It’s why students speculate about their favourite kids’ TV shows being conceived under the influence of psychedelics. It explains that bondage fairy craze of a few years back, defiling icons of innocence in the trappings of adult sexuality. It’s why teenagers smoke and drink on the swings in the park, showing the place of their childhood how grown-up they are. That kind of acting out seems a key element in becoming an adult. These are the survivors most were rendered unrecognisable in an early-adolescent production line of destruction. In fact they were smashed in with a big rock. Most have staved-in roofs, as if they’d been run over by a monster truck. Few of them have any plastic left in the windscreen. In the toy cupboard at my mother’s house there’s a basket of die-cast metal cars that belonged to me and my brother when we were kids. We are sharing it here to mark the release of the new hardback edition of Zenith: Phase III from 2000 AD. This article was originally published by Tom Whiteley on his excellent Suggested for Mature Readers blog.
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