This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 15, 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: a Brit cracking up. Note: printed without the Bad Taste title panel or a number, at the head of the letters page (3 July 1980).
Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 154, 3 July 1980, page 15. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. "It's a long time since I saw a Brit cracking up and ...."
2. "Uh-oh! Spoke too soon!"
3. "Poor young lad! It's the pressure of his thankless task! The stress and the strain! The loneliness and the frustration! The agony and the ecstasy! The power and the glory! [the rest of the small lettering is illegible]"
4. "And one of these days the authorities will be very strict with Britz who kill without reason! Got to obey orders, you know!"
5. (The man, shot, sits on the ground; the soldier off-panel:) "And what makes you think I'm not acting under orders, you stupid Fenian @#!?#!!!"
