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An ageing Englishman rambles on about comics and other unpopular aspects of popular culture
About me
- Steve Flanagan
- Steve Flanagan is a decaying hulk moored somewhere on Tyneside in North East England. The manifest for his cargo of comics nostalgia is here.
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- Review: Justice League of America and Justice Soci...
- Review: Amazons Attack!
- Doctor Who Comic Maker
- Tune In! Turn On! Exterminate!
- Moments of Pleasure
- Review: Wonder Woman – The Greatest Stories Ever Told
- Who Does Mary Love?
- Review: The Salon
- Sequential George
- Groin Strain
- The Spirit Goes Manga
- The Bellamy of the Daleks
- Review: Stagger Lee
- To the Bat-Phone!
- Review: Empowered
- “Trample on the weakest / Glory in their plight!”
- Take a Tour with Dr Syntax
- Reviews: Mr Stuffins, Spider-Man and the Fantastic...
- See-Through Sue
- Loving the Alien: Massimo Belardinelli, d. 2007
- Old Flanagan's Blog of Impractical Cats
- Review: Alice in Sunderland – Part 7: Conclusion
- Review: Alice in Sunderland – Part 6: Content
- But Will She Be So Psychedella This Time?
- Review: Alice in Sunderland – Part 5: Structure
- Review: Alice in Sunderland – Part 4: Impersonations
- Review: Alice in Sunderland – Part 3: Style
- Review: Alice in Sunderland - Part 2: Antecedents
- Review: Alice in Sunderland - Part 1: Introduction
- Time’s Fool
- Reviews: Buffy, Detective Comics, 2000AD
- Buck Rogers in the Workers’ Paradise
- Batmeme
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