Bad Taste: 1984

The scan: sc-no281.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 3, 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: 1984. Note: unnumbered.

page 3 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a man reflects that it is less than a year to 1984 — though the Thatchereagan may prevent us ever seeing it; is despair the only rational attitude? A woman sees hope in the Greenham Common peace camp; he thinks the women will swoon before sexy Mike Heseltine, and is hit by a brick — "Twit!!!" — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 281, 16 February 1983, page 3. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "It's less than a year to 1984!!"

2. "Of course, the Thatchereagan may prevent us from ever seeing it!" "A great feeling of despondency abounds"

3. "Is despair the only rational attitude?" "Some of us would see the events at the Greenham Common peace camp as a hopeful sign ..."

4. "But surely those women will collapse, swoon, give up the fight — when subjected to the fiery oratory of sexy Mike Heseltine!!" (A brick hits him.) "Twit!!!"