{"id":822,"date":"2007-08-11T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=822"},"modified":"2007-11-09T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T09:58:59","slug":"thrrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/11\/thrrp\/","title":{"rendered":"THRRP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/thrrp.jpg\" alt=\"THRRP!\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Leo Baxendale<\/strong> (Knockabout Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 0-86166-051-X<\/p>\n<p>This somewhat lost classic is a gloriously gross, pantomimic splurt-fest of broken winds, dripping organs and broad, basic belly-laughs that depends less on narrative convention than on warped yet timeless juvenile invention to revel in the most lunatic slapstick to grace the music-hall or comic page since Leo Baxendale left mainstream comics.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst not as groundbreaking as <em>Little Plum<\/em>, <em>Minnie the Minx<\/em>, <em>The Bash Street Kids<\/em> or the <em>Three Bears<\/em>, nor as subversive as his <strong>Wham<\/strong>, creations such as <em>Eagle Eye<\/em>, <em>Junior Spy<\/em>, <em>George&#8217;s Germs<\/em> or <em>The Tiddlers<\/em>, nor indeed, as outlandish as <em>The Swots and the Blots<\/em> or <em>Grimly Feendish<\/em>, nevertheless <em>Spotty Dick<\/em> and the truly repulsive inhabitants of <em>Planet Urf<\/em> unforgettably cavort through a cartoon-grotesque series of silent adventures that no grotty school-kid of any age could resist.<\/p>\n<p>An absolute treat from a lost master of British tomfoolery. Lets get this back in print now!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1987 Leo Baxendale. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Leo Baxendale (Knockabout Comics) ISBN 0-86166-051-X This somewhat lost classic is a gloriously gross, pantomimic splurt-fest of broken winds, dripping organs and broad, basic belly-laughs that depends less on narrative convention than on warped yet timeless juvenile invention to revel in the most lunatic slapstick to grace the music-hall or comic page since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/11\/thrrp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THRRP!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-british","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4AFj-thrrp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}