Script—David Britton

Art—Kris Guidio

1993

A Savoy Post-Prison Michael Winner Production

48pp

ISBN 0 86130 089 0

Rip E't Up

The Twins rock. The virtues of Ecstasy. The (almost) return of Teddy Tail. The only way to ENSURE justice is to kill the occasional judge—see the IRA for details. Prime Kut Meng & Ecker.

Article:
Horror's Creep Boys At Home. The Twins are investigated by Reporter Par E, Carolyn Horn.

Article:
Nutters From Hell by Del Rooney.

Andertonbirds Are Go!

We say a temporary farewell to the Twins old adversary, the Tin God and his Constabulary (Evenin' all. Take that, you Fucker!). Meng gives one to Gerry's dumb puppets.

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Adios—Mr. D! Ecker opens his heart to the reader.

Article:
Of Elves And Ethics. Velvet-gloved Carolyn Horn interviews Fudge and Speck.

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"With the impact of Punch's prick and the resonance of Falstaff's fart, in bursts Meng & Ecker no. 7. Not Ben Elton, but Chubby Brown. After sampling this I buckled, and sent off for the whole series."

ANDY ROBERTSON, Interzone

"Quite simply the best, most outrageous, offensive comic we get sent from anywhere in the world, stepping on every sacred cow's toe it can find, all drawn with a detail that would fit well with Aubrey Beardsley. Awesome and nasty."

FACT SHEET FIVE, ('Publisher's Choice' page)

 

"This comic could be read—and possibly gloated over—by people who enjoyed viciousness and violence. It had pictures that would be repulsive to right-thinking people...It is luridly bound and it is more likely (than novels, etc,) to attract attention from the less literate."

JUDGE GERARD HUMPHRIES,
presiding at the Trial of Lord Horror and Meng & Ecker,
Crown Court, Manchester, England, 30th July 1992

 

"Savoy's new comic titles make Grant Morrison's New Adventures of Hitler seem as shocking as The Beano. They are unlike anything that's so far come out of British independent comics."

JIM McLELLAN, i-D

 

"Meng & Ecker take comic art into new and sicker realms of weirdness."

SANDY ROBERTSON, Penthouse

 

"In order to stop this disgusting material being sold I have written to the police enclosing the comics in question. I am surprised that bookshops stock these publications on the shelves."

GEOFFREY DICKENS, JP, Tory MP 16th Aug 1989

 

"Crap through and through. Cash-in shlock."

FIONA JEROME, Ark

 

"Britton is a scriptwriting genius. It is a testament to his writing that a strip so outwardly racist, bigoted and homophobic, becomes none of these things."

DEL ROONEY, Battleground

 

"There is no easy or, adequate way, to describe Meng & Ecker. Each issue is an experience. It is the only comic that I can legitimately say that I can look forward to reading, if only because it is the one book that you cannot approach with expectation...First you must forget everything you have ever known, or thought you knew, about comic books, graphic novels, whatever. You must approach these pages with eyes and mind wide open, and with a certain amount of nerve or, better yet, humour. If not, you will find exactly what the Great Manchester Police Department would like you to find."

DOUGLAS E WINTER

 

"Dangerously disarming. Each issue seems to wind in and out of a timeless realm of metamorphic incident."

D M MITCHELL, Rapid Eye 2 (1995 edition)

 

"No other comic is so good at being so bad."

RUSS KICK, Psychotropedia