Bad Taste no. 76: the Pope will arrive

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 156, 17 July 1980 · p. 5 of the scan · 136 words

The scan: sc-n156-jul-17-1980.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 5, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 76 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the Pope will arrive. Note: the number on the title panel reads "#76", faintly.

page 5 of the scan

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac #76.

2. "Vast numbers of unemployed .... drastic cuts in social services ..."

3. "A rapidly declining National Health Service ... and as for education ... ah, well ...."

4. "And will things improve? Like hell they will!" "It will get worse and worse and then ..."

5. "....The Pope will arrive!" (A tiny figure kneels at the water's edge.)