Bad Taste: Tucman

The scan: sc-no283.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: Tucman. Note: unnumbered.

page 3 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip: a father asks his son whether he's still playing Pacman; it's a new game called Tucman, where a little group called the rank and file has to stop the Tucman before he can sell them out to the bosses — and it doesn't get easier as you get older. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 283, 4 March 1983, page 3. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "You still playing with that video-game, son? What's it called? Pacman?"

2. "No, Dad ... not Pacman ... it's a new one called Tucman!!"

3. "There's this little group called the rank and file who has to stop the Tucman before he can sell them out to another group called the bosses ...."

4. "... I can't quite get the hang of it ..." "— And it doesn't get easier as you get older!!"