Short 'n Curlies by Si Spurrier Archives

REmake/REmodel Captain Future
New picks for the recent Remake/Remodel. Instructions as follows: CAPTAIN FUTURE. This from JESS NEVINS’ Pulp Encyclopaedia: "Captain Future's adventures
Remake/Remodel: Namor The Sub Mariner
Si Spurrier’s instructions: We’re going to do something a bit different here. Rather than taking an idea or golden-age character and reinventing them as a
Remake/Remodel: Lorna Drake
Si Spurrier (who has a new comic out today, The X-Club #1 from Marvel) gave his Remake/Remodel instructions out last week: LORNA DRAKE Bunty was a British
Remake/Remodel: Fantomah
Si Spurrier writes; This episode’s crop of Remake/Remodel favourites. Instructions went as follows: “Fantomah is a mysterious godlike being who protects
Remake/Remodel: Six Gun Gorilla
Si Spurrier’s instructions: Six-Gun Gorilla was the star of several short Wild West stories in Wizard during the late 30’s. Let’s hear from that
Whitechapel Challenge: Spurt Hammond
The “Remake/Remodel” challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the
Short 'n Curlies #51 by Si Spurrier
BrainFart: I know I've reached middle-age because I've just bought six bottles of wine and don't intend to drink any of them, because they look better in
Short 'n Curlies #50 by Si Spurrier
BrainFart: All-righty-then.  Let's talk POPE. His pointy-headed Holiness descends upon these fair isles (there's got to be an "aisles" pun there, but this
Short 'n Curlies #49
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Okay…  Back to last week's ongoing Super-Heroic Super-Ramble. CATCHUP CORNER: You'll recall we concluded -- using the
Short 'n Curlies #48 by Si Spurrier
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Steroidal Science-Powered Archetype of Teenage America's Wishful-Vision-Of-Perfect-Adulthood seeks new role, new
Short 'n Curlies #47 by Si Spurrier
News From The SpurSphere: Forgive me dipping oh-so-briefly into the horrors of Social Politics -- specifically that least divisive of all issues, ho ho
Short 'n Curlies #46 by Si Spurrier
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: "Mind the gap!" So shrieketh the subway-based baddie in underrated 70's schlock horror flick Death Line, which is on my
Short 'n Curlies #45 by Si Spurrier
Kultcha: Terrible movies can save us all from an Evil Future.  Behold My Tortured Logic: See, a couple of Interesting Viewing Experiences this week have
Short 'n Curlies #44 by Si Spurrier
Kultcha: Overheard conversation between Angry Teacher and Smarmy Little 8-yr-old Schoolkid Bastard, during school-trip to Cultural/Historical Motherlode
Short 'n Curlies #43 by Si Spurrier
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Like a sluttish protein syruping itself into the Primordial Cell, Google continues to invade my Working Routine. "I'm vital
Short 'n Curlies #42 by Si Spurrier
This Week I Have Been Mostly Hating: ...Having the cruel wobbly knife of gender inequality rammed-home with a corkscrew twist. During a recent visit to a
Short 'n Curlies #41 by Si Spurrier
BrainFart: Much has been made, in recent years, of the ubiquitous MetaFiction Movement. Technically that's any piece of narrative which wears its Not
Short 'n Curlies #39 by Si Spurrier
I Fakt You, Right In The Face: Amazing and Helpful news from the world of Real Actual Science! We've all seen crazed labfreaks forcing innocent animals
Short 'n Curlies #38 by Si Spurrier
The Keyboard Continues To Be My FuckMonkey: COMICS! Convention season, I'm reliably informed, is In Full Swing.  Here then is a ludicrously tangential
Short 'n Curlies #37 by Si Spurrier
(Back By Popular Demand, You Fuckers) -- This Week I Have Mostly Been Hating: ...the subconscious propensity for the human brain to absorb external
Short 'n Curlies #36 by Si Spurrier
BrainFart: Dear Fatties Of A Certain Kind: it is my sad duty to inform you that wearing Sportswear doesn't actually mean you're Doing Sports.  Weight
Short 'n Curlies #35 by Si Spurrier
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: NOVELWATCH: As I type this, I'm about two weeks clear of finishing my next novel.  (That's for any given, ill-defined value