Bad Taste: go forward

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 180, 15 January 1981 · p. 7 of the scan · 152 words

The scan: sc-n180-jan-15-1981.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 7, 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: go forward. Note: numbered by year: "#'81/1", the first strip of 1981.

page 7 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a cheerful figure proclaims that under the great Maggie Thatcher the economy will flourish and austerity presages a brave new world, sinks steadily into the ground as he urges us to go forward, and vanishes with a pop. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (numbered '81/1), Socialist Challenge no. 180, 15 January 1981, page 7. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "#'81/1".

2. "Under the leadership of the great Maggie Thatcher the British economy will flourish!"

3. (Sunk to his chin:) "This harsh but necessary period of austerity presages a brave new world for Britain!!"

4. (Only the top of his head shows:) "So let us now go forward and ... er ... forward ... um ... we ... ah .."

5. "And let us — ah — what the! — ah, fuck it!" "POP!"

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