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Michael Molcher
@molcher.bsky.social
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@2000AD.bsky.social Brand Manager
Eisner Award-winning author of 'I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future' & 'The Art of Judge Dredd by Jock'
History weirdo with @englishcivilwar.bsky.social

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I'm a Gavi man myself... (he says, in North Bar)
A big bottle of Gaviscon next to a pint of beer.
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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WHY AREN'T YOU HELPING?!?!
A billboard showing people in VR headsets "watching" the sinking of the Titanic. For some reason.
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Peppy Bismilk?
Bottles of Pepto Bismilk on a shelf
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, available from all good book stores.
A copy of the book I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Bedtime reading.
A copy of John Rieder's 'Colonialism and the emergence of Science Fiction' on top of a copy of 'Brink' by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Very good of you!
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Baller move making your debut album a live one, but Goblin Band gigs are transcendent so I totally get it.
A screen shot of the Bandcamp app, showing Goblin Band's 'A Loaf of Wax' playing. The album art is the title carved into the middle of a medieval comb, it's lower teeth broken and splintered.
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Clearly scared off by Ro-Jaws 'anging around 😕
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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So that was Thought Bubble '25 – thanks to everyone who came by the @2000ad.bsky.social booth and made this the best TB we've had!

Finally back, van unloaded, bags waiting to be unpacked. Curry and an early night, I suspect!
A scene from Andor, with fash lickspittle Syril Karn laying face down on a bed in a fit of petulant ennui.
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A book about a 'haunting' that is played with such a straight bat that it almost drains it of a narrative, 6/10
A copy of 'The Haunting of Borley Rectory'
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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There's *always* an episode of Judge Dredd...
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Befitting the horror theme of the performance, the interval is now running over twice as long as promised 😬
A theatre programme saying INTERMISSION (20 minutes)
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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So terrified and jaded (and complicit) that can't even muster the bare minimum about someone with whom they should actually share common cause.
Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, adopted a different tone. Asked by Sky News whether she liked Mamdani, she replied: "I'll be honest, I don't follow American politics especially closely". One influential Labour figure said: "I'll tell you what, I cannot be doing with all the takes we'll get on this New York mayor and what it means for the Labour Party."
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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JHC, BBC News. This needs to be at the top of your front page four years away from an election, does it?
Screen shot of a tile on the BBC News homepage, showing the excretible Three Horsemen of the Shitpocalypse – Tice, Farage & Yusuf – with the headline "What a UK government led by Reform would really look like"
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I mean, by this point the "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme is practically transparent from overuse...
A screengrab from the Guardian website with the text: "Wes Streeting arriving at BBC Broadcasting House in London Exclusive NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Wes Streeting Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse" alongside a photo of Wes Shameless Streeting
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This is genuinely getting too much.
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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And, of course, it includes the heroic death of The Torso From Newcastle, who deserved better than this...
A frame from a Strontium Dog comic showing a figure without a head, and a single eye, being shot on the floor. The shooter is saying "Rot you".
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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As a kid, I used to stare at this line-up of Johnny Alpha's old mutant rebellion comrades for hours.
A section of a comic book page from Strontium Dog, showing a line-up of mutants
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Printers' copy of the next Strontium Dog volume arrived and, by snek, it's gold from end to end – 'Outlaw' was the first SD I ever read and it's still brilliant. Alan and Carlos at the height of their powers.
A comic book page from Strontium Dog in 2000 AD
October 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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This has been an on-going project for over half-century now: using the fear of 'crime' as a means to entrench colonial power through "law and order" politics

(I may have written a book about exactly this... 2000ad.com/news/i-am-th...)
As odd as it may now seem, given its ubiquity in our modern political discourse, crime had not been a major vote winner prior to the 1960s. But in the 1970s a major shift took place as it became highly political. In America, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended the racial segregation of the ‘Jim Crow’ laws and made discrimination on the basis of race illegal. No longer able to talk about race directly, politicians tapped into white voters’ fears about the upending of the social order and rising crime. Playing on stereotypes about Black criminality, they e+ectively drew a line from protest to crime and to race. ‘Law and order’ became ‘a strategy for reaching suburban voters without having to say the ugly part out loud,’ Leah Wright-Rigueur, a political historian at Harvard University, said. Four years later, there were mass and often violent protests in more than a hundred US cities over racial injustice, police brutality, the Vietnam War, and the assassination of civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In response, President Richard Nixon used the phrase ‘law and order’ as a codeword for race, culture, and generational backlash as he condemned the ‘mob’ that ‘surges through the street, shouting political slogans, battling the police, hurling epithets.’ ‘Something has gone terribly wrong in America,’ he said in a national broadcast: a year later, he claimed that he spoke for ‘the silent majority’. ‘By getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalising both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,’ Nixon’s domestic policy adviser, John Ehrlichman, is alleged to have confessed. ‘We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news.’ The politicisation of ‘law and order’ in Britain began two years later, when the Conservative Party election manifesto explicitly linked crime with industrial disputes, protests, and terrorism in what it warned was ‘the age of demonstration and disruption’. When the moral panic over mugging began in 1972, ‘law and order’ began to play in the background like a drumbeat. This was greatly helped by the police, who openly emerged as a political lobby, backing up the Conservative’s ‘law and order’ agenda in advertisements and speeches. ‘What is political about crime?’ asked the Police Federation as it launched an unprecedented publicity campaign in 1975. Unironically modelling itself on the progressive pressure groups it had labelled ‘fanatics’, the Federation demanded politicians support ‘the rule of law’, increase officer pay, and reverse what they saw as ‘the liberalising trend in penal and social policy’.
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Waking up to a panicking bigot trying to do the bare minimum.
A headline that says "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" with an image of a white guy below it.
October 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I know I have to be patient, I know you have to work at a skill over time. But the way any success at breadmaking seems to apparently rely on some kind of quantum mechanics and/or the appeasement of ancient, arcane gods can be really very frustrating.
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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*taps the sign again*

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The cover to 'I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future', showing a right cop with red paint on their visor imitating the shape of Judge Dredd's helmet.
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Can confirm that Lulu's remains excellent.
September 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Huge congratulations to @emmavieceli.bsky.social for the opening night of her brand new musical, Unfolding, in Cambridge. It's fantastic!

(holy hell, I know someone who wrote a musical!!!)
A theatrical poster for a musical that reads "An original musical by Emma Viecelli UNFOLDING "What's the best that could happen" With an image of a scrunched up piece of paper beneath It.
September 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM