definitely having fun. The UKCAC conventions were notorious for their non-stop drinking sessions, so my memory of actual events is pretty limited. I've often been told what happened at them by people with better memories, but my recollection is very sketchy. As for being in the middle of a cultural phenomena, it just felt like we were all having fun in our small seaside town, entertaining each other more than anything else. I was too young to appreciate how great it was to be able to have a stupid idea in the pub with your mates, and then two weeks later that stupid idea was on the shelves in WHSmiths. "Planet Swerve" by you and Alan Martin was a key part of what we could call phase two of Deadline . How do you feel about that work now? Looking at it now, I see an artist going through a rather fast learning curve. A few months in, and you were trying all sorts, montages, pastiches of Dan DeCarlo, Moebius ... Not long ago I bought the copy of Deadline with the first "Planet Swerve" in it (I lost all my issues). I didn't enjoy looking at it at all , so I learned my lesson there, and have no intention of looking back on any more. Memories are sometimes best kept as fuzzy. Me and Alan laughed a lot making Planet Swerve and I'd rather remember that, than have the hard evidence of bad drawing, printing mistakes and alien