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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 9:17 am 
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If it wasn't for the speech bubble, I would have thought they were queuing for the toilets.

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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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Don't forget the massive flags and the fact that PT appears to be under the impression that passengers disembarking at one of the world's busiest airports have to go down steps from the plane and walk across the tarmac to the terminal.


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Has Peter Thomas actually seen an aeroplane in the past, um, 60 years? They look like old '50s style passenger planes.

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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 10:15 am 
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sporran wrote:
[x] Literal drawing of a "thing which is happening in the news" minus the satire
[x] Massive signs
[x] Planes on stilts
[x] Battle of Britain in the skies above

Classic PT airport scene. At least it's not the bloody weather again.


Listening to the Today programme this morning it seems that may be on the cards.
An RAF bigwig was explaining that having Typhoon aircraft on stand-by and surface to air missiles deployed around London was 'prudent' and 'not unusual'. So unless they are expecting a national state with an air force to declare war during the Olympics, this suggests that any hijacked aircraft will be shot out of the sky above London. Or am I reading too much into this?


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No. I think you are reading it precisely as intended.


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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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Unless these missiles turn their target into snowflakes or feathers surely it's gonna be nasty when the debris falls to the ground?

Is it like a computer game and stuff just disappears when you shoot it?


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Yup. But we've also had statements that Al Qaida are now incapable of another 9/11 type attack.


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Squeaker wrote:
Is it like a computer game and stuff just disappears when you shoot it?

You haven't played many aerial combat games, have you? :lol:

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Sorry to bang on but I still don't get it.

If a large area of London is showered with sharp bits of aircraft, jet fuel and bits of dead bodies then 'Ah but we saved the Houses of Parliament/London Eye/Canary Wharf' is a piss poor justification.


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Althea wrote:
Squeaker wrote:
Is it like a computer game and stuff just disappears when you shoot it?

You haven't played many aerial combat games, have you? :lol:



Unless you count Worms Armageddon on a Nintendo 64 then the answer is 'No' :D


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Unless you count Worms Armageddon on a Nintendo 64 then the answer is 'No' :D

Bloody hell, that's going back some years. I remember getting that as a sproglette :oops:

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Squeaker wrote:
Sorry to bang on but I still don't get it.

If a large area of London is showered with sharp bits of aircraft, jet fuel and bits of dead bodies then 'Ah but we saved the Houses of Parliament/London Eye/Canary Wharf' is a piss poor justification.


This large area may contain the type of people who really ought to be living in Stoke, Win-Win for the mailites.


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Has Peter Thomas actually seen an aeroplane in the past, um, 60 years? They look like old '50s style passenger planes.


Who's Peter Thomas?

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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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I've come to the conclusion that the reason PT can draw things countless times over the years and still be unforgivably shit at them, is because he has just been copy/pasting or (or tracing in his pre-computer days) his first drawings of everything he's ever made over and over again.

Hence that plane. That god awful plane. In exactly the same position and scale as one he did a few weeks back.

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