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#EventsDearBoy – THE BIG LIST
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— 12 Jul 2026 Tom 2 comments

As you might know if you’ve been on Bluesky, I’m counting down EVERY COMICS EVENT* *(that I’ve read) from worst to best and writing a little paragraph on each. I might Do Something with all this when it’s finished but for now […]

About Freaky Trigger

Freaky Trigger is a website dedicated to smart, informal writing about pop culture – music, film, TV, food and drink, books, art, science and anything else we fancy writing about. We’re not particularly cutting edge, but we’re generous, affable and curious.

We started Freaky Trigger in 1999 – it was purely a music site for the first few years, gradually expanding its remit. Until 2005 it included the much-loved music blog NYLPM, whose contents form part of the site’s extensive archives.

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Minds Immeasurably Superior To Ours: ANT WARS
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— 21 Jan 2026 Tom 8 comments

This is a post in Discourse 2000, the year-by-year, story-by-story look at 2000AD. Contains spoilers for Ant Wars.

WHICH THRILL?: The folly of human science unleashes a horde of giant ants – can a Brazilian army Captain and an indigenous Ama[…]

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JAMES BLUNT – “You’re Beautiful”
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Popular: #1014, 23rd July 2005
— 18 January 2026 Tom 25 comments

“Proof that one song is all it takes” as James Blunt’s Twitter biography put it. He knows what he’s known for, and in his post-superstar era he’s played his hand with great skill, cultivating a self-deprecating persona on social media as an[…]

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