{"id":34345,"date":"2025-11-25T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=34345"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:10:25","slug":"the-most-amazing-saturday-morning-rubbish-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/11\/25\/the-most-amazing-saturday-morning-rubbish-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Amazing Saturday Morning Rubbish Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Bill Tuckey<\/strong> & Francisco de la Mora<\/strong> (SelfMadeHero)
\nISBN: 978-1-914224-36-2 (TPB)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Family entertainment… 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you old enough to remember, books, films and comics aimed at kids who would see players their own age finding a problem and sorting it out themselves? That\u2019s what this fabulous yarn is, only here those plucky protagonists are all kids with conditions the world says renders them even more useless and in fact unable to act or think for themselves at all…<\/p>\n

Writer (broadcaster, radio DJ, journalist, editor) Bill Tuckey & artist Francisco de la Mora (Frida Kahlo – Her Life, Her Work, Her Home<\/strong> please link to March 13th<\/sup> 2023) are both parents of children with special needs. Tuckey\u2019s boys have ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and de la Mora\u2019s lad has PVL (Periventricular leukomalacia) and both creators have brought those experiences into a grand adventure that is also a signpost for how you should all behave around those of us that need a little forethought, patience and consideration…
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\nIn a city district near a park, 11-year-olds Arthur Ballentine<\/em> and Finn Gregory<\/em> are already pals when they first encounter tireless fireball Uma Blanco<\/em>. She\u2019s 8 and has PVL. It leaves her with speech difficulties and cognitive deficits, but she always knows what she wants and runs rings around Arthur, who has ASD, and Finn, stuck in his wheelchair due to cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n

They instantly unite over the way the insensitive folk (\u201cthe white people\u201d) around them act and find purpose in the way their favourite space is becoming one huge litter trap. It\u2019s just one aspect of the ongoing neglect slowly ruining the treasured urban green space. It\u2019s getting less fun all the time now, as they learn from embattled park warden \u201cthe General<\/em>\u201d, lumbered with explaining why the latest council cuts mean the disabled toilets are closed from now on…
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\nBy June the kids are firm friends and resolved to do something. It begins with just picking up other people\u2019s rubbish every Saturday, but builds before going into extreme overdrive once they discover a quiet, damaged man is living under the trees with a fox called Winchester<\/em>. He\u2019s buried himself in an underground hideout constructed secretly from other people\u2019s cast offs…<\/p>\n

And thus begins a quirky tale of renewal and unlikely friendships which charmingly lead to victory for the idealistic nippers, salvation for sad, strange wild engineer Richard <\/em>(once the police stop being involved) and even a glorious storybook ending of sorts…
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\nThis is not polemic masquerading as entertainment. There\u2019s a clever plot, compelling drama and a profound resolution in the offing. Of course there are plenty of incidents underlining how crap we are as society in taking care of our fellows, but it\u2019s velvet-gloved in a welter of witty incidents and glorious characters studies of the kids and all the adults they impact and gradually convert to a better way of thinking and acting…<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get to use the terms inspirational or heartwarming much when reviewing modern books and comics but when The Most Amazing Saturday Morning Rubbish Club <\/strong>inevitably becomes the next big British indie movie hit (like The Lady in the Van<\/strong> but closer to the kerb and bushes), I\u2019ll be back to say I told you so and to plug the book all over again…
\n\u00a9 2025 Francisco de la Mora\/Bill Tuckey. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Today in 1911 Disney comics artist Paul Murray<\/strong> was born. We last saw his mastery in Walt Disney\u2019s Donald Duck Volume 2: The Diabolical Duck Avenger<\/a><\/strong>. In 1950 Chris Claremont<\/strong> was born, and the magnificent Bob Haney<\/strong> died today in 2004. You don\u2019t need me to tell you what they did and where to find their works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Bill Tuckey & Francisco de la Mora (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-914224-36-2 (TPB) Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Family entertainment… 8\/10 Are you old enough to remember, books, films and comics aimed at kids who would see players their own age finding a problem and sorting it out themselves? That\u2019s what this fabulous yarn is, only here … <\/p>\n

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