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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

W is for Water on Mars!

As well as the story (previous post) and the strip posted on Moonbase the other week (link in previous post), there was another comic strip appearance for Swift Morgan, in The New Spaceways Comic Annual, with a rather grim ending, and while called the Flying Saucers, the iconic vessels don't put in much of an appearance!







The entire military might of Saturn, drowning! Swift's ship at the start is obviously an early X-Plane (Britain did a lot of the early work too), basically an X-1, while a huge 'pulp' rocket is a bit far from the Johillco-Cherilea one. There is also a Jeep to be seen in several panels and a dimestore 'Space bus' (Dillon-Beck or Ideal maybe?) in evidence.

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