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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d

Get a big 15% discount off our books with the case-sensitive code PRINTPROJECT15 until midnight on Friday October 10th! A trilogy of huge tomes about the dark, weird pop culture of the 70s and 80s...
Also available as colour eBooks!

Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2h

Unfortunately, Dave can't make it to the show, so it'll just be me and Bob for this one. But we'll still have a spooky old time, no matter what! :)

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2h

Northwest weirdies! Join me and @bobfischer.bsky.social for our GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October - it's a big group chat about all things spooky. Bring your real-life ghost stories too!

Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 3h

Enjoy The Keeper here:

youtu.be/E74jFjdEun0?si=_WtgxGTXRUesvg6J

The Keeper (1983)

YouTube video by No Remaining Commercial Potential

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 3h

DRAMARAMA SPOOKY - THE KEEPER (1983): Alan (The Owl Service) Garner wrote this brilliant episode of the supernatural anthology for kids. Two ghost hunters bite off more than they can chew during an overnight vigil at a haunted cottage...
A chilling, atmospheric episode with a hell of an ending.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 5h

Two days to go! Join Dave, Andy and John Thomson, and share your scars with the podcast gang!

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 4d

The Scarred For Life live podcast is a mere 6 days away! Join our Dave, Andy Bush, and producer Dane at @CPXMCR next Friday, with their special guest, the brilliant John Thomson!

Tickets: cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll/WhatsOn?f=761022

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely. I was reading SW Weekly long after I'd lost interest in Star Wars, thanks to Adam Warlock, Guardians of the Galaxy, Starlord, and bleak stories like this.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 6h

Written by David Anthony Kraft and drawn by Herb Trimpe, Klaus Janson, and Pablo Marcos.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 6h

UFO CONNECTION (Marvel Preview #13, 1978): Pyramid power! This dark, claustrophobic strip about a man and his daughter on the run from aliens would have gone unnoticed on these shores, but its appearance as a backup strip in Star Wars Weekly meant that young fans got to enjoy the bleak ending too.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 1d

It still stands up! It's an astonishing piece of drama. I watched it again last year, and it still creeps me out more than any just about any horror film from the last ten years.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d

I'm honoured to be painting a variant cover for @manoghosts.bsky.social upcoming comic book mini-series about a haunted amusement arcade in Coney Island, DARKADE! Check out the Kickstarter sign-up page:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/manoghosts/darkade-an-arcade-horror-comic

www.kickstarter.com

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d

It's from Knights if God, a great 80s dystopian kids' show!

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d

Get a big 15% discount off our books with the case-sensitive code PRINTPROJECT15 until midnight on Friday October 10th! A trilogy of huge tomes about the dark, weird pop culture of the 70s and 80s...
Also available as colour eBooks!

Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely! It's not as if these were bland, safe adverts, either. The JCC Sugar Puffs ads were suitably bonkers!

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d

R.I.P. the great John Woodvine

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d

John Cooper Clarke, the Salford-born 'punk poet' genius with a razor-sharp mind who performed on bills with Sex Pistols, The Fall, Joy Division and more, and who struggled with heroin addiction, was partnered with Honey Monster as they advertised Sugar Puffs in the 80s. Well, of course!

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely Matt! Cheeky old Dan, ripping off his IP! ;)

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 4d

A dog eaten alive by Death Bugs, bad guys burned alive by our hero, and more bleak endings! The Galaxy's Greatest Comic's first Xmas annual was a real corker (2/2)

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 4d

The first 2000 AD annual (1977) gave me the fear when I was 7. Ultraviolence, animal attacks (Shako, the only bear on the CIA hit list!), and bleak endings galore! (1/2)

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 4d

The Scarred For Life live podcast is a mere 6 days away! Join our Dave, Andy Bush, and producer Dane at @CPXMCR next Friday, with their special guest, the brilliant John Thomson!

Tickets: cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll/WhatsOn?f=761022

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 9d

Northwest weirdies! Join us and @bobfischer.bsky.social for our GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October - a big group chat about all things spooky!

Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 5d

Screen Test was home to some great little spooky short films! It seems an awful lot of the episodes may have been wiped... :(

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 5d

Blimey!

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 5d

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 5d

ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ (1973): Beautiful, complex, and controversial board game that boasted the real-life British Escape Officer, Major Pat Reid, as its technical adviser, and featured a honking great swastika on the box (wisely replaced by an Iron Eagle in future revisions)

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