I love how confident they got with their covers back then. Picture, story name, take my money. No context required - although back then as now I'd stop for anything with a Kev O'Neill cover.

Helen Mirren!

I could see Dianne Wiest owning that role. JLC as Jessica Fletcher would be a heck of a turn after The Bear.

I can see them going for Malibu Murders. Not your point. But...

Agree. Glasses look too modern (noting that Motorhead did play in 'Bambi', of course) abd Ade looks to be sporting a backstage pass on his blazer.

I assume this is Donnington, where Bad News played Monsters of Rock to a very lively and well-provisioned crowd?

"Kill, Mister Edmondson"

Totally! For me lego has been 90% problem solving when doing MOCs - the usual curves/clutch power/SNOT dilemmas, but sometimes... <whispers> non-standard and bootlego bits.

I was meaning filling the inside of the shade, so the blue window frames become recesses with a blue 'back' to them, and you could even put a couple of light bricks in the upper windows?

The lamp is quite tall - IIRC we'd call this a 'Newbury'-style TARDIS. Works for either Pertwee or Whittaker.

Would you fill the interior as well, or are the lines the point, as it were?

I don't think I'd noticed the (Beano
-styled?) 'Inflatable pectoral' note and arrow before. That sells it for me - an escapee plot from a junior comic meets Dredd.

a man with a beard wearing a bandana and a scarf Alt: a man with a beard wearing a bandana and a scarf. It's Tim Rice as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island

There's a lot if it about.

And Black Sails!

And a theme ride at Disne- wait a...

Thanks!

No.

Eh. Wood Gnomes are good enough for me. There's a literary model and everything.

Part of the mystique, I guess.

There seems to be little online about Emmanuel - not even a photo as far as I know. But that face looks very much drawn from life, at least.

A cyborg away from the trifecta.

I made the Polanski connection, too. They could have had Cass saying "Deneuve of some people!"

'Fimbul Sledbarge - a Gypsy made his head large' - I'm pretty sure I read that one in Viz in 1993!

The beard suits you! :D

Joe Pineapples? Nah, that's bomb sniffer warbot Mad Ron (RIP)!

I love a battle zebra that breaks the fourth wall!

Do taming dragons count? Or Ozglut?

It sounds like part of a conversation between Arya and the Hound in GOT.

Turn ninety degres clockwise and it's Paul's Boutique.

More Emanuel art! He really wasn't a fan of eyes with pupils, was he?

One of my favourite Shakespearean insults comes from Kent in King Lear Act 2 scene 2: "Thou whoreson zed - thou unneccessary letter!"