The Mekon he doesn't know it, but I like the Mekon." British rock band The Mekons named themselves after the character in 1977. In May 2013, the BBC radio soap opera "The Archers" featured a storyline in which regular character Brian Aldridge was aggrieved by a local newspaper article that compared him to the Mekon. The Mekon The Mekon (of Mekonta) is the arch-enemy of the British comic book hero Dan Dare, first appearing in 1950 in the "Eagle" comic strip "Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future" and created by Frank Hampson. Apart from Dan Dare himself, he is the only character
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