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Tom Ewing
@tomewing.bsky.social
Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. I write about interesting things for fun (and less interesting things for money) CURRENT THING is Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog
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Talk of the Chart Show video era yesterday reminded me of comics’ greatest portrayal of pop music: two panels that (if you ‘were there’) you can 100% hear exactly what they sound like. The second one in particular IS 1992

Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. Zenith trips out through a psychedelic star field surrounded by faces, he is dressed in a baggy shirt and jacket and yellow joggers and - a crucial point - he is wielding a pair of maracas. A documentary voiceover confirms that there has always been a dance element to his music.
A scene from a fictional Top Of The Pops by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. ACID ARCHIE, a large red robot, is singing “AU - DIO - ACTIVE” over bleeps and clanks. Backing dancers in vaguely B Boyish outfits groove in the background amidst dry ice.
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Unfortunately if you weren't there it reads to the tune of Radioactive by Imagine Dragons (which tbf is its own kind of comedy)

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My ZENITH PHASE RANKING is Three > Two > Four > One based on thrill levels at the time but if I had to save one 2000AD panel from the wreck of time it would be Acid Archie on TOTP

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Tom Ewing
@tomewing.bsky.social
Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. I write about interesting things for fun (and less interesting things for money) CURRENT THING is Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog
1.7k followers487 following7.1k posts
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