I Swear There Were Giant Rabbits

Don't Worry, No Cheesy Bad Horror Films Tonight
That makes me wonder, would "Night Of The Lepus" have been less of an egregious eyeache if it had been filmed in monochrome?  Probably not.  Next time it's on television, try turning the colour off and see for me, will you.  T.V.M.
     And talking of giant rabbits in monochrome, allow me to introduce Nick Stone, "Meltdown Man"!  Art?

This is cheating

     It is cheating, because the series artist for every episode was Massimo Bellardinelli, who had a completely different style to that of Dave Gibbons, whose work you see above  gracing the back cover of "2000AD".  This is such an injustice I cannot sit still and allow the traducement to continue.  Art?

Credit where it is due
Here you can see Nick, and cat, wolf and bull Yujees.

     The whole story is too long to go into, as it ran for months and months and months - O go on then.  Nick Stone is propelled into an alternative future when he is caught in the explosion of a nuclear warhead, which is more "Reduced To His Component Molecules Man", but hey, poetic licence.  In this post-apocalyptic world, cossetted humans live in the lap of luxury whilst genetically-engineered life-forms nicknamed "Yujees" carry out all the menial work and labour.  Nick proves to be a catalyst for change, ranging over this strange future world and trying to stay one step ahead of the human authorities and their Yujee servant soldiers.
     It was great!  Art?

Massimo giving himself a guest appearance at top left

     Now, I DISTINCTLY remember one of the exposition panels where the state of things is explained to Nick; post-apocalypse there were all kinds of weird and horrible mutant animals, which the surviving humans tracked down and killed.  They were also extremely curious about what brought about these mutations, which is where the genetic research comes in.  They had a farmer ploughing his fields with the aid not of tractors, nor horses, but GIANT RABBITS!
     Seriously.  Trust me on this.  Your Humble Scribe even remembers said farmer burbling on about how docile these rabbits were - none of yer Lepus loggerheads here - and cheap to feed, being much better as draught animals than horses.  Art?

Note the revolutionary credit note at left

     Can I find a depiction of this anywhere on the web?  NO I CANNOT!  Really, all a man wants are some giant post-apocalyptic plough-rabbits.  It's not too much to ask, is it?
     "You could go -"
      NO I CANNOT GO POKING AROUND IN THE COMIC CAVERN!  There are at least 1,000 comics to shift and sort through, my wargame tables are in the way and there's no room to put the ladder into position.   Maybe when I have my compulsory leave.
     Motley!  That scarf is trying to escape - beat it into submission with the Obedience Mallet!

Quickly now, it's trying to strangle that woman with the - O - giant rabbits sweater*.

Your Head's A Shed
That is, in the sense of being something of a middeny mess.
     Get yourself under cover and avoid any sudden movement, for we are back to Hesketh-Pritchard's "Sniping In France", which has any number of anecdotes.  One particular struck a chord, as the author was describing carrying out observation of wayyy behind the Teuton lines, using his Ross telescope.  Art?

Teutons being all funky and shizzle

     Where Fritz and Heinrich would be up to things like the above.  Old HK said that it was far harder to spot Teuton soldiers behind the lines than it was British ones, since the British issue cap had such a large, regular surface area, which immediately made it stand out, even if the soldier wearing it was trying to hide.  In fact he says - "The ideal army, could I clothe it, would wear a very curious shape of cap, with certainly an uneven outline."     This brought back to mind a film, "Beaufort", a pretty sombre Israeli film about a platoon of soldiers in that particular fortification, whom Your Humble Scribe noticed wore a very peculiar headgear.  Art?

"I spy with my little eye something beginning with "S""

     This is apparently the "Mitznefet" and it's intended to break up a helmet's outline and give it a degree of irregularity, exactly as old HK recommended.

Some people, of course, cannot be serious about it**.

It's Not Just Ann And INo!  Nothing to do with dodgy musicals about the imperial past of Thailand.  Ann Reardon, the sworn enemy of the Mysterons dubious Youtube 'content farms', a cause Conrad can really get behind.  Your Humble Scribe had a look for other debunkers on Youtube and came across one Jarvis Johnson, who disassembled a clutch of "5 Minute Crafts" videos.  The ones he looked at were all elaborately pointless nonsense, and one struck me particularly, about how to split open an apple.  Art?

     The apple mistreated so came apart in two perfect halves, so quickly and easily that it's obvious from what follows that it had been pre-cut with a knife and the cut turned away from the camera.  Jarvis, his friends Jordan and Rebecca all tried valiantly to split that apple with their bare hands.  Art?

     Nope.  That apple would not quit, it firmly refused to split.

You obviously cut it beforehand, matey!

     Apples are a tough gig.  Conrad remembers that there was a Roman emperor famous for his ability to crush an apple in his hand, and if you're not impressed, try it yourself.

Here An Aside
I'm making this an Official Aside, so you can't get snarky about it.  If BOOJUM! were a play, this would be one of the minor characters sneaking off to the side of the stage and addressing the audience in a very loud whisper, behind their hand.
     Okay, "Wynona Earp" was down as one of "Rolling Stone"'s Top 50 Sci-Fi Series Evah, so - Art?

Phallic confusion ensues

     Conrad is watching the first season and it's more a horror-comedy than anything sci-fi, to be honest, and whilst diverting and not taking itself too seriously, it's not really up there with the greats like "Galactica 80" or "Phoenix 5".  Nor have they explained, even in a throwaway dialogue line added in by a lazy scriptwriter at the last minute before shooting starts, why Wynona is such an awesome martial arts expert.     Before you ask, this was going to be an aside because I should have been looking at Show #25 on that list, "Fringe", and now I'm not going to, as I need a cup of coffee.

Finally -
Your Humble Scribe was standing, waiting for the kettle to boil (see above for reason) and we all know this is a dangerous activity, as Conrad's thoughts tend to scatter like herded cats when they have freedom to roam.
     "You know how International Rescue hate for their mighty Thunderbird craft to be photographed?" I mused.  "Okay, maybe their impressive technology has prevented that from happening.  You'd still have eye-witnesses, right?"  Art!

Courtesy Ulysses on Deviantart

     "Well now," I speculated.  "If I were an aeronautical engineer, would I be able to reverse-design these craft from a sketch like that?"
     I think we will come back to this one, so I can pose as someone clever and deduct stuff.



*  I swear, the world gets odder every day.
**  Probably the Irish Army Ranger Wing