2000 AD - October 1988.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***October 1988 saw bad news for Margaret Thatcher when her old friend Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet lost a national plebiscite on his rule. A defeat which proved to be the first step towards his removal from power in 1990.In the cinemas of the world, audiences were being treated to Alien Nation, Imagine: John Lennon, The Accused, The Kiss, Night of the Demons, Pumpkinhead, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Bat*21, Halloween 4, Mystic Pizza and Moonwalker.Of those, I've seen Bat*21 and Bat*21 alone. I shall, therefore, announce it to be the Steve Does Comics Movie of the Month.When it came to the UK singles chart, October arrived with U2's Desire in top spot. But that was soon crushed beneath the juggernaut of Whitney Houston with her Olympic anthem One Moment in Time. However, by the end of the month, even she had to subside before the low-impact strangeness of Enya and…

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