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John Allison

@badmachinery.com

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Cartoonist in Leeds, UK. I brought you such comics as Steeple, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Scary Go Round, Bobbins, Great British Bump-Off and Solver. The nation's favourite. https://badmachinery.com

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · Jul 8

Someone just asked so it may be worth reiterating, the Giant Days/Batman crossover can be read not just free but ad-free here.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1h

It's not a real sandwich. Or a real drink. Or a real snack (in my opinion)

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

Health drinks!

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

They really spook me.

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 13h

MEAL DEAL

Sandwich: unstabilised all-day breakfast
Drink: regional pop
Snack: the most resistible option

£4.50 with Clubcard

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

Definitely. So much of my favourite music comes out of this period.

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

Related: I was listening to Todd Rundgren's Healing the other day (with the two bonus songs at the end) and Time Heals feels like his attempt to do Hall & Oates without Hall & Oates.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

War Babies is a huge favourite of mine. It's the sort of "catalogue" record that I can absolutely understand annoying people when it came out but when doing a deep dive on someone like Hall & Oates comes out sounding in-keeping, but different and fun.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 2d

Furiously chewing as we speak

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 2d

I will be returning to the Silence! To Astonish stage this year after a long break to think about my various crimes.

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

OH HELLO

SILENCE! TO ASTONISH
SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2025 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
PANEL ROOM 1, QUEEN'S SUITE
Join Gary Lactus and the Beast Must Die
(SILENCE!) and Al Kennedy (House to Astonish) as they celebrate their eleven-year anniversary by subjecting John Allison, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing and Megan Huang to daft questions, pointless challenges and surprise guests. It's honestly quite good!

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 2d

Simon Pegg's presence in Mission Impossible is because JJ Abrams needed an analog in MI III of the character in Alias who understood computers. That character was called Marshall Flinkman, and I have failed to popularise calling this process "Flinkmanning". Original choice for the role: R. Gervais.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 2d

New comic: "Super-smile beat combo" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

And a little nod to @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social

Super-smile beat combo - Bad Machinery

Have you ever seen the Beatles’ pop video for Help? It seemingly precedes all other pop videos by such a distance, and is so effortlessly good, that it’s very difficult to understand why they weren’t ...

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