Agreed. I can’t remember what I read last week but I can recall (sometimes dimly, sometimes with startling vividness) every single one of these. Of course, I surely read my Progs more than once, but still – I guess your mind as a child really does take impressions like wet cement.
And yes – that IPC policy explains a LOT!

anyway thanks for this series, I’ll be working my way through them all.

She’s funny and doesn’t fall for obvious shit on the Internet in the Tory mists of 2008 ya fuckin tube misfit
Cmed ahll hurl ye fae the scaffolding. Choosin a fake name like “John” ur ye short-eyed ya nonce prick? Git the fuck back here pal and eat yir past shite instead ay spreadin it

Ye fuckin clart nobody

You have absolutely atrocious taste even for someone from the past. Wind your neck in or ill dae it for ya

Yes, he’d been “…making this since FOUR—TEEN YEARS OF AGE”. As if this culmination of exquisite ingredients could ever let this contestant down!
But I WILL slap the man.

Ellison came up in a time when you could get away with being a piece of shit, so long as you were a talented piece of shit. (The 80s-90s version of that, “you can get away with being a sleaze so long as you’re a talented sleaze,” is how we got sex-pest creators like Whedon and Gaiman and Ellis.)

Speaking of DIg L, assuming this series gets that far, itll be interesting getting into the weeds on that Pat Mills memo.

They’re alluded to (kind of) one of the bikers in the Harlem Hellcats, Rip Venner is an ex ‘Justice Judge’

“[T]here are a number of conservative artists [who] are conservatives first, and use their art to promote their conservatism. There are liberal writers who do this too, but liberal audiences tend to be more forgiving of them.”
Yes, like in the post — if you don’t agree with the politics it’s easier to see how the pieces are being moved specifically to make the desired politics be the “correct” ones in the story.
Or, at least, it’s easier to see that there are politics. If there’s a movie made where the young artistically- and intellectually-advanced people stand up to conservative puritans, would we consider that “political” the way we might a movie where a group of religious middle-class families stand up to a bunch of libertines?