Battle for Britain (Private Eye) 1986, at about the time when Parliament was about to go into recess. When the series ended in 1987, it was replaced by "Dan Dire, Pilot of the Future?", which took a similar comic-book view of politics. This time, the model was Frank Hampson's artwork for Dan Dare, as seen in the popular 1950–1969 comic for boys "Eagle". In keeping with the science fiction theme, Kinnock became "Dan Dire" (the questioning title was over whether or not he would ever be Prime Minister); Mrs Thatcher became "The Maggon" in reference to Dan Dare's arch-enemy The Mekon; and Owen became "Doctor
Revolver (comics) of graphic styles and contributors ranging from a surreal inside-the-mind-of Jimi Hendrix storyline ("Purple Days"), a psychedelic superhero in the form of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's "Rogan Gosh", distorted caricatures in "Pinhead Nation", plus "Happenstance and Kismet", Paul Honeyford's "Fighting Figurines", student-house antics in "Dire Streets", as well as the resurrection of Dan Dare, this time in a story called simply "Dare". In "Dare", writer Grant Morrison gave a new interpretation to the original "Eagle" character in a political story setting Dan Dare against a thinly veiled caricature of the Thatcher government. "Revolver" attempted to take advantage of the