Bad Taste: rotten apples

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 162, 3 September 1980 · p. 15 of the scan · 155 words

The scan: sc-n162-sep-03-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot 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: rotten apples. Note: no number is legible on the title panel; it follows no. 78 (31 July 1980).

page 15 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: the RUC Chief Constable promises "no hiding place" for criminals in his police — the bad apples will be weeded out — but what if the barrel itself is fetid, and the whole orchard a foul, stinking, putrid swamp? — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 162, 3 September 1980, page 15. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac.

2. Thinks: "The Chief Constable of the R.U.C. tells us that there will be 'no hiding place' in his police for criminals. The bad apples, he says, will be weeded out!"

3. Thinks: "But what, Mister Hermon, if there is an exceedingly large number of rotten apples in your barrel?"

4. Thinks: "What if the barrel itself is a somewhat fetid structure?"

5. "And what if the whole fucking orchard is a foul, stinking and putrid swamp?!?"

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