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According to the radio, next week's Beano features 'Robbie Rebel'. Which is Robbie Williams as a baby. With hilarious consequences. This is political correctness gone mad.

― Al, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What has this got to do with political correctness? Blatant commercialism maybe.

― MarkH, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eminemis the Menace in Viz was good. Better than Robbie Rebel, I'd imagine.

― Emma, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The best evah music-related comic tomfoolery in Viz was the ahem, *seminal* one-off classic, "Mickey's Monkey Spunk Moped", charting the exploits of Mickey Quinn, bass player in Supergrass, and his monkey jism fuelled automobile.

Comic genius.

― Trevor, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i read a Sindy comic where the colour center spread story was about Sindy bumping into... "Hey, you're Damon Albarn from Blur". This is true. we photocopies that one a lot. it also ended up as a leaving card for our resident albarn-alike at work.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Howard the Duck'!

― dave q, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be suspicious of the IPC comics (Whizzer & Chips et al) when a kid for their attempts to get down with the kids by throwing in references to pop stars. I much prefered DC Thomson's hermetically sealed world. I once got a shock when Sally of 'Tom, Dick & Sally' fame referred to Joan Armatrading, of all people, one week. I hope Oor Wullie gave the cartoonist a good ticking off.

― N., Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there was a whole Ginger's Tum episode based round references to LaMonte Young records...

― mark s, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I remember seeing scooby doo when mean old Jason Pierce ran the abandoned mine.

― Ronan, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Termight Empire in Nemesis the Warlock was originally inspired by the Jam's track, "Going Underground". This was back in the days when 2000AD had an occasional series entitled "Comic Rock", in which all the stories were inspired by songs.

I suppose the inverse of that is the Sonic Youth track "Bone", inspired by the comic of the same name. There's definately a well established link between the two mediums.

― Trevor, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also in 2000AD, one episode of the ongoing Judge Dredd storyline where a group of criminals meet to plan the perfect crime was called "Pretzel Logic" which is a steely dan record.

Oh and I just remembered another JD story where the pop star "Jaxon Prince" is revived after being cryogenically frozen....

― MarkH, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I loved the Jaxon Prince story! He came out of the deep freeze with severe brain damage going "Rilluuuuuh" and the crowd loved it.

Another classic JD was inspired by the Who's "Pinball Wizard" in which a kid with no eyes, eyes mouth or nose plays one of those highly illegal "love machines" and hits the jackpot with explosive conequences.

― Trevor, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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