in our lives and I could impress you by telling you exactly what happens...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. This week in saw no signs of change at the top of the UK singles and album charts, with Terry Jacks’ Seasons in the Sun and the Carpenters’ The Singles retaining their...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. I do believe this month is a huge one in the history of Marvel Comics and its biggest heroes.But how will that event impact upon the lives of those heroes in their everyday books Rhodey...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Caroline Munro. She might be that nice old lady who presents TalkingPicturesTV’s Cellar Club, these days. But, once upon a time, she was the hottest thing in cinema Fantasy. And, if you...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. What happened on the th of April, Napoleon only went and surrendered, that’s all Granted, he did it in song. But, as we all know, surrendering in song is the best way to do it.You...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. April Fools’ Day is come and gone but what fools we would be to not investigate what our favourite Marvel heroes were up to in magazines whose cover date is exactly fifty years ago...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. If there’s one thing visitors to this site can take for granted, it’s that it will never be anything but topical.And so it is that, this Easter Sunday, it can be found reviewing that...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Have you ever wanted your own private army If you so, you’ll have to put some effort into it to get a bigger one than Qin Shi Huang the first emperor of China Admittedly, his was...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. A wise man once remarked that, Time marches on, while another claimed, An army marches on its stomach. Clearly, that man had an army of slugs, as no human army would dream of...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Exactly forty years ago this March, the UK Labour Party was experiencing heady days indeed.Just five months after becoming party leader, Neil Kinnock saw the party top a MORI poll, with...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. This week in produced great news for anyone who likes to guzzle that gas, because it was the week in which OPEC’s five month long oil embargo against the United States, Europe...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Image by Tumisufrom PixabayIt’s time for me to, once again, concoct an introduction to a post.But some things need no introduction.They simply arrive without warning and leave...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. I possess zero doubt that February saw those of a superstitious persuasion anticipating nothing but disaster.The th of that month was, after all, the moment when Halley’s...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. As I stand haughtily atop the tallest buildings South Yorkshire can offer, and observe the witless follies of personkind, people often ask me, Stevie Pops, what was the first single...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. A veritable smorgasbord of celluloid greeted those who attended the picture houses of the world in March .It was, it turns out, a month which saw the release of such never to be...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Can it be the time, yet again, to find out what Marvel’s big hitters were up to in comics which bore a cover date of exactly forty years ago Too right it can It’s the team up some said...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. I only know Howard Keel for three things.The first is being in Dynasty.The second is singing Bless Yore Beautiful Hide although I’ve no idea just whose beautiful hide he was...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. March wasn’t a great month for movies but it did see the release of three films few could ever forget. They were John Carpenter’s Dark Star, The Great Gatsby and the...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Legion are the men who’ve claimed to be able to foresee the future but only Steve Does Comics can foresee the past.It’s a case of fully mind the bullocks, as Taurus captures the...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Fifty years ago this week saw no change at the peak of the UK singles chart, with Suzi Quatro’s party pleasing Devil Gate Drive retaining its stranglehold on the Number One slot.However...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Image by Tumisufrom PixabayHow exciting I’ve just realised it’s one of those special Februaries The ones that have days in them Not that that makes any difference to this...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. February was a disastrous time for those who like to do things by halves, because it was the month in which Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson announced that after, an...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. If I were to declaim, to you, the words, Come alive Come alive you’d know exactly what I was saying to you.I’d be saying, Come alive But where would I be saying it Why, down...

   Thanks to Charlie Horse and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. Image by Tumisufrom PixabayHark Can you hear it In the trees In the babbling brooks In the air around us and upon the breeze Why, no. You can’t.That’s because there’s...