Bodyswap comic

[Dave]

A fun little article identifying the Alpha Flight comic Lister is reading in Bodyswap.

https://www.cbr.com/john-byrnes-alpha-flight-is-still-around-three-million-years-from-now/

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[Plastic Percy]

Nice. Now we just need to identify what the comic he’s reading in ‘Duct Soup’ is and we’re golden.

I’m also fairly certain he’s flicking through a disguised Smegazine issue in ‘Legion’.

[Dave]

Unfortunately that does mean watching Duct Soup again.

[Flap Jack]

I’m also fairly certain he’s flicking through a disguised Smegazine issue in ‘Legion’.

Yet more evidence that the “real world” in Back to Reality is the genuine real world, they succeed in committing suicide at the end of the episode, and all of Series 6 and onwards is set in the afterlife.

[Warbodog]

I don’t know what the general opinion on them is, but I really like Nigel Kitching’s Duane Dibbley Smegazine series that proposes that outcome, where Duane survives the bullet by being at the end of the line and “hallucinates” Cat for Quantum Leap-style advice as he’s embroiled in a cyberpunk plot that has plenty of time for nerd jokes. Most worthwhile Smegazine strip (even if it’s not up against tough competition there).

[bloodteller]

If anyone’s interested, the book Lister’s reading in Pete-Part 1 is the Penguin books edition of Lady Chatterly’s Lover

[Flap Jack]

Yes, but what’s the adaptation of the Iliad that Lister’s reading in The Inquisitor?

[Plastic Percy]

<<I don’t know what the general opinion on them is, but I really like Nigel Kitching’s Duane Dibbley Smegazine series that proposes that outcome, where Duane survives the bullet by being at the end of the line and “hallucinates” Cat for Quantum Leap-style advice as he’s embroiled in a cyberpunk plot that has plenty of time for nerd jokes. Most worthwhile Smegazine strip (even if it’s not up against tough competition there).>>

I really liked it, but preferred the artwork for the Jake Bullet strips. As I recall, the Duane Dibbley story had a missing part as there was an initial one-off strip with Cat hallucinating he was still Duane and in a psychiatric hospital after being convicted of killing Billy and Sebastian Doyle. The next installment had Duane now on the run and haunted by the ghost of Cat. It’s a shame it ended on a brilliant cliffhanger of him reuniting with Jake Bullet, with the end of their respective strips depicting the same meeting but with their different types of artwork.

Also, I liked the underground geek culture in the Bullet stories. Always made me chuckle to see nerds in a bar grooving to a DJ playing trainspotting sounds (“the next hot track is the 8:15 to Paddington” or whatever).

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