Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Whaam!



I bought the 400th prog of 2000ad in 1985 off the shelf at a corner diary that doesn't exist anymore (the corner is still there, but it's got a McDonalds living on it now), and have read it several hundred times since then, but I was today year's old when I realised the cover was a total piss-take of Roy Lichtenstein's Blam artwork.

Lichtenstein was so full of shit - a precursor to the modern AI hacks who steal, steal and steal again, and try to pass off their theft as something new - but at least King Carlos got his own back with a much more dynamic version that Roy's stale copies, even if it took me more than 40 years to see it. 

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