The Beta Universe is for stories set in "almost the real world", so the history, political situation, famous people etc are all pretty much the same as they are in the real world. Some of the things that happen might make the news, but not be huge stories. Most of the other stories are just between a few people or happen in a small area. Secret agents foiling huge, 9/11-scale atrocities might also feature, but the public never finds out about them, because they're secret.
The main difference between the Beta universe and the real (Alpha) universe is in women's football. The Women's FA Cup (and equivalents in other countries) started in the 1962-3 season, and the Women's World Cup in 1968, with the first tournament played in the Soviet Union.
Sawston
Set in
1874
Created in
2025 - 26
Type
Paperback
Main Characters
Description
I decided to re-use a character from the failed TRPG campaign (see below) for a trashy Kestrel paperback or two. "Sawston" also sounds like "Saw Stone" and is thus badass... but is actually the name of a suburb of Cambridge.
Status
Being written
Location
To be in a Kestrel paperback
Misc Note
There might be a Doom wad, too...
ICRPG Western
Set in
1876
Created in
2023
Type
TRPG Campaign
Main Characters
Daisy Davis, Fran McGee, Joe Baker, Martha Budgey, Molly Foxton, Olivia Anson, Peter Tooley, Suzi Posten, Ted Randall, Burt Sawston, Brad O' Finnegan,
Description
A western TRPG I created, based on Index Card RPG. I began to play it with a class of Japanese kids studying TOEIC on Feb 4th 2023. They found out some cattle had been rustled, heard a rumour of where it had been taken, and set out to find it. Then returned to the town to get their horses, and set out again. A few more sessions were played, but they got up to the battle against the bad guys and it petered out. Also I quit teaching that class because I hate them. Oh and in situations where they were supposed to think it out and not do the obvious thing, one kid kept trying to do the obvious thing and then hitting nat 20s. Anyway after about 4 sessions it petered out, I was mentally checked out by that time and just played the not-much-English-speaking involved game they actually liked. Then quit.
Status
Given up on.
Location
At my job
Misc Note
I love the job, and some of those kids, but hate the class as a whole. This was a last ditch attempt to get them under control (space for future "hah!" here:_HAH!_). Also it's the first TRPG I, and probably they, have ever played.
Gun Battle
Set in
1888
Created in
1997/8
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
None named
Description
A western comic. A hard-boiled sheriff stops a bank robbery (by shooting everyone), meanwhile some Red Indi-, er, Native Americans, we aren't talking striking Hindustan workers here, plan to attack the town. That's as far as it got.
Status
Offline, lost
Location
Lost
Misc Note
I'm pretty much certain to do another Western one day, though it probably won't be like this.
St. Jude's On Tour
Set in
1911-12
Created in
2025 - 26
Type
Comic Strip
Main Characters
Sally Parker, Rose Wayne, Mrs Morimoto
Description
An earlier generation of girls from St. Jude's school are invited to visit a "twin" school in Osaka Prefecture, Japan! It's just in time for the opening of Shinsekai, but trouble ensues on the voyage...
Status
Being made
Location
Will be on the Mini Comics page. And the worksheets of second graders at the Jr. High I'm working at that year!
Misc Note
Part of a series of three, set at "Expos" in Osaka. Only I completely mistakenly beleived Shinsekai was built for Expo (19)07, it was actually started for a Japanese industry expo in 1903, but "really" opened in 1912, just as a theme park.
St Jude's "B" Team
Set in
1922
Created in
2022 - 2023
Type
Comic strip
Main Characters
Penny Parker, Brenda Wayne, Clara Kent, Helen Jordan, Betty Allen and Debbie Blake. Yeah, I know.
Description
Girls at a posh public school are annoyed at being left out of the school's hockey team, so decide to make one of their own. One snobby girl doesn't want to play with the poor scholarship girl, until shenanigans happen and she relents. They don't know who to play, so take on a nearby village school for working-class kids.
Status
Finished
Location
In the folders of kids who were at F- Jr High over 2022-23
Or, ya know, here.
Misc Note
There [ is ] more of St. Jude's in [ now ]! (But it's set in the past!)
Her Tomboy Twin!
Set in
192X
Created in
2023 -
Type
Written story
Main Characters
Marina Francis, Karina Francis, Hettie Highcroft, Lisa Waters, Dorothy Mornington
Description
Set in a small public school between the wars. Two new girls come; Marina and Karina, twins who are nothing at all alike, but also inseperable!
Status
Being made
Location
In The Cherry Blossom
Misc Note
Based on twins I know IRL in Japan, only with their differences turned up to 11. And if they lived in England, a century ago.
Bluebird Cove
Set in
1939
Created in
2023 -
Type
Written story
Main Characters
Description
A story I started writing simply because an old Billy Bunter story from The Magnet popped into my head one day. This one is an attempt at copying Charles Hamilton's repetitive, space-filling style... which makes it sound like his style was bad, when you type it out loud. But you try putting one of his books down!
Status
Being made.
Location
Either online, or in The Rising Sun, not sure yet.
Misc Note
May end up being on the first story in an intrigue-filled "Wartime School" series.
Named after the song (from America that was made famous) by Vera Lynn, even though bluebirds don't live in England.
The Red Spitfire
Set in
1940
Created in
2015
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A bloke who broke his leg badly (on a souped-up Norton) and can't walk well is rejected for military service in WW2. But early in the war a Spitfire landed in his (very large, he is rich!) garden, and the pilot died right afterwards. It's one of the lesser-known spits with two 20mm cannons, which didn't work well, because the guns froze at altitude then defrosted and fired themselves when the plane landed. He uses his knowledge of motorcycle up-souping to modify the Spit, and solves the gun-freezing problem by routing hot water from the engines to small radiators underneath them.
How he gets fuel and ammo to keep the plane in action, I don't know! The pilot story implies a high-ranking RAF official "knows but doesn't know" about it. And anyway Johnny Red kept his "Hurri of Theseus" (Theseuski?) flying with all manner of bodges and grafted-on Russkie parts down the years.
Status
The "pilot" (ha ha) story is finished. There were plans for more...
Location
Published in the Red, White & Blue series 2, issue 4.
Misc Note
Could maybe be turned into a text serial and told "all in one go", pilot story and the few plot ideas all together.
Excalibur
Set in
1941
Created in
2025 -
Type
Paperback
Main Characters
Captain Shrike, Leitenant Hayle, Corporal Blinder, Able Seaman Roper and others
Description
A story about a small unit of Royal Marines who are given tough training and then sent to attack targets in occupied Europe. Essentially a prototypical Commandos. The real commandos were created in 1942, this story implies Excalibur is a "test run".
Status
Being made
Location
In a Kestrel book
Misc Note
Based partly on a dream I had about running under a gantry in a submarine base, blasting away at a German on the gantry. I had a small bunch of WW2 dreams around the same time, once. I want to have more!
"N" For Nipper
Set in
1943
Created in
2023 - 2026
Type
Comic Strip
Main Characters
Description
A pretty straightforward story of a Lancaster crew bailing out over occupied France and making their ways home. Created for Japanese JR high school first graders, so it's written with very simple English.
Status
Finished
Location
On the Mini Comics page.
Misc Note
Yeah, that's right, I did a WW2 Commando Comic type story for the kids of a junior high school in Japan. How othenthithh and abhowwent, eh? But as they only ever saw the first two parts, I suppose it doesn't matter much either way.
Tigers of Punjab
Set in
1947
Created in
2007 - (cancelled?)
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A comic about a British soldier who deserts during the partition of India. He starts a band of vigilantes to fight against bandits and religious extremists.
Status
Semi - abandoned.
Location
Serialised in the Red, White & Blue from issue 1. Then serialised in the Red, White & Blue series 2 from issue 1. It will likely be replaced in series 3.
Misc Note
I started this on the spur of the moment, after watching a documentary about the partition of India in 2007. I wish I hadn't, it's crap.
Eugene Manx
Set in
1950
Created in
2006 - (ongoing)
Type
Print / Web comic
Main Characters
Description
A secret agent comic about a guy hunting down escaped Nazi war criminals in the 1950's, working for the fictional MI20 branch of British intelligence. I did 3 versions of this, one was biro scribble and never scanned, one was initially in the same "square" format as New Felney, and the current version is what's currently available. MAY be re-drawn when the RWB is relaunched, but will probably keep to the same plot and length... I'll just give it better perspective and do better research into what Britain in the 1950's actually looked like, so older readers can feel some nostalgia.
Status
Between stories
Location
Serialised in The Red, White & Blue, issues 1 - 3. Then serialised in The Red, White & Blue series 2 from issue 1. In the future will be serialised in the Red, White & Blue series 3, from issue 1. Also, it's here.
Misc Note
The name Eugene Manx came to me in a dream, but in that he was a 60's style spy, in 2010 (then the future) Tokyo. He had an 80's Toyota MR2 which could change colour. I later started a 4-panel "newspaper strip" about him, before re-starting it as the current story. Also the dream had much better artwork. Part of it looked like it was drawn by Tatsuhiro Otomo, the other part by Frank Bellamy.
Mary of Middleford
Set in
1962 - 1970
Created in
2012 / Not yet
Type
Print Comic
Main Characters
Description
A story about the first season of the Women's FA Cup, over 1962-3. Mary Cartwright is one of a few mill girls scouted for the Middleford United women's team. Most of the rest of the team are posh public schoolgirls. A 4-page "pilot" story was made, intended for an A2(!)-sized comic that never got done. That pilot can now be read online, instead.
Status
Not started
Location
To be serialised in The Red. White & Blue series 3. The pilot is here
Misc Note
This was going to be about men, but I decided to let the "real world" football results stand. Except Mary and friends look up to the male team of thier fictional town, so they must have been doing well. The initial plans I made for this intended to "satirically" show the stands of the stadia they play at almost completely empty, to "comment on" the status of women and the attitude to women's sport in the 1960's. Don't worry, I've grown up now.
Tea Room Mystery
Set in
1970
Created in
2025 - 26
Type
Comic Strip
Main Characters
Description
Some British schoolkids from Bradingsham, Lincolnshire, get to visit Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. They stumble on a Soviet plot...
Status
Finished
Location
Stuck up on the wall of the JR High school I was working at at the time. Oh, and here.
Misc Note
Any excuse to draw loads of 1960's ca-er, I mean Asian women in miniskirts. See, I'm normal!
Queer as Fuck
Set in
1985
Created in
2003
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Stu (now retconned to be younger), Phil, Mike, Phil's Dad.
Description
A stupid story I started, to take the piss out of the British series Queer as Folk. Except I'd never actually watched it (I later bought the DVD, or maybe the VHS, but only watched 1 and a bit episodes. I mostly bought it because "The head writer of Doctor Who worked on it, so it must be good!" ...yeah.), and was going on synopses on a synopsis site. It was abandoned pretty quick. For a while it was referred to as "Queer as Fuck Classic", because I intended to re-do it. But naaaah!
This was called "non canon" for ages due to the intended remake, but if that won't get made it may as well be canon again. Stu is still not this old, though! He's about 21 in 1996 so can't also be 21 in 1985!
Status
Online, unfinished. Will never be finished.
Location
Misc Note
I only set it in the 80's so I could draw Capris and Minis. And Vauxhall Carlton Mk2's, I really fancied one of them, at the time.
Doctor Who, pff, can't beleive I used to watch that shit.
Cart Wars
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Set in
1991 - 1998
Created in
1991 - 1998
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Me, Robert, Thomas, David, Stephen, Robin etc (real life friends). Also Chris Cave, Jack Aceway, Zoe Freeze, Jack Freeze, Flame...
Description
One of my oldest comic strips which had a coherent theme (the barely-rembembered older ones I did were just messy nonsense). Kids build wooden carts, and race down hills crashing into each other, or shooting peashooters, tomato guns and turnip cannons at each other. Originally they were all just un-named characters. Later they split into two factions, and the races were "last man standing" battles, where the finish line was unimportant. These always ended with them shouting "we won!" in a shed with the respective faction's flag flying outside (I even did a World War 2 strip that ended the same way!). Later they started to build aircraft with egg-shooting machine guns. This escalated into 6-mile-long airships which were like flying cities having wars with each other (still with egg guns)(though they still shot each other down and set fire to things). Sometime in mid-late 1994 (in my last year of primary school), I realised it was getting a little silly, and turned it back into a strip about pure (contact-allowed) racing.
I always wanted to do Cart Wars for real, but only I ever built a cart. Also I lived in Cambridgeshire, which is "not the best" place to stage gravity races. Other kids at school wanted to allow the carts to have engines and so on, they lated created Kart Wars (see below).
After the end of primary school, the Cart Wars comic became more fictional, the location moved to Speed Town, somewhere around the Somerset hills, or maybe the border of Wales (this has now been re-named Speton), and a bunch of fictional characters started appearing, though my friends and I were still in the races, too (and won most of them!). I later made the "final", an A3-sized epic, which my friend Stephen won, inexplicably making him the champion, even though he'd never won before, so had no points. After this, I started Season 2, which was almost all fictional characters, and had a consistent setting and style. Season 2 also began to record the points of the race winners more regularly, and was intended to have a proper championship, but I only ever made a few of them. Also some of the backgrounds in Season 2 looked more like Canada than anywhere in England!
Status
Offline, a load are in a folder, tens, if not hundreds, more have been lost. My friends Robert and Thomas did plenty too. In the last year of Primary school we planned to make a "school comic" called Speed Comic (obviously we'd never neard of the short-lived IPC one from 1980-81), in which Cart Wars would have featured heavily. Robert drew so many (he never listened to the teacher, just drew Cart Wars and Sonic at his desk) we thought about using them for an "annual", but neither project came off.
Location
In a folder somewhere.
Misc Note
This might be revived as pure fiction one day. The name Zoe Freeze is too good to lose!
Battles / Aqua Battles
Set in
1992/3 - 6
Created in
1992/3 - 6
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Blue Leader, Yellow Leader, 598 other kids.
Description
This was a bit like Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale, in The Beano! Basically two big armies of kids on an island (and the sea surrounding it, for Aqua Battles) have fights with rotten fruit, catapaults, water balloons etc.
I'm pretty sure the first one of these was not called Battles (it may also have pre-dated Cart Wars, now that I think about it). It was about some kids in a treehouse fighting some kids in a camp. The treehouse kids fire "missiles" made out of plasticine, with thick plastic triangles for fins (I was inspired by various toys and mathematical aids that were kicking around at school). They then get the idea to make a plane the same way, fly over the enemy base, and bomb it. The plane crashes / is shot down, and the "pilot" hits his head, becoming super-intelligent and designing loads of hi-tech weapons. Come to think of it, I may even have drawn that comic twice. I remember one or both versions had really claustrophobic panels, and the pen I used / my terrible drawing and handwriting made it really hard to even work out what was going on.
Anyway, when Battles really got started, the hi-tech weapons were retconned out, and the battle became a war between the Blues and Yellows (my friend Robert did his own ones, in which the Yellows were Blacks, and there was also Greens and Greys. People also died in his stories), the Blues having the treehouse, which bristled with turnip cannons, tomato guns,and such things. They also had a whole airforce of somehow-controllable plasticine planes.
Later still, a backstory was written where a ship was wrecked on an island, and 600 kids were left with two adults. These fell out, creating a conflict between two armies of 300. The adults made up and left in a lifeboat shortly afterwards. The kids remained, fighting a number of ongoing battles on and around the island (the sea ones being Aqua Battles).
At one point, I had this very 90's drawing pad where each page was one colour fading into another halfway across, for instance a page that's half red and half green. I filled this entire book with Battles-like pictures between factions occupying their respective colour. Those were just for fun, though, and didn't really fit into the actual Battles continuity.
Also not fitting into the continuity, but which could be considered parts of Battles, were a series of other pictures with similar rotten-fruit fighting, but the "baddies" were called Dark Circle. There was still another series of pictures where the kids are armed with lasers which scorch trees and make sparks, but which only knock people over. We'd played a Laserquest-like game on holiday once (only it was in an inflatable thing on a fairground), and I became obsessed with wanting to "make my own one" for years afterwards. Oddly I never just went to the Laserquest in Cambridge, though I did play loads of Tekken Tag with my friends in the lobby of it, once.
Status
Offline and "finished", partly lost. Overwritten in the continuity by The Home Front.
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
I don't know how they all ate, got tons of toy guns, or even built tarmac roads between bases XD. The yellows also built a giant, 10-storey tall, pedal-powered mobile fortress called the Red Giant. I think the "last" Battles story involved them getting all the engines out of the cars on the wrecked ferry, and building a flying Red Giant. After bombing the Blues (with turnips), they flew home.
Anti Bully
Set in
1994 - 9
Created in
1994 - 6/7
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Me, David, Robert, Thomas, Ben etc
Description
The real Anti Bully was a "spy agency" a bunch of us had in our village, after we all bought Funfax Spy Files* at the Scholastic book sale circa 1994. We got ludicrously overexcited about uncovering vast criminal conspiracies organised by "bullies" (anyone we didn't like), and tried to spy on them to find out information.
I also did a few Anti Bully comic strips, the earliest one actually pre-dated the spy agency, but I remember almost nothing about it (and I think it was set in a school, also it was drawn on yellow paper). The only (partially-)surviving one is set during "The Big EA", an imaginary attack on our village by a horde of bullies from all over East Anglia. We were convinced this was really going to happen!
*-Anybody remember the later version called INTER? My brother had that, it was the shit! Even had casette tapes with audio for the stories!
Status
Offline, partly lost. Overwritten in the continuity by the re-make
Location
One or two surviving pages are on the back of pages of old The Gun / Galactic Conquest strips.
Misc Note
The real Anti Bully ran (with varying membership) from 1994 to 1999, though I probably should have grown out of it in 1997 at the latest. See this page for info on that.
Anti Bully (re-make)
Set in
1993 - 5
Created in
2018 - ("ongoing")
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A definitely totally fictional (well, with a few elements of real life events chucked in there) re-telling of the Anti-Bully tale, moved back in time a little, and crammed into just two years of primary school.
A bunch of kids in a village not unlike Little Downham all get Funfax Spy Files at a Scholastic book sale in 1993, and decide to start thier own spy agency, taking on bullies and some local criminals. A number of the largely / entirely imaginary "cases" we "investigated" will be re-told as if they'd actually happened. Though there will also be a fair bit of "stupid kids get the wrong end of the stick after witnessing something totally innocent", too.
Status
Some stuff drawn
Location
To be published in The Red Kite from issue 1
Misc Note
The village it's set in will be near the fictional town of Farnbridge, where Fiasco in the Kappa Universe takes place. The original plan also added one girl character, who ended up being the one who actually solves a case after the "silly boys" get totally the wrong idea. Don't worry, I grew up and wrote her out of it.
Aqua Attack
Set in
1994/5
Created in
1994/5
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
None named
Description
This was basically just Cart Wars on water, only it kept the "battle" elements of early Cart Wars even after that strip abandoned them. Most of the strips were very short. For some reason, a lot of them were in colour. Anyway, kids race pedal-powered rafts, with barrels on either side for flotation. Sometimes they'd throw stones hard enough to hole the other racers' rafts and sink them. They also had "Aqua Bases", which were sheds on dinghies. Sometimes these would also be attacked and sunk. The stories were never very coherent! One time a small meteorite holed a weather balloon, causing the weather-measuring equipment to fall on a guy's head during a race. Talk about bad luck!
I also wanted to do this for real, but for some strange reason my dad was reluctant to nick me some oily barrels and spinter-covered pallets from his work. Also the place we planned to do it (a fenland dyke near my friend's house) probably wasn't wide enough for overtakes.
Status
Offline, very few survivors.
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
One of the teams / "sides" was called Super Aqua's.
Crash! / Super Crash!
Set in
1994/5
Created in
1994/5
Type
Drawn comic - gag strips
Main Characters
Description
I used to draw comics by doing a grid of panels first, then hoping the plot would fill them. If a Cart Wars strip ended with only 2-3 panels left, I did a Crash! strip, where a guy would be trying to drive some wierd vehicle, and it would crash. Super Crash was simply a whole page full of these gag strips.
Status
Offline
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
I REALLY liked motor racing crash videos, such as Car Wars and Havoc, in the early 90's
Try to Fly
Set in
1994/5
Created in
1994/5
Type
Drawn comic - gag strips
Main Characters
Description
This was similar to Crash!, a bloke tries to make things that fly, and they fail, and usually get smashed or blown up.
Status
Offline
Location
Two or three may be in a folder somewhere.
Misc Note
This even had it's own "theme tune", which was basically just singing the title over and over. I harboured an idea that my brother and I's comics would eventually become a big variety TV show, with ongoing cartoons of Cart Wars, Battles etc interspersed with shorter segments, of which this would be one.
Beware... KIDS!
Set in
1995/6
Created in
1995/6
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
None named
Description
There was two versions of this, one was inspired by a dream, about building a bunch of wierd vehicles out of wood for me and my friends to drive, including a centipede-like combining one. I know I made a comic strip out of that concept, but I remember nothing about it. My drawing abilities were far behind what I'd actually seen in the dream!
The second version was about two neighbouring kids fighting, by throwing rotten fruit, buckets of water etc over the fence between them. I only made one of those, I still have it... on the other side of the world.
Status
Offline, finished.
Location
In a folder somewhere.
Misc Note
Will maybe be revived, in name only, as something totally different. Maybe like the Bash Street Kids, but also following individual characters outside school, too. And it'll probably be called Beware of the Kids, as that actually makes grammatical sense.
Actually the surviving one is just called "Beware!", "Kids" is represented by a flying football, because writing out words is hard!
Crazy Cats / Craze Cats / Krazy Kats
Set in
1994/5
Created in
1994/5
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Fluffy, another cat
Description
Two cats caused chaos and damage. That was about it. I know I drew several (well, 3-5), but only one is left, now. I was into model trains at the time, so quite a few involve the cat tampering with the train set and causing it to crash, annoying the unseen kid who owns it. What did we always do with our train sets? Make them crash!
Status
Offline, mostly lost
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
At primary school, we wanted to create a comic called Speed Comic (we'd never heard of the IPC one from 1979-80), this and Football Crazy were the only ones in the first issue that didn't involve some sort of racing.
Shark! / Shark Launcher
Set in
1994 - 6/7
Created in
1994 - 6/7
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Description
This was inspired by a scene in a Where's Wally book (or perhaps one of the lame ripoffs from the 90's), where a boy in a swimming pool scares people by swimming along with a long piece of wood, with the top cut into the shape of a shark fin. I turned it into a very stupid idea of using improvised "scuba" gear (long pool float things, inflated and attached to plastic tubes to breathe from... it didn't occur to me that "floats" make you, well, float!) to swim under people in a pool and release inflatable sharks. We acted this out in the playground a few times, imagining it was a big adventure pool. The only swimming pool we went to regularly was a normal rectangular one.
Of course, a comic strip, named Shark Launcher, was also drawn. I think I planned for it to become as big as Cart Wars and Battles... though there's only so much mileage you can get out of people screaming "AAAAA" when a shark bursts out of the water right in front of them. I remember the first comic I drew had pretty terrible art (I did it at school, on a really hot day, when I should have been studying). I also did a "poster", where the pool is extremely deep and also has an underwater "maze", which would be extremely easy to get lost and drown in.
The second version (just called Shark!) was the best comic I had drawn, up to that point (it had backgrounds!). I'm not sure if it overlapped with The Gun or not. Anyway, it was solidly set in Speed Town, and had some attempts at characterisation (a bully, a lifeguard, a... hunter?). The shark launchers scare the bully for... reasons. Also both versions featured super-powerful underwater fan things which the kids set up. They had enough power to blast people who dived on top of them back out of the pool. In the second one, one of these blasts the bully out of the pool, though a high-up window, and into the street outside!
Status
Offline, almost all lost
Location
The "poster" from the original version, and Shark!, are in a folder somewhere. The rest is lost.
Misc Note
This might be "revived" as one episode in the remake of Beware of the Kids! ...if I ever make that.
Kart Wars
Set in
1995
Created in
1995
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Me, Robert, Shaun, Stephen, Gareth, Robin, Liam etc
Description
Back when I wanted to do Cart Wars for real, none of my friends were building their own carts fast enough (or at all). I came up with a design rule that the carts must "only" be made out of wood (more like "mostly", but never mind). Robert, the guy who tried to take over Anti Bully and Environment Freedom, was also trying to take over Cart Wars and Battles, and act like they were his ideas. He started bending my rules, designing "all weather carts" with tarpaulin covers you could pull over. Honestly, I should have just said little bits of other materials are OK, but instead I "quit" Cart Wars in a huff.
The other kids all immediately burst out "We'll make our own one theeen!", of course, they were going to allow people to build karts with engines (hence the "K"), and out of steel. They soon had grand plans for twin-engined 200mph speedsters, I wonder if they ever actually built any of those ;)?
Anyway, once I'd "reclaimed" Cart Wars, and we'd started making our Speed Comic, a Kart Wars comic strip was also created. They'd also disallowed ramming people in Kart Wars, as the Karts would be "too expensive to repair". It was a moot point anyway, as they were also too expensive and difficult to make in the first place
Status
Offline and lost. Maybe one remains, not sure
Location
Lost, mostly
Misc Note
Brilliantly original name, there, lads.
Sprint Cars / Ministox / Skid Cars / Stock Bus / Mini ICE / Speedway
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Set in
1995/6
Created in
1995/6
Type
Drawn comics
Main Characters
None named
Description
I know I put all the short, unfinished and lost The Gun spinoffs, over in the Gamma Universe, in seperate entries, but all of these "other" motor racing stories were pretty much identical. Most only had one page made, and they're almost all lost, now. There were also a few big comedy pictures with all sorts of crashes and nonsense going on.
Status
Offline, lost
Location
Lost
Misc Note
I'm not sure any Mini ICE ever got made, but it's written in a list of strips on the front of the folder they're all in.
Gun Fight
Set in
1997
Created in
1997
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
None named
Description
Some terrorists walk into a building in London, and shoot the security guard. That's about it. It was supposed to be a Die Hard ripoff, but never got past about half a page. It was actually drawn to a pretty high standard, for my artistic abilities of the time, anyway. This meant the bad guy's car actually looked almost like a real life Ford Cortina mk5... though that might have been by accident, due to the Ford Cortina mk5 not being a very difficult car to draw.
Status
Offline, unfinished.
Location
In a... drawing pad, somewhere. Yeah, weren't expecting that, were ya?
Misc Note
Done in "black, white & red", to make it gory, gritty and realistic. Shame I had no idea where to take the story.
Also, it was likely spelled "Gun Figt"
Made In England
Set in
1997-8
Created in
1997-8
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
One was called Anna... I think.
Description
A strip my brother made. Somebody got shot, and a mysterious controller breaks into a radio signal to tell some secret agents to go and investigate. That's all that got made. "Made in England" was a secret agency, abbreviated to M.I.E, though they were a secret agency, they ran their own radio station that broadcast in public!
Status
Offline, unfinished.
Location
In a drawing pad, somewhere.
Misc Note
I might revive it, in name only, as a 1960's Spy-Fi story.
H/P/A
Set in
1999 - 2003
Created in
2020 - (ongoing)
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A semi autobiographical strip, catching up with Mark White, from the Anti Bully re-make, in 1999 onwards. It's a loose retelling of my early adventures with the internet, and the Anarchist group F.A.T.
Status
Unfinished, in (slow) progress...
Location
Not yet. I plan to put it out as a 100 page book. It was originally going to be issue 1 or 2 of The Hyaku, but I've decided to make that series family-friendly and Boys' Own, so H/P/A will just be a standalone book.
Misc Note
The first half was made (almost) entirely out of art materials bought from ¥100 shops. The things that weren't still cost ¥100 or less, though! Anyway COVID-induced inflation put a stop to that... to say nothing of Mitsubishi no longer making 7700 pencils, bastards. Well apparently they still make the red ones, but finding them ain't easy. Even the hexagonal vermillion 770 series are thin on the ground.
Urban Assault
Set in
2004
Created in
1994 - 7
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
None named - a tough White guy, a nerdy White guy and a Black woman
Description
A ripoff of the Streets of Rage strip from Sonic the Comic, only set in the UK. Also the main characters are, for some reason, accepted by the police, even though they have a ton of illegal weaponry. I did a bunch of these alongside Cart Wars and the like, I remember very little about them (other than, for some reason, there was always a "comedy" scene of somebody unable to find the light switch in a dark room).
Later on, after starting The Gun, I revisited the idea with more gore and violence. One strip involved a truck driver going crazy and ramming people on the motorway. They chased him into a factory (where he produced an UZI from nowhere) and shot him. Another story involved a huge bomb going off in London, possibly planted by the IRA. The later strips were also inspired by The Professionals. There was some influence from the TV show Bugs in there, too. Especially the looks of the characters, and it being set in 2004. I think Bugs was set in 2003.
Status
Offline, lost
Location
Lost
Misc Note
I planned to revive this as a strip called Black Widowe, which can be seen here. Also the original was probably called Ubran Assulat, as often as not.
Extreme Nightmare
Set in
2006
Created in
2006
Type
Comic
Main Characters
None named
Description
I was going to the comedy night at Lincoln uni with my hair down, and some chavs were yelling that I should "get some tits" etc. So I started to draw this in response. It's about two hot goth guys and a woman having casual sex with each other and rampaging around "Not Lincoln", blowing away anybody who looks like trouble.
I was drawing it with a four-colour biro, which led me to mistakenly remember it's name as "Four Colour Nightare", but it wasn't. If I do a re-make, it will be, though!
The proof!
Status
Unfinished, maybe lost.
Location
Maybe in a box in the UK somewhere.
Misc Note
This comic has vanished from my memory as much as any of the early-childhood ones did. I'm not even sure how much I finished, maybe not even one page!
Four Colour Nightmare (re-make)
Set in
2007
Created in
2024
Type
Comic
Main Characters
Description
A re-make of the vaguely-remembered anti-chav venting comic from 2006. As soon as I remembered it I started having ideas for a remake, and drew up some gothed-up, tooled-up characters (I can't remember what the original characters looked like). It's setting is moved to 2007, just because. This time it will be coloured using the four-colour palette used in Silver-Age American comics. It's a bit more practical than just red, blue and green!
Status
Not Started
Location
Either online or in The Tigershark, not sure yet.
Misc Note
Likely to be effectively a porn comic that'll show it going in and everything. It's just it'll show the bullets and knives going in as much as the cocks.
The Day of the Green Skulls
Set in
2009
Created in
2009-11
Type
Text story
Main Characters
Description
A guy called Mark Trant works at a science lab, along with a lot of multinational people. Animal rights terrorists (they of "robbing the grave of a guinea pig breeder" fame) try to threaten them, blow up Mark's car, and also shut him in a cold room. That's as far as it got.
Status
Offline, unfinished. Will probably never be finished
Location
Ran in The Red, White & Blue series 1, issues 3 and 4.
Misc Note
This was replaced in the RWB by Xin Zhou's Schooldays. It was supposed to be about studying languages, and how they eventually foil the baddies by talking to each other in foreign languages while being held hostages, making an escape plan.
A Sting in the Tail!
Set in
2010
Created in
2010
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A speedway racing comic. A guy gets his leg run over, but keeps on racing, only collapsing at the end of the meeting.
Status
Finished, but unreadable
Location
Was in issue 4 of The Red, White & Blue series 1.
Misc Note
I'll probably re-use this in a Red, White & Blue annual, one day. At the time I made it, I thought it was the only Speedway comic strip there had been in British comics. Later I found out Tiger had a pretty long-running one.
Felney Beta
Set in
2015 - ongoing
Created in
2015 - (ongoing)
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Mike Smith, Aaron Anderson, Tina Wright, Ann Morgan, Vince Jones.
Description
While the normal Felney strip is set in the Gamma universe, on occasion, I may want to use the characters to mock real-world events, so I'll do a Felney Beta. The village and characters exist in most of my fictional universes, in fact. So there can be "crossovers" (more like brief cameos) that are just for fun.
Status
Online and readable. Mixed in with normal Felney.
Location
Misc Note
Actually that Hong Kong one might be the only one.
Tabakushō
Set in
2016 - (ongoing)
Created in
2016 - (ongoing)
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Description
The Japanese Felney, basically. Stars Jane Thristwaite, daughter of Kate Thristwaite from Felney. I planned for it to be based on "whatever ends up happening when I go on my working holiday in Japan". Well, plenty did! It will be a satire of my first job in Japan, with bits of the third mixed in... when I finally get to that part of the story anyway, over eight and a half years after the fact!
Status
Online and readable
Location
Misc Note
I started it before moving to Japan, with the intention of using it to regale amusing incidents that happen to be in Japanese schools, once I got there. A lot of said amusing incidents required more explanation than can be done in four panels, so ended up as one-off SCV strips instead. They still have Jane as the main character, though!
Beware of the Kids
Set in
202X
Created in
Not yet
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Connie Royal, Mr Shadylane, others I havent thought up yet.
Description
This will be a re-make of Beware... KIDS!, Shark! and to an extent Battles. But heavily altered. It'll be more like The Bash Street Kids, but will do a lot of following the kids outside school, too. There will also be a rival school they battle, pompous neighbour they annoy and teacher they hate.
Status
Not started
Location
To be run in Clowning Around
Misc Note
This was originally called The Home Front, but has been renamed. It was planned to be a re-make of Battles, but all in one family, a couple have 6 kids (the Blues, or "biologicals"), and adopt 6. Now it's been totally changed!
Several of the characters will be "Britted up" versions of kids I've met in my job(s).
Battles Re-Make
Set in
202X
Created in
Not Yet
Type
Print Comic
Main Characters
Havent thought of any yet
Description
A re-make of Battles which is much more like the original. Two rival, rather posh, schools both book the same cruise ship in the pacific. It runs aground in a storm, all the teachers and crew are arguing on the bridge when it gets struck by lightning and they die. The kids get ashore and make two camps on the island, living on, and fighting with, the abundantly-growing fruit.
The island also has two old military camps. They find clothes dye and two working hand grenades. Both having the same devious plot while everyone's swimming, they blast blue and yellow dye over everybody's uniforms.
Status
Not made yet
Location
In either Clowning Around or the Red Kite
Misc Note
Well who needs realism? Also based loosely on a dream I had where some kids grew into adulthood on an isolated island, but when rescued hated it, and wanted to continue a 'childish' existence on the island. They went back but were eventually forced back into the real world. They went back again when they were really old and left a "Goodbye" message on the island in huge letters. Only the dream played like an early 90's British documentary, with interviews. Also the "isolated island" was in the middle of a river, and could be waded to quite easily.