1956-1958 (collected 1958) / Ecomics / 64 pages / Belgium
**
Getting too comfortable in their ambiguous Batman & Robin-style lives of leisure, Tintin & the Captain reliably find themselves in another adventure that moralises about slavery while simultaneously being the most racist one since Tintin in the Congo. There's a sense of faded latter days now, or maybe I'm just bored.
1995 / Ebook / 128 pages / UK
*
An artefact I was required to get around to eventually, as a masochistic fan, my expectations were appropriately low for Red Dwarf's worst writer contriving unlikely in-character banter by riffing on or just repeating classic Grant Naylor dialogue. It's as if the worst parts of the Smegazine were treated to an undeserved festive hardback release to flog to trusting parents.
2000 / Ebook / 72 pages / France
**
The K-pop-style fangirling over Howard Hawks is unusual for a semi-academic text, and by focusing on the imaginary cleverness of lasso circles and parallel line imagery, this doesn't really cut into the meat of the troubling colonial-capitalist classic.
2001 / Ebook / 24 pages / Australia
***
One for the darker side of the picture book shelf. Too risky to gift, but the right kind of child should get something out of it (i.e. a weird one). I got more of a nihilistic than depressive vibe, which shows how reliable armchair psychology can be.
Various, Ganymede & Titan Presents The Garbage Pod: A Collection of Red Dwarf Fan Writing 2003-2011
2003-11 (collected 2011) / Ebook / 209 pages / UK
This anthology of assorted articles on the classic sci-fi sitcom proves that's it's a bit deeper than you probably think it is, made more persuasive through swearing. This was the vanity project that inspired me to publish my own pointless ebooks of blogs years ago, except this one's actually worth reading. If you like Red Dwarf and that.
Faves: Seb Patrick on dreams, John Hoare and Ian Symes on series VI-VIII, Top Ten Episodes.
Worsties: The Smeg List, The Insult List.
Faves: Seb Patrick on dreams, John Hoare and Ian Symes on series VI-VIII, Top Ten Episodes.
Worsties: The Smeg List, The Insult List.
