Hirsute hero Hewligan is pronounced sane after a spell in the Five Seasons (?) Mental Hospital because he hears voices and sees wierd things. Enjoying "Care in the Community" the comic strip goes into vibrant colour as Hewligan pounds the city streets hallucinating wildly. Somehow he breaks a law and is pursued - he gets away through a wall and escaping on (OK carrying) a rocking horse called Dada with a young lady called Scarlet O'Gasmeter.
Scarlet explains that there are lots of different dimensions, each one tuned into a kind of frequency like radio stations along a dial. This is why some people are clumsy as they are out of tune and this is why things (like socks) disappear. UFOs are obviously alien footwear that have drifted out of tune with their dimension and slipped into ours.
Still on the run they go through a Cubist Wavelength from an art dimension and into a repeating Warhol Wavelength. On and on they run through different dimensions: a West End musical,
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, Stevenage - until they get a double decker bus to Easter Island.
The giant heads of Easter Island have the solution to the puzzle of why Hewligan is so way out of tune.
Included in my edition is a lurid Judge Dredd story - Spok's Mock Chocs and a few posters.
If you like Tank Girl and the Gorillas you might like this.
So, as you may have gathered, this story is very silly indeed. But, it made me feel youngish and slightly hopeful and a little inspired. The writing and the art are perfectly matched in a Pythonesque art school car crash of cultural craziness.
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