Bad Taste: the Castlereagh detective

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 151, 12 June 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 143 words

The scan: sc-n151-jun-12-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: the Castlereagh detective. Note: printed without the Bad Taste title panel or a number; it follows no. 75 (29 May 1980).

page 14 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip, printed without its title panel: an RUC detective at Castlereagh complains that the job is not all fun and games — he has knelt in tears begging criminals to admit their guilt — not hardened republicans, but the odd peeler who ends up there. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 151, 12 June 1980, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. "Being an R.U.C. detective at Castlereagh is not all fun and games!"

2. "Often I have knelt before a criminal with tears in my eyes begging him to admit his guilt!" (A framed photograph labelled "Mother".)

3. "What else could one expect from hardened republicans?" "Republicans?"

4. "I'm not talking about republicans, you thick!! I'm talking about the odd peeler who ends up here!!"

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