Jonathan Nash

But there was no Episode Two. At that point, It Was a Time of Darkness was replaced by a comic strip exactly reproducing Alien with gnomes.

Embittered fired writer whining pointlessly? I don't think so. Having been angry and upset at the completely crap handling of the first two episodes, I was certainly neither at being fired, though I was annoyed I only found out by examining a sudden issue.

(What would happen was that Steve would alert me to the deadline for a new episode, but he'd left the mag disillusionedly, and in the excitement, the new Ed understandably forgot to tell me he'd commissioned something else.)

However, there was definitely a sadness there for the story itself. I thought it splendid, and it was one of the things I really looked forward to each month, because I could have a jolly good fiddle around with words without having to construct an argument.

Of course, there are bits I'd now change - for example, the bit where Endo directly refers to the 'head lines' in the Entire Episode Subservient To A Single Pun fifth one should have read "Painting his skull symbolically with lines to ward off demons" or something - and I've no idea at all what the first one's "She suckled me as a babe and grew up to be my mentor" means - but I was extremely pleased with it, and for it to be replaced by something so deliberately unimaginative was a bit of a blow.

Heigh ho.

Possibly you'll be interested to learn I've at least three more episodes in my pretty head, and am mulling over continuing the story in the adjacent box. Write to me at AP2 and let me know what you think, or if you've worked out all 758 references, or can't remember where you've seen Bruce Spruce before* or whatever.