What Did You Do At Eleven O’Clock?

I was in a comic shop. I turned off my iPod and sat down on the sofa to collect my thoughts. Outside in the street, a group of young people (Y and P capitalised) bellowed at the top of their lungs – not in some ironic counterpoint or statement, just because that was their normal mode of speech. So I ended up thinking about tradition, memory and respect and the forms they take.

Kieron Gillen posted a look back at the undeniably retro game Cannon Fodder, and how it might be more of an appropriate game to be thinking about today than you might think. Him and some like-minded folk have started up a gaming blog, which you should go and read.

I mostly know Kieron through the comics field as the writer of the music-magic comic Phonogram, which, while being unashamedly indie – Britpop, even – asks and answers all the right questions about pop music, meaning and memory to keep me interested as well as garner a gigantic audience of cute punk/indie girls, many of whom I got to see walk right past my table at the Thought Bubble festival in Leeds to talk to him, despite the fact that his new beard makes him look like a maladjusted redneck sex offender.

I highly recommend picking it up.

EDIT: Remember Liberal Crime Squad? So does he!