Andrew: Don’t get me started on the Eagle—the last twitch of Muscular
Christianity in the country that invented it. I knew ‘em all. Dan Dare,
with those improbable eyebrows. Luck of the Legion, with that sidekick
(they all had a sidekick–Dan Dare’s was named Digby, very feudal
relationship, cf. Mr Pickwick & Sam Weller, Frodo Baggins & Sam Gamgee, Jet
Morgan & Lemmy, etc. etc.) who was forever hankering to get a new kepi in
place of his squashed one–and of course, no sooner did he get a new one
than it was squashed again. Harris Tweed the dim detective, PC 49, the
cowboy–what was HIS name? And those uplifting biblical or classic-lit
strips on the back page… Nobody has a clue what we’re talking about, do
they? “Exile, silence and cunning”….